Orthographic Mapping Mats Template Connecting Phoneme to Graphemes Word Mapping

Have you exhausted all of your ideas for practicing decoding and blending phonics words? Let’s change that! 19 Orthographic Mapping Mats and Templates! Choose which word mapping template fits your instruction and grade level. These orthographic mapping templates have been life-changing and helped increase my students' reading fluency! Word mapping is the process of looking at a word, reading the word, breaking down the words into sounds, writing the letter combinations of each phoneme, and writing the entire word. This resource will allow students to build their word recognition skills to permanently connect speech phonemes to the graphemes. The Science of Reading tells us that Phoneme-Grapheme Mapping is the most effective way to help students build their word recognition and become stronger readers. You can use these templates in reading whole group, small groups, or independent review. 

Here are 3 main reasons we need to use word mapping tools in our phonics-based guided reading lessons.

• Decoding of Words - Decoding words is the ability to break a written word down by its individual letter-sound relationship. For example, if you have the word ship, you will break the sounds of the word like this /sh/, /i/, /p/.

• Blending Words - After students decode a word, they will fluently join the individual sounds (phonemes). Like our example above. Your students will decode the word ship (/sh/, /i/, /p/). Then, they slowly blend those phonemes (“shhhiiippp”). They will then read the word (“ship”).

• Fluency - The ability to read with speed, accuracy, and proper expression. Not only do we want our students to read more automatically, but we also want them to be correct when reading. Practicing these phonics-based word lists consistently and with repetition will help with this. Please read the article 7 Fun Activities for Phonics Based Word Lists & Decoding of Words to see how I incorporate this into my phonics teaching method.

Want Orthographic Mapping Worksheets

Look at these resources below. They include Word Lists + Orthographic Mapping With Real & Nonsense Words

• Word Families
• Double Consonants (FLoSS Rule)
• Consonant Digraphs
• Beginning Blends
• Ending Blends
• Silent e (VCe)
• R-Controlled Vowels
• Advanced Consonants
• Vowel Teams
• Diphthongs/Vowel Digraphs
• Multisyllabic Words
• Prefixes & Suffixes
• Editable Spelling Page

*Phonics Worksheets - Word Lists + Orthographic Mapping Bundle - No Prep*

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