A good language arts kindergarten curriculum is important. Also, grab my other tips, ideas, and crafts for kindergarten on my page Kindergarten Homeschool Curriculum.
Besides, a strong kindergarten language arts program creates foundational skills children need to become successful readers, writers, and communicators.
But it doesn’t need to be an exhaustive or expensive box curriculum.
You can build your own by including a good variety of activities that cover the basics and builds upon skills that they learn.
It also does not need to be based on heavy writing and practicing perfect penmanship, that will come later.
You can introduce writing
A good kindergarten language arts curriculum should include a variety of activities that help kids develop their listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills.
Too, it should teach phonemic and print awareness.
KINDERGARTEN LANGUAGE ARTS GAMES
Also, look at these fun books and games that can be part of your fun kindergarten language arts curriculum.
13 Phonics Readers and Games for Homeschool Kindergarten
You can never have enough decodable books and hands-on ideas and games.
LEARN TO READ IN WEEKS – Created by a Kindergarten teacher devoted to exploring fun ways to teach reading to young kids,
The Fidget Game aims to teach curriculum-appropriate Dolch
words or sight words from Pre-K to Grade 3 kids.
Wooden Spelling Toy: Includes a wood tray, 5 Handheld Sets of Rotating Blocks with 3-letter word movable blocks. Along with 48pcs sight words flash card (24 pcs foldable word 2-in-1 cards, 24 pcs word cards). Appropriate for teaching very basic reading skills.
Bob Books are back, now with a bright, unique box display and colored illustrations throughout that make learning to read even more fun.
FUN FOR EVERYONE – Gather your family and friends and race against each other to build crossword grids. This anagram game that will drive you bananas.
A bright graphic design,teaching children to recognize letters and numbers correctly.
BUILD early literacy, increase vocabulary, and improve fluency.
Engage kids in building reading and phonics skills with this fast-paced game!
A story of visiting the bookshop for the first time from the multi-award-winning Lucy Cousins.
Gerald is careful. Piggie is not.Piggie cannot help smiling. Gerald can.Gerald worries so that Piggie does not have to.Gerald and Piggie are best friends.
Jumpstart reading success with this big collection of 25 motivating storybooks correlated with Guided Reading Level D. The books features simple text, decodable words, strong picture cues, and two to four lines of text per page to support readers with just a little experience under their belts. C
Set includes six 15-page readers and a parent guide.
I do not likegreen eggs and ham.I do not like them,Sam-I-am.With unforgetable characters and signature rhymes, Dr. Seuss’s beloved favorite has cemented its place as a children’s classic. Kids will love the terrific tongue twisters as the list of places to enjoy green eggs and ham gets longer and longer...and they might even find themselves craving something new!
“I know some new tricks,” said the Cat in the Hat. “A lot of good tricks. I will show them to you. Your mother will not mind at all if I do.” A rainy day turns into a wild romp when the Cat in the Hat and his troublemaking friends, Thing 1 and Thing 2, unexpectedly appear! A favorite among kids, parents, and teachers, this story uses simple words and basic rhyme to encourage and delight beginning readers.
8 BASICS OF A LANGUAGE ARTS KINDERGARTEN CURRICULUM
Next, look at the components of a language arts program.
1. ALPHABET RECOGNITION
The first step in building literacy skills is learning the sounds of each letter in the alphabet.
2. VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT
Vocabulary development is the process of learning new words and their meanings, and how to use them in different contexts.
Kids are naturally exposed to new words daily through listening but at this age we will begin to become more intentional about teaching.
3. PHONEMIC AWARENESS
Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear and manipulate the individual sounds in words and understanding the relationship between letters and sounds.
This is blending, segmenting, identifying sounds, and changing sounds.
Rhyming is important too because it helps your child to recognize word patterns. It can build reading fluency quickly.
For example, if your child knows the word “dog”, he can quickly see the pattern in the words fog, bog, frog, log and hog, etc.
4. PRINT AWARENESS
Print awareness is the understanding that print has meaning and that it can be used to communicate.
Environmental print is any print that can be found in everyday life, such as signs, labels, and logos.
How many of our kids recognized the big yellow M of McDonalds before they could even talk? That’s environmental print.
5. READING COMPREHENSION
Reading comprehension means to develop the ability to construct meaning from text and speech.
It includes comprehension, syntax, and sentence structure.
6. BLENDING
Blending is the process of gradually sounding out individual letters in a word to form a word and then be able to read it.
7. COMMUNICATION AND ACTIVE LISTENING
Talking and listening skills are part of a child’s communication and literacy development.
Basically, it is listening with a purpose.
8. WRITING
Writing helps children build language fluency and express themselves, but I consider this the least important of the language arts skills at this age.
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Rather than rigorous perfect handwriting practice its a great time for gentle instruction.
Now that you know what the most important aspects are of a language arts kindergarten curriculum let’s look at how you can easily incorporate them into your day.
ACTIVITIES TO BUILD YOUR LANGUAGE ARTS KINDERGARTEN CURRICULUM
Learn how to Make A Fun ABC Flip Book Fingerprint Activity for Kindergarten to work on letter recognition, beginning letter sounds, and more.
Grab these free Alphabet Stew Letter Recognition Mats
Get kids up and moving, working muscles and brain development with this Rainbow Hop Letter Sounds Game.
Play rhyming games. Once they have mastered letter recognition and sounds you will want to go heavy on working on rhyming and word families.
The 10 word families you will focus on are -at, -an, -ad, -am, -et, -it, -ig, -ing, -og, and -op.
Check out my free ick, ack,og, and at flip books for a gentle introduction to rhyming words I have for you below.
This fun and colorful activity Build a Flower Letter Sounds is a great way to practice beginning letter sounds.
Alliteration games Jack Hartmann.
While kids are just making art they can be learning letters and their sounds at the same time with the Hidden Letter Hunt.
Syllable counting – Clap out the syllables in words as you say them to help your child understand how to divide them up.
Blending and segmenting sounds-I discovered these 6 Hands-On Blending and Segmenting Activities that are easy to put together.
Point out print in the environment- Look for big signs overhead at your favorite stores, practice identifying the letters in the words.
Choose a letter for the day for example ‘S’ and as you do your grocery shopping encourage your child to find it everywhere they can-signs, packages, etc.
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