Use a worksheet provided on the following pages that helps students learn the sight words. Have students jump on the mat to solve the worksheet.
Divide the class into two teams. Place all the letters of the alphabet into a container (or use the Alphabet hop). Have one person on the first team draw a letter and go stand on a word starting with that letter. Have them say the word they chose out loud. Have a person from the […]
Choose a vowel for the middle of the mat. Direct a student to stand on a certain letter petal. Then to move to the center and say the letter there. Then have them move to another petal you choose that makes a CVC word. Ask them to repeat the same letters but this time say […]
Lay out the vowel cards. Have your student hop on or next to each while simultaneously saying the name of the vowel. Have them jump again and say the different short sounds each vowel can make in a CVC word. Have them repeat the sounds until they can do all five on their own. /a,(æ)/ […]
Have your student jump on each petal of the mat while simultaneously saying the corresponding sound of each letter.
Have your student jump on each petal of the mat while simultaneously saying the corresponding name of each letter.
Have your student place a vowel card on the mat on the circle that says ‘Place Card Here.’ Then have your student pick a letter to start on (could be by favorite color etc.). Have your student stand on the letter they chose and say the sound of the letter. Then have your student step […]
Place a vowel card on the mat. Say the sound that vowel makes together. Have a student throw a bean bag on the mat. Be sure the bean bag lands on one petal. Ask what letter and sound it landed on? Ask another student (or the same one) to choose a second letter that makes […]
After making a word ask what part of speech the word is they just created.
Have the students use the word they create in a sentence.
