$5 - $10 Pre-K Phonics Games (by date, oldest first)

This Letter Puzzle is an engaging letter game designed to develop first-sound fluency and letter-sound recognition in young learners. Each puzzle presents a colorful illustration of an animal, object, or character, accompanied by a selection of black and white pictures representing the sounds heard at the beginning of the word. The objective is simple: match the correct picture to the corresponding sound of the letter.

As children explore the puzzles, they're not only honing their ability to identify initial sounds but also reinforcing their understanding of letter-sound correspondence. With a range of vibrant and appealing visuals, the game offers an immersive learning experience that captures children's attention and motivates them to participate actively.

Why You Will Want to Use This Letter Puzzle:

1. Foundational Literacy Skills: The Letter Puzzle provides an interactive platform for children to develop essential literacy skills from an early age. By focusing on first sound fluency and letter sound recognition, it lays a solid foundation for future reading and writing success.
2. Engaging and Interactive Learning: Unlike traditional flashcards or worksheets, The Letter Puzzle transforms letter practice into an exciting adventure. Children are drawn into the game's world of colorful illustrations and playful challenges, making learning feel like play.
3. Positive Reinforcement: Every correct match in the Letter Puzzle is met with immediate feedback and encouragement, fostering a sense of accomplishment and boosting children's confidence in their letter-sound skills.
4. Great for Centers: Playing with the Letter Puzzle can be a great way to work on the alphabet and keep them engaged. No more wondering and coming to interrupt small groups!

In conclusion, the Letter Puzzle offers a delightful way for children to practice first sound fluency and letter sound recognition, paving the way for successful literacy development. With its engaging gameplay and educational benefits, parents can feel confident in using this puzzle game to support their early literacy journey.

This bundle of alphabet mystery puzzles is the perfect literacy center to help students gain confidence with letter recognition and beginning sounds. Featuring 74 alphabet picture puzzles in total, students will love this fun, hands-on, low-prep activity where they put their phonics skills to use to reveal a hidden picture. What’s more, the puzzles are self-checking so students can correct their own work making them perfect for independent literacy centers. Each puzzle set includes several levels of difficulty providing differentiation opportunities to cater for students of all levels.

The literacy skills in focus with this set of alphabet mystery puzzles are:

- Lowercase matching: 14 Mats

- Uppercase matching: 14 Mats

- Lowercase to uppercase matching: 8 Mats

- Uppercase to lowercase matching: 8 Mats

- Beginning Sounds Mats (Uppercase and Lowercase): 15 Mats x 2 = 30 Mats

What are puzzle mats?

Puzzle Mats are just that - a puzzle! Students build a puzzle by placing the matching puzzle piece on top of the matching letter or picture. The goal for this activity is to identify the correct letter or picture match to reveal the mystery puzzle picture.

How are puzzle mats best utilized?

Puzzle mats work are suited for use in a wide range of setting including, but not limited to:

-Word Work Stations

-Morning Work

-Early Finishers

-Enrichment

-Intervention

-Home Connection

-Incentive

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These hands-on Kindergarten Clip Cards are a great option for your kindergarten Back to School centers. This printable includes clip cards to practice 2D Shapes, Beginning Sounds, Colors and Numbers with your preschoolers and kindergarteners. The printable comes in an engaging wheel clip cards printable making this perfect for a hands-on Back to School Math Center! These wheel clip cards are also great for your early finishers, enrichment opportunities, morning work, or even intervention groups.

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What is included in this Wheel Clip Cards Bundle?

- 2D Shapes Wheel Clip Cards (with real photos) - 12 Wheels

- Beginning Sounds Wheel Clip Cards (with clipart) - 5 Wheels

- Colors Wheel Clip Cards (with real photos) - 11 Wheels

- 1 to 20 Number Sense Wheel Clip Cards (with clipart) - 20 Wheels

Using this printable:

These hands-on and engaging Wheel Clip Cards are designed for young children who are learning the skills above and can use these for additional practice.

How do you use these clip cards?

Children will use wooden clothespin and clip the sides that match the number/color/beginning sound/shape in the center of the wheel.

How many wheels are included in the printable?

There are a total of 69 Wheels included for all the 4 sets. You can decide how many wheels can be used, it can just a few or multiple can be used at once depending on the learner.

This bundle can be used to strengthen fine motor skills, explore during morning work or used as supplemental literacy/math centers. The clip cards are skill-based, they are not thematic, so they can be used anytime during the year.

The centers are best used once printed on cardstock and/or laminated. You can choose to implement these centers in an independent way or use with small-groups.

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Using hundreds charts is a great way for students to learn about numbers. This packet contains 7 hundred's chart mystery pictures of a jack-o-lantern, pumpkin, pumpkin patch, acorn, ear of corn, candy corn and fall leaf. Students have several ways to solve these mystery pictures:

1. You can use page 3 only and have the students simply color the mystery picture.

2. You can use page 4 and pages 6-10 and have students draw the cards and then fill in the right color.

3. You can use pages 6-10 and have students put the picture together like a puzzle.

4. You can use the answer key and cut it apart to make small puzzles.

This bundle contains the following products:

Hundred's Chart Mystery Picture Acorn

Hundred's Chart Mystery Picture Candy Corn

Hundred's Chart Mystery Picture Ear of Corn

Hundred's Chart Mystery Picture Fall Leaf

Hundred's Chart Mystery Picture Jack-o-lantern

Hundred's Chart Mystery Picture Pumpkin

Hundred's Chart Mystery Picture Pumpkin Patch

These themed number games are a great addition to any themed center for students who are practicing number recognition up to 100. This game is for small group instruction or can be used as a whole class game.

Designed for the pocket chart, Where's the Object? is a game for centers or whole group instruction where an object is hidden behind another object. A poem is chanted where the student(s) must say the number they think the hidden object is behind. Once guessed, the number is removed. If the hidden object is there, then it must be hidden again to play further. If is is not there, then the poem is chanted again and a new letter is guessed. This game has numbers 1 through 100.

Themes Included

Apples (Where's the Worm?)

Fall (Where's the Acorn)

Halloween (Where's the Black Cat?)

Spring (Where's the Bug?)

Summer (Where's the Sun?)

Winter (Where's the Penguin?)

More Math Centers

Themed Addition Center Bundle

Counting Mats 1-20 Bundle

This bundle of engaging CVC Mystery Words Digital Activities (plus flashcards with pictures and worksheets) is perfect for pre-school, kindergarten, or first-grade students learning short vowel sounds in CVC words. Students can play this short vowel sounds digital mystery independently or with a partner!

This resource includes:

   ✏ 38 Google Slide™ self-checking digital game (this game teaches rhyming words, identifying -AT CVC sounds, and matching pictures with CVC words)

   ✏115 Google Slide™ self-checking digital game: Mystery Moving Boxes!

✏125 Google Slide™ self-checking digital game: Mystery Animal Party!

   ✏ 8 CVC word flashcards with pictures

   ✏ 2 Worksheets to help practice spelling 8 CVC words

Unique Features:

   ✏ Self-checking questions and answers (students get instant feedback for each answer)

   ✏ Audio sounds included for additional student support

   ✏ No prep! Students can play instantly

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Enhance your Guided Reading small groups with this fun resource designed to increase fluency and accuracy in nonsense word fluency.

What you get:

Real and Nonsense Word Cards on different shaped cookies

*Each real word has a rhyming nonsense word

*30 cards- 3 of each real and nonsense words for every vowel

*Vowel Headings for Vowel Sort

'Real' or 'Silly' Words plate cards for Sorting

Play memory match with the rhyming words or Go Fish!

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Enhance your Guided Reading small groups with this fun resource designed to increase fluency and accuracy in nonsense word fluency.

What you get:

Real and Nonsense Word Cards on different shaped cookies

*Each real word has a rhyming nonsense word

*30 cards- 3 of each real and nonsense words for every vowel

*Vowel Headings for Vowel Sort

'Real' or 'Silly' Words plate cards for Sorting

Play memory match with the rhyming words or Go Fish!

I'd love to see how you use this in your classroom! Tag me on Instagram @smalltownteacherlife or use #smalltownteacherlife

Thank you and Happy New Year!

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Enhance your Guided Reading small groups with this fun resource designed to increase fluency and accuracy in nonsense word fluency.

What you get:

Real and Nonsense Word Cards with Cute Turkeys

*Each real word has a rhyming nonsense word

*30 cards- 3 of each real and nonsense words for every vowel

*Vowel Headings for Vowel Sort

'Real' or 'Silly' Words Headings for Sorting

Play memory match with the rhyming words or Go Fish!

I'd love to see how you use this in your classroom! Tag me on instagram @smalltownteacherlife or use #smalltownteacherlife

Thank you!

-Leslie

The Kindergarten Multi-Sensory Realistic Pictures Button Letter & Sounds Activity is an essential resource designed to enhance the learning experience for young students, particularly in the domains of foundational reading skills and phonics. This versatile tool is tailored to accommodate the diverse needs of both general education and special education classrooms, making it a must-have for any preschool, kindergarten, and special education educator.

How to Use: Students will press the recorded button next to the letters and read down the column. After completing all words/letters, students give the hand a high five.

Skills Worked On:

-Letter Identification

-Letter Sound Practice

-Mouth placement for letter sounds

-Beginning Sounds

How to use in your Classroom:

-Centers

-Extra Skill Practice in Intervention

-Small Group Warm Up

>>>Directions on how to use this resource

>>>List of linked items and pictures of items needed for sensory pathway.

>>> Video sample of sensory pathway in by a student.

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The Kindergarten Multi-Sensory Button Letter & Sounds Activity is an essential resource designed to enhance the learning experience for young students, particularly in the domains of foundational reading skills and phonics. This versatile tool is tailored to accommodate the diverse needs of both general education and special education classrooms, making it a must-have for any preschool, kindergarten, and special education educator.

How to Use: Students will press the recorded button next to the letters and read down the column. After completing all words/letters, students give the hand a high five.

Skills Worked On:

-Letter Identification

-Letter Sound Practice

-Mouth placement for letter sounds

-Beginning Sounds

How to use in your Classroom:

-Centers

-Extra Skill Practice in Intervention

-Small Group Warm Up

>>>Directions on how to use this resource

>>>List of linked items and pictures of items needed for sensory pathway.

>>> Video sample of sensory pathway in by a student.

>>>Sister product using realistic pictures: Kindergarten Button Letter& Sounds Realistic Pictures Multi-Sensory Activity

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Fun Cutting And Pasting | Scissor Skills Activity Pages For Kids And Toddler, Preschool, Kindergarten, Girls, Boys Kids. This paint dauber coloring Pages is perfect for younger to practice by cutting and Gluening skills and have fun at the same time. Makes a fun and educational gift!

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Spring Puzzles are the best activities for brain teasing labyrinths, these exercises support learning through play by developing concentration and problem solving skills.

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Mother's Day Puzzles are the best activities for brain teasing labyrinths, these exercises support learning through play by developing concentration and problem solving skills.

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Sudoku are the best activities for brain teasing labyrinths, these exercises support learning through play by developing concentration and problem solving skills.

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Puzzles are the best activities for brain teasing labyrinths, these exercises support learning through play by developing concentration and problem solving skills.

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Puzzles are the best activities for brain teasing labyrinths, these exercises support learning through play by developing concentration and problem solving skills.

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Puzzles are the best activities for brain teasing labyrinths, these exercises support learning through play by developing concentration and problem solving skills.

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