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Syllable Cards for Literacy Activities PrintablesSyllable Cards for Literacy Activities Printables
Publisher
PreKinders
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Pre-K - 1st
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English Language Arts
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Duration
10 mins
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Syllable Cards for Literacy Activities

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Add a new activity to your literacy arsenal with this collection of syllable cards. Offering colorful pictures representing simple one-, two-, and three-syllable words, this resource can be used in many ways to improve your children's phonemic awareness.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

counting syllables, multisyllabic words, one-syllable words, syllabication, syllables

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • As a language arts learning center, have children sort the pictures by their number of syllables
  • Pass out a picture card to each student and, as a whole group, sort them according to their syllables
  • Use these pictures to create a classroom display about multi-syllabic words

Classroom Considerations

  • Laminate sets of these cards for use with students year after year

Pros

  • Includes 27 pictures cards that are clear and easily identifiable to young children
  • Provides cards with the numbers one, two, and three, with dots representing each number

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RF.K.2.a RF.K.2.b

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