Kindergarten Writing Lesson (by date, oldest first)

After reading orwatching Enemy Pie, students will create their own FRIENDSHIP pie by listing the "ingredients" that make a good friend.

Are you looking for a playful and effective way to help kids learn the alphabet? Our Alphabet Watches offer a unique and engaging approach to alphabet learning through colorful, wearable crafts. Each watch represents a letter of the alphabet from A to Z, featuring vibrant designs that kids can color, cut out, and wear on their wrists. This interactive activity makes alphabet practice fun and accessible, as children proudly display their personalized watches and reinforce their letter recognition skills throughout the day.

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IN ADDITION, this resource includes a helpful tip sheet about "Early Learning Activities to Develop Literacy and Numeracy Skills." Through this resource, parents and caregivers will gain practical insights into simple and engaging activities that support their child's early literacy and numeracy development. These activities are designed to be fun, hands-on, and easily integrated into daily routines, helping young learners grow in their understanding of essential literacy and numeracy concepts.

This Father's Day activity will make a perfect Father's Day memory book for a child to make about their father! Students will have the opportunity to write and/or draw different things about their dads. There are two formats to the book, one set having primary lines for students to write on and another set the no lines at all. These flip books has the following sections for the students to fill out. 1. My Dad Likes: Students will write about or draw things their father likes. 2. My Dad Does Not Like: Students will write about or draw things their father does not like. 3. What My Dad Does: Students will write about or draw their father's occupation, or what they think the occupation is. 4. I love when my dad: Students will write about or draw something they love their dad doing for or with them. 5. My Dad: Students will draw a picture of their dad.

This Mother's Day activity will make a perfect Mother's Day memory book for a child to make about their mother! Students will have the opportunity to write and/or draw different things about their moms. There are two formats to the book, one set having primary lines for students to write on and another set the no lines at all.

These flip books has the following sections for the students to fill out:

1. My Mom Likes: Students will write about or draw things their mother likes.

2. My Mom Does Not Like: Students will write about or draw things their mother does not like.

3. What My Mom Does: Students will write about or draw their mother's occupation, or what they think the occupation is.

4. I love when my mom: Students will write about or draw something they love their mom doing for or with them.

5. My Mom: Students will draw a picture of their mom.

Looking for an activity to help students work on decoding and encoding simultaneously? Short o Flip, Tap, Write, Build, Use resource helps students practice just that.

How? Students flip a picture card over, these are focused on a specific phonics pattern, to get their word. Next students work on tapping out the sound. They can use the Elkonin boxes or the guide dots to help track the sounds tapped. After they will build the words by writing a letter for each sound made and using letter tiles(that are provided, so no need to search or organize tiles, just print, cut, and use). Lastly, the student uses the word to create a sentence.

This activity makes for a great center, small group work, independent practice, and even homework.

Need a way to hold them accountable?

No worries, there is a recording sheet available where students can record a few of their flips. All they have to do is write the word and the sentence on the sheet. This gives you a glimpse into their understanding and insures that they are indeed working during center, small group, and independent work time.

Included in the resource:

⭐2 work mats for Flip Tap Write Build Use

⭐1 page with 2 sets of letter tiles for short o CVC words

⭐1 set of picture cards in black and white

⭐1 set of picture cards in color

⭐One recording sheet

Looking for something without as many moving parts? This is a simplified version of Flip, Tap, Write, Build, Use. It focuses just on the building of the words from a given picture. Just print and use.)

⭐ Short o Say, Tap, Write, Build

Other Resources:

⭐ Short Vowel Flip, Tap, Write, Use Bundle

⭐ Short o Mega Phonics Bundle

⭐ Short o Word Builder

⭐ Short o Word Grid

Looking for an activity to help students work on decoding and encoding simultaneously? Short u Flip, Tap, Write, Build, Use resource helps students practice just that.

How? Students flip a picture card over, these are focused on a specific phonics pattern, to get their word. Next students work on tapping out the sound. They can use the Elkonin boxes or the guide dots to help track the sounds tapped. After they will build the words by writing a letter for each sound made and using letter tiles(that are provided, so no need to search or organize tiles, just print, cut, and use). Lastly, the student uses the word to create a sentence.

This activity makes for a great center, small group work, independent practice, and even homework.

Need a way to hold them accountable?

No worries, there is a recording sheet available where students can record a few of their flips. All they have to do is write the word and the sentence on the sheet. This gives you a glimpse into their understanding and insures that they are indeed working during center, small group, and independent work time.

Included in the resource:

⭐2 work mats for Flip Tap Write Build Use

⭐1 page with 2 sets of letter tiles for short u CVC words

⭐1 set of picture cards in black and white

⭐1 set of picture cards in color

⭐One recording sheet

Looking for something without as many moving parts? This is a simplified version of Flip, Tap, Write, Build, Use. It focuses just on the building of the words from a given picture. Just print and use.)

⭐ Short u Say, Tap, Write, Build

Other Resources:

⭐ Short Vowel Flip, Tap, Write, Use Bundle

⭐ Short u Word Grid

⭐ Short u Word Builder

⭐ Short u Mega Phonics Bundle

Looking for an activity to help students work on decoding and encoding simultaneously? Short a Flip, Tap, Write, Build, Use resource helps students practice just that.

How? Students flip a picture card over, these are focused on a specific phonics pattern, to get their word. Next students work on tapping out the sound. They can use the Elkonin boxes or the guide dots to help track the sounds tapped. After they will build the words by writing a letter for each sound made and using letter tiles(that are provided, so no need to search or organize tiles, just print, cut, and use). Lastly, the student uses the word to create a sentence.

This activity makes for a great center, small group work, independent practice, and even homework.

Need a way to hold them accountable?

No worries, there is a recording sheet available where students can record a few of their flips. All they have to do is write the word and the sentence on the sheet. This gives you a glimpse into their understanding and insures that they are indeed working during center, small group, and independent work time.

Included in the resource:

⭐2 work mats for Flip Tap Write Build Use

⭐1 page with 2 sets of letter tiles for short CVC words

⭐1 set of picture cards in black and white

⭐1 set of picture cards in color

⭐One recording sheet

Looking for something without as many moving parts? This is a simplified version of Flip, Tap, Write, Build, Use. It focuses just on the building of the words from a given picture. Just print and use.)

⭐ Short a Say, Tap, Write, Build

Other Resources:

⭐ Short Vowel Flip, Tap, Write, Use Bundle

⭐ Short a Word Builder

⭐ Short a Word Grid

⭐ Short a Mega Phonics Bundle

Looking for an activity to help students work on decoding and encoding simultaneously? Short e Flip, Tap, Write, Build, Use resource helps students practice just that.

How? Students flip a picture card over, these are focused on a specific phonics pattern, to get their word. Next students work on tapping out the sound. They can use the Elkonin boxes or the guide dots to help track the sounds tapped. After they will build the words by writing a letter for each sound made and using letter tiles(that are provided, so no need to search or organize tiles, just print, cut, and use). Lastly, the student uses the word to create a sentence.

This activity makes for a great center, small group work, independent practice, and even homework.

Need a way to hold them accountable?

No worries, there is a recording sheet available where students can record a few of their flips. All they have to do is write the word and the sentence on the sheet. This gives you a glimpse into their understanding and insures that they are indeed working during center, small group, and independent work time.

Included in the resource:

⭐2 work mats for Flip, Tap, Write, Build, Use

⭐1 page with 4 sets of letter tiles for short e CVC words

⭐1 set of picture cards in black and white

⭐1 set of picture cards in color

⭐One recording sheet

Looking for something without as many moving parts? This is a simplified version of Flip, Tap, Write, Build, Use. It focuses just on the building of the words from a given picture. Just print and use.)

⭐ Short e Say, Tap, Write, Build

Other Resources:

⭐ Short Vowel Flip, Tap, Write, Use Bundle

⭐ Short e Word Builder

⭐ Short e Word Grid

⭐ Short e Mega Phonics Bundle

Dictation is a no-prep phonics practice that helps students practice words within a specific phonics pattern.

This can be used 3 or 5 days a week depending on your classes' needs and time availability.

It is best used as a guided practice but can be used as quick practice, assessment, or review.

So, if you are a teacher tired of laboring over teaching phonics patterns that are forgotten by the next week and are hardly ever applied to their writing, give Dictation a try.

Included in this resource:

⭐6 different recording sheets in full (great to laminate or put in a page protect to reuse) and half sheets (for one-time uses)

⭐3- and 5-day plans with; letter sounds, review words, new phonics patterns, easy word phrases/ sentences, and longer sentences.

⭐Editable option to create what works best for your class and phonics sequence.

Other resources:

⭐ Short u Word Sorts

⭐ Short u Word Ladders

⭐ Short u Say, Tap, Write, Build

⭐ Short u Mega Phonics Bundle

Dictation is a no-prep phonics practice that helps students practice words within a specific phonics pattern.

This can be used 3 or 5 days a week depending on your classes' needs and time availability.

It is best used as a guided practice but can be used as quick practice, assessment, or review.

So, if you are a teacher tired of laboring over teaching phonics patterns that are forgotten by the next week and are hardly ever applied to their writing, give Dictation a try.

Included in this resource:

⭐6 different recording sheets in full (great to laminate or put in a page protect to reuse) and half sheets (for one-time uses)

⭐3- and 5-day plans with; letter sounds, review words, new phonics patterns, easy word phrases/ sentences, and longer sentences.

⭐Editable option to create what works best for your class and phonics sequence.

Other resources:

⭐ Short a Word Sorts

⭐ Short a Word Ladders

⭐ Short a Say, Tap, Write, Build

Looking for an activity to help students work on decoding and encoding simultaneously? Short i Flip, Tap, Write, Build, Use resource helps students practice just that.

How? Students flip a picture card over, these are focused on a specific phonics pattern, to get their word. Next students work on tapping out the sound. They can use the Elkonin boxes or the guide dots to help track the sounds tapped. After they will build the words by writing a letter for each sound made and using letter tiles(that are provided, so no need to search or organize tiles, just print, cut, and use). Lastly, the student uses the word to create a sentence.

This activity makes for a great center, small group work, independent practice, and even homework.

Need a way to hold them accountable?

No worries, there is a recording sheet available where students can record a few of their flips. All they have to do is write the word and the sentence on the sheet. This gives you a glimpse into their understanding and insures that they are indeed working during center, small group, and independent work time.

Included in the resource:

⭐2 work mats for Flip Tap Write Build Use

⭐1 page with 2 sets of letter tiles for short i CVC words

⭐1 set of picture cards in black and white

⭐1 set of picture cards in color

⭐One recording sheet

Looking for something without as many moving parts? This is a simplified version of Flip, Tap, Write, Build, Use. It focuses just on the building of the words from a given picture. Just print and use.)

⭐ Short i Say, Tap, Write, Build

Other Resources:

⭐ Short Vowel Flip, Tap, Write, Use Bundle

⭐ Short i Word Builder

⭐ Short i Word Grid

⭐ Short i Mega Phonics Bundle

Dictation is a no-prep phonics practice that helps students practice words within a specific phonics pattern.

This can be used 3 or 5 days a week depending on your classes' needs and time availability.

It is best used as a guided practice but can be used as quick practice, assessment, or review.

So, if you are a teacher tired of laboring over teaching phonics patterns that are forgotten by the next week and are hardly ever applied to their writing, give Dictation a try.

Included in this resource:

⭐6 different recording sheets in full (great to laminate or put in a page protect to reuse) and half sheets (for one-time uses)

⭐3- and 5-day plans with; letter sounds, review words, new phonics patterns, easy word phrases/ sentences, and longer sentences.

⭐Editable option to create what works best for your class and phonics sequence.

Other resources:

⭐ Short i Word Sorts

⭐ Short i Word Ladders

⭐ Short i Say, Tap, Write, Build

⭐ Short i Mega Phonics Bundle

Dictation is a no-prep phonics practice that helps students practice words within a specific phonics pattern.

This can be used 3 or 5 days a week depending on your classes' needs and time availability.

It is best used as a guided practice but can be used as quick practice, assessment, or review.

So, if you are a teacher tired of laboring over teaching phonics patterns that are forgotten by the next week and are hardly ever applied to their writing, give Dictation a try.

Included in this resource:

⭐6 different recording sheets in full (great to laminate or put in a page protect to reuse) and half sheets (for one-time uses)

⭐3- and 5-day plans with; letter sounds, review words, new phonics patterns, easy word phrases/ sentences, and longer sentences.

⭐Editable option to create what works best for your class and phonics sequence.

Other resources:

⭐ Short o Word Sorts

⭐ Short o Word Ladders

⭐ Short o Say, Tap, Write, Build

⭐ Short o Mega Phonics Bundle

Dictation is a no-prep phonics practice that helps students practice words within a specific phonics pattern.

This can be used 3 or 5 days a week depending on your classes' needs and time availability.

It is best used as a guided practice but can be used as quick practice, assessment, or review.

So, if you are a teacher tired of laboring over teaching phonics patterns that are forgotten by the next week and are hardly ever applied to their writing, give Dictation a try.

Included in this resource:

⭐6 different recording sheets in full (great to laminate or put in a page protect to reuse) and half sheets (for one-time uses)

⭐3- and 5-day plans with; letter sounds, review words, new phonics patterns, easy word phrases/ sentences, and longer sentences.

⭐Editable option to create what works best for your class and phonics sequence.

Other resources:

⭐ Short e Word Sorts

⭐ Short e Word Ladders

⭐ Short e Say, Tap, Write, Build

⭐ Short e Mega Phonics Bundle

Short Vowel Flip, Tap, Write, Use resource helps students practice reading and writing short vowel CVC words. Students use picture cards to, tap out the sound, (building the word with version 2), write the word, then use the word in a sentence.

Short Vowel Flip, Tap, Write, Use allows students to practice important decoding and encoding skills.

This is a low-prep activity that can be used in small groups, centers, independent practice, or homework.

Included in each resource:

⭐2 work mats for Flip Tap Write Build Use

⭐1 page with four sets of letter tiles for short u CVC words

⭐1 set of picture cards in black and white

⭐1 set of picture cards in color

⭐Student recording sheet

Other Resources:

⭐ Short Vowel Say, Tap, Write, Build Bundle

⭐ Short Vowel Flip, Tap, Write, Use Bundle

⭐ Short Vowel Word Builders Bundle

Short u Mega Phonics Bundle has 18 resources to help students build fluency and accuracy with short u CVC word pattern. Activities can be used as lessons, centers, small groups, or to take home for additional practice. All resources focus only on the short u CVC Phonics pattern which makes any activities you miss a great review throughout the school year.

Also included is a bonus pack of picture cards that can easily be used in pocket charts or whole sheets that can be placed with centers, writing folders, or take home folders (to just name a few). All picture cards come in color and black and white options for easy printing of your choice.

Other Resources:

⭐ Short a Mega Phonics Bundle

⭐ Short e Mega Phonics Bundle

⭐ Short i Mega Phonics Bundle

⭐ Short o Mega Phonics Bundle

Short o Mega Phonics Bundle has 18 resources to help students build fluency and accuracy with short o CVC word pattern. Activities can be used as lessons, centers, small groups, or to take home for additional practice. All resources focus only on the short o CVC Phonics pattern which makes any activities you miss a great review throughout the school year.

Also included is a bonus pack of picture cards that can easily be used in pocket charts or whole sheets that can be placed with centers, writing folders, or take home folders (to just name a few). All picture cards come in color and black and white options for easy printing of your choice.

Other Resources:

⭐ Short a Mega Phonics Bundle

⭐ Short e Mega Phonics Bundle

⭐ Short i Mega Phonics Bundle

⭐ Short u Mega Phonics Bundle

Short i Mega Phonics Bundle has 18 resources to help students build fluency and accuracy with short i CVC word pattern. Activities can be used as lessons, centers, small groups, or to take home for additional practice. All resources focus only on the short i CVC Phonics pattern which makes any activities you miss a great review throughout the school year.

Also included is a bonus pack of picture cards that can easily be used in pocket charts or whole sheets that can be placed with centers, writing folders, or take home folders (to just name a few). All picture cards come in color and black and white options for easy printing of your choice.

Other Resources:

⭐ Short a Mega Phonics Bundle

⭐ Short e Mega Phonics Bundle

⭐ Short o Mega Phonics Bundle

⭐ Short u Mega Phonics Bundle

Short e Mega Phonics Bundle has 18 resources to help students build fluency and accuracy with short e CVC word pattern. Activities can be used as lessons, centers, small groups, or to take home for additional practice. All resources focus only on the short e CVC Phonics pattern which makes any activities you miss a great review throughout the school year.

Also included is a bonus pack of picture cards that can easily be used in pocket charts or whole sheets that can be placed with centers, writing folders, or take home folders (to just name a few). All picture cards come in color and black and white options for easy printing of your choice.

Other Resources:

⭐ Short a Mega Phonics Bundle

⭐ Short i Mega Phonics Bundle

⭐ Short o Mega Phonics Bundle

⭐ Short u Mega Phonics Bundle

Short a Mega Phonics Bundle has 18 resources to help students build fluency and accuracy with a short a CVC word pattern. Activities can be used as lessons, centers, small groups, or to take home for additional practice. All resources focus only on the short a CVC Phonics pattern which makes any activities you miss a great review throughout the school year.

Also included is a bonus pack of picture cards that can easily be used in pocket charts or whole sheets that can be placed with centers, writing folders, or take home folders (to just name a few). All picture cards come in color and black and white options for easy printing of your choice.

Other Resources:

⭐ Short e Mega Phonics Bundle

⭐ Short i Mega Phonics Bundle

⭐ Short o Mega Phonics Bundle

⭐ Short u Mega Phonics Bundle