Early exposure to the English language is important for children's cognitive growth. It helps them achieve more success in the future and explore diverse cultures. Learning English provides children with numerous opportunities, such as participation in exchange programmes and study abroad. As teachers, it's our responsibility to ensure that our children have the best resources available to grow up and experience all of these things. Thankfully, the Internet has made it so much simpler to find high-quality English materials online. If you want to spend less time preparing activities or writing an engaging lesson plan for English, then the Resources for Teaching Website is just what you’re looking for.
They have a variety of downloadable classroom materials that are geared towards achieving the desired ACARA outcomes. Their team of dedicated educators create English activities that will enhance your student’s reading, writing, and speaking skills. Here are some of their materials and lesson plans for kindergarten that can be easily incorporated into literacy groups or rotations. Your students will have a great time playing these games while simultaneously gaining valuable skills.
What’s
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1.
Contractions Rainbow Matching Cards:
These
63 rainbow contraction cards and 126 matching clouds will help your students
recognise, read, spell and use contractions. Students will choose a rainbow
card that contains a contraction. Then they must find the two words on the
cloud cards that form the given contraction and place them under the rainbow.
2.
Compound Words Matching Cards:
Contains
150 compound words matching cards that will teach your students how to
recognise and build 50 compound words. Students will use the cards that each
contain a word and picture that can be matched with another card to make a
compound word. They will finally find the card that contains the compound word
and picture of the new meaning.
3.
Consonant Blends Activity Cards:
Provide
your students with fun and engaging activities to identify beginning consonant
blends! These 30 activity cards are a wonderful addition to your literacy
groupwork and rotations. Students must take an activity card and look at the
blend and the three pictures on the right hand side. Using a peg or a counter
they must identify the picture that doesn’t contain the beginning consonant
blend.
4.
Ending Blends Literacy Activity Cards:
These
36 activity cards are a wonderful addition to your literacy groupwork and
rotations. Students must take an activity card then look at the picture and say
the word. Using a peg or a counter they must identify the correct ending blend
sound. Then students can pick another activity card and repeat. They should try
to complete as many as they can!
5.
Past, Present & Future Tense Verbs Activity:
Your
students will LOVE this fun and engaging activity to learn about past, present
and future tense verbs! These 40 activity cards and 80 verb ‘street sign’ cards
will help your students understand verbs in the three tenses to help with their
writing and speaking skills. To play, students will choose an activity card
that contains a present tense verb. Then they must find the two street sign
cards that represent the verb in the past and future tense and place them on
top of the signs.
6.
Rhyming Words Matching Cards:
Your
students will enjoy this engaging activity to learn about rhyming words! These
24 activity cards and 48 picture cards will help your students recognise plenty
of rhyming words and improve their writing and speaking skills.
7.
Short Vowel Literacy Activity:
These
35 activity cards and vowel cards will help your students recognise plenty of
words that contain short vowel sounds and improve their spelling and writing
skills. To play, students choose an activity card, then look at the picture and
say the word. They must find the missing short vowel and complete the word.
Students can use plastic alphabet letters or the letter cards provided. Once
complete, simply choose a new activity card and repeat. As an extension, students
can write a sentence using the word that contains a short vowel on their
mini-whiteboards or on a piece of paper.
8.
Snakes and Ladders Digraph Review Games:
Your
students will review over 50 blends with these fun snakes and ladders games.
Includes 10 games that focus on particular digraph groups, each type of blend
is colour coded for students to make connections between the same sounds in
different words. Each game has a range of different words for students to
practice reading and is great for literacy rotations.
The
focus digraphs include: ch, sh, wh, th, ph, bl, cl, fl, gl, pl, sl, br, dr, fr,
gr, pr, tr, wr, -ing endings, ai, ee, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, er, oy, ay,
ou, ie, ea, ir, ue, aw, ew, trigraphs -igh, -ear, -air and -ure, split digraphs
a-e, e-e, i-e, o-e, u-e
9.
Uppercase & Lowercase Letter Matching Activity:
Provide
your students with fun and engaging activities to recognise the letters of the
English alphabet in upper and lower case! These 26 activity cards and 52
matching letters and picture cards are a wonderful addition to your literacy
groupwork and rotations.
To play, students will choose an activity card that contains a letter or a picture and two blank boxes. They must find two missing cards that represent the letter as an upper case or lower case letter and a picture card that starts with their given letter. When they have completed one activity card, they can move onto another.
If you’re looking for a preschool lesson planner, lesson plans for kindergarten, activities that require minimal preparation or printable classroom décor to help your students with a variety of English skills, visit https://resourcesforteaching.com.au.
