Early Years Literacy Activities

Hands-on, playbased early elementary literacy activities and literacy centers for kindergarten, preschool, EYFS and 1st grade. This board is for all early literacy teaching resources, printables, games and lessons for phonological awareness and phonemic awareness, fun phonics activities including jolly phonics, phonemes and graphemes, sight words, CVC words and phonetic decoding. Ideas for teaching reading and writing, spelling and handwriting linked to ACARA.
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Cut Paste AND Write sentences - Jumbled Sentences for Kindergarten
Jumbled sentences are a fun way for kindergarten students to learn and practice reading, writing and sentence structure. These simple cut and paste and write sentences contain a progressive list of sight words, decodable text and CVC word families. ​ALL Australian and American spelling ​ ​and fonts included. Students rearrange the words to make a complete sentence.
ACARA Foundation Stage English WALT Goals
Use these ACARA Foundation Stage English WALT Goals or illustrated learning intentions to explicitly teach your Kindergarten, Prep and Preschool students what the English Foundation Stage learning intentions are. The pictures will act as a visual prompt and help your students remember and better understand their WALT goals.
List of Rhyming Picture Books for Preschool and Kindergarten
Discover my list of the best picture books to teach rhyming words in preschool and kindergarten. It is important to include rhyming books in your classroom library of read-alouds. Rhyming books for preschoolers and kindergarten children are vital in developing pre-reading and pre-writing skills and there is a direct correlation between learning rhyming and eventual reading readiness.
Cozy Classroom Reading Corner Ideas
Looking for classroom reading corner ideas? Transform your classroom reading area into a cozy, inviting space your students will love and discover my budget-friendly tips and ideas to create a calm classroom reading nook that fosters not only reading but self-regulation too!
Writing Provocations - How to Motivate a Child to Write — My Teaching Cupboard
Discover 7 Reggio writing provocation ideas that will inspire and motivate even the most reluctant child to write. Learn how to get your students to love writing and download my free writing printables to help your students succeed!
Rhyming Word Families Game
An easy and fun rhyming word families game. This hands-on rhyming activity will have your kindergarten students listening for sounds within words and learning all about rhyming word families in no time. Teach, practise and revise rhyming word families: _at _og _an _ap _ug _ain _ake _eep _oat. Percect for literacy groups and word work activities.
Rhyming Word Activities and Ideas
Want some quick and easy strategies for teaching rhyming words to kindergarten and preschool kids? Make learning about rhyme fun and keep your students engaged with my rhyming activities, rhyming games, and hands-on rhyming resources. Your students can master rhyming AND have fun doing it!
Teaching Phonological Awareness and Phonemic Awareness — My Teaching Cupboard
Discover essential strategies for teaching phonological and phonemic awareness in early childhood education. This guide outlines the developmental stages and suggests practical teaching ideas and engaging activities to develop these important early literacy skills in preschool and kindergarten children.
6 Ways to Use Picture Sorts in Kindergarten
Discover 6 fun picture sorting activities for kindergarten, preschool and first grade. Learn how picture sorts can teach sorting as well as phonemic awareness, vocabulary, and more. Download ready-made picture sorts and picture sorting games to save you time and boost student engagement.
Compound Words Activity
Looking for a fun way to develop your students' phonological awareness? My Compound Word Clip Cards are the perfect addition to your literacy centers and lessons! Designed with beginner-level phonological awareness in mind, these picture cards help preschool, kindergarten and first-grade students master the skill of blending and segmenting compound words.
Animal Habitat Sorting Activity
Get your students engaged with this animal habitats sorting activity. This printable pack includes 63 animal cards, 7 habitat mats and HEAPS of bonus learning prompts, posters, recording sheets, a checklist and more. Perfect for sorting, vocabulary, and science lessons. Download now for hands-on learning fun!
States of Matter Activities - Solid Liquid Gas Pictures
Looking for States of Matter activities or vocabulary cards? This comprehensive collection of 54 solid, liquid and gas picture cards feature real-life photos perfect for science category sorting activities like picture sorts. There are also heaps of bonus printables like learning prompts, sorting mats and teaching notes in this pack so you can also use them in a variety of kindergarten activities.
Guess the Animal Sound PowerPoint Game
Listening Game - Guess the Animal Sound. A fun PowerPoint game to teach auditory discrimination and basic auditory processing skills. It can also be used in Science when you are learning about living things and animals. Includes 26 real life animal audio sounds.
Fruit and Vegetable Cards with Pictures
Download a set of 72 printable fruit and vegetable picture cards your students will instantly recognise and relate to. No cutesy clipart! This comprehensive collection of fruit and veg cards feature real-life photos perfect for category sorting activities like picture sorts. There are bonus printables in this pack so you can also use them as writing aids, for vocabulary work and in science and health lessons as well.
Phoneme Substitution Cards for Phoneme Manipulation Activities — My Teaching Cupboard
Looking for phoneme substitution activities? These Phoneme Substitution Cards are for kindergarten students learning to change the sound in words. Designed to build essential phonemic awareness skills, these cards are the perfect tool for phoneme manipulation activities, teaching children how to substitute beginning sounds,medial, and final sounds to create new words.