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Naming Letters School/Home Links
Send your kindergarten class home with this review sheet. They should read the name of each letter shown and point to it. Then have them identify their favorite letter and write it five times.
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Write the letters of the alphabet
Have your young writers practice forming all 26 letters in the alphabet. They'll practice uppercase and lowercase letters. Steps are provided for each letter!
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Alpha By Author
Let's learn the alphabet! Young learners will keep letter journals, writing down words they like and drawing pictures. They'll also complete a simple worksheet that requires them to organize books in alphabetical order.
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Letter Aerobics
Get everyone moving! The use of hand clapping and chanting helps youngsters begin to learn their ABC's. This language arts PowerPoint has ninety-four slides-each one has one lowercase letter of the alphabet. Learners clap their hands and...
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Alphabet
Guide your class in learning the alphabet with this instructional activity. For this alphabet activity, youngsters fill in 15 letters missing in an uppercase alphabet and 22 letters missing in a lowercase alphabet. Use this...
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Say Aaaah
Using letter boxes and a series of activities, young learners will identify the /o/ sound. Give them the fun tongue twister before having them manipulate letters in the letter box, and then read In the Big Top. Can your learners...
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Open Up And Say Ahh
Who has a word that has an /o/? Teach kids this fun song (sung to the tune of "Skip to My Lou") to remember the /o/ sound and words that contain the target sound. Then have learners identify the sound in various words before...
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Henry Howls
Let's learn the letter h! Elementary learners will hear the sound, learn a catchy tongue twister, and identify the sound in different words the teacher says. After some writing practice, read A House for Hermit Crab, by Eric Carle,...
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Yep, I'm Ready to Learn!
Tongue twisters give young learners an easy phrase to refer back to when learning letter sounds. Use the phrase "Eddy put red bells on everyone's bed" to identify the /e/ sound. Then read Red Gets Fed aloud, having learners nod...
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The Everyday Red
Pair a hand motion with the /e/ sound so young learners remember it better! This plan has the class open their "creaky door" whenever they hear the /e/ sound. They'll learn a tongue twister and read the short story Red Gets Fed,...
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Itchy Ritchy
Itchy Ritchy can help your learners remember the /i/ sound! First teach young learners the fun tongue twister illustrating the target sound, and have them identify the target sound in other words. Use the reading Tim and the Top to...
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Ehhhh?
Are your kindergarten learners working with the letter e and the sounds that is makes? They'll practice writing a capital e, hear the /e/ sound in a funny tongue twister, and then identify when the teacher is saying a word that uses...
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Yellow
The color yellow is the star of this simple lanuage activity. Learners trace the word yellow, count and sort assorted yellow objects, and color stars with the letter Y.
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Astonishing "A"
Young learners gain phonemic awareness with this quick activity. First, point out what sound you’re focusing on today: /a/. Then spell basic words that use this sound, like fat, bat, cat, etc. As a culminating activity, the whole...
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Under the Umbrella
The unicorn uses Uncle's underwear! Practice saying this tongue twister with your young learners to illustrated the /u/ sound. After comparing pairs of similar words (like cut and cat) and their sounds, learners will read Fuzz and...
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School-Home Links: Uppercase Letters
Young writers use a pencil to identify the first letter of each sentence in a brief paragraph, and locate sentences in books at home. This fine learning exercise should provide effective practice for letter identification. It could be...
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School-Home Links Uppercase Letters
Here is a activity that invites young readers to explore sentences that begin with capital letters. They locate the first letter in nine sentences with the help of a caregiver. Good, basic practice.
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Letter Pronunciation - /f/ Sound
Are you working on the /f/ sound in your class? Develop phonemic awareness with this worksheet. This graphic organizer has learners circle the word that best describes the picture in the right-hand column. Then, in the middle column,...
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Letter Writing Accuracy
Students develop letter writing fluency. In this letter writing lesson, students write alphabet letters. Students work individually to develop letter writing automaticity.
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Handwriting: S Is For Saddle
In this handwriting: S is for saddle worksheet, learners trace over the dotted lines to practice writing the upper and lowercase letter S.
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Letter G
In this letter G worksheet, students trace the upper and lower case letter G. Students trace the upper case letter 7 times and the lower case letter 7 times.
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Tracing Letters: Y Is For Yak
In this tracing letters: Y is for yak worksheet, learners trace over the dotted lines to 7 uppercase and 7 lowercase letters.
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Handwriting: N Is For Nanny
In this handwriting: N is for nanny worksheet, students trace over the dotted lines to write upper and lowercase letter N.
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Handwriting: W Is For Walkie-Talkie
In this handwriting: W is for walkie-talkie worksheet, students trace over the dotted lines to practice making the upper and lowercase letter W.