The main phonics skill you will be focusing on in Kindergarten is CVC words. Typically, I spent about 2-3 months working on decoding, blending, spelling and fluency with just CVC words! Once your students are able to read CVC words, their reading ability will skyrocket! Here’s how to teach CVC
Phonemic Awareness is one of the main skills that you will teach as a Kindergarten teacher. But, how do you know if your students are really “getting it”? It’s important to complete phonemic awareness assessments in Kindergarten to help guide and differentiate your instruction and assist those who need additional
Teaching phonemic awareness is an important part of the Kindergarten curriculum. Not sure what phonemic awareness is? Read more about the importance of phonemic awareness here. There are five main activity types to practice in Kindergarten- rhyming and alliteration, phoneme categorization, oral blending, oral segmentation, and phoneme substitution. These strategies
Teaching phonemic awareness is an important part of the Kindergarten curriculum. Not sure what phonemic awareness is? Read more about the importance of phonemic awareness here. There are five main activity types to practice in Kindergarten- rhyming and alliteration, phoneme categorization, oral blending, oral segmentation, and phoneme substitution. These strategies
Teaching phonemic awareness is an important part of the Kindergarten curriculum. Not sure what phonemic awareness is? Read more about the importance of phonemic awareness here. There are five main activity types to practice in Kindergarten- rhyming and alliteration, phoneme categorization, oral blending, oral segmentation, and phoneme substitution. These strategies
Phonemic awareness is a critical skill for early readers—and it’s a big part of the Kindergarten curriculum. If you’re not quite sure what phonemic awareness is or why it’s important, you can read more about it here. In Kindergarten, we focus on five main types of phonemic awareness activities: rhyming
Think about how many sight words your students know right now in the year. Is it 10? 35? 50? No matter how many they know, it is so important that you track your students’ sight word progress. Tracking sight words and keeping data helps you as the teacher be more
Do you wish your students were able to write independently? They can! All they need is a little help getting there. The best independent writing activity for Kindergarten that I’ve used are picture prompts! Picture prompts can help students become more confident in writing independently by giving them a picture
The next step in building independent writers is to teach sentence structure in kindergarten. My favorite way to introduce and practice sentence structure is through a hands-on sentence building activity using a pocket chart. This approach helps students learn about sentence structure and how to form a complete sentence without
