Core Knowledge Foundation
Kindergarten Skills Unit 1
A unit focuses on prewriting skills. Over 10 days, young scholars practice drawing lines and shapes, use play dough to build shapes, and track from left to right. Pupils put their sense of hearing to the test by listening for words in...
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Phase 3: Sight Words
Use this list of 25 high frequency words to boost sight word recognition, as a spelling list, or as a quiz. These are very simple words that are 2-4 letters in length.
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Introduce Word-Form Recognition
Sound out sight words using these word cards and word-form recognition strategies. As you point to each word, scholars sound out the letters silently instead of segmenting the sounds aloud. Show them how you do this by mouthing the...
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Language Arts: Scavenger Word Hunt
Participate in a scavenger hunt to find objects beginning with a particular letter sound and take digital photos of them with your scholars. Using software, they find word pictures beginning with particular letters and locate picture...
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Reading: Classroom Words
There are 10 classroom words located at the top of this instructional activity. Kindergartners match the word to the object in the picture, they write that word on the line near that object. This is a great way for them to recognize...
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Five Quick Games Build Reading Skills
Build reading skills with these five quick games! Whether you're hoping to build grammar, syllabication, or word recognition skills, this resource has options for you. Kids will love taking a break from the mundane to play these...
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1-5 High Frequency Words
Get the class ready for a lifetime of literacy by practicing high frequency words on a regular basis. Each slide contains one high frequency sight word for students to recite.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Letter Recognition: Poetry Pen
It's always nice to have a great idea and all the tools to make it happen. The class can use these nursery rhyme and alphabet cards to teach each other letter recognition and letter sound correspondence. There is a full set of alphabet...
Student Handouts
Vocabulary Word Circles
Pupils take a well-rounded approach to the traditional vocabulary chart with this graphic organizer, which prompts students to include a sentence, antonym, definition/synonym, and picture for each vocabulary word.
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Word Recognition: P Matching
In this word recognition worksheet, students examine 5 pictures and select the words that represent each of the pictures from the listed possibilities.
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Word Recognition: X, Y, Z
For this word recognition worksheet, students examine 5 pictures and select the words that represent each of the pictures from the listed possibilities.
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Word Recognition: R
For this word recognition worksheet, learners examine 5 pictures and select the words that represent each of the pictures from the listed possibilities.
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Word Recognition: S
In this word recognition worksheet, students examine 5 pictures and match the words that represent each of the pictures from the listed possibilities.
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Word Recognition: W
In this word recognition learning exercise, students examine 5 pictures and select the words that represent each of the pictures from the listed possibilities.
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Word Recognition: Initial G
In this word recognition activity, students examine 6 pictures and match the words that represent each of the pictures from the listed possibilities.
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C Word Recognition
In this word recognition worksheet, learners practice their language skills as they match the words clock, clip, crack, crab, and cloud to the appropriate pictures.
Brain Parade
See.Touch.Learn.
Here is a great app that has tons of potential in helping your child or student with severe to moderate autism, or other intellectual disability, learn words and concepts using research-based methods. Children with autism or PDD NOS have...
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Word Recognition: W Multiple Choice
For this word recognition worksheet, young scholars examine 5 pictures and select the words that represent each of the pictures from the listed possibilities.
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Word Recognition
In this word recognition instructional activity, learners examine 5 pictures and select the words that represent each of the pictures from the listed possibilities.
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Word Recognition: Letter U
In this word recognition learning exercise, students examine 5 pictures and select the words that represent each of the pictures from the listed possibilities.
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Sentences for Sight Word Dictation
Improve your learners' reading and writing skills with a set of sentences designed to help pupils work with sight words. The teacher dictates while the pupils write; this is followed by discussion.
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Bugs and Flowers Math and Literacy Centers
The sun shines, flowers bloom, and bugs fly—it must be Spring! Add a cheerful theme of bugs and flowers to math and literacy centers. Scholars take part in an assortment of activities designed to reinforce concepts such as identifying...
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Getting To Know You
Pupils use personal information to enter into a teacher generated database. The focus is upon name recognition and promoting socialization with classmates. Word recognition is emphasized with the simple development of basic computer skills.
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Preschool Coloring Page - Koala
A darling image that any pre-schooler would love, this learning exercise provides a simple and easy to color black line master copy of a koala. The word 'koala' is printed at the bottom of the page to help improve sight word recognition...