Preschool Letter by Letter: Letter S - Circle the Picture
Look at a page of pictures and circle the ones that start with Ss.
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Look at a page of pictures and circle the ones that start with Ss.
Circle capital S's and put a square around lowercase s's; find and circle S's in a 'Seek and Find' grid; color pictures that start with S ('Find and Color'); cut and paste letter S examples from magazines or provided letters ('Cut and Paste'); trace and write the letter ('Trace and Write'); color pictures starting…
Read short 'S is for ___' sentence strips (e.g. sun, sailboat, salad, sandcastle, sandwich, seahorse, saw, six, salt, sock, sink, sunflower, sing, soap).
Students copy words into letter boxes from dictation, trace words, check their work against an answer key, complete challenging-word copy practice, write words on plain lines from dictation, read a short story and circle the target words then write their own story using each word, and take a final spelling check/test.
Practice counting and number-sequence recognition from 1 to 10 using letter-S themed counting puzzles.
Choose two colors and color each cell containing S/s one color and cells with other letters the second color,
Identify a target letter's name/sound, practice writing it, and find it in the book; use core-word and fringe vocabulary flip strips; use story props to retell the sequence; answer WH comprehension questions; complete a letter-identification worksheet and a 'letter to a friend' writing worksheet; use sentence-stem…
Read/assemble a small book of sentences following the pattern 'S is for ___' (sun, sad, sailboat, six, saw, seahorse, sock, sun).
Use a clothespin/clip to select the correct beginning blend or letter(s) to complete an ACK-family word shown with blanks (e.g. 'wh___' + 'ack'), across three types of clip cards of increasing word variety.
Identify a target letter's name/sound, practice writing it, and find it in the book; use core/fringe vocabulary strips during shared reading; interact with cut-out animal story-prop characters on a storyboard to retell the story; answer picture-choice comprehension questions (e.g. 'Who had fancy feathers?'); mark…
Give preschool/kindergarten students practice identifying beginning letter sounds using a self-checking puzzle format.
Identify the beginning sound, blend, or digraph of each pictured spring word and clip a clothespin or paper clip on the correct letter(s) among the answer choices.