Let’s get kindergartners learning sight words. Here are some activities, tips, and ideas for kindergarten.
Let’s get into the Christmas spirit with a free printable sight word battleship game for kindergarten. This Christmas sight word battleship game is easy to use with beginning readers. It’s time to keep the focus on learning but sprinkling in the Christmas fun! If you know me, I like to work smart. That means we…
You can create a playdough literacy center that lasts all year long. This is how I set up, organized, and maintained a playdough word work center in my kindergarten classroom. First, can I explain that it’s my belief that students learn faster and are more successful when they can manipulate things. This same belief applies…
My students need to know sight words. They are a key step in the reading process. They aren’t the end-all-be-all, but they do play an important role in learning how to read in kindergarten. Here is one mini-lesson I do – I call it a warm-up activity – with my guided reading groups. Let me…
Teach color words with the ever-popular frog street press color songs. Here are the top color word songs on video, in my opinion, for kindergarten. I don’t know about you but we used these songs repeatedly to teach how to spell color words in kindergarten. In fact, I love using songs so much that I…
Get working on sight words with this free Christmas pokey pinning activity for kindergarten. You’ll love how easy it is to work on fine motor skills at the same time as sight words for your kindergarten class. We can get so busy during the Holiday season in a kindergarten classroom. There’s so much we’d like…
When it comes to teaching sight words there a lot of different approaches. Here’s how I like to teach a sight word in 5 minutes for 5 days to kindergarten. Teach sight words interactively with these five easy mini-lessons. Let me share why, how and what sight words we focused on – that way you…
Make a year-long pokey pinning literacy center with easy to use sight word templates for kindergarten. Grab these Sunlight Sight Word Catchers to make pokey pin pictures in your kindergarten classroom. Your kinders will love them and you’ll love what they get out of it. This pokey pin activity is the literacy center many of you…
When it comes to shopping at the Dollar Tree, I’m always looking for ways to keep the fun in standards-based kindergarten activities. Here are six activities that are perfect to use in kindergarten that makes it really inexpensive and still engaging to teach reading skills. These activities cover starting with the alphabet, to sight words to…
You can create literacy centers that last all year long. This is how I set up, organized and displayed the work created by my students from our pokey pinning literacy center. The pokey pinning center focuses on using fine motor skills to poke out simple sight word based sentences. I’ll also mention how it lasts…
Simple is my style. So when you find a game or tool that is simple and can be used for many things – it’s a keeper in my book. One of my favorite examples is a game called “flashcard flash.” It only takes 3 colored pieces of craft foam or construction paper and you’re set…
As a big fan of year-long literacy centers, I don’t really know how to use anything else. {Nor would I want to} Here is how I put together an ABC center, expectations, and the standards. This center, like most of mine, uses hands-on materials and includes student choice. This is a fantastic recipe to make a…
Learning to spell kindergarten sight words, let alone read them can be quite challenging for beginning readers. Here is a fun, kinesthetic way to help teach kindergarten sight words. Simply turn your students into letters of the alphabet and let them form the letters with their bodies! Building movement into lessons yields far better results…
Has it been short of forever since I shared about our literacy centers? Working smart is what I like to think I’m doing, when I share with you that my philosophy on bringing learning and playing together happens during literacy centers. I like to create centers that offer choice and keep repeating the same standards with different…