How to Teach Hands-On Phonics

Do your students struggle with beginning reading skills? Do they need a multi-sensory hands-on approach to learn how to decode words with short vowels, digraphs, blends, and long vowels? I know my students did. I have tried so many ways to help them with decoding phonics sounds within words. One day I found a large box of popsicle sticks and who knew it would be just the thing I needed!