Foundation Skills Literacy Centers: Grades K-1

Your students will love matching color-coded Letters on the Alphabet Arch with this Literacy Center in a bag! The Center includes two double-sided game Mats that feature the upper- or lowercase alphabet on one side and the matching vowels on the other side. This Center is perfect for individual learning or for partners as students use the laminated Task Card, Mats, and 52 upper- and lowercase Letters to identify, match, and order the alphabet, and to learn about long and short vowels. It’s easy to set up a multitude of interactive possibilities using the included Really Good Activity Guide and get your students involved in letter-matching and vowel activities with the Alphabet Arch Literacy Center. And the whole Center is easy to store and display in the handy Plastic Bag with Hanger!

• WHAT’S INCLUDED: The Alphabet Arch Literacy Center includes a complete set of 52 color-coded uppercase and lowercase foam non-magnetic Letters (1" by ¾" each), 2 double-sided write-on wipe-off game Mats (18½" by 11" each), I laminated Task Card (9"by 6"), a Plastic Bag with Hanger (11" by 13¼"), and a Really Good Activity Guide with activities and ideas for use.
  
• INTRODUCE LETTER RECOGNITION: Create a center to help your students recognize the upper- and lowercase letters of the alphabet. One Mat features uppercase letters, and one Mat features lowercase letters providing lots of ways to use them alone or together for fun, hands-on activities.
  
• STRENGTHEN WORD ATTACK SKILLS: You’ll find that teaching, reinforcing, and creating centers for beginning letters and vowel sounds is easy with the interactive Mats and Letters.
  
• SUPPORT VOWEL RECOGNITION: Introducing and practicing beginning and medial vowel sounds is an interactive activity using the vowel sides of the Mats. You can add another level by having students use dry-writer markers to label the Mats with the long and short vowel symbols.
  
• REINFORCE SCAFFOLDING CHUNKS: Use the Alphabet Arcs as a tool for activities by creating approachable tasks for upper- and lowercase letters, alphabet sequence, letter sounds, and long and short vowels.

With this learning center activity, partners practice building words and changing beginning sounds to make new words. This helps them see spelling patterns and makes phonics skills more automatic. Includes all the 24 short vowel rimes, or phonograms, identified by Wylie and Durrell as the most common. For 2-4 players.

Spin the arrow and look for a picture card with the target short-vowel sound. Each short vowel is represented by six self-checking picture cards. Players take turns until all the picture cards are used, then they turn them over to check answers and draw the correct pictures in the boxes on the reproducible game sheets.

Students compare two words and identify how they sound the same and mdash;at the beginning, middle, or end. Then they place the picture tile into the correct column on the mat. This game can be played individually or in pairs, making it a perfect literacy center activity. Great for English Language Learners, who benefit from having picture cues to acquire new vocabulary.

Distinguish Beginning Sounds In Words

Here is a great way to develop phonological awareness, practice matching the initial phonemes in words, and compare and contrast beginning sounds. By listening for and identifying the beginning sounds of words, students sharpen their phonological skills.

Students match the beginning sound of the word pictured on their card to one of six pictures on their game boards. Cards and game mats come color-coded for easy management. Two-sided mats provide ample practice of beginning sounds.

Compare, Contrast, And Match Ending Sounds In WordsStudents match the ending sound of the word pictured on their card to one of six pictures on their game boards. Cards and game mats come color-coded for easy management. Two-sided mats provide ample practice of beginning sounds.

• INCLUDES: 48 picture cards (Size: 2-1/2" by 3-1/2" each), 4 double-sided game mats, 1 laminated task card (Size: 9" by 6"), Really Good Instructional Guide, and 1 hanging plastic bag (Size: 11" by 13-1/4").

Grades K-1 Make segmenting and blending two to five sounds in words easy and fun for emergent readers. Students simply put together the pieces of a puzzle to build a complete picture, pronouncing each phoneme as they proceed. Through repeated play, they will begin to recognize how words are composed of individual sounds and - an important component of early reading and writing instruction.

Kids hear a word and find its pictured rhyme on their 3" x 3" grid Lotto board. They have so much fun playing, all the while developing phonological awareness!

Name the pictures on the cards, look for two of their sounds on the mats, and fill in the missing letter. Each mat has two levels: Side A targets initial and final sounds; and Side B targets medial sounds.

Working alone or with partners, students mix up 32 (or a smaller selection) picture tiles, take a picture, say the word, listen for the number of syllables in the word, and place the tile in the column for that number. When the tiles are all used, players count and compare the number of words with one, two, three, and four syllables.

Players read the CVC word, transform it into a CVCe word, and then determine whether it is a real word or a nonsense word.

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