There’s nothing more exciting for young readers than learning the ability to decode and understand new words all by themselves! In this all-in-one packet, you’ll get over 130 CVC words that help with learning word families based on onset and rime groupings. Even better, it can be used as a listening, reading or writing center! Read on to find out how to teach onset and rime to improve phonemic awareness. Read the full post: Learning Word Families: How To Teach Onset and Rime with CVC Puzz...| Kool Kids Games
In these foldable alphabet activity mini books, you get four independent letter recognition and formation practice activities - coloring the letter, tracing letters a-z, dot to dot alphabet letters and printable letter shaped mazes. These could be completed over the course of each week as you teach each letter, or completed on the final day as a way of bringing together everything that the student has learned about the uppercase and lowercase versions of each letter. Read the full post: Folda...| Kool Kids Games
This word family file folder game will provide your students with endless practice to get to know each CVC word family. Learn rhyming words for kindergarten including the at word family, an word family and many more! Read the full post: CVC Word Family File Folder Game to Easily Learn Rhyming Words For Kindergarten| Kool Kids Games
These snowman literacy activities help students develop their lowercase letter recognition skills while getting into the spirit of your preschool winter theme. As with any essential skill in preschool, the best way to keep students engaged is to gamify them, and these spot the lowercase letter activities will get your students practicing all season long. They are a perfect addition to your winter lesson plan! Read the full post: Snowman Spot the Lowercase Letter| Kool Kids Games
Anything that uses a transportation theme for kindergarten will get you students engaged, and these alphabet and number playdough mats are a fantastic grab and go activity that will have them both uppercase and lowercase alphabet tracing as well as number tracing all year long. Read the full post: Road Alphabet and Number Playdough Mats| Kool Kids Games
Looking for monster themed phonics activities for Halloween? With these beginning sound clip cards, students will need to decide if the 2 objects with the same beginning sound. Grab this Monster Beginning Letter Sound Match game today! Read the full post: Monster Beginning Letter Sound Match| Kool Kids Games
High quality Halloween kindergarten worksheets like this rhyming words worksheet are perfect for October literacy centers! Your students will need to read the CVC words with pictures as clues and find the 2 words that sound alike in this kindergarten rhyming activities. Read the full post: Halloween Rhyming Words Worksheet| Kool Kids Games
These cute alphabet wordsearch worksheets combine alphabet pictures with hunting for words in a grid and wrap up with traceable letters. The best thing about these alphabet tracing worksheets is that they’re ready to use in a matter of minutes but you’ll have a literacy center you can use all year long for plenty of lowercase alphabet tracing practice! Read the full post: Master the ABCs with Alphabet Wordsearch Worksheets| Kool Kids Games
Grab these free lowercase alphabet tracing cards for a quick literacy center that you can use any time of the year! These back to school handwriting practice cards are easy to use; just download and print off copies of the letters you’re studying that week. It’s a great idea to laminate them so you can use them for trace and erase or playdough activities. Read the full post: Back to School Lowercase Alphabet Tracing Cards| Kool Kids Games
This printable preschool community helper matching puzzle is a great way to get the conversation started about community helpers and their tools. There are many preschool lesson plan ideas on community workers that go beyond having local community members come into your classroom. This preschool community helper theme printable is easy to use; just download, print out the full set and cut out the puzzle pieces. Read the full post: Community Helpers and Their Tools 3-Piece Puzzles| Kool Kids Games
The traceable letters and pictures in these fun trace and erase kinder alphabet worksheets give multiple opportunities for letter shape practice as well as spelling of some longer words. Download this alphabet tracing worksheets pdf and help your students gain mastery over their lowercase alphabet tracing. Read the full post: Fun Alphabet Pages: Traceable Letters and Pictures| Kool Kids Games
If you can integrate construction vehicles into your kindergarten phonics activities, you’ll find a greater level of engagement with your students, and this simple construction CVC spelling game will have your students building their word power in no time! These fun clip cards have CVC words with pictures to help students master the link between commonly known words and how they are written, as well as practice blending sounds. Read the full post: Get Trucking With This CVC Spelling Game| Kool Kids Games
Learning how to improve fine motor development in young students pays dividends in many different areas from correct pencil grip to manipulating art and music materials. Check out some of my best early learning centers to encourage fine motor skills in this post. You can use many of them to learn literacy or math at the same time! Read the full post: How To Improve Fine Motor Development (15+ Free Resources!)| Kool Kids Games
Complete your summer lesson plan with the perfect kindergarten literacy center where your students will be decoding secret code words from an exciting summer vocabulary list. Read the full post: Get Ready For Super Summer Fun Decoding Secret Code Words| Kool Kids Games
These cute flower alphabet sound mats will fit beautifully with your outdoor theme and give your students plenty of practice when they’re learning the alphabet. These free alphabet printables show a wide range of common objects and is sure to be your new favorite hands-on preschool letter activity. Read the full post: Flower Alphabet Sound Mats| Kool Kids Games
It’s time to take on one of the biggest kindergarten spring literacy projects: counting syllables. These cute syllable words clip cards are a great way to bring your spring classroom theme to your literacy centers, and all the spring words will get you and your students talking about the changes that the new season brings. Read the full post: 1,2,3…Spring Into Syllable Words Mastery| Kool Kids Games
These fun printable alphabet games make for an excellent no-prep zoo theme literacy center. Each page has both uppercase and lowercase letters and a cute hippo who needs help to find the letter using a unifix cube. Read the full post: Help The Hippo Find The Letter| Kool Kids Games
Long vowel worksheets like this pack of no-prep phonics worksheets help students explore words with oa sounds and words with oe sounds through a series of activities, from matching pictures to tracing the letters as part of longer words. This variety of activities gives students multiple attempts to practice and rehearse both reading and writing the long o sound. Read the full post: Mastering the Long O Sound| Kool Kids Games
Here are some fun ways to teach sight words to help your kindergarten students master their Dolch sight word list in next to no time! Read the full post: 4 Engaging Ways to Teach Sight Words| Kool Kids Games
At a foundational level, you can adapt any of your alphabet order activities to have a space theme, and these cute alphabet sequence clip cards will keep your students engaged with their fun pictures and challenges. They are a great way to have your students work on learning the alphabet independently. Read the full post: Help Their Letter Recognition Blast Off With Space Alphabet Sequence Cards| Kool Kids Games
These sports activities for preschoolers help them recognize facial expressions, making them an excellent morning meeting task as well as a quick finisher game. Whether you're talking about emotions in class or working on visual discrimination skills, this classic odd one out activity will be a hit! Read the full post: Can Your Students Sport The Odd One Out?| Kool Kids Games