Early Reading

Phonological Awareness
Rhyme/Alliteration      
  •  matching the ending sounds of words
  •  producing groups of words that begin with the same initial sound


Rhyming Words | Activities Booklet The ability to recognize and generate rhyming words will help use known words to decode new words.  Recognizing-skills often come before generating – skills. For example, children are likely to recognize words that rhyme before they can generate words that rhyme.  This rhyming resource can be used as a formative assessment to guide your phonological awareness activities in small group

Initial Sounds Activities The ability to recognize/generate words that start or end with the same sound, will help to learn to associate particular sounds with particular letters.  This initial sound resource is full of fun and engaging activities for your PK and Kindergarten students.  Students cut and paste the pictures at the bottom of the page that have the same initial sound as the picture at the top of the page. The pages are phonological skills. No letters appear on the pages – students match only initial sounds.


Syllables
  •   blending syllables (foot + ball = football) and segmenting words into syllables (paper = pa /per)
  •   counting syllables (e.g., clapping and tapping)
Syllable Practice Activity & Worksheets | Syllable Activities | Syllable Center This syllable activities resource is filled with fun and engaging syllable practice designed for you Pre-K and Kindergarten students. Perfect for a whole class lesson, independent center activity and word work, the syllable sorting activity and book will have your students counting syllables in no time. You can also use the book pages as quick checks, exit tickets, worksheets, homework and small group instruction.

Alphabetic Awareness
  •  Children’s knowledge of letter names and shapes is a strong predictor of their success in learning to read.
  • Once children are able to identify and name letters with ease,   they can begin to learn letter sounds and spellings
  • Children appear to acquire alphabetic knowledge in a sequence that begins with letter names, then letter shapes, and finally letter sounds.
Alphabet | Activities Booklet | Lowercase Children appear to acquire alphabetic knowledge in a sequence that begins with letter names, then letter shapes, and finally letter sounds.  This cut and paste lowercase alphabet resource is full of fun and engaging activities for your PK and Kindergarten students.

           Alphabet | Activities Booklet | Uppercase Once children are able to identify and name letters with ease, they can begin to learn letter sounds and spellings. This cut and paste uppercase alphabet resource is full of fun and engaging letter identification activities for your PK and Kindergarten students.

      Orthographic Awareness

                      Research indicates that the most critical factor beneath fluent word reading is the 
                      ability to recognize letters, spelling patterns, and whole words, effortlessly and automatically.

The          The student begins to:
  1. notice beginning letters in familiar words.
  2. make some letter/sound matches
  3. attempt to connect the sounds in a word with its letter forms.
            Initial Sounds and Letters | Center Activity | Booklet The ability to recognize/generate words that start or end with the same sound, will help to learn to associate particular sounds with particular letters. Adding Letters to this skill makes it a phonics activity.  This initial sound resource is full of fun and engaging worksheets for your PK and Kindergarten students.  Students cut and paste the pictures, at the bottom of the page, that have the same initial sound as the letter at the top of the page.



Blending Letter Sounds to Form Words Research indicates that the most critical factor beneath fluent word reading is the ability to recognize letters, spelling patterns, and whole words, effortlessly and automatically.  This cut and paste blending resource is full of fun and engaging activities for your PK and Kindergarten students.  Students look at the picture on each page then cut and paste the letters at the bottom in the correct order to blend them together to make the pictured word.

Sight Words

Once a student begins learning sight words it will give them more confidence in their reading abilities and in turn will reduce frustration that comes with learning to read (Yaw, 2012).
Once students feel confident in their abilities to read sight words it will help them to become adequate readers

Sight Words Practice | Activity Booklet | Kindergarten Sight words instruction focuses extra attention on the words that occur most frequently, so that the student doesn’t have to stop and decode every single word.  This prep sight word resource is full of fun and engaging activities for your first grade and Kindergarten students.  The students read the words then sort them under the provided header cards at the pocket chart center. Students trace the words, write the words and find the word.



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