In this interactive, students click on a letter to see it in uppercase and lowercase. They click on the letter again to hear its sound and words associated with that sound.

This Internet fact finding activity is as easy A-B-C! Students will get an introduction to safe search engines, including MeL, (Michigan e-Library.org), to find ways to do a basic online search safely for information by simply using the letters of the alphabet.

 To launch:  Read “Albert’s Alphabet” by Leslie Tryon Students will then “build” the letters of their name using provided materials or you can assign groups of students letters, so that the class can “build” the alphabet. 

In this lesson, students practice letter formation by using text as an element of art, in addition to building phonics and spellings skills.

In this beginning of the year activity, students will use a word/letter finder to identify and differentiate letters and words.

In this lesson, students will show their phonemic awareness, letter recognition knowledge and basic understanding of coding to program a Bee bot to reach a particular letter.

Read the book “Chicka, Chicka, Boom Boom” to your students. Discuss the letters that are in the book. Then have students work in pairs or groups to create a coconut tree that can hold as many alphabet magnets as possible. When finished students will count how many letters their tree could hold. They will also name as many letters as they can from their tree.

This parent guide supports parents in helping their child at home with the Kindergarten English Language Arts content.Within the folder you will access Parent Guide PDFs in FIVE Languages: Arabic, English, Hindi, Spanish, and Vietnamese to help on-going communication with caregivers. 

This resource accompanies our Rethink Kindergarten ELA course. It includes ideas for use, ways to support exceptional children, ways to extend learning, digital resources and tools, tips for supporting English Language Learners and students with visual and hearing impairments. There are also ideas for offline learning.  

In this lesson, students engage in independent literacy centers to become proficient in completing activities about the stories they read. Although this lesson uses Seven Blind Mice as an example, the framework is adaptable to almost any text.

In this lesson,students will recognize the uppercase letter G, recognize and respond to the sound of the letter G at the beginning of a word, and say the G sound.

Starfall is an interactive alphabet-teaching website/app. Letters are presented in a variety of ways -- visually, audibly, and within words and sentences. Students interact with letters to help with phonics as well as reading.

ABCya! presents its fifth children's storybook for the classroom. It's called Marvin Makes Music, an original work by Michelle Tocci. The story is about a frog that is sad because he cannot sing like his friends, until one day when he gets a new musical instrument. This is a great storybook to share with kids using an interactive whiteboard.

*This storybook has narration! Students can click the speaker button to have the story read to them.

This document provides a description of what each standard means a student will know, understand and be able to do. The "unpacking" of the standards done in this document is an effort to answer a simple question, "What does this standard mean that a student must know and be able to do?" and to ensure the description is helpful, specific and comprehensive for educators.

This assessment and remediation guide contains resources (lessons, worksheets, games, songs, progress monitoring, and more) to develop a student's phonological awareness by determining a student's need(s).

In this interactive, students will match the lowercase letter with the uppercase letter.

In this lesson, a combination of children's literature, learning centers, and activities focus on learning about the letter m. Students will learn about phonics by participating in an integrated array of activities, including reading, writing, mathematics, music, art, and technology.

Children love to take pictures and videos. They also like to move around and find things. This lesson combines these to things into one fun and active lesson. Students will be showing their knowledge of the alphabet and letter sounds as they move around their classroom or school taking pictures of different items they find.

How many letters do you know? Each letter activity has a different game to play which will help you learn the sounds of the letters in the ABC's. Let's practice identifying the alphabet and the sound of all the uppercase and lower case letters in the alphabet.