Preschool Literacy Activities

There are so many ways to promote literacy and develop skills in our preschool age kiddos. I am going to list different ideas, activities, and resources below:

• Read Aloud
  • Read a book out loud. Start with a picture walk, predict what the story is about, pause to ask questions, wonder out loud, etc.
• Letter Awareness
  • Practice what each letter “says”. Ex: E <eh> elephant, A <ahh> apple O <aww> octopus.
  • Identify letters
  • Use flash cards
  • Alphabet Letter Game (printable)
  • So many more here!
• Sight Words
  • These are words that should recognized without “sounding out” like the, we, is etc.
  • Preschool Dolch Sight Words
  • Kindergarten Dolch Sight Words
  • BOB Sight Words for Kindergarten
• Shared Reading
  • Beginning Readers
    • BOB Books Beginners
    • BOB Books Advanced Beginners
    • First Little Readers Level A
    • Step Into Reading Level 1
      • Frozen
      • Soccer Time
      • Tooth Fairy’s Night
      • Dancing Dinos
      • and so many more!
    • I Can Read Books My First
      • Jojo and the Twins
      • Pete the Kitty
      • Digger the Dinosaur
      • Biscuit Goes Camping
      • and so many more!
• Journaling– expect:
  • drawing
  • maybe labeling
  • sounding out words with/ without help
  • a couple of “words”
  • you can ask a question, or let child pick from different topics likes this set from The Measured Mom.

• Phonological Awareness
  • Rhyming words- ending sounds ex: cat, bat, hat -at
  • Find words with same beginning sound, or which one of three doesn’t have the same sound. Ex: bat, book, tree

These are only a couple of the MANY ways to work on literacy with your little ones. Hope this helps you out!