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Reading the Alphabet Letter C (Lesson 5)

By thisreadingmama 12 Comments

Here we are at Lesson 5 of my FREE preschool reading curriculum, Reading the Alphabet. Today, it’s all about the Letter C!

Reading the Alphabet Letter C - This Reading Mama

*Keep scrolling until the end of this post to grab the free version of Reading the Alphabet Letter C!

 

You can purchase our Reading the Alphabet Bundle Pack, stream-lined for easy downloading!  It also features bonus material that you can’t find in this free version!

 

Lesson 5: Letter C / Sight Word: look

Reading the Alphabet Letter C includes reading activities, such as:

CBook-colorLetter Cc Book– student book, available in color and in black and white

CPocketChartBookLetter C Pocket Chart Version (to use with colored or black and white pictures).  Construct the Letter Cc Book in a pocket chart word by word.  Then, point and read along…great for concepts of print!

Sight Word Activities, such as:

sight word maze for prekindersSight Word Maze for the word look

look sight word song

Sight word song you can sing to learn the letters of look (which, I just realized I left this off of the 5-day lesson plan).  I sang this song each day with him and pointed to the letters in look as we sang.

Phonological Awareness Activities, such as:

CCards-BWSorting Letter C pictures by initial sound on the pocket chart along with letter cards from previous lessons (letter cards come in color or black and white-see above)

Following the “Letter” of the Law– I wanted to have a game with bottle caps and since car was sort of the theme, I created this game for this week.  It reviews the letter sounds from lessons 1-5.)  Print off the picture cards for each letter of the week from Lessons 1-5 and use for this game.  Here’s how:

Car and bottle cap game with initial sounds

Shuffle the T, F, P, M & C cards and place them facedown in a pile.  Pick the top card, turn it over and place on the sign mat.  The child identifies the picture and the initial sound.  Then, bottle caps (marked with these 5 letters) are placed on the car as the wheels.  I only pulled out 10 cards for NJoy to do, but he did ALL 30 CARDS!  I couldn’t believe it!  I guess this game was a big hit for him. 😉

syllable counting with c wordsSyllable Count and Clip-count syllables and clip the number

Letter C Book/Print Awareness Skills, such as:

Car Print AwarenessCar Print Awareness

C is for Cover of Book– when I read books aloud to him this week, we talked about the cover of the book and reviewed that it’s also called the front and has the title.

Letter C Math Games, such as:

Numbers 1-20, letter C

20-Grid…we placed coins on the grid, but any small manipluative (especially starting with letter c) could also work.  I originally saw this grid idea at Pre-Kinders.

whats wrong with the patternLetter C Cut & Pattern Game– I did something new with him this week.  I created a pattern and included a wrong card mixed in.

correcting the patternHis job was to find the wrong one and fix it.  He was so proud of himself!

 

 

All of the FREE activities original to This Reading Mama can be found by clicking below:

 

Read Alouds for the Letter C - Letter C Books

Letter C Book List

Enjoy teaching!
~Becky

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Comments

  1. Lisa says

    April 29, 2013 at 11:32 am

    There is no link to download the zip file.

    Reply
    • thisreadingmama says

      April 29, 2013 at 12:56 pm

      Just fixed. Thank you for letting me know. 🙂

      Reply
  2. Emily says

    October 3, 2013 at 1:24 pm

    We’re hitting a wall this week for some reason with the letter C. We keep reverting back to C making the “S” sound. My son also mistakes the last sound of the word. What do you do when your little one is struggling through an activity? Do you muddle through it and add more activities for that letter? Stop the activity and try something else? Any suggestions?

    Reply
    • thisreadingmama says

      October 3, 2013 at 9:04 pm

      A few ideas I’m throwing out here. Choose what you think will work best.
      When a child is confused over a concept, I like to pull back and model, model, model. Instead of asking your son to create the sound, you do it every time and have him repeat it as you did. Show him instead of asking him to produce it.
      RTA builds on prior skills, so when you get to the picture sort in the next lesson, compare all the C pictures with the new letter to reinforce it. And if he still gets confused, model the sort first. Mix up all the picture cards and guide him to do it with you. Then, you could try it again, asking him to try with less support from you.
      Another option is to spread out the activities over 2 weeks instead of 1 and add other letter C activities that would reinforce that sound. If he eats a cookie for snack, emphasize that: “You’re eating a /k/-/k/-cookie! That starts with a C!”
      Lastly, keep S out of the picture. Don’t ask him to sort S and C pictures in the same sort. That would be very confusing and wouldn’t help him.
      I hope all of that makes sense. 🙂

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      • Danielle says

        April 17, 2017 at 12:52 pm

        Hand motions work well too! Make a C with the shape of your hand and hit that hand on your other hand like a hammer. Emphasize the hard C sound as you hit. I usually hit three times to get the point across ;).

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        • thisreadingmama says

          April 25, 2017 at 8:55 pm

          Great idea!! 🙂

          Reply
  3. Lynn says

    March 5, 2015 at 7:11 pm

    Hi Becky,

    Thank you for sharing these Reading the Alphabet lessons for free.
    I have not been successful with downloading the Letter “C” file. The zip file is not able to expand.

    Lynn

    Reply
    • thisreadingmama says

      March 7, 2015 at 4:22 pm

      Have you maybe tried a different internet browser? Sometimes that makes a difference. {Chrome seems to work best for me.}

      Reply
      • nik says

        March 9, 2016 at 1:47 am

        Can’t download it either no matter how many times. I’ve used Firefox, Chrome and Opera. The server seems disconnected halfway.

        Reply
        • thisreadingmama says

          March 16, 2016 at 10:05 am

          Have you tried again?

          Reply
  4. Michelle Schaefer says

    May 21, 2018 at 7:41 am

    for some reason I am having difficulty downloading this lesson, I was able to do the first 4 with no problem.

    Reply
    • thisreadingmama says

      May 21, 2018 at 10:43 am

      See if using a different internet browser helps.

      Reply

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Hi! I’m Becky, a homeschooling mama with 4 blessings who keep me on my toes {and knees}. Before homeschooling, I was a classroom teacher (M.Ed.) and reading tutor. Read more about me here.

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