The CVC Word Families Board Games are great for developing young learners’ phonemic awareness as well as blending and segmenting words abilities. CVC Word Families Board Games What you need: How to complete the activity: 1. Laminate and cut out the game cards.​ 2. Shuffle the cards and place them face down next to the game […]

The CVC Word Families Word Cards are great for developing young learners’ phonemic awareness as well as blending and segmenting words abilities. CVC Word Families Word Cards What you need: How to complete the activity: The teacher shows all the word cards to the children, while sounding each out and blending the sounds together to

The Alphabet Play dough Mats are great for developing young learners’ upper and lower case letter identification, beginning sound recognition and fine-motor abilities. Alphabet Play dough Mats What you need: How to complete the activity: This is an awesome activity where children get to improve their fine-motor muscles while learning how to form the letters

The Alphabet Look, Sort & Record Mats are great for developing young learners’ upper and lower case letter identification, beginning sound recognition and fine-motor abilities. Alphabet Look, Sort & Record Mats What you need: How to complete the activity: This pack includes 5 sets of beginning sound sorting mats. Each set has 15 pictures. The

Listening Skills As a child grows they learn to listen to different sounds and discriminate between them, and to recognise voices and sounds from the world around them. Eventually, children will develop the ability to detect, discriminate between and identify sounds, and understand them (in words and sentences).

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