Earth Day CVC Word Find FREEBIE

Here is a little FREEBIE I threw together to help practice reading CVC words just for Earth Day!

Kiddos will look at the picture to find a CVC Word.

They will then blend the sounds together to read the word and write it on a line.

They will continue this until they find all 20 words!

Happy Earth Day!

I Have, Who Has Blending and Rhyming

Hi all!  
Do your students like "I have, Who has" games?  Well, since I work with small groups of children, I wanted a quick activity where they could practice blending their sounds and also reinforce their rhyming skills at the same time, so I created these two games.  

The two games are identified by the color of their borders, one yellow and the other pink, with eight rhyming pairs each.  Each game creates a loop, so the last question is answered by the first answer set on the table.  The students are encouraged to work together to determine the correct answers.  Directions are included! 

Click on the picture to download.

 

I also have another "I have, Who has" game to help reinforce rhyming.  This game is much longer and includes 24 rhyming pairs.  In this  game, there is no text for the students to read.  They match the rhyming pairs using only pictures.

Click on the picture to head over to my TPT shop!

Have you ever heard of LoopWriter?  It is a program you can buy/download that can create looping games just like these.  They also have a FREE "I have, Who has" rhyming game with pictures.  You can access that here.

Thank you!

Color a Lucky Clover FREEBIE

Top Of the Morning to You!Are you wearing green today?  

I am happy that I remembered!!  

(Usually I don't remember until I leave the house!  LOL!)

Just wanted to quickly share something simple that I whipped up to use with my little ones today.  I have used this type of activity for a way to review and as a means to informally assess. 

Here is how I will be using it:

~  I will be printing out the document and cutting it into four strips.  

~  Each student will get their own strip.  

~  As I review various phonological skills with each student, they will color in a Lucky Clover for each correct response.  

It is a fun way for me to informally assess where they are with the skill they are working to strengthen.  You could use this in so many ways, with any type of skill!  It could be used for literacy skills or even mathematics skills!

Also, don't forget about my St. Patty's Day Phoneme Segmentation Activity!

Enjoy your day!!

Now how many of you will be cooking corned beef and cabbage?  Will you do it in the crock pot???

Word Ladders 3

I am glad so many of you have been enjoying the Word Ladders!  I am excited to say that I just made another set.

This set includes consonant blends and long vowels (CVCe).

Click on the picture for the shop of your choice:

Here are links to my other Word Ladder activities:

Word Ladders-Consonant Blends

Word Ladders 2 and Word Ladders-Digraphs

Word Ladder FREEBIE!

Word Ladders-CVC Words

Word Ladders-Consonant Blends

Hi everyone!

I just uploaded a new set of Word Ladders.  This set provides students practice with consonant blends.

Here are links to my other word ladder posts:

Word Ladders 2 and Word Ladders-Digraphs

Word Ladder Freebie

Word Ladders-CVC Words

 Congrats to all of you who are already on break.  I am so very jealous, but do hope you enjoy every moment you can!!  Sleep a little extra for me, okay?!

~ Enjoy!

Word Ladders-Blending Practice

Back in June and July, I created some Word Ladders.  Word Ladders are a fun way for your students to blend sounds to read words as the initial, final, or medial letter is changed.  If did not follow my blog back then or are not sure what how they work, feel free to click here to see what I mean.

Since then, I have had a few requests to create more.  So I did!!

I created two additional sets and uploaded them to both of my shops (click on the picture of your choice):

Word Ladders-2

Word Ladders-Digraphs:

Thank you!

Word Ladder Freebie!

I just whipped up a Word Ladder FREEBIE to share with you all!

Click on the picture to download it for free from my Teacher's Notebook Store.

If you like this FREEBIE, check out the following listing at my Teacher's Notebook Store:

If you would prefer to shop through TPT, I also have them listed here.


Finally, if you would like to read more about Word Ladders, click here to see my original post.


Stay cool!!

Word Ladders-Blending CVC Words

This past spring I had the opportunity to attend a presentation by Dr. Timothy Rasinski at the New York State Reading Association Conference.  In addition to being one of the top researchers in reading fluency, he told us all that one of his "gifts" is having the ability to create word ladders.  If you provided him with two words, he said he would be able to create a word ladder within 48 hours!

I do have some of his Word Ladder books which my older students enjoy, but I wanted to create something for my kindergarten students to practice blending sounds as they change the initial, medial, and final letters.

Here is a sample of what I came up with:

The students start with the word on the bottom and then change the letters as they climb up the ladder.

I just posted this Word Ladder, along with two others in my TPT store. 

What do you think?

CHEEZ-IT Spelling

Who likes CHEEZ-IT crackers?  Our family definitely does!  Have you seen the Scrabble CHEEZ-IT crackers?  Love them!  They are a teacher’s and parent’s dream!  I have been working on a couple of projects to do with them.

First, to help P practice connecting her letters and sounds, I thought I would combine Elkonin Boxes with the crackers.  She isn’t ready to segment words into individual sounds on her own yet, so I segmented and named the sounds for P and she picked out the corresponding letters (out of a small pile that I had gone through and preselected for her). 

Building the words made her awfully hungry of course, so she ate them as a snack afterward.  As she ate them, she named each letter and said each sound.

Then to help some of my K students identify and write their sight words, I thought I would do the following activity.  They will need to read the words on the sheet, build the words by finding the corresponding letters (matching the lower case to the upper case), and then write the words.

I haven’t tried it in the classroom yet.  I didn’t know if the actual boxes of CHEEZ-IT crackers would provide enough letters for them each to build their words.  (If it works and there is interest, I just may make more of these sheets with other words.  Please let me know if you have tried this or anything like it and how it has worked out for you!)

~ Mrs. Mc

CVC Blending

Happy Spring! 

Although it doesn’t feel much like Spring here in the Northeast!!  Snow is in the forecast for tomorrow night again…YUCK!!!

I wanted to share an activity I will be using with my K students to help them blend simple CVC words.  I am calling it, “Bloom Blending” because I found this bucket/vase/thingamajig at my grandmother’s house this weekend that says, “bloom!” right on it.  I added the word ‘blending” and decorated it with some ribbon and flowers I had leftover from some other craft projects.  (A simple pot could just as easily be transformed.)

The download includes 48 flowers, each with a simple VC or a CVC word on it.  The flowers with the white centers are easier to blend because the initial sounds are continuous.  The flowers with the yellow centers are more challenging because they mostly begin with stop consonants. 

Here is a sample of one of the pages.

You can download the entire document here.

Hope you enjoy!

~ Mrs. Mc