Kindergarteners practice showing 1:1 correspondence while incorporating information they learned about a local Native American culture. The objects used for counting are taken from the previous day's Native American lesson. The intention...

Get creative with phonics by having kids create a letter-sound mobile! Learners practice matching medial sounds to their corresponding vowels using a hanger, hole punch, string, and the provided image and letter cards. Students attach...

Scholars work in pairs to drill and practice alphabet sounds, keeping track of their progress on a chart. Working one at a time, each partner flips letter cards, saying the sound and letter. If they get it correct, it goes in the YES...

The phoneme train is leaving the station! Get your budding readers familiar with letter-sound correspondence using this fun phonics activity. Learners set up the initial and final sound train cards, placing letters between them. They...

For twenty-two lessons over five weeks, scholars practice sound-spelling correspondence, spelling patterns, tricky words, and reading decodable text. Assessments aid in small group formation and gauge comprehension. Lessons begin with a...

Boost initial, medial, and final sound correspondence. Scholars practice decomposing word sounds using image cards and a worksheet. Learners cut out 10 three-letter images, sound them out, and glue them on the worksheet. Each word is...

Sorting objects according to their initial sound get scholars thinking about letter-sound correspondence. With 26 brown bags labeled with a letter of the alphabet, learners browse magazines and cut out images that begin with the...

A memory activity engages young learners in letter-sound correspondence. Pairs take turns examining two sets of cards lying face down. They flip one image card and one letter card, then name the initial sound. If the sounds match, pupils...

Scholars employ memory and letter-sound skills like the classic game Concentration to succeed at this literacy game. Partners choose from rows of upside-down cards, trying to match letters to images with the corresponding initial sound.

Practice letter-sound correspondence using an activity that challenges pupils to sort images based on their final sounds. Pairs choose four final sounds to place in an open file folder, take turns selecting image cards, pronouncing the...

Young scholars build a strong understanding of medial sounds, vowels, and letter sound correspondence while playing Bingo. Taking turns, peers choose a card and say its name and medial sound; all players look for the vowel on their card....

What a fun way to practice medial sound-letter correspondence! This alphabet activity has pupils flip cards, determine the medial sound, and place it on one of the train cars if it matches.

Scholars time each other as they work through a sheet of all 26 letters. They test each other to see how many letters sounds they can identify in one minute.

Young readers consider text-to-self connections. Learners discover the text-to-self connection as they read Flora's Box by Tina Althaide. They practice high frequency words, prepositions, and 1:1 correspondence.

Support math vocabulary using a set of 25 flashcards. The set consists of a variety of bold-faced word cards and corresponding labeled picture cards. Terms include even numbers, regrouping, skip counting, and more.

First graders participate in skills practice with 32 lessons focusing on sound-spelling correspondence—sound combinations, consonant digraphs, double letter sounds, tricky spellings, and words. Lessons begin with a warm-up, review and...

First graders read an analog clock and then match it to the corresponding digital clock. Each clock tells time to the nearest 30 minutes.

Scholars use the provided pack of alphabet cards to construct basic CVC words, then write down each word they make in one of two columns. Column one is for real words and column two is for nonsense words.

Students match match one notice with one child for all children in their group. They will determine the correct number of notices needed by for the children in their group. Through activities, students discover one-to-one correspondence...

Here is an interesting way to build concept understanding regarding one-to-one correspondence. Learners with visual impairments will use an array of everyday objects in context to foster an understanding of what one-to-one correspondence...

Scholars sound out and write twelve different words. Using Elkonin boxes, pupils say the name of each picture, then write the letters that make each sound.

This fun game is a way to help your littlest learners build strong phonological awareness. Scholars equipped with letter triangles, a stack of picture cards, and counters choose a picture card, say the name of the image, and attempt to...

Young scholars spin their way to letter sound fluency. While tomes, pairs spin a spinner and make the sound of the letter on which it lands. They add a counter to their cup for each sound they make correctly. At the end of the game,...

A collaborative activity challenges young scholars to match medial graphemes and phonemes. Pairs take turns spinning the spinner, naming the letter, and saying its name. They choose from a stack of cards with the same medial sound.