Hands-on way to practice beginning letter sounds using these picture cards and any movable alphabet or set of letters.

Have you ever heard the term phonemic awareness and wondered what it is? I get a lot of emails from parents who are ready to teach their child how to

Teach letter sounds in preschool and kindergarten with this fun free printable activity! Kids practice hearing beginning sounds by saying the name of the picture at the top and clipping the picture below that begins with the same sound. #alphabet #lettersounds #preschool #kindergarten

After our Word Family Snowball Toss activity, I was trying to think of a way to repurpose the ping pong balls and thought it would be fun to use

Digraph practice with those tricky ch and sh sounds More

Well, I sure hope that everyone is officially on Thanksgiving break now. I couldn’t believe how many teachers had to teach all three days this week. I think that’s really rude. If you ask me. Just saying. I haven’t been doing a whole lot of anything which is just the way I like to spend my ... Read More about Digraphs and a Freebie!

It’s amazing sometimes where inspiration hits. A few weeks ago I had to kill about an hour and decided to hop on over to Michael’s Craft Store. As I was walking through the bead aisle I found this really handy plastic tote. It was just the right size to fit picture cards! Many of my […]

In today's post, I'll describe the different phonological awareness skills I teach, as well as provide free phonological awareness interventions to help your students improve in each area.

Cristina Celzo from Bronx, New York, sent in these amazing pictures of her rainforest theme. As my colleagues and I were brainstorming how to make trees in our classrooms, Cristina sent me these pictures at the perfect time. It looks as though she used a parachute on the ceiling to engulf the entire room with […]

These easy to use powerpoints are interactive and musical! Perfect to help keep students engaged while they practice letters and beginning sounds! | beginning sounds activities | kindergarten | teaching | preschool | first grade

These phonemic awareness activities are perfect for intervention groups or small groups of kindergarten and pre-kindergarten students who are developing their phonemic awareness skills. Skills include: rhyming, phoneme segmenting, phoneme blending, isolating medial sounds, initial sound identification, initial sound sorting, phoneme deletion, phoneme adding, substituting phonemes, phonemic awareness assessment, phonemic awareness games, and picture cards to use with any activity.

Short A is usually the first phonics sound you teach in kindergarten and first grade so I figured it'd be a great sound to show you teaching...

The H Brothers activity is a fun way to introduce your students to digraphs. Remember, digraphs are two sounds coming together to make an entirely new single sound. Because this is sometimes a confusing concept for kids, multisensory props and gestures are crucial. Below are a few ideas to get you started: CH: wear a Continue Reading

Segmenting phonemes center activity, word work idea. Focus on segmenting 2, 3, 4, and 5 phoneme words.

20 Free Rhyming Wheels! Fun rhyming activity for preschool or kindergarten.