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!

Valentine FREEBIES and Goodies!

I thought it would be helpful if I combined all of my Valentine goodies into one post!  

Some of these items are FREE!!  Those that aren't are on sale until Valentine's Day!!

Just click on each picture to be directed to my shop!

  

 

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Thank you!

St. Patrick's Day Literacy Activities

Here are some St. Patrick's Day themed activities that I will be using in the next few weeks to reinforce some foundational literacy skills.  Click on the pictures to learn more about each activity.

To help practice isolating and segmenting sounds, we will be using plastic gold coins to complete

St. Patty's Day Phoneme Segmentation:

To help practice letter and sound identification, letter writing, and phoneme isolation, my kinderkids will be completing activities from my newly updated 
Lucky Letters Literacy Pack:

And to informally assess correct responses to various phonological skills, I have my students
Color a Lucky Clover:

A Whole Pack of Ladders

I am very excited about my newest Word Ladders Pack and I think you will be too!  I have had several requests to make more, so here they are!  These ladders are a fun way for our little literacy learners to build some of their foundational skills.

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If you are not familiar with them here is how they work:  the students start with the word on the bottom of the ladder.  As they climb up each rung, they follow the direction to change the the initial, final, or medial letter.  They then write and decode the new word.  With each change they practice the reading foundational skills of segmenting, substituting, and blending the letter-sounds as they decode each new single syllable word.

These can be used in so many ways.  Students can complete them individually or collaboratively.  They can be used with the entire class, in a literacy center, or  in small differentiated groups.  I use them with my small groups during word study as they progress through their reading foundational skills of phonics and word recognition. 

It is easy to pick and choose the ladders appropriate for your students' needs. This 25 page document is set up to include ladders for:

CVC words
words with initial digraphs

words with initial l-blends

words with initial s-blends

words with initial r-blends

words with final blends

mixture of all
*  Just a note-this pack does not include any long vowel patterns.

I have created other Word Ladder sets, so in case you missed any of them you can click here to go to my most recent post about them.  (You will even find a link to a FREEBIE once you are there!)


Hope you and your little literacy learners enjoy climbing their way up through their foundational skills!

Spring Phoneme Segmentation

Happy Spring!!

To celebrate Spring, I put together a some Elkonin boxes with cute little flowers to practice phoneme segmentation.  

My students will use a seed or a jellybean and slide it up the stem to the flower for each sound that is heard in the word dictated or pictured in a picture card.  (There are two different versions included in the download:  one for words up to 3 sounds and the other for words up to 4 sounds.)  They will then connect the sounds they hear to the letters and write the word on the corresponding worksheet.  Click on the picture above to learn more!

It surely doesn't feel like March here in Upstate New York, we have been having the most glorious weather here!  Temps are forecasted to be in the 80's on Thursday!  Very exciting.  This has kept me outside with my little one almost every single afternoon, which is taking me away from my little blog.  I have many things floating in my head to sit down and create, and am hoping to do so soon!  The kiddos at school are just as excited as I am, and boy do they have Spring Fever!  It feels like it is the end of June.  Hopefully we can all pull ourselves together since it is only March!   LOL!

St. Patty's Phoneme Segmentation

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My kinderkids have been working really hard to isolate the sounds they hear at the beginning and end of words.  We will be moving on to isolate sounds they hear in the middle of words.  We will be doing a lot of work with CVC words and Elkonin boxes in the next few weeks, so I wanted to share this little St. Patty's Day phoneme segmentation activity 
with you: 

This activity addresses the following Common Core Learning Standards:  RF.K.2d:  Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (CVC) words.

They will use this by placing all of their gold coins on the top of the rainbow.  They will then select a card (I have sooo many picture cards to choose from, so I did not include any in the document), name what is pictured, and then slide their gold coin down the rainbow for each sound they hear.  I will be using real gold coins. (Well not real gold, just plastic, but it is real to them!)  I did include paper gold coins in case you didn't have the "real" ones on hand.  

I would love for you to share with me some ways that you reinforce phoneme isolation and/or phoneme segmentation?

CVC Word Building with Pictures

My students have been working hard to isolate the beginning and ending sounds in words.  Although they are not quite yet in the stage of blending all of the sounds together to read the words, I created the following activity to help reinforce the beginning and ending sounds.  They will select a picture, use letter tiles to build the word, and then write the word.

~ To be a little festive, I gave it a little Valentine's Day spin by going to the good old Dollar Tree where I bought the little heart boxes below and then numbered them 1-8.  
~ I then placed one of the CVC picture cards in each box.
~ I will give the students the letter tiles, word building boxes, and a worksheet.
~ The students will select a box, use the letter tiles to build the word in thew Elkonin-like word building boxes, and then write the word in the corresponding numbered heart on the worksheet.
~ Once the words are written, together we will practice stretching out the sounds with our hands to read the words.

Because we are focusing mostly on  identifying building and identifying words by confirming the beginning and ending sounds, I have separated the vowels "a" and "i" into two separate activities.  If your students are ready, you could easily combine the materials for the two vowels.

Also, although I am doing this for Valentine's Day, this activity could be done at any point with any type of plastic box, small basket, bucket, etc...  I also included a worksheet that has a rectangular border around the three boxes for the students to write in (instead of the heart border).

Click on the shop of choice below!

Teachers Notebook

Teachers Pay Teachers

These activities address the following Common Core Learning Standards:

~  RF.K.1d:  Recognize and name all upper and lowercase letters of the alphabet.

~  RF.K.2d:  Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in three phoneme (CVC) words. 

~  RF.K.3a:  Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary or many of the most frequent sound for each consonant.
~  L.K.2b:  Write a letter or letters for most consonant and short-vowel sounds (phonemes).