Are you looking for quick, engaging activities for students to use during those first few minutes of small group Guided Reading?

This 70-worksheet resource is designed to give Kindergarten students extra practice with essential concepts of print, phonemic awareness, and phonics skills for the first half of the school year. It is important that emergent readers master these skills before transitioning into more complex reading tasks found in the second half of the school year.

The targeted skills include:

Concepts of Print (10 worksheets):
- Front cover; spine; back cover
- Directionality (top to bottom; left to right)
- # of letters in a word
- # of words in a sentence
- Spacing between words
- Letter vs. number discrimination
- Word vs. picture discrimination
- Role of an author
- Role of an illustrator
- Ending punctuation
- Capitalization at the beginning of a sentence

Phonemic Awareness:
- Rhyme recognition (10 worksheets)
- Rhyme generation (10 worksheets)
- Syllable counting (10 worksheets)
- Initial consonant sounds (10 worksheets)

Phonics:
- Alphabet recognition (10 worksheets)
- Spelling (first letter) (10 worksheets)

This resource may be used:
- during the first 5 minutes of Guided Reading to get students focused and ready to learn
- as reinforcement while working with a classroom assistant/paraprofessional
- for homework
- as formative or summative assessments


Sheets for anecdotal records are also included, allowing you to monitor students’ progress toward mastery for report cards, IEP goals, etc!

Hope you find it helpful!

Rating after downloading is greatly appreciated.

Yours in Literacy,

Sheila ☺