Retelling a story is a very important comprehension skill and one that our young students need a lot of practice with. To scaffold their success at this skill, read familiar fairy tales aloud and let them retell them. These retelling cards provide visual clues to help your little ones. This is a whole group activity that can be placed in a center after everyone knows the sequence of the story.

Welcome your PK and Kindergarten students back to school with these no prep fun foldable books. Students look for something on each page that rhymes with the picture on the cover. Use the information gathered from their responses as a formative assessment to guide your phonological awareness activities in small group.

Welcome your PK and Kindergarten students back to school with these no prep fun worksheets. Students look at the pictures on the page and color the ones that belong together. ( Color the things: that you see at home, that you see at school, that you see at the beach, that are red, that are hot, that are square, etc.) Use the information gathered from their responses to guide your vocabulary development lessons. You can assess if your students are familiar with letters, numbers, animals, size, colors, shapes and more.

This packet includes a total of 84 reading task cards (color and black and white) for your students to use with their independent reading books. During literacy centers, students find and write specific words from their books based on the task card instructions. There are: 10 cards for finding sight word or word wall words in their book 10 cards for working with comprehension (story elements, real/make believe, fact/opinion , etc.) 10 cards for grammar (nouns, verbs, pronouns, contractions, compound words, antonyms, synonyms etc.) 54 cards for phonics ( short vowel sounds long vowel sounds, vowel pairs, r controlled vowels, beginning blends and ending digraphs)

Are your students working on beginning blends? Here are 5 CCVC word activities that will allow them to have fun practicing this standard. This CCVC unit contains activities that can be used in whole group, small group or centers. All activities use the same 24 pictures to make it easier for your students to work independently. Response sheets are included to provide the students the opportunity to write the initial consonant blends. The activities include: 24 CCVC Puzzles 24 CCVC Clip-It Cards Worksheets Interactive CCVC CCVC at the Pocket Chart Initial consonant blends included are: • cl • sl • fl • tw • pl • cr • gr • fr • dr • sp • sw • st • tr Common Core State Standards practiced with this unit are: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.1a Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.1b Recognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.1d Recognize and name all upper- and lowercase letters of the alphabet. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.1.2b Orally produce single-syllable words by blending sounds (phonemes), including consonant blends. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.1.2c Isolate and pronounce initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in spoken single-syllable words. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.1.2d Segment spoken single-syllable words into their complete sequence of individual sounds (phonemes).

Help your first or second grade students decode words in context and in isolation by applying common letter-sound correspondences, to these vowel digraphs oo as in foot, oo as in moon, ea as in eat, ea as in bread, ee, ow as in how, ow as in snow, ou as in out, ay, ai, aw, ew, oa, ie as in chief, ie as in die, and –igh. Each vowel pair has 3 different activities in this 55 page phonics unit. • The first activity is a print and go activity sheet where your students read a sentence containing a word with the specific vowel pair, then cut and paste a corresponding picture. • The second activity is a word sort, complete with sorting mats and word cards. We have included a response sheet so they can record their sorts. • The third activity is a booklet for each vowel pair for your students to fold and make and then write the specified words. This unit is great for whole group, small group and independent practice at literacy centers.

What’s in your tent? Each tent is a sorting mat with a different CVC word family. Students add picture letter cards that will make a word when combined with the specified word family. Rime Sorts is another center activity where the students sort pictures with the same rime onto letter mats. Clip –It Cards is a center activity where the students put clips on the pictures that are in a specified word family. 6 worksheets reviewing the word families, are also included.