Letter Recognition-Months of the Year

These 12 pages will help teach your child letter recognition by pairing words with the letters that they begin with.  One sheet for every month!

Laminate or use inside a clear pocket folder and use dry erase markers. This way you can use in your Literacy Centers!

Letter Recognition- Months

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The Cows Are Out of the Barn!

Farmer Brown’s cows have escaped and the only way to get them into the correct barns are to make sure that the words on the cows rhyme with the word on the barn.

This fun activity helps with phonics in young preschool age and kindergarten.

Learn words that rhyme with “at”, “all’, “in”, “an”, “it” and “ten”.

The Cows Are Out of the Barn!

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“Letter of the Day” packs

Each pack contains a letter of the alphabet, tracing and writing sheet, activity sheet and more.

Letter of the Day-A

Letter of the Day-B

Letter of the Day-C

Letter of the Day-D

Letter of the Day-E

Letter of the Day-F

Letter of the Day-G

Letter of the Day-H

Letter of the Day-I

Letter of the Day-J

Letter of the Day-K

Letter of the Day-L

Letter of the Day-M

Letter of the Day-N

Letter of the Day-O

Letter of the Day-P

Letter of the Day-Q

Letter of the Day-R

Letter of the Day-S

Letter of the Day-T

Letter of the Day-U

Letter of the Day-V

Letter of the Day-W

Letter of the Day- X

Letter of the Day-Y

Letter of the Day-Z

Letter of the Day-A Letter of the Day-A (3) Letter of the Day-A (1) Letter of the Day-A (2)Letter of the Day-A (4)

Color Chip Word Slides.

These Color Chip Word Slides are easy to make and better yet….FREE!

You can get these color chips at any paint store or big box store (Lowe’s, Menard’s, etc.) Grab as many as you like.  If you are doing this for a classroom; you can ask an associate of the store and sometimes they will give you a load of them; still wrapped in the plastic!

I just picked out a square paint chip that would be in the same color category as the multi-color chips and I was set.

I cut a thin strip from the multi-color chip for my letters. Then cut a 1- inch square from the single color paint chip. Added a slit above and below the 1-inch square (just a tad longer on each side of the square) to slide in the letter strip.  I used an exact-o knife to cut out the square and make my slits.

I started off using a regular fine point permanent marker and it just wasn’t big enough, so I went to a chisel point permanent marker for my letters and the words.  You will notice that I didn’t use the last color square on the letter strip. This was to give the children an area to hold and be able to move the letter strip.

 

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Easy Reader Card Sets!

All are card sets except for A Day with Our Dogs.

These pages are large print and the words are easy for beginners.

“Let’s Play” are actually cards that can be printed off to postcard size (5.5 x 4.3 inches). You can go smaller if you wish. 

With the card sets; you can use a hole punch and add a ring to it for a flip chart or two rings for a book.

A Day with Our Dogs

Easy Reader- Let’s Play

Easy Reader- My First Day of School!

A Day with Our Dogs

Beginning Blends Worksheets

Consonant Blends

A consonant blend consists of two or three consonants whose sounds are blended together.  Each letter sound is heard in the blend.  The most common beginning consonant blends include the following: bl, br, cl, cr, dr, fl, fr, tr, gl, gr, pl, pr, sl, sm, sp and st.  Blends can also occur at the end of a word as seen here in the word “past”.  The common three consonant blends include: str, spl, and spr.

Teachers will usually teach the “L” blends first (bl, cl, fl, gl, pl and sl) and then move onto the “R” blends.

Consonant Blends and Consonant Digraphs

While the consonant blends allow you to hear the sounds of both letters in the blend; the consonant digraph brings letters together to create one sound. The most common digraphs are ch, sh, th, and wh.

Beginning Blends _L_

Beginning Blends _R_

Beginning Blends- Assorted

Beginning Blends _L_

Positional Words Packs

These packs contain positional  or directional words (up, down, over, under, etc).

It’s important to learn these words at an early age so that young ones understand and convey direction better.

Positional Words- Dogs

Positional Words-Goat

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Word Families

These packs are for Word Families.

Word Families are an easy way for young ones to begin to read; easy because the words rhythm. The packs contain three and four-letter words.

Word Families- OP

Word Family-IP

Word Family-AP

Word Family-OT

Word Family-UN

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