36 fine motor skills activity cards for improving hand strength, pencil grip and handwriting. Printable support resources for fine motor skills activities. Includes: Gingerbread men to tweezer buttons onto Large numbers to place sequins on Hole punch activity Jellybean jars Geoboard number templates Gumball machines Muffin tray templates Tags for padlocks and keys Pompom ice creams Pompom pictures Numbers for threading Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Clip Art and Krista Wallden Creative Clips

Sequences of activities to order including pictures of eating an apple, blowing up a balloon, a chick hatching, a seed growing, a spider weaving a web, doing laundry, making a bed, making cereal, making a sandwich, washing dishes, making a sundae and the life cycle of a frog. Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Clip Art and Dancing Crayon Designs

Flash cards for first 100 high frequency words

Play dough mats are a great way to practice fine motor skills while learning a variety of other skills.  These particular mats can be used to help teach children high frequency words. Although I have suggested play dough for these mats they would also work with various other sensory materials as well simply with whiteboard pens. Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Clip Art

Reinforce correct letter formation, letter recognition, and letter sounds with these worksheets that have pictures to colour beginning with the letter on that page and letters to trace as well as space within handwriting lines to write the letter for themselves. The lines are large and perfect for beginning writers. This pack includes 27 PDF worksheets with 2 versions of k. Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Children’s Illustrator.

CVC words are a key tool in teaching and learning phonics. CVC words help introduce children to reading by using phonics to learn the sounds of the individual letters, and then blending those sounds into one three-letter word. This particular activity shows a picture and a word and children have to match them together. This activity is particularly helpful for visual learners. This includes 60 different CVC words and 2 different sets - one in which the children begin with the word and find the corresponding picture and one where they begin with the picture. Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Children’s Illustrator.

CVC words are a key tool in teaching and learning phonics. CVC words help introduce children to reading by using phonics to learn the sounds of the individual letters, and then blending those sounds into one three-letter word. This activity has a large picture and then 3 boxes underneath in which children can either write the word themselves or contract it using letters. This set includes 48 CVC word pictures with enough corresponding letter cards for each word. Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Children’s Illustrator.

Photos of people expressing different emotions to instigate discussions.

CVC words are a key tool in teaching and learning phonics. CVC words help introduce children to reading by using phonics to learn the sounds of the individual letters, and then blending those sounds into one three-letter word. This particular activity uses a fun bingo game to practice reading CVC words. This pack includes two different versions of bingo boards with 3 different ways to play. There are boards with pictures on which children can either cover with the corresponding word or a colored square. Then there is the reverse of this with boards showing the word and cards with pictures or colors to cover. Each set contains 7 bingo boards. Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Children’s Illustrator.

Word and picture flash cards to support learning of words containing different phonic sounds and high frequency words. Included are 56 CVC word flash cards. Clipart courtesy of Kari Bolt Clip Art

Flash cards showing CCVC words with corresponding pictures. Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Clip Art

Flash cards showing CVCC words with corresponding pictures. Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Clip Art

Set of 23 different play dough mats to aid fine motor skills. The set currently contains 3 sets; shapes, spring and transport. Simply laminate to be able to use over and over. Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Clip Art

6 Worksheets with a short passage to read containing simple CVC words and then a set of questions to answer about the passage to show understanding. Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Children’s Illustrator:

6 Worksheets in which children need to read a simple CVC word and then draw a corresponding picture when they have read and understood the word. Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Clip Art

5 Worksheets, one for each vowel sound (a, e, i, o, u). The worksheets contain a large letter showing the vowel sound and then lots of pictures, children need to circle the pictures that have the correct corresponding vowel sound in the middle of the word. Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Clip Art

26 worksheets in which children can practice letter recognition and handwriting. One worksheet for each letter of the alphabet with each showing a picture to color that begins with that letter, letters to trace and handwriting lines to write for themselves and also the letter shown using a variety of different fonts to pick out and find the correct ones. All worksheets show both capital and lower case letters. Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Clip Art

5 Worksheets in which children need to look at a picture and think about what the short vowel sound would be in the middle of that word, they then need to color the correct letter. Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Clip Art

Worksheets each with 6 different activities to support learning to read and spell high frequency sight words: reading, coloring, making the word with magnets, tracing, writing and putting the word into a sentence. Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Clip Art

Worksheets in which children need to look at a picture and then write in the missing beginning sound from the word. Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Clip Art