Narrative Skills: What it is Narrative Skills include the ability to tell stories, as well as describing things and events. This skill set is important for reading comprehension; in simpler terms, it is grasping meaning from a story. Thus, the ability for a child to understand the sequence stories are told in. Oral Language Development: What […]

Phonemic Awareness: What it is Phonemic awareness is the ability to notice, think about, and work with the individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words. This includes blending sounds into words, segmenting words into sounds, and deleting and playing with the sounds in spoken words. Reading Rockets

What is Print Awareness? Print awareness (also called concepts of print) is the understanding that print carries meaning, that books contain letters and words. Print awareness also includes an understanding of what books are used for and how a book “works” — how to turn pages, how to find the top and bottom of a

The Alphabet Upper – and Lower Case Graphing Center is great for developing young learners’ upper and lower case letter identification and fine-motor abilities. Alphabet Upper – and Lower Case Graphing What you need: How to complete the activity: This pack includes 5 Upper and Lower case graphing sheets. For the first four, the children

The Alphabet Beginning Sounds Dominoes are great for developing young learners’ beginning sound identification and fine-motor abilities. Alphabet Beginning Sounds Dominoes What you need: How to complete the activity: This literacy center includes 2 sets of colorful alphabet dominoes. Each domino has a picture and a letter. The children match the pictures to their correct

The Pets Themed Activities were a hit with all involved – learning about pets and their homes, making sandwiches that looks like dogs, building animal homes, making split-pin pet characters and pets out of 2D shapes, and pretending to visit a pet store. Pets Themed Activities Creative Space Play dough, stamps, scissors, lacing beads and

The Pets Themed Activities were a hit with all involved – learning about pets and their homes, making sandwiches that looks like dogs, building animal homes, making split-pin pet characters and pets out of 2D shapes, and pretending to visit a pet store. The Pets Themed 2D Shapes Craft is great for developing young learners’

The Pets Themed Activities were a hit with all involved – learning about pets and their homes, making sandwiches that looks like dogs, building animal homes, making split-pin pet characters and pets out of 2D shapes, and pretending to visit a pet store. The Pets Themed Patterns Cut-and-Paste is great for developing young learners’ extending

The Pets Themed Activities were a hit with all involved – learning about pets and their homes, making sandwiches that looks like dogs, building animal homes, making split-pin pet characters and pets out of 2D shapes, and pretending to visit a pet store. The Pets Themed Board Race is great for developing young learners’ counting,

The Pets Themed Activities were a hit with all involved – learning about pets and their homes, making sandwiches that looks like dogs, building animal homes, making split-pin pet characters and pets out of 2D shapes, and pretending to visit a pet store. The Pets Themed Add it, Build it, Write it Center is great