Reading lessons 👀 📚

There are many different places a teacher can look for good reading lesson plans. Teachers that come to class well-prepared can be confident about spending a productive hour with their students.

✅ Sight Word Sticks

Fluency in reading the sight words is a great contributor to reading proficiency. Choose twenty sight words that you’d like your kindergarteners to become fluent with. Write the words down on ice cream sticks. On the remaining sticks, put a picture of a book, a dancing kid and a surprised face. Put all the sticks together inside the container. Have the students sit in a circle and pass the container around. Each kid draws a stick and calls out the word written on it. If the word is correct, the stick is put in the center of the circle. If the kid does not get the word right, the stick goes back into the container. The kid who pulls out the ‘book’ must take a second stick and form a sentence using the word. When someone pulls out a ‘dancing kid’, the entire group stands up and does a one-minute dance. When someone pulls out a ‘surprised face’, everyone yells ‘Busted!’ and puts all the sticks back into the container. Continue playing until you feel your students have had enough reading practice.

✅ Rhyme time!

Looking to turn your children into whiz kids? Rhyming is a great tool to help kids discover and explore alphabets, words, and language. Exposing kids to rhyming early on will help lead them to read and succeed!

• Paper Plate Puzzles : Have the children write two words that rhyme next to each other on a paper plate. Above each word, either draw or find and paste pictures of the two rhyming objects. Repeat this process for six rhyming pairs. Cut the paper plates in half with different patterns so that your child can try to find rhyming pairs and put the puzzles together.

• Attracted to Rhymes : Looking to put all those free flimsy magnets you get in the mail and at the fair to good use? Transform these freebies into hours of fun for you and your kids. Brainstorm a word list together that includes words from multiple parts of speech. (This doubles as a grammar lesson in parts of speech as well. Be sure you include nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, pronouns, and prepositions on your list.) Write or type your word list on sticky computer labels. Attach your labels to the magnets and trim each magnetic word. Then, enjoy some serious rhyme time as you and your child arrange the magnetic words into little bits of rhyming poetry!