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Literacy Center Ideas - hands-on literacy center activities perfect for 5-8 years | you clever monkey

Set up a fun phonics activity for preschoolers and school aged children with this sorting objects into baskets game! Easy, low-preparation and adaptable

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In the early years at school, kids have so much to learn. There’s letters, phonics, numbers, first words, first additions, first subtractions, all the while getting to grips with what is usually a fresh school experience. Sometimes turning some of their learning, like first words, into fun spelling activities can be just what they need to get them engaged. Check out these great spelling activities! #learningactivities #kids #parenting #phonicsactivities #phonicsgames #spellingactivities

If your kids are anything like mine, they stomp their feet and are full of protests when it's time to practice handwriting. I get it; writing letters over and over can get super boring. Thankfully, that's not the only way to practice. Round up your art supplies and get your kids excited to work on their handwriting with these skill-building exercises that also double as fun activities. This one, for example, lets your child dot a letter outline with a cotton swab dipped in paint. Kids like…

10 engaging word work activities to support literacy instruction in a primary classroom.

Hands on Literacy Activities featured on The Sunday Showcase These awesome hands on literacy ideas are from last week's Sunday Showca...

Here are some fun, engaging High-Frequency Words Partner Games that help students practice reading various sight words. Games include word-reading and

Have fun with phonics by playing this Stomp It Out Reading Game! Your little one will blend letter sounds together to read simple CVC words!

I Spy a Sound are fun and engaging phonics activities that you can use to work on letter sounds with your kindergarten students. This is a fun way to work on phonemic awareness and onset sounds. Use for whole group lessons, literacy centers, morning tubs, morning work or for guided groups.

Low-prep, free sight word games makes practice fun for kindergarten, pre-k, & first graders. Print printable pdf file for reading activities!

Here’s a fun letter sounds activity that you can set up in just a few minutes with a muffin pan, paper cupcake liners, and small objects from around the house! We’ve been loving using muffin tins for learning lately. Last week, we did a muffin tin coin counting activity, and while I was setting that […]

Oct 19, 2019 - write a sentence worksheets for preschool and kindergarten. Write the beginning sounds of the pictures, read the secret sentence and write it.