Differentiation of Phonics Instruction

After reading this weeks articles on phonic instruction, it got me to reflect on how I truly implement it into my own classroom. Last year when I taught second grade, phonics was implemented in our Superkids Reading Program. We did it everyday with all my reading groups. However, this year I am now teaching third grade with the same group of kids and I feel like I do not need to teach phonics to every one of my reading groups because of how high some of my students are. To differentiate, I incorporate phonics with my 2 low reading groups out of my 5 total groups. I decided to research more on differentiation with phonics instruction and found some great resources that I would like to share.
I didn't know if I was correct with my philosophy of not teaching it to all my students, and found that phonics should be taught through differentiation so that students can learn at their own pace. Especially after reading the articles this past week and learning more about phonics, I realize how complex it is and tedious. My students have a phonics workbook, but I do not like to just teach from there. It's important to use hands on activities and fun games for our students so that they stay engaged and that they want to learn and become better at phonics. This is the one area where I feel like I could improve on with my instruction and was happy to find some great apps, resources, and games. The one I liked best was a Boggle Board! I'm definitely going to try to implement this into my classroom. The Reading Rockets website list 10 great apps for phonics as well as other great games/activities. The link is attached below. I found a ton of great activities on Pinterest by just searching "phonics activities for third grade". I hope some of these resources will help you in your own classroom instruction!

http://www.readingrockets.org/teaching/reading101/phonics/literacyapps_phonics

https://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?rs=ac&len=2&q=phonics+activities+for+3rd+grade&term_meta%5B%5D=phonics+activities+for+3rd+grade%7Cautocomplete%7C0