Winter Mittens Phonics: Science of Reading Activities for Early Readers

Teaching phonics through engaging seasonal activities helps young learners connect with foundational reading skills. These winter mittens-themed activities align with the Science of Reading (SoR) approach, focusing on systematic and explicit phonics instruction through multisensory learning experiences.

This ready-to-print activity features an adorable snowman character with colorful mittens that helps students practice essential phonics skills. Each mitten serves as a learning opportunity, creating a perfect blend of winter wonder and structured learning. The snowman’s mittens can be used for rhyming word matching, blending activities, and for sound manipulation activities. This makes the phonics practice both meaningful and seasonally fun. Students will practice with over 60 pages of activities!

Reading and learning to manipulate sounds through winter-themed mitten activities are foundational skills in a child’s literacy development. Understanding how sounds combine to form words, helps children unlock the ability to decode and comprehend written text.

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Mitten Phonics Reading Fun

Warm up your winter literacy centers with this comprehensive mittens-themed phonics set! Students will strengthen their foundational reading skills by matching colorful mitten pairs based on rhyming words, blending sounds together to decode CVC words, and isolating individual phonemes through engaging sound-by-sound activities.

What’s Included in this Activity?

The printable set includes:

• Rhyming Mitten Match: Students connect mitten pairs featuring rhyming words like “cat/hat” and “pig/dig” with both pictures and words for every level of reader.
• Sound Isolation Sorting Mats: Students sort mittens and build words based on CVC, CCVC, long and controlled R vowels, diphthongs and silent e sounds.

• Print the easy grab and go Winter Mitten Phonics: Science of Reading Activities for Early Readers , and use them in small groups or for independent morning work.

Download our Printable Winter Mittens Phonics Reading Activity today and give your students the gift of engaging, evidence-based phonics instruction this winter season.

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