RF.K Lesson Plans
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K
:"Foundational Skills"
These lesson plans can help students practice this Common Core State Standards skill.
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Silly Socks: Poetry Featuring the Letter S!
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Silly Socks: Poetry Featuring the Letter S!
Rhyming, moving, coloring and silliness...How can your class resist? Your students will love reading and moving with a poem, writing the letter S, and designing their own socks!
Kindergarten
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Farm Alphabet Bingo
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Farm Alphabet Bingo
In this lesson, students will fill their barns with farm animals by matching, identifying, and connecting the sounds of letters with their symbols.
Preschool
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Fishing For Letters
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Fishing For Letters
Fishing for new ways to review letters? Let your preschoolers cast a line to catch an uppercase fish and return it to the corresponding lowercase fishbowl.
Preschool
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Who Let the A Out?
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Who Let the A Out?
This is an easy and fun way to help students learn and remember letter sounds. This lesson can be done with minimal resources.
Students will love brainstorming words and will be singing even after the lesson.
Kindergarten
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I Like to Spell LIKE!
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I Like to Spell LIKE!
"Like" is a fundamental word for beginning readers and writers. Help your students learn to spell and write sentences with this popular sight word in this collaborative class lesson.
Kindergarten
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Nonsense (Words)!
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Nonsense (Words)!
Phonological awareness is essential for reading success. This lesson puts the student in control of creating, reading, and sorting CVC words in interactive ways.
Kindergarten
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Letter Mania
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Letter Mania
Encourage your students to learn about letters and develop early literacy skills that will help them become great readers. This lesson helps students learn and review any chosen letter in the alphabet.
Preschool
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Acing The Letter A!
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Acing The Letter A!
Ace the letter A with this lesson! Your students will love completing these colorful activities to get to know uppercase and lowercase A.
Kindergarten
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Short Vowel Sounds: A
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Short Vowel Sounds: A
Help your students improve their language skills by identifying the short A sound and decoding words.
Kindergarten
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Rhyming Words for Kindergarten
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Rhyming Words for Kindergarten
It's no crime to learn how to rhyme on a dime. This delightful reading lesson teaches kids about rhyming words and where they can be found.
Kindergarten
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The Three Little Pigs: Illustration to Text
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The Three Little Pigs: Illustration to Text
In this lesson, your students will use illustrations as they read a grade level story to a partner. They will engage their fine motor skills as they complete a simple cut and paste matching activity.
Kindergarten
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Handy Sight Words
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Handy Sight Words
Who knew that sight words could be so handy? This super simple reading lesson is perfect for students who love arts and crafts. It combines a short project with fun sight word memorization activities.
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Recognizing Upper and Lowercase Letters
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Recognizing Upper and Lowercase Letters
In this lesson, music, games, and a tricky maze help your students recognize uppercase and lowercase letters. All these activities are sure to keep kids both engaged and learning.
Preschool
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Rhyming Fun: Hop on Pop
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Rhyming Fun: Hop on Pop
Who can resist popping bubble wrap? Students will love producing rhymes while jumping on or popping bubble wrap!
Preschool
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Hungry Animal Letters
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Hungry Animal Letters
Satisfy your students' hunger for learning in this quick and fun letter recognition activity.
Preschool
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Sight Word Fun: Am
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Sight Word Fun: Am
Help students learn the sight word "am" through music, movement, and color. This quirky language lesson is guaranteed to nourish your kindergartner's vocabulary skills.
Kindergarten
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Music and Movement with the -IT Family
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Music and Movement with the -IT Family
Students will have no trouble at all using their w-, -it, wit to learn about the -it family in this lesson. It contains a bunch of songs and colorful worksheets to keep your youngsters engaged and entertained.
Kindergarten
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A Sight Word Celebration!
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A Sight Word Celebration!
Celebrate your students’ sight word success with a sight word celebration lesson! Customizable for use with any sight words, this lesson can be implemented after teaching a group of sight words or at the end of the year.
Kindergarten
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Beautiful Butterflies: The Letter B
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Beautiful Butterflies: The Letter B
All about the "B"utiful butterfly! Use this kinesthetic and creative lesson about the butterfly to focus on the letter B. Your students will also love learning about the butterfly life cycle.
Kindergarten
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Reading Winners
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Reading Winners
Who will win the race? Help your class build essential pre-reading skills with a friendly competition. Your students will race to identify the author, illustrator, and understand all the parts of a book in this engaging lesson.
Kindergarten
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Alphabet Fishing
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Alphabet Fishing
Hook your students on reading with this lesson that helps them identify the shapes of letters.
Preschool
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Sight Word Fun: Was
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Sight Word Fun: Was
Featuring a unique story and some sight word practice activities, this reading and writing lesson will definitely help young students get the hang of the word "was."
Kindergarten
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Words in the Family
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Words in the Family
Perfect for a unit on the family, this lesson uses “houses” to teach the concept of how rhyming words fit together in similar “families.” This lesson uses the -at rhyme but can be adapted for use with other three-letter rhyming words!
Kindergarten
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Winning Hopscotch: Sight Words
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Winning Hopscotch: Sight Words
Have your students jump into this fun reading lesson. It features an engaging game of hopscotch and lots of sight word practice.
Preschool
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Meet the -Op Family
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Meet the -Op Family
Your students will learn about words in the -op family as they help two naughty cats solve a problem. This reading lesson is perfect for little kids with big imaginations.
Kindergarten
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The Quaint Letter Q
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The Quaint Letter Q
There will be no question that students will know all about the letter Q after this engaging lesson. Teach your students this letter Q lesson so they can practice identifying, saying, and forming the letter.
Preschool
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ABC Movin’
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ABC Movin’
Get your preschoolers moving with this small group activity! This kinesthetic lesson, designed for 2-4 students, combines reviewing letters of the alphabet with gross motor skills.
Preschool
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Yummy Peanut Butter and Jelly
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Yummy Peanut Butter and Jelly
Who doesn't love peanut butter and jelly? This lesson has the potential to get a little messy as you reinforce the letter S!
Preschool
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Full of Fantastic Fun: The Letter F
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Full of Fantastic Fun: The Letter F
Fantastic! Fun! Fabulous! In this phonics lesson, your class will learn all about the letter F through words, letter-sound correspondence, writing, and a fun frog song.
Preschool
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Read with Beads
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Read with Beads
Build words with this fun lesson for emergent readers. Using beads and pipe cleaners, your students will enjoy working with manipulatives to create three- and four-letter words!
Kindergarten
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