I, like most of you, are busy, busy, busy getting ready for the new school year!! I know I have said this before, but I seriously am just SUPER excited about going back to Kindergarten!
As I am preparing for my little ones, I am keeping in mind that most have not been to pre-school of any kind. ย I am working on simple activities that will help reinforce letter sounds and identification. ย Last year as I taught phonics and phonemic awareness more explicitly than ever before, I saw a much greater gain in my struggling students’ reading levels. I also know how important teaching basic concepts about print is at this emergent reader age. ย I decided that I needed a set of ABC Books that would allow my students to practice letter sounds and concepts about print. ย Both of these are skills that are assessed regularly in emerging readers in Marie Clay’s Observation Survey.
I created the books with large, easy to read print.
I used both capital and lowercase letters to work on letter identification and sound identification for each letter.ย I wanted something that would exaggerate several concepts about print. ย I choose to make the books long (or “hot dog style”!) so that the left to right text tracking and page turning would be greater than that of a normal “hamburger style” book.
I used pictures that were easy for the little ones to identify so that they could easily read the picture themselves and listen for the letter sound.
I also love to have the students work in a book making work station. ย Sometimes I combine this with “buddy reading”. ย I have them create a book, then read it to 3 friends.
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Cute, cute cute!!!