Are you looking for supplemental practice to reinforce all of the phonics skills you will teach this year? This bundle includes 40 Phonics Boom Card decks which are perfect for Grades 1-4.
WHAT ARE BOOM CARDS?
Boom Cards are interactive, self-checking, digital task cards that are engaging for students and low-prep for teachers.
WHO ARE THESE BOOM CARDS FOR?
- This full-year Phonics Boom Bundle is for elementary students (Grades 1 – 4) who need supplemental decoding and spelling practice.
WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF BOOM CARDS?
Check out this article to learn 10 reasons to use Boom Cards in the elementary classroom. Here are some of my favorite reasons:
1. They provide engaging skill practice!
Boom Cards are an excellent way to reinforce phonics skills with repetitive practice while keeping students engaged!
2. Boom Cards are self-checking.
Boom Cards offer instant feedback to students. Students will immediately see if their answer is correct or incorrect. Students will get the immediate feedback they need to learn from their mistakes and master skills.
3. They save time.
There is next to no prep needed for Boom Cards because they are digital. You also will not need to spend time grading them because they are self-grading!
HOW CAN I USE BOOM CARDS IN MY CLASSROOM?
There are so many great ways to use Boom Cards in the elementary classroom. Check out this article to learn more about how you can use Boom Cards in the classroom. Here are a few ideas:
1. Use Boom Cards for guided instruction:
Project a Boom deck on your interactive whiteboard and invite a student to come up and select an answer. Meanwhile, ask your other students to write their answers on their personal whiteboards.
2. Use Boom Cards for centers:
Assign Boom Cards in your technology center through the Boom Learning App. You can assign a Boom deck related to the skill you’re currently teaching or review a skill you’ve already taught.
3. Review skills with Boom Cards:
Have students work in pairs to complete a Boom deck to review before an assessment.
WHAT’S INCLUDED IN THIS BUNDLE?
This Phonics Boom Bundle includes a download which will link you to 40 phonics Boom Card decks on the Boom Learning website. Each Boom Card deck includes 20 – 40 digital task cards with audio directions.
WHICH SKILLS ARE COVERED IN THE FULL-YEAR BUNDLE?
The Full-Year Phonics Boom Bundle includes the following 40 decks:
- Beginning Blends
- Consonant Digraphs: sh, th, -ng
- Digraphs: sh, ch, th, ng, wh, ph
- Digraphs: ch, wh, ph
- End Blends
- L-Blends
- Long A: a, ai, ay
- Long A: a_e
- Long E: y, ey
- Long I: i, igh, y, ie
- Long I: i_e
- R-Controlled Vowels: or, ore, oar
- R-Controlled Vowels: or, ir, ur, er
- Short A and Long A
- Short A
- Short E, O, & U
- Short E: e, ea
- Short I & Long I
- Short I
- Short O & Long O
- Short O
- Short U & Long U
- Short U
- Short A & I
- Soft C & G
- Soft C & G
- Three-Letter Blends
- Long O: o, oa, ow, oe
- Diphthongs: oi, oy
- Diphthongs: ou, ow
- R-Controlled Vowels: ar
- Silent Letter: wr, gn, kn
- Variant Vowels: oo, u
- Variant Vowels: long u
- R-Controlled Vowels: are, ear, air
- Variant Vowels: short o
- R-Blends & S-Blends
- Long O, U, & E
- Long E: ea, ee, ea, ie
- Three-Letter Consonant Blends
HOW DO I ASSIGN BOOM CARDS?
Here are some simple directions you can follow to assign Boom Cards in your classroom:
- Download the resource you have purchased. Click on the link in the download.
- Click REDEEM.
- Sign in to Boom Learning or create a free account. (If you are signing up for a new account, you may need to repeat Step 1 & 2 after creating your account).
- Find these Boom Cards in the Library.
- For the Boom deck you want to use, click:
Action -> Fast Pin -> Generate New Pin. - You will get a pin code that you can share with your students.
- Students need to go on the Boom app or to boomlearning.com.
- Students click “FastPlay” and enter the pin and play the Boom deck.