I’m honored and totally excited to be able to share with you the first lesson (a sneak peek) of Reading the Alphabet! THE REST OF THE LESSONS WILL BE SHARED ON FRIDAYS, STARTING AUGUST 31, 2012! If you have questions concerning this curriculum, click here to read more about it. You can also email me at beckythisreadingmama{at}yahoo{dot}com or post on my FB page if you have further questions. You can also click on the image above or HERE to see all of the lessons once they are posted.
Note: All of the activities original to This Reading Mama can be downloaded for FREE as ONE ZIP FILE.
Lesson 1 reviews and applies the letter T sound and the sight word a.
On the download, is a 5-Day lesson plan for each letter (see above-it’s 2 pages on the download). On each day, I’ve included four separate activities you can do with the activities on the download. Directions for each activity are either on the lesson plan outline or on the activity printable itself. EACH lesson from this curriculum will have very similar activities and they’re designed to be taught in this order.
LETTER Tt READING ACTIVITIES
Letter Tt Reader: the focus is on applying the /t/ sound and practice reading the sight word a. You can use the colored version or print off the black and white version and have your child color it before reading. We read this book several times during the week and placed it where he could reach for re-reading after the week was over.
Pocket Chart Tt Reader: There’s also a pocket chart version of the reader to change things up a bit. You can use the black and white or colored Tt picture cards to go with the pocket chart reader.
SIGHT WORD: a
Sight Word Poke Page: My kiddos totally loved Erica’s poke pages (like the one in this lesson), so I made some for each sight word with permission.
Sight Word Maze (these are similar to Carisa’s alphabet mazes and I also have permission to “copy” her.)
Sight Word Search
PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS
Syllable Counting: {Update as of 3/2013- I have changed this activity to a Syllable Count and Clip with clothespin. You can view how we did it in this post.}
Cut & Paste Rhyming Activity (with top)
LETTER Tt BOOK & PRINT AWARENESS
Turtle Print Awareness: If you need further directions, you can view my guest post; which gives you a step-by-step guide on how to do this activity.
T is for TITLE: Each time we read a book together, I made a big deal about the title, pointing to it and saying, “Oh, title starts with the /t/ sound!” There’s no printable for this activity.
LETTER Tt FINE MOTOR/WRITING
T is for Turtle Tracing Page
Cutting Practice & Pattern Cards: This activity is a 2 for 1! The child cuts apart the strips,
then works on creating and extending patterns with the cards.
I wanted to create something to incorporate letter handwriting practice, but I discovered Carisa’s Handwriting pages from each of her Raising Rock Stars Preschool and was hooked! They are AWESOME!! (This link is on the lesson plan download.)
Tracing Letter Tt
More Tt Tracing
LETTER Tt MATH ACTIVITIES
Letter Tt Grid: roll the die, count the dots, and place that many manipulatives on the grid. I first saw these grids on PreKinders.
Turtle Numbers: pick a number card, read the number, and dot the number (there are 2 versions on the download: #1-10 & #10-20)
We used a few printables from Erica’s Letter Tt activities (the link is also on the download); clipping /t/-/t/-triangles on the turtles.
At the end of the week, I placed the new sight word on his word wall. (I don’t have the Word Wall download complete. It will be a separate piece at another time.)
All of the activities original to This Reading Mama can be found on this ONE ZIP FILE.
I think that about does it! Again, if you have questions, please don’t hesitate to ask.
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This is great – thank you so much. My son starts preschool in September and being the youngest in the year I’m aware that I will need to support him at home as well – this is fantastic thank you for all the time. Off to download
Thanks! Let me know if you have any questions!
A-mazing! Thank you so, so much for taking the time to create this and sharing. My daughter will start preschool next week, but it is definitely play-based learning (which I love). I’m excited to supplement the work she does at school with this curriculum!
Awesome! I hope it will be a good fit. Let me know if you have any questions.
Becky- this is amazing! I’m excited to use this lesson with my son. Thank you for all your hard work.
Shonda, you are so welcome. It may look like hard work; but really, I was having FUN!
Wow, what a huge amount of work you’ve put in! We have a reading readiness program but I think we will have to add yours in too since it looks like something my son would really enjoy. Thanks for sharing!!
You’re so welcome! Thanks for stopping by to encourage.
This is all so wonderful! You have enabled parents who want to teach to be able to do so! This is so very helpful. You’ve made many teacher and parent lives easier! Carolyn
Thank you, Carolyn. Thanks for sharing!!
great can not wait to see the rest! I will def be looking we are starting some initial sounds tubs this week so this will be great to go alongside them thank you.
Oh, I love sound tubs! Let me know if you have any questions.
Becky, this is wonderful! I love the way you’ve incorporated different areas of the curriculum (maths, etc.) into the lessons as well. Thanks for sharing all the work you’ve put into this curriculum.
Thank you for your encouragement and thank you for sharing!
They look awesome! I will definitely be adding some of your printables in when Ladybug does RRSP!
Carisa, thanks for taking a peek and the time to comment. It means the world, really!
Thank you! This takes some of the pressure off of beginning Home Ed this year. I look forwardto using them with Tristan in a couple of weeks.
Wonderful. That’s been my prayer…to be able to help out other mamas with it.
Looks great and am looking forward to using some of this, especially with the preschoolers I get who are ready for more. I am getting a Bad Gateway error when I try to download from TPT. I will try again later.
It just decided to work for me now.
Oh, good! You had me worried for a minute.
Love it! I am a preschool sped teacher and love to have ideas for my parents when they ask what they can do to help at home. I definitely plan to use you as a reference for the kids working on these skills (hope that’s ok
).
Absolutely! Refer away!
Thank you so much for these lessons!!! They are very helpful, and I can’t wait to use them with my son! Your hard work is shown in these lessons and I am so grateful they are free!
Thank you! The hard work is worth it, especially when I hear that it has been a blessing to others.
hi, i found you over pinterest. i am so excited to print the lessons however when i clicked on the link it is not working.
im ready sad now.. 
I’m working on it right now. Thank you for letting me know.
This is really great. I’ve been looking for a hands-on approach for my 3 year old and this looks really fun! I can’t wait to get started and THANK YOU for providing it for free!! Being a homeschooler, the prices add up, so I’m always grateful when I find something this good at no cost. Please keep it up!!!
You’re so welcome, Missy. I enjoy sharing freely.
I’ve started incorporating some of your Reading the Alphabet activities into our weekly God’s Little Explorers Curriculum (from motherhoodonadime.com). We’re just about ready to start reading and some of the activities you have are just excellent.
Thank you for stopping by to comment. I’m so glad you’ll be able to use it!
I love this curriculum! My granddaughter is 3 yrs 2mos. do you think it is to so to start using this study? She does a good job of matching, telling the difference in a series of objects with one being different, and is practicing cutting and tracing. She loves to be read to and then wants to read the story back to me. I don’t want to rush her. She is so proud of her “homework” when she shows her mother.
I started using this with my son because he knew all of his letters and sounds and was ready to start reading words. The sight words won’t “stick” very well if she doesn’t have the schema of her letters/sounds. And she doesn’t have to know all of them perfectly. My son still confuses some of his sounds at times. If you think she’s ready, try it. Take 2 weeks on one letter. If it’s over her head, then stop and try it again when she’s a little older. Let me know how it goes.