KINDERGARTEN TEACHER IDEA SHARING
NEW! Kindergarten Houghton Mifflin Reading at a Glance: The link below will produce a table that lists the comprehension strategy, comprehension skill, phonemic awareness focus, phonics focus, and high frequency words taught each week of the kindergarten year.
Kindergarten Reading at a Glance
Picture Support for Theme 7
"Wheels help us work and play, sometimes in unexpected ways." That's the theme concept for Theme 7: Wheels Go Round. The Teacher's Note on page T11 suggests displaying different types of vehicles from the Teacher Read Aloud story. The files below feature a wide assortment of vehicle names and pictures. Post them on your Focus Wall or use them at a writing center.
Vehicles Part 1
Vehicles Part 2
Vehicles Part 3
Cummulative Kindergarten Letter-Sound fluency practice sheets: Kindergarten teacher, Candace Leyden and Literacy Coach, Carla Flowers, created letter naming and letter sound practice sheets for kindergarten. The sheets start with Theme 2 and each subsequent sheets adds the letter or letters taught during that theme, in addition to continued practice with the previously taught letters. These practice sheets could be used for whole class choral practice, paired practice during Universal Access time, or during an intervention lesson.
Theme 2 Theme 7
Theme 3 Theme 8
Theme 4 Theme 9
Theme 5 Theme 10
Theme 6
Alphafriends with handwriting models: Have you been looking for a color copy of the Alphafriends that includes an upper and lower case handwriting model? Well, the link below will take you to the Houghton Mifflin Eduplace website for just that!
http://eduplace.com/state/ca/alfamigos/
Are you creating a new focus wall in your classroom? Would you like your students to bring in objects that would enrich this interactive teaching and learning tool? The links below have a theme-specific letter to families that includes graphics that support the theme and a short explanation of the theme concept.
Theme 1 Theme 6
Theme 2 Theme 7
Theme 3 Theme 8
Theme 4 Theme 9
Theme 5 Theme 10
Generic (non-theme specific) letter
Alphafriend Cards: Click on the link below to see a one-page printable Alphafriends card. These could be printed out for your class and used on a take-home/homework folder, displayed on student tables for writing models, or at teacher-table for small group (universal access) instruction.
Alphafriends
Alphabingo Cards: Play Alphabingo with your students. Use your small Alphafriends cards to call each letter and sound while your students cover their Alphabingo game card with chips. Each page has two different Alphabingo cards. Print them on cardstock, laminate them, and let your students have fun while reviewing their ABC's.
Alphabingo Cards 1-2
Alphabingo Cards 3-4
Alphabingo Cards 5-6
Kindergarten High Frequency Word Cards: Click on the link below to access the Houghton Mifflin kindergarten high frequency words printed in "cut apart" boxes. These could be used as flashcards or displayed on focus walls.
Kindergarten High Frequeny Words
The link below will give you multiple practice pages for building High Frequency Word fluency. Each page reviews previously taught words and integrates the new words taught in each them.
Kindergarten High Frequency Word Practice pages
Which genre are your working on this week? This table lists all of the genres for the Teacher Read Aloud stories, the Big Book stories, as well as the nonfiction Content Links each week. There are genre posters on the Posters, Charts, etc. page.
Kindergarten Genres in the HM Program
Teresa Robertson, Kindergarten teacher at Rice Elementary School , has developed a chart that shows the cross-curricular links between our district's adopted programs: Houghton Mifflin Reading, Scott Foresman Math, Harcourt Science, and the Hampton Brown materials used during the English Language Development block.
Cross-Curricular Links -- Kindergarten
