Today, I’m sharing free printable kindergarten worksheets and a fun winter alphabet scavenger hunt. Also, look at my page Kindergarten Homeschool Curriculum for more fun ideas and activities.
Although I’m a huge advocate of hands-on but beginning penmanship skills need to be reinforced too.
So a worksheet or two should be another tool we have to boost alphabet and phonics recognition.
One way of doing that is by themed worksheets.
By focusing on a theme or unit study children are engaged with a topic while learning about the alphabet.
Then, another way to nurture penmanship skills is to play a game.
For example, with my printable winter themed alphabet scavenger hunt kids are doing both.
They’re enlarging their vocabulary with winter themed words and practice writing skills by noting things they find in the scavenger hunt.
BEST PHONICS FOR KINDERGARTEN
Next, along with learning the alphabet it’s important first to teach kids sounds that letters represent.
Through games and books, it makes teaching phonics easy.
11 Best Phonics for Homeschool Kindergarten
Teaching kids how to read doesn't have to be hard, you just have to have the right tools.
You'll love these phonics resources.
Package includes: one Teacher's Manual, one Student Packet, and three readers
Provide explicit, systematic phonics instruction and practice in just 15 to 20 minutes a day!
Daily Phonics, Grade 2 helps students in second gradeincluding students learning Englishdevelop the phonics skills necessary to become proficient, on-grade-level readers.
The 32 weekly units in grade 2 cover:
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Help you child learn to read and spell - while having fun. Teachers and parents are raving about it! This first step in the Logic of English Foundations series opens the door to reading with phonemic
awareness activities, fun lessons that practice the sounds of a-z, and creative blending games
Prepare your child for a lifetime of reading and successful learning with the Horizons Kindergarten Phonics & Reading Student Book 1 from Alpha Omega Publications.
Adventures in Pine Hollow is designed to engage students so thoroughly that whether they can’t wait to read or would rather wait forever, they are pulled into a forest world, where they join critter adventures and forget there’s learning going on!
First Start Reading covers consonants, short and long vowels, 45 common words, and manuscript
printing, accompanied by artist-drawn coloring pictures and drawing pages for every letter.
Mr. Blumenfeld created Alpha-Phonics (spiral-bound) to provide parents, teachers and tutors with a sensible, logical, easy-to-use system for teaching reading. It is an intensive phonics instruction
program based on the author's many years of research and experience in the reading instruction field
Additionally, you need a variety of ways to teach the alphabet not just worksheets.
I’ve uses games, songs, art and even dance.
8 WAYS TO TEACH PHONICS OF THE ALPHABET
Look at this list of easy ways to teach the alphabet for your kindergarten size kids.
- Play a is for apple and d is for dog as you spend time throughout the day.
- Kids love sensory trays. It promotes tactile learning. So use a sensory tray to dig for the letters of the alphabet or to find items to match a letter. Even place items for 2 different letters in the tray. Have your child match the item to the correct letter sound.
- Scavenger hunts encourage moving which is a natural part of learning at this age. Don’t fight the need to wiggle. Use the need to move while locating things around the house or better yet outside to fit the letter sound you’re focused on.
- Along with the printable kindergarten worksheets, read story books like Chicka Chicka Boom and Dr. Seuss’s ABC.
- Songs and dance also allows kids to move and learn.
- Some kids love to color letter worksheets.
- Too tracing letters is another way to engage senses. Kids can do this with their finger.
- Use edible peanut butter dough to form letter. Doesn’t hurt if your kids take a taste or two as long as they have no allergies.
Also, look at these free printable kindergarten worksheets.
FREE PRINTABLE KINDERGARTEN WORKSHEETS
- Free Beginning Alphabet Sound Worksheets
- Help your child quickly master their alphabet with these capital letter recognition worksheets.
- Alphabet Printable Chart Coloring Pages
- Free Printable Uppercase & Lowercase Letters Worksheets
- Printable Dotted Letter Tracing Pdf Worksheet
- Free Printable Uppercase Alphabet Dot Marker Coloring Pages
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HOW TO GET THE FREE WINTER THEMED SCAVENGER HUNT
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