These
resources were created and shared by teachers and reading coaches
from many different places. Isn't it wonderful to share our hard work
and creative ideas?
Please share your ideas by emailing Dr. Elder at:
selder@pcboe.net
Lakewood's
Student Progress Profile Sheet
(This form is for Lakewood teachers to use in the Student Progress
Profile notebooks.)
Organization
Kandi
Mobarakzadeh, 1st grade teacher at Lakewood, shared this organization
tip. Print this file, cut out and glue each "Week at a Glance"
to the front of a file folder. You can then laminate the file folders
if you wish. Keep everything pertaining to that lesson in the file
folder for future reference. You'll quickly be able to see what skills
are covered during that week by looking at the outside of the file
folder.
Kindergarten
Organizer File
Focus Wall
Labels
Lesson 1
Lesson 2
Lesson 3
Lesson 4
Lesson 5
Lesson 6
Lesson 7
Lesson 8
Lesson 9
Lesson 10
Lesson 11
Lesson 12
Lesson 13
Lesson 14
Lesson 15
Lesson 16
Lesson 17
Lesson 18
Lesson 19
Lesson 20
Lesson 21
Lesson 22
Lesson
23
Lesson
24
Lesson
25
Lesson
26
Lesson
27
Lesson
28
Lesson
29
Lesson
30
Assessment Analysis
(Created and shared by Shannon Jones
Anderson, Steele, Alabama)
Assessment Analysis
(Created and shared by Sarah Grizzle,
Phenix City, Alabama)
(End-of-Year
forms created and shared by Susan Riepe, Phenix City, Alabama)
SmartBoard Resources
(If prompted, the password is "lakewood")
If you improve these SmartBoard files, please email your new version
to selder@pcboe.net.
If you have created SmartBoard files that you would like to share,
please email those as well.
Please
note that www.smarttech.com has a free student download for these
files.
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Lesson 16
Whole
Group Day 1
Whole
Group Day 1
(Anna Barnoski's version, Westview Elementary,
Phenix City, Alabama)
Whole
Group Day 2
Whole
Group Day 2
(Anna Barnoski's version, Westview Elementary,
Phenix City, Alabama)
Whole
Group Day 3
Whole
Group Day 3
(Anna Barnoski's version, Westview Elementary,
Phenix City, Alabama)
Whole
Group Day 4
Whole
Group Day 4
(Anna Barnoski's version, Westview Elementary,
Phenix City, Alabama)
Whole
Group Day 5
SMARTBOARD
LITERACY CENTER FOR LESSON 16
(thanks to Kelly Howard, Phenix City Elementary)
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Small Group Placement Planning Tool (PDF format)
Word format
(to be used at the beginning of the year to help with determining small groups for reading instruction)
Small Group Lesson
Plans
ORAL
READING SUGGESTIONS
(print these cards on cardstock, hole punch, and place on a ring to
help plan oral reading in small group instruction)
Increasing Volume
of Reading in Kindergarten Literacy Centers!
Lesson
1
(thanks to Lori Hovey, Long Prairie, Minnesota)
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Lesson
2
(thanks
to Lori Hovey, Long Prairie, Minnesota)
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Lesson
3
(thanks
to Lori Hovey, Long Prairie, Minnesota)
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Lesson
4
(thanks
to Lori Hovey, Long Prairie, Minnesota)
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Lesson
5
(thanks
to Lori Hovey, Long Prairie, Minnesota)
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Theme 4
High-Frequency
Words in Context (PowerPoint--print slides for hard copy
for literacy centers)
(Created and shared by Kelly Howard, Phenix
City Elementary, Phenix City, Alabama)
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Lesson 16
Decodable
and Sight Word Sentences Partner Reading
(assign each partner a color and have them
read sentences to each other; then they can swap colors and
read to each other again)
My
Snowman Counting Book
Master
Key for book
(Created and shared by Anna Barnoski, Westview
Elementary School, Phenix City, Alabama.)
Anna says to create the book, print off the two pages. Cut
the pages in half (horizontally). Fold vertically. Put in
order and staple. This way, you only have to cut once.
Students will
read it and then add their own illustrations, looking at a
master key for help with the nouns (mittens, buttons, etc).
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Letter Naming
Letter
Naming Accuracy/Automaticity Powerpoint Check
Letter
Naming Accuracy/Automaticity Recording Sheet
Letter Recognition
Speed Drill Practice
Use the speed drills for literacy center practice,
volunteers, or reinforcement at home.
Time the student to see how many letters he can name correctly in
one minute!
(Thanks to Kelly Howard, Phenix City Elementary, for
sharing her work and ideas!)
Meltdown! Letter
Recognition Game
Use this
letter recognition (or letter sound) game in a letter recognition
or phonics literacy center, at the beginning of a small group as a
letter/letter sound review, for volunteers to use with children to
build letter/letter sound recognition, or print a set to send home
for a fun practice game! Directions are included in the file.
(These were created from a template created by Kelly
Nyman.)
Kindergarten
Homework Packs
(Thank you to Dr. Cathy Williams at Tallapoosa County
Schools for sharing!)
Activity Sheets
(created and shared by Anna Barnoski,
Westview Elementary, Phenix City, Alabama)
Phonological
Awareness/Phonemic Awareness
Syllable Segmentation
Lesson
3 or 4
Animal
Clap
(Place counters in the counters box. Place an animal
card in the picture card box. Say the animal name.
Clap the syllables. Place a counter in a sound box
for each syllable. Count the counters. This could
be an independent literacy center activity or a small
group activity.)
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Lesson
3 or 4
Food
Clap
(Played like Animal Clap--again can be an independent
literacy center activity or a small group activity.)
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Kindergarten Sight
Word Literacy Center Activities
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Pancakes
& Butter Sight Word Center
Here's
a Pancake Center Recording Sheet
This file includes
center directions and pancake word cards for all sight words
introduced in kindergarten. Use targeted sight words and add
to the pancake words as sight words are introduced in each
theme. You may also print out doubles so you can make it a
concentration game or print several and students will have
multiple opportunities to read the word.
(Print on cardstock,
cut apart, add a Dollar Store spatula and you've got a fun
center! You may also want to try adding a back piece of brown
butcher paper and adding a little newspaper stuffing to each
pancake to get a 3-D effect.)
You will also
find a capital/lowercase letter match version of this game
on the Letter Recognition page.
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Roll
a Word!
Print
on cardstock (you could use different colors for different
themes to help organize). Cut out and assemble cube. The student
will roll the cube and read the word to a partner. If he reads
it correctly, he either writes the word or colors in the space
in the correct column on his recording sheet. Alternate turns.
The first player to fill a column is the winner. Play could
also continue until all spaces are filled.
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Popcorn
Words!
Print on cardstock. Cut out each piece
of popcorn and hole punch a hole in the middle left side and
the middle right side. Place the popcorn pieces in a popcorn
bag along with a long string or shoelace. Students will read
the popcorn words and string the popcorn as they do so. A
recording sheet is also included. You may want to only put
out the high-frequency words you have covered to this point
in class. You may also print several copies and have multiples
of each word. This file contains all kindergarten sight words
covered for the year, center sign with directions, and a recording
sheet.
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Meltdown!
Use
this sight word game in a sight word literacy center, at the
beginning of a small group as a sight word review, for volunteers
to use with children to build sight words, or print a set
to send home for a fun sight word practice game! Directions
are included in the file.
(These were created from a template created by Kelly
Nyman.)
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Nemo
"Go Fish" Sight Word Cards
(These
were created from a template shared by Kelly
Nyman)
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Sight
Word Stamping
You will need letter stamps for this activity.
Print the desired card. Place the printed card and letter
stamps in a center and watch your kids practice those sight
words with enthusiasm!
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Sight
Word Phrases Flashcards
Print
on cardstock, cut out each card, punch out the hole in the
top left corner. Then put all the cards on a ring. A title
card is included to go on top. Each phrase is composed of
three different Harcourt kindergarten sight words. All sight
words learned in kindergarten are included in these phrases.
Sight
Word Phrases Powerpoint
(Rebecca
Moyer, Phenix City Elementary, created this powerpoint version
of the sight word phrases flashcards)
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Read
It, Glue it, Write It, Illustrate It
(Thank you, Lori Tooker, Memphis,
Tennesee, for sharing this template.)
This
activity features Storytown sight words in the context of
a sentence.
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Lesson
18
(Sentence:
Where do you look for me?)
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Lesson
25
(Sentence:
We come here and there.)
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Pizza!
Pizza!
(Print on cardstock. Cut pizza slices apart
and store in a pizza box. Students take turns choosing a slice
of pizza and reading the sentence. If they read the sentence
correctly, they keep the pizza slice. The game ends when all
slices have been taken. Two winners--one with the most pizza
slices and one with the most pepperoni on his pizza slices!
The sentences are composed of Storytown sight words and decodable
words.)
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Cinderella's
Ball Sight Word Game
These
were created from a template shared by Kelly
Nyman
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Memory
Match Version
(One set of words features the Cinderella character
and the second set of words features the mice characters.)
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Crazy
Cars
Sight Word Game
These
were created from a template shared by Kelly
Nyman
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Memory
Match Version
(One
set of words features the Lightning McQueen character
and the second set of words features the Mater character.)
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Roll-A-Firetruck
Sight Word Game
These
were created from a template shared by Kelly
Nyman
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Spiderman
Memory Match
These
were created from a template shared by Kelly
Nyman
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101
Dalmations
(an old Maid card game featuring all
kindergarten sight words)
These
were created from a template shared by Kelly
Nyman
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Click It! Sight
Word Game
(Print the file on cardstock.
Cut out the camera and sight word circles. Be sure to cut
out the camera "lens", too. Tell the children, "We're
going on a word hunt! When I say the word, you take a
picture of it!" Students will place all the sight
word circles in front of them. When the teacher says a word,
the students quickly place the camera on top of the word card.
The word should show through the lens hole in the camera.)
Cameras
(Print the cameras on cardstock. Cut
out the camera "lens" area then laminate and
finish cutting out. This will make a clear piece of
laminating film over the lens area so that words can
be read when the camera is placed on the word.)
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Family
Words
(I loved this page from Bear's
Busy Family big book--Lesson 4.
I thought students might benefit from having their own copy
in a writing folder or putting a copy in a writing center.)
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Flip It Down!
(Game Board and 12-sided Die
are in each file. The game board is from a template by Kelly
Nyman.)
Here are Kelly's directions for playing the game:
Make a copy of the gameboard for each player. Cut the left
hand column on the rows so that each word is on a strip of
paper that can be folded over to the right. Students take
turns rolling the die. If they can read the word that corresponds
to the number they rolled, they “flip down” the
word by folding it over. First one to flip down all of the
words is the winner.
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Snap!
(Created from a template by
Kelly Nyman)
I love to use this game as
a quick high-frequency word review at the beginning of small
group instruction! The teacher keeps the "fish"
cards. The students have the "alligator" cards (each
child has a complete set and spreads the cards in front of
them). The teacher pulls a "fish" card and says
the high-frequency word. The students grab their matching
"alligator" card and say, "Snap!"
Themes
1 and 2
There
are enough cards in this file for 7 children and a
teacher set.
(I,
a, my, the, go)
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Themes
3 and 4
There
are enough cards in this file for 6 children and a
teacher set.
(to,
like, he, come, here, this)
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Word
Toss! and Phrase Toss!
Take turns to throw a penny onto
the word board.
Read the word on which your penny lands.
If you read the word you get one point.
If your penny does not land on a word, miss a turn.
The winner is the child who gets the most points at the end
of the game.
Phrase Toss! is just a bit harder. Each space has a three-word
phrase (high-frequency words and decodable words)
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Snowflake
Melt
(This is a high-frequency word
review game for Lessons 1 - 15. It was created and shared by
Anna Barnoski, Westview Elementary, Phenix City, Alabama)
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Catch
a Snowflake
This is an animated powerpoint
show.
Students read the snowflake high-frequency word before it falls
to the ground.
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High-Frequency
Word Bingo
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Crash!
Print word cards. Place the
cards in a bag. Students take turns pulling a card from the
bag without looking. If they read the word correctly, they
keep the card. If not, the card goes back in the bag. If a
student draws the "crash" card, all their accumulated
cards go back in the bag.
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Kindergarten Word Building
and Blending Words Literacy Center Activities
Kindergarten
Phonograms Automaticity Powerpoint
Kindergarten
Phonograms Automaticity Checklist
(to be used with the Powerpoint above)
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Roll-A-Word
(Building and Blending Version)
Print the onset
cube (beginning letter) on one color cardstock and the ending
(word family or rime) on another color cardstock (I like to
use green for onset and red for ending).
You will also find vowel and consonant cubes below. You may
print the vowel cube on one color cardstock and consonant
cubes on another color. Students can roll VC words by using
two cubes or CVC words by rolling three cubes. The consonant
cubes are printed in order of introduction in the Harcourt
Storytown series.
Cut out and assemble cubes. Students toss each cube and read
the resulting word to a partner. They then decide if the word
is a real word or a nonsense word.
A recording
sheet for these activites can be found here.
Or you may want to keep printing to a minimum by having students
simply fold a piece of paper hotdog style and draw their own
happy face and sad face headers.
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Flip a Word!
Print on cardstock and cut out each rectangular
page. Also cut on the dotted lines to make a flip book. Use
a hole punch to punch out the circles and attach the pages
with rings.
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Slide a Word!
Print on cardstock. Cut out sliding windows
as marked. Cut out sliding strips. Make new words by sliding
the strip up.
A recording sheet can be found here.
Children slide the strip, read the word, write the word, and
draw a picture of the word in the box. Copy the recording
sheet front to back. (Laminate the answer sheet prior to use
to make it reusable.)
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Word Puzzles
Print on cardstock. Cut out along dotted line
to make two puzzle pieces for each word. Students match the
puzzle pieces, read the word, and then can record the word
on paper.
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Onset-Rime
Dominoes
Print on cardstock. Cut out domino pieces.Students
lay the domino tiles, read the word, and then can record the
word on paper.
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Pumpkin
Poke
Print on cardstock. Use
a hole punch to punch out circles. Cut a straw into three shorter
pieces. The student reads the three words and pokes the straw
through the hole under the word that names the picture. You
can make this self-checking by circling the correct hole on
the back of the card.
Lesson
9
(includes words made of sounds learned through Lesson
9)
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Kindergarten: Keeping
Vocabulary Words in Circulation
12
Ideas for Keeping Vocabulary Words in Circulation
(email your additional ideas to selder@pcboe.net
and we'll upload an updated compilation when we reach 25 ideas!)
"Royal Words"
(Print out
on yellow or other color cardstock. Cut a sentence strip in half length-wise.
Glue crown to center of sentence strip for headband. Allow a student
to wear the "Royal Word" and to listen for and use the featured
word throughout the day.)
Visual Representations
of Vocabulary Words
(These were created and shared by Christina
Keel, Enterprise, Alabama.
Christina posts the corresponding picture with the vocabulary word
card/definition as a visual representation of the vocabulary word.
She has added the vocabulary word in small print beneath the picture
in case the pictures become separated from the vocabulary word card.)
Vocabulary Instruction
Cards
(Print the file on cardstock. Glue
the scripted instruction to the back of the appropriate card. You
will be able to follow the script without fumbling through the teacher's
edition. The visual representation of each word is already printed
beneath the word.)
Note: There are no cards for Review Weeks because
there are no new words introduced. Refer to your teacher's edition
for instruction.
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Lesson 3
(no cards--Review week)
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Lesson
6
(no cards--Review week)
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Lesson
9
(no cards--Review week)
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Lesson
12
(no cards--Review week)
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Lesson
15
(no cards--Review week)
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Lesson
18
(no cards--Review week)
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Lesson
21
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Lesson
30
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Vocabulary Cartoons
(You can put this in your computer
center for a fun review of vocabulary words!)
Vocabulary Powerpoint
Shows
(Created and shared by Darlene Morrow,
Jacksonville, Alabama)
Interactive
Games for the SmartBoard or Computer
Themes 1 - 3
Letter Recognition
JigLetter
(match upper- and lowercase letters from Themes 1 - 3)
Letter
Match (another matching game for letters introduced in
Themes 1 - 3)
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Other Resources
Kindergarten
Skills Matrix
5-Day
Small Group Plan
( UPDATE: We've revised a 2nd time!
We tweaked a plan Dr. Carolyn Keasal shared with us.
This is very general and can be adapted to fit the needs of your students.
Our basic goals are these: Have meaningful, appropriate instruction
in our small groups. Have children read connected text in all small
group instruction. Exhaust Storytown materials before exploring the
possiblity of looking outside Storytown for texts.)
Blank
Lesson Plan Template
Directions
for Printing Leveled Readers from Think Central in Booklet Form
(Follow these easy directions shared by Jane Whitfield,
Ivalee Elementary, to create books for home practice and literacy
centers so that you can save the wear and tear on your original books
by using those books only in small group instruction.)
Kindergarten
Lesson Plan Template
Classroom
Instruction Observation Form
Managing
Small Group Instruction With Storytown
Storytown
Technology
Storytown
Components List by Grade Levels
Storytown
Phonics Progression
Harcourt
Storytown Selection Guided Reading Levels
(Use this information for pulling appropriate guided
reading levels from Lakewood's bookroom to supplement Harcourt. Find
the guided reading level for the desired Storytown text and you will
know which books from our bookroom are compatible with that level.)
Bright
From the Start
(Resources for parents to use during the summer
to help students prepare for 1st Grade.)
Helpful Websites
Harcourt
Storytown Website
Think
Central (Harcourt Storytown's
Technology Website)
Incredible
collection of Internet links for each Storytown kindergarten theme
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