My 4 year old is a busy bee trying to recognize letter sounds consistently. At this age, I spend a bulk of my “school time” with him using hands-on activities with the occasional pencil activity thrown in there. We are very loosely following Memoria Press’ Jr. Kindergarten curriculum. I’ve been very pleased with it, but the …
Blends Writing Practice Worksheets
Young learners need a variety of phonics practice in the early years of Kindergarten through 2nd Grade. Even if you have children who read easily, they still need ample amounts of phonics practice. I made the mistake of not solidifying phonics with one of my early readers, and it created a multitude of problems many …
Long Vowel Word Search Puzzles
While phonics and reading have come very naturally to some of my children, other kiddos of mine have struggled to internalize phonics concepts and read fluently. In the past 2 years, I have read more about phonics than I ever wanted to know, and have truly taught myself how to teach my children. Is it …
Mystery Pictures Phonics Practice: Valentine’s Day
It’s been awhile since I shared something fun and holiday-ish. As we head into the pink hearts of Valentine’s Day, download this fun set of mystery pictures for your young ones! If you have been a long time reader here at Mama’s, you know that I often try to incorporate a few holiday or seasonally-themed …
Alphabet Do a Dot Pages – Upper and Lowercase!
There are a few things that remain classics at our house: stamp sets, pretend play animals and sets, good books, pattern blocks. And Do a Dots. For 8+ years, my children have each loved Do a Dots and the many activities you can do with them. Not only are they a fun past time, but …
CVC Short E Clip Cards
Today I’m back with another set of CVC Clip Cards! This set focuses on CVC words with the short e sound. As I mentioned in the CVC Short A Clip Card post, my 5 1/2 year old is slowly moving along with learning to read. We’re continuing with All About Reading Level 1, and we’re …
Read and Draw: FALL!
Over the past week, my 5 year old (almost 6!) has worked through every single Read It! Draw It! page in the Kindergarten CVC Phonics Packet. She begged me to make more – which of course I did – and still wanted more drawing prompts. So this weekend, I made her a whole packet of fall-themed …
Fall Color By CVC Words Worksheet Packet with a free download!
My 5 year old is still working on sounding out CVC words. Since learning to read is a bit slow-going, I have my eye out for many different resources to help her with these CVC words until they click! This post contains affiliate links. Please see my disclosure policy for more details. She and I …
CVC Short A Clip Cards
My 5 1/2 year old is at the very beginning stages of learning to read. With my three older children, I had an early reader, an average reader, and a later reader. Even though we are just starting the learning-to-read process, I have a feeling this is going to a slower journey with this fourth …
Printable Rhyming Mats
My 5 year old still isn’t quite ready to read. Am I worried? Oh goodness, no. I know from my experience with my 3 other readers, that children read in their own due time. She is still practicing letter sounds and rhyming words, so this set of printable rhyming mats is just perfect for her …
Spring Sentence Picture Match
I just love this new activity for my girls: spring sentence picture match! My little girls love any activity that involves matching, so they are going to adore this sentence matching activity! My almost 7-year-old is a fairly moderate reader, and my 5-year-old isn’t reading at all. Despite their vastly different stages, they’ll both be …
