Using Digital Tools to Build Phonics and Phonemic Awareness
Wixie makes it easy for students to drag and drop, type, draw and record to build literacy in a range of modalities.
Wixie projects can also be started from a blank page for a constructive approach as shown in the samples below.
Using Wixie to Build Literacy in Primary Grades
How to use Wixie's tools and curriculum library to support your emerging readers, writers, and speakers.
Practice and Formative Assessments
Wixie includes a library filled with phonics and phonemic awareness activities, like the ones in the Reading Readiness workbook below.
Alliteration
Students explore initial sounds as they write alliterative sentences and create illustrations that support and reflect their writing.
Lesson Plan
Rhyming Word Stories
After listening to Students interview dinosaurs to demonstrate knowledge of animal characteristics, diet, and more.
Tongue Twister stories
Read Dr. Seuss's Fox in Socks and put your students in the driver's seat by asking them to use their knowledge of phonics to write their own tongue twister stories.
Nonsense Words
After reading Dr. Seuss's There's a Wocket in my Pocket, students create a class book using their own rhyming nonsense words.
Tongue Twister stories
Read Dr. Seuss's Fox in Socks and put your students in the driver's seat by asking them to use their knowledge of phonics to write their own tongue twister stories.
More ways teachers are using Wixie
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Blend Books
First graders had fun with Wixie as they created phonics Blend Books! pic.twitter.com/mOmHP0eFzT
— CanterburyWoodsES (@Canterbury_Wood) November 2, 2022 -
Practice
Kinders @elmwoodes use #wixie for the first time to practice newly learned phonics skills.@Jeffrey_hogan @MrsRode @mrs_wisnom pic.twitter.com/GzG6Z1cnvm
— Rita Phillips (@RitaPhillips85) September 20, 2022 -
Writing Words
Keeping things new and exciting during Phonics! Matching ar/or/ore words to pictures, putting words into sentences, and writing our own words on @wixie. Ss also made their own spelling word search. They will switch with a classmate and solve tomorrow! 👌💻🤩 #OPsharks pic.twitter.com/3Px2EMgOYc
— Laurie Corradetti (@LaurieCorrNPSD) January 28, 2020 -
Letter Sounds
Kinders review letters and their sounds by going on a scavenger hunt to find objects for each letter. Then they use the camera in Wixie to capture the object and create an alphabet book. @MrsRode @Jeffrey_hogan @elmwoodes pic.twitter.com/A1jCMrXnFi
— Rita Phillips (@RitaPhillips85) March 19, 2021 -
Phonics Books
1st graders meet #wixie and create phonics books with short a words @Tech4Learning #bcpslh pic.twitter.com/cghWRfYsdd
— Alison Doubet (@mrs_doubet) September 23, 2015 -
Alliteration
2nd grade Animal Alliteration using Wixie, so fun! @HumbleISD_TE @HumbleISD_DL #TEInspires pic.twitter.com/tZTGE5XLvi
— Laura Frey (@TimbersTech) May 4, 2018
