Fall File Folder Activities for Teaching Rhyme, Alphabet and CVC Words!

admin September 5, 2020 No Comments

Acorn Themed Early Literacy Skills Activities Oh my goodness! Fall is right around the corner. It’s sad to see summer pass, but I love those chilly fall evenings. I look forward to the leaves changing colors. It is really beautiful in Northern Michigan! To celebrate autumn, we created these adorable fall-themed file folder activities for learning basic literacy skills. File Folder Acorn Themed Rhyme Match The acorn rhyme match activity contains 4 differentiated file folder activities designed to teach the skill of rhyme. Two templates contain matches for 9 acorns and the other two for 6 matches. Best of all, these activities are perfect for independent centers! The File Folder Acorn Rhyme Match activity is available in my online Teachers

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Phonemic Awareness FREEBIE!

admin September 23, 2018 No Comments

The research is very clear regarding the relationship between phonological/ phonemic awareness skills and later reading achievement. Children need to have an appreciation of how sounds can be put together to create words. Incorporating phonemic awareness activities into our lessons is critically important and they really don’t need to take up a significant amount of time. Quick and easy activities such as the Doggie, Where’s My Bone? activity are perfect for use during your small group instruction. This particular activity teaches students to recognize the position of sounds within words. You simply say a word containing 3 sounds– such as “cat”– and then a sound within the word– such as /a/. The student places a bone on either the head, body or

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Scarecrow Rhyme Activity

admin October 31, 2016 No Comments

These scarecrow activities have certainly been a hit for fall themed centers! They are simply perfect for centers as they have a built-in self-checking feature. Creating the activity is super simple. Just print the activity on card stock and then cut the scarecrows and pictures along the dotted line. Differentiating the activity is a snap as you choose how many and which rhyming scarecrows to use. Students name the picture on the scarecrow and then find the rhyming matches. Once the scarecrow is filled, have your students turn over the cards and if the pictures match the answer is correct. When you download this activity you will receive 13 rhyming scarecrows and 46 colorful rhyming pictures! The Scarecrow Rhyme activity

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Ice Cream Activities for Rhyme and the Alphabet

admin March 26, 2016 No Comments

The Ice Cream Cone activity for rhyme has certainly been a hit with my kinder friends last year that I decided it was time to add an alphabet activity as well. Both activities are perfect for independent centers and you can easily differentiate the activities by choosing which and how many cones to use. When you download the Ice Cream Cone activity for learning and practicing the alphabet you’ll receive over 200 colorful cone scoops with pictures containing the beginning sounds for each letter! The Build A Cone Alphabet activity is available through my online Teachers Pay Teachers store or through the Make, Take & Teach website. Although you can use the activities year round they are particularly fun for

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Phonemic Awareness Intervention Kit

admin February 4, 2016 No Comments

Years ago we started using the DIBELS assessment to screen students for reading difficulties and to monitor at-risk students throughout their intervention. We had all this wonderful data, but there seemed to be a gap between the data and then exactly how to use the data to guide instruction and intervention.  So, if a child fell within the “intensive” range on the First Sound Fluency or Phoneme Segmentation Fluency assessments, what activities could/should be used to help remediate that particular skill? In order to make the connection between assessment and intervention, the intervention kits were developed. The intervention kits are intended to be used by either classroom teachers or interventionists to address specific skills during small group instruction. The kits (there are

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Candy Corn Activities!

admin October 17, 2015 No Comments

These candy corn activities have certainly been a hit for fall-themed centers! They are perfect for our kindergarten and first grade kiddos just learning the concept of rhyme and sound-symbol correspondence. For sure you’ll want to differentiate this activity by choosing how many and which candy corns to use within your centers. For the alphabet activity, simply place the candy corn pieces on the table and have your students match the upper- and lowercase letters to the beginning sound of the word. The Candy Corn Alphabet activity is available in online Teachers Pay Teachers store or through the Make, Take & Teach website. When you download the Candy Corn Rhyme activity you will receive 24 candy corn rhyme pieces. Students match

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A Doggone Fun Phonological Awareness Activity

admin July 19, 2015 No Comments

The research is very clear regarding the relationship between phonological/ phonemic awareness skills and later reading achievement. Children need to have an appreciation of how sounds can be put together to create words. Incorporating phonemic awareness activities into our lessons is critically important and they really don’t need to take up a significant amount of time. Quick and easy activities such as the Doggie, Where’s My Bone? activity are perfect for use during your small group instruction. This particular activity teaches students to recognize the position of sounds within words. You simply say a word containing 3 sounds– such as “cat”– and then a sound within the word– such as /a/. The student places a bone on either the head, body or

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Valentine Rhyming Activity

admin January 30, 2015 No Comments

Many of my preschool and kinder friends are now working with the concept of rhyme.  Rhyming is an important early literacy skill as it helps our young readers understand that words are comprised of sounds which can be changed to make new and different words.  This rhyming activity is ideal for your centers during the early months of February.  When you download this activity you will receive 48 colorful hearts containing rhyming words.  You’ll want to be sure to differentiate this activity by choosing which and how many rhyming hearts to use. The Valentine Rhyme Matching activity can be found in my online Teachers Pay Teachers store or through the Make, Take & Teach website.  

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The Snow is Flying! Grab Those Mittens

admin January 17, 2015 No Comments

Here in Northern Michigan winter can last for months (and I mean months and months).  We often have snow from late November through mid-April.  Well, up in the north, putting on your boots, mittens, hats, coats, and snow pants is an everyday event.  It can take up to 10 minutes to get our little kindergarteners ready to go outside–and then another 10 minutes to get undressed!  Multiply that routine by three times a day–craziness!  Whether you live in a winter wonderland or in warmer parts of the world, the Mitten Match activity is sure to be a hit with your kiddos during the winter months. Last year, my fabulous artist created these adorable mittens.  They were perfect for creating a

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Build a Snowman Activities for Rhyme and Beginning Sounds

admin January 8, 2015 No Comments

Last year we created these absolutely adorable snowmen to practice the concepts of rhyme, beginning sounds and word families.  The kiddos loved them!  They were just perfect for winter-themed centers. This winter, I decided to update them a bit – I made the pictures larger and added several more rhyming snowmen.  The current activity for rhyme now includes 31 colorful rhyming snowmen.  You certainly will want to differentiate this activity by choosing how many and which snowmen to use during a rotation. The Make, Take & Teach Build a Snowman Rhyme activity is available through my online Teachers Pay Teachers store or through the Make, Take & Teach website. The Snowman Activity for Beginning Sounds has certainly been a kid-favorite

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