Here we are at Lesson 5 of my FREE preschool reading curriculum, Reading the Alphabet. Today, it’s all about the Letter C!
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Lesson 5: Letter C / Sight Word: look
Reading the Alphabet Letter C includes reading activities, such as:
Letter Cc Book– student book, available in color and in black and white
Letter 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 the word look
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:
Sorting 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:
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 Count and Clip-count syllables and clip the number
Letter C Book/Print Awareness Skills, such as:
Car 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:
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.
Letter C Cut & Pattern Game– I did something new with him this week. I created a pattern and included a wrong card mixed in.
His 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:
Letter C Book List
Enjoy teaching!
~Becky
There is no link to download the zip file.
Just fixed. Thank you for letting me know. 🙂
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?
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. 🙂
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 ;).
Great idea!! 🙂
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
Have you maybe tried a different internet browser? Sometimes that makes a difference. {Chrome seems to work best for me.}
Can’t download it either no matter how many times. I’ve used Firefox, Chrome and Opera. The server seems disconnected halfway.
Have you tried again?
for some reason I am having difficulty downloading this lesson, I was able to do the first 4 with no problem.
See if using a different internet browser helps.