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:

Lucky Letter Literacy Pack UPDATED!

In getting ready for St. Patrick's Day, I updated my Lucky Letters Literacy Pack! 

This pack includes upper and lower case versions of:

Lucky Letter Finds (alphabet charts)

Lucky Letter Mix-Ups (letters are mixed up)

Color the Lucky Letters ABC Paths

Write the Lucky Letters

It also includes worksheets for the students to circle the

beginning, ending, and now middle sounds of the words pictured.

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I realized that some of the original pictures did not align with the Common Core Learning Standards (a few pictures ended with "l" or "r"), so I went ahead and changed them.  

Here are some of the Kindergarten Common Core Learning Standards that can be addressed when using the Lucky Letters Literacy Pack:

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 (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words.* (This does not include CVCs ending with /l/, /r/, or /x/.)
RF.K.3a- Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary sound or many of the most frequent sounds for each consonant.
RF.K.3b- Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major
vowels.
LS.K.1a- Print many upper- and lowercase letters.

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???

St. Patty's Phoneme Segmentation

Top of the morning to you!

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?

Luck Letter Literacy Pack and MY BIRTHDAY!!

I recently posted a Lucky Letter Literacy Pack in my shops, just in time for St. Patrick's Day.  It is a fun little pack that includes 6 different early literacy activities that I have featured previously.

Here is what is included:

~  Lucky Letter Finds and Lucky Letter Mix-Ups (upper and lower):  These can be used to practice letter matching, letter identification, and letter sound correspondences.

~  Lucky Letters ABC Path (upper and lower):  Students get to practice reciting the alphabet and alphabetical order as they color a path from clover to clover, going from A-Z.

~  Write the Missing Lucky Letters (upper and lower):  Students get to practice alphabetical order and their writing skills as they write the missing lucky letters on the clovers or write all of the lucky letters on clovers.

~ Circle the Beginning/Ending Sounds:  Students look at the pictures and circle the lucky letter sound heard at the beginning or end of the word.  They choose the correct sound out of four sounds, all of which are in the word.

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.1a:  Print many upper- and lowercase letters.

You can find this pack in both of my shops:

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