Reading Lesson Plans & Comprehension - Phonics

Pre-K ABCs

I co-teach a Pre-K program 5 days a week at our church preschool.  We try our hardest to prepare our children for kindergarten and to do well on the kindergarten screening that our public schools have prior to registration.  To that end, my partner and I have found that constantly reciting ABC’s, 123’s becomes boring to the children and they often “tune us out”.

We borrowed the plastic magnet letters from our ABC “chalk” board and dumped them and the numbers into a large colorful bucket.  We then asked the children (one at a time) to close their eyes, don’t peek and draw a letter or number from the bucket.  Then they were asked to show the class what letter they picked and give the class an example of a word that begins with that letter.  Using numbers they picked, they recited a sentence with that number in it.  The remainder of the class was then asked to join in with their ideas.  This is extremely simple but gets the entire class involved and the children really enjoyed it.
Submitted by: Debbie Bushardt - Fort Mill, South Carolina