This particular week at Coop, the Storytime From A to Z letter was "N" and the book was The Napping House, which is a favorite book at our house! My girls love this rhyming book that leads up to the consequences of piling too many sleepy people and animals in a cozy bed.
The girls always enjoy using story props to retell the story. Props found here. If you're looking for retelling story props for a variety of books, be sure to check out Kizclub!
I had my Coop class, color and cut the above templates in order to create their own story props!
I must admit, I've been dragging my feet on teaching Izzie to read. Izzie has known her letters since she was 2 and their sounds since she was 3, we read a lot together, and she "reads" a lot to herself...I love to hear her retell the story my memorization or just when she completely makes up her own story! But, it's time to really "teach" her to read, so here goes...
She knows all her color words by sight and she's learned a handful of sight words thus far and she has begun sounding out simple "CVC" words!
I decided to start with the -at and -am families.
I found this activity at Kids Soup. She had to place the beginning letter on the truck, sound out the CVC word, then find the matching picture. This was a hit!
After a couple days of just sounding out the words, she began writing the words too! The handout can be found here.
I found a book (similar to this one) this summer at a yard sale...it's has activities for each word family!
She colored the pieces...
Cut and laminated...
Then sounded out the words and matched with correct picture.
The book also came with slider pages...she decorated, cut out, and laminated!
After she mastered the -at family, we moved on to the -am family.
This activity came from Kidsoup...she had to sound out each word, then decide if it belonged to the -at family or the -am family.
She also competed the -am family slider from the book mentioned above.
In addition, she had a blast creating words with her Leap Frog Word Builder for the -at and-am families.
