Early literacy

Literacy Center Ideas - hands-on literacy center activities perfect for 5-8 years | you clever monkey

Want to increase your kid's knowledge and improve their social-emotional development? Check out these 17 games, crafts, and activities that incorporate active learning into everyday life.

Use these free rhyming picture cards with the Down By The Bay song. Kids love matching the rhymes on the cards and using them to extend the classic song.

FREE printable set of Nursery Rhymes sequence puzzles, including Humpty Dumpty, Hey Diddle Diddle, Itsy Bitsy Spider, Baa Baa Black Sheep, Hickory Dickory Dock, Jack and Jill, and Three Blind Mice. Perfect for early literacy and reading comprehension for

Lots of books, songs, and activities to build literacy-rich circle times with toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergarteners.

Make these simple Lego letter blocks and print the free CVC word cards and make learning cvc and sight words fun!

These portable Name Folders offer 4 different hands-on ways for children to practice recognizing, spelling and writing their names.

Playful Learning in the Early Years: Letter Roll and Stamp

My literacy centers are a core part of our kindergarten schedule. They are active literacy centers that keep us on our toes and working so that I can work with small groups. Today, let me share my kindergarten retell literacy center directions, expectations and a list of the 20 stories that make up this year-long center in our classroom. Most of the stories that I place into the retell literacy center are pretty famous (or at least well known within the world of kindergarten teachers) but…

Make a simple rhyming activity to help practise rhyming pairs and learn about literacy in a playful, hands-on way! This would be great for both home and the classroom as a go-to resource on the shelf. We have been practising hearing and identifying rhyming words together recently and focused initially on identifying rhyming strings with...Read More »