Are you a kindergarten teacher or homeschool educator looking for resources? In this post, we’ll offer some tips for kindergarten lesson plans for reading. When you’re planning lessons for you kindergartner, carefully select words for each activity. For example, a beginner can only read short a words like: sat, ham, bat, and ram. Later on, after learning short o, the beginner can read short a and short o words like: ham, hop, bat, top, cat, and dot. In this incremental fashion, you can slowly introduce more phonics sounds.
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The above wordlist can help you plan kindergarten reading lessons. Be sure to weave old material with new. For example, if a child is learning short i words like sit, be sure to also include short a words like Pam.
Kindergarten lesson plans for reading
When you start as a k-2 reading teacher, things can be confusing. You might’ve thought teaching reading is simpler than it actually is. We often think we can teach reading just based off our own ability to read. However, teaching reading is a skill. To help you learn how to design lessons for a kindergartner, I’ve attached a sample lesson plan.
Kindergarten Lesson Plan Sample
Effective phonics lessons include:
- a sound introduction activity (if the child is ready for a new phonics sound). The teacher might say “ai” says /ai/ as in sail, for example.
- flashcard review so the child can review all the phonics sounds he’s learned
- a wordlist. The child should read the wordlist sound-by-sound and then blend the words.
- sound-by-sound spelling
- sight word spelling activity
- phonemic awareness activity
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