Nursery rhymes, silly songs, and classroom cheers. What do these all have in common? The ever-important literacy skill...rhyming! As students become more confident in their letter and sound recognition, they begin to work on key phonemic ... Read More about 10 Rhyming Word Activities for Kindergarten
14 Name Writing Activities for Kindergarten
Typically, all kindergartners will arrive on the first day of school knowing at least their first name. Some of them know how to spell it and a few can write it, too. Planning a lot of different name writing activities for kindergarten to ... Read More about 14 Name Writing Activities for Kindergarten
Nouns Activities for Kindergarten
Nouns are one of the first "official" parts of speech we teach in Kindergarten. Most kindergarteners have never heard of the term noun. When introducing your nouns activities for Kindergarten, you might ask your class "what is a noun?" and ... Read More about Nouns Activities for Kindergarten
CVC Activities for Kindergarten {with an Exclusive Freebie}
Building words is the foundation to becoming a great reader and writer. In particular, CVC words. Once you have built the foundation of letter names and sounds, the next step is putting their letter sound knowledge to work by sounding out ... Read More about CVC Activities for Kindergarten {with an Exclusive Freebie}
Beginning Sounds Activities, Games, and Centers for Kindergarten
Learning letter names and letter sounds is an important step our students must master in order to become a successful reader. As teachers, we want our students to have strong phonemic awareness and phonics skills. We want our ... Read More about Beginning Sounds Activities, Games, and Centers for Kindergarten
Letter Recognition and Alphabet Activities for Kindergarten
Learning recognition and letter sounds are such an important skills for students to master. It's just about impossible to teach students to write or read if they haven't mastered those two skills. They need to know it and they need to know ... Read More about Letter Recognition and Alphabet Activities for Kindergarten