Free FROZEN Alphabet Cards

My girls absolutely love the movie Frozen and anything to do with it. So I created these FREE Frozen themed Alphabet Cards to help them learn their alphabet and letter sounds. We also play a lot of fun educational games with these cards. The possibilities are endless!

These FREE Frozen Alphabet Cards include 26 images and words, one for each letter of the alphabet, featuring either a main character from the movie, or an object or idea with a movie scene as the image.

Just print them out, laminate each sheet, then cut out the cards. Here are some ideas for playing with these cards:

-Create an alphabet flip book that you can look through and practice reading the letters and/or words.

-Hang the cards on the wall to create a decorative alphabet chart.

-Play a memory game: make 2 copies of each card, lay them face down and play the classic game.

-Play a bingo game: Lay down a set of 9 or 16 cards to create a large bingo mat. Then, call out letters and have the child put a token on the correct card.

-Talk about each character or what is happening in each picture. Great for language development, imagination and memory.

These cards are excellent for many different stages of development. For toddlers it is a good introduction to the alphabet. Preschoolers will benefit from practicing letter sounds, and emergent readers can use these as simple words to practice reading.

Click here to download your FREE Frozen Alphabet Cards!

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5 Skills to Teach Your Tot that Will Lead to Reading Comprehension

Reading comprehension skills can easily make children soar as wonderful independent readers or a lack of can leave them frustrated, confused, and upset. Adding a few simple techniques to your toddler’s story time can give him a great foundation of reading comprehension skills even before he is an independent reader. Try some of these easy techniques to make the most out of story time with your tot.

1. Make Predictions

Before reading a story with your tot, take a picture walk through the book. Look at the pictures together and describe what it looks like is happening. Ask questions like, “How do you think this character feels? What do you think is making him sad?” This will help your child to look for details in the pictures while you read the story and it will help him make predictions about what is going to happen. While reading the story, stop before turning the page occasionally to ask, “What do you think will happen next?” This will help to build his internal dialog of how to make predictions while reading.

2. Make Connections

Connections can be made before, during or after a story is read. Help your child to see similarities between events or characters in the story and in her own life. Maybe a character has a dog like your kiddo, maybe they both like pizza. After reading a story, you might find yourself in a similar situation as a story you read. Take this learning opportunity to bring up the story and remember what happened to the characters. Connecting a story to a tot’s life brings the story to life for her and really helps her to understand it better.

3. Ask Questions

Asking your tot questions, even if he might not be able to answer them yet will help to build his internal dialog that will help him to understand stories for many years to come. Try asking questions before, during, and after reading a story. Here are some questions you might ask.

Before Reading
What do you think this story will be about?
Why do you think the character is doing or feeling like this?
How do you think they will solve the problem?

During Reading
What do you think will happen next?
What would you do if this happened?
Why did the character do that?
What started this argument?

After Reading
What did this story remind you of?
How could the characters have acted in a better way?
Why do you think the story ended like that?
What was your favorite part?
Who was your favorite character?

4. Think Out Loud

Thinking out loud while reading with your tot will teach her how to respond to a story, to monitor her own understanding and to clarify confusions when she becomes an independent reader. Your example will help to shape her internal dialog or self talk as she reads.

Thinking out loud is really just as simple as it sounds. If you get to a point in the story where you don’t understand something, say what you are thinking. It might sound like, “Why did they go to the store again? Let me look at that last page once more. Oh yeah, they forgot to get sugar while they were talking to their friends.” This simple technique will help your child to become very skilled at monitoring her own understanding when she is reading on her own.

5. Act It Out

Acting stories out adds a greatly needed element of play to reading with toddlers. It also helps to bring stories to life. Tots love to engage in make-believe play and will soon be independently incorporating stories into make-believe play.

You may also use dress –up clothes, figurines, toys, and puppets to help children act out stories from books. Let your kiddo choose what seems most interesting and introduce him to new ways to act stories out over time.

Interested in learning more about developing your child’s language and literacy skills? Click here to get the FREE guide: 5 Early Literacy Toys that will SKYROCKET Your Child’s Language Skills.

Meet Lindsay:

Lindsay Drewes is a former 4th and 5th grade teacher and current stay-at home-mom and Momprenuer of Kiddo Korner. Lindsay holds both a bachelor's and master's degree in education. As founder of KiddoKorner.com, Lindsay followed her passion of mothering to research and offer the best educational, Eco-friendly and innovative products made for babies and toddlers.

CVC Word Puzzle

This CVC word puzzle is great for beginning readers to practice reading 16 short vowel CVC words, while putting together a picture of a child's bedroom!

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I recommend laminating the puzzle and pieces and using velcro dots to stick the puzzle pieces.

The page with the CVC words stays together, while the page with pictures gets cut up to make the puzzle pieces. Children read each word one at a time, then find the matching piece until the puzzle is complete!

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After completing this puzzle, your students or kids will surely ask for more! Get the whole pack here:

For more CVC word learning that also includes handwriting practice, see our CVC Word & Picture Tracing Cards.

Fall Color by Sight Word

Practice sight words with these FREE printable Fall themed coloring pages, featuring a pumpkin patch, a Fall tree and a turkey. Great for preschool and kindergarten!

This set of FREE Color by Sight Word sheets are perfect for the Fall season. Each page features 4 sight words that children have to color according to the legend. Includes 16 different pre-primer dolch sight words, plus blank pages of each design to customize with the sight words your child is currently learning.

Click the links below to Download each design:

Fall Tree Color by Sight Word

Pumpkin Patch Color by Sight Word

Turkey Color by Sight Word

For more sight word coloring, see our Spring Color by Sight Word

For more Fall literacy activities, see our Fall Learning Pack:

My Body Systems Science Booklet

Introduce children to the human body systems with this free printable book. Makes a great science lesson as well as reading activity for preschool and kindergarten.

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This free printable science booklet includes the sight word "my" and is great for emergent readers. It introduces children to the main body systems while using simple terminology that they can relate to: "My muscles", "My stomach", "My bones", "My brain", "My lungs", "My heart".

If you would like to mention the name of the body system, you can verbally say it after reading each phrase. For example, "My bones... are part of the skeletal system" or "My lungs... are part of the respiratory system", etc.

This activity comes in two versions - a male and a female body. Kids can color in each picture to make it more personal. Read the following directions on how to put the book together:

Directions

• Print the pages (files can be downloaded further down in this post)
• Cut all pages in half down the middle
• Place pages in order according to page numbers
• Staple along the left edge to create a binding

Click the links below to Download the files:

My Body Systems Book - boy

My Body Systems Book - girl

If you enjoyed this activity you will LOVE our Science Pack for Preschool and Kindergarten!

Spring Color by Sight Word

Practice sight words with these FREE printable Spring themed coloring pages, featuring a caterpillar, umbrellas and a flower garden. Great for preschool and kindergarten! Includes blank sheets that can be customized.

These FREE Color by Sight Word sheets are perfect for the Spring season. Includes 3 different designs, each page featuring 4 sight words that children have to color according to the legend. There are 16 different pre-primer dolch sight words in total, plus blank pages of each design to customize with the sight words your child is currently learning.

Click the links below to Download each design:

Caterpillar Color by Sight Word

Umbrellas Color by Sight Word

Flower Garden Color by Sight Word

For more Spring activities and printables, see our Seasonal category.

For more sight word coloring, see our Fall Color by Sight Word

Christmas Emergent Reader

A great way for kids to practice reading is with Emergent Reader books. These are easy books that include sight words and decodable words using pictures. I created a fun Christmas printable book titled "Santa Claus, Santa Claus, What Do You See?" that children can read, trace and color.

This FREE printable Christmas emergent reader is inspired by the Eric Carle classic "Brown Bear, Brown Bear" but is much shorter and simpler. It features some of the things that Santa Claus might see when coming to your house on Christmas Eve.

I see a red stocking.

I see a green tree.

I see a yellow star.

I see a blue ornament.

I see a purple present.

I see an orange gingerbread man.

I see a brown reindeer.

I see a white snowman.

I see my black boots.

There are 14 sight words mentioned in this book, including: I, see, a, an, my, red, yellow, blue, green, purple, orange, brown, white, black.

The color words are designed for children to trace the word in the correct color, and then color the picture as well.

Directions for Creating the book:

• Print all sheets.
• Cut sheets in half along the middle line
• Put pages in order based on the page numbers
• Use staples, clips or string to bind the book on the left side

Click Here to Download your FREE Christmas Emergent Reader Book

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Easter Sight Word Matching

Practice sight words this Easter with a fun Easter egg matching activity!

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This FREE Easter Sight Word activity is perfect for children in preschool or kindergarten who are learning sight words. The activity includes all 40 Dolch pre-primer sight words. There are 4 pages included, each page featuring a different design and 10 different sight words.

NEW! There is also a blank version included at the end of the PDF. Print and write the sight words that your students or children are currently learning!

Ways to Play

• This activity can be done as a cut & paste activity
• Or it can be turned into a reusable matching game by laminating and using Velcro dots to attach the pieces.
• You can also add an Easter "egg hunt" twist by hiding the laminated eggs around your house, classroom, or in a sensory bin. The child finds the eggs, reads the sight words and matches them to the pages.

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Umbrella CVC Matching Activity

April showers bring May flowers... right? Well, let's stay dry and have a little fun this Spring with an umbrella CVC word building activity, perfect for kindergarten!

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CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) word building is an important early reading skill. Reading and building CVC words is very useful in creating a solid foundation in reading by giving children a taste of how letter sounds together can form words.

In this activity the child will be building eight different CVC words using colorful umbrellas. Each umbrella has three sections that together form a word. That word is also represented by an image under the umbrella.

Materials needed for this activity:

• The printable PDF file (link below)
• Laminator
• Velcro dots (I picked these up at the Dollar Tree in a pack of 20, you will need two packs)
• Scissors (I included a dotted cut line around the umbrellas so you could cut them out or use them for fine motor cutting practice.)

Setup Instructions:

Step 1: Print PDF file. (link below) There are 6 pages to the activity.
Step 2: Laminate now if you choose and then cut out your umbrellas and the sections.
Step 3. Add the velcro dots to the back of the letters and top of the umbrellas. To make them match up better I stuck the top and bottom velcro dots together and put them on the umbrella first and then lined up the section and stuck it on.
Step 4: Time to play! Have the child build the words to match the images shown under the umbrellas. Such as net for the umbrella with a net under it. Have the child say the word by sounding out the letter sounds as they build the different words.

Extension Activity: See what other words they can form with the letters. Can they create new words by mixing up the color sections?

For more umbrella fun check out our umbrella counting pack and our umbrella color match activity!

Click Here to Download your FREE Umbrella CVC Activity

Meet Becka:
I'm a homeschooling mother of 3 who loves being creative. Miniature Masterminds is the blog where I share my knowledge from years of Early Childhood Education classes and past experience working with young children in the classroom, as well as being my much needed creative outlet. I love sharing free printable activities, crafts, and ideas to help others in their work with young children. Miniature Masterminds also showcases the activities I do with my preschool daughter, elementary school age son, and middle school daughter in our home education journey.

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umbrella counting pack and our umbrella color match activity!

Click Here to Download your FREE Umbrella CVC Activity

Meet Becka:
I'm a homeschooling mother of 3 who loves being creative. Miniature Masterminds is the blog where I share my knowledge from years of Early Childhood Education classes and past experience working with young children in the classroom, as well as being my much needed creative outlet. I love sharing free printable activities, crafts, and ideas to help others in their work with young children. Miniature Masterminds also showcases the activities I do with my preschool daughter, elementary school age son, and middle school daughter in our home education journey.

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Ice Cream CVC Word Flip Chart

Practice reading with this fun ICE CREAM themed CVC word flipper, plus a recording sheet to write down the words made and whether they are real words or nonsense.

Summer is coming and that means ice cream, ice cream, and more ice cream (At least, in my house that's what it means!). We are pretty picky about the ice cream we eat but we love to eat ice cream as often as possible. So it only makes sense to add ice cream into our school work. Especially when we pair the work with actual ice cream! Summer is also a time where many kids don't practice skills they learned throughout the school year. Keep up with reading and avoid the summer slide with fun activities, like this Ice Cream CVC Word Flipper. 

Today we are working on CVC words, or words that consist of a consonant-vowel-consonant. They are considered the easiest words to read because they rarely veer from a simply set of rules. Phonics typically start with CVC words. These CVC word flippers includes all 5 vowels and just a handful of consonants (6 in the front and 6 a the end). The result is a good variety of words that can be made!

How to Use the Ice Cream CVC Word Flippers:

Cut out each page by cutting the borders but not the inside lines (yet). Line up the pages and staple on the top three times - one for each section. Cut the inside lines stopping about 1/2 inch from the top. Fold page each section so you can flip through the letters. Have your child read the word on top. Then flip one letter over and read the new word. Keep flipping over letters in each section to see what new words you can come up with!

By flipping just one letter at a time, kids can start to see the patterns that are naturally occurring in words. For example, cat and rat are just one letter off. Once one word is sounded out, half the word is done! Reading a similar word should be much easier. Not every letter combination will make a real word. Some words will be nonsense words. But don't skip these! Nonsense words can still be decoded. They can show whether kids are actually reading and sounding out words or if they are just guessing based on words they know. 

The word flipper comes with a matching page to write down the words you find. There is a column for real words and a column for nonsense words. Of course, there are many more than 7 real words and 7 nonsense words. But this sheet provides a good place to record some words and also practice writing skills.

Click Here to Download you FREE Ice Cream CVC Flip Chart

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Erin is a full time homeschooler and blogger. During her "free" time she enjoys any crafty activity, reading, or making printables. She blogs at RoyalBaloo.com as a means of sharing the printables and whatnot.

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Fidget Spinner Challenges

Take advantage of the fidget spinner craze and get kids learning with these free printable Fidget Spinner Challenges. Practice reading sight words, cvc words, letters, numbers and more!

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How to Play Fidget Spinner Challenges

The goal of these fidget spinner games is to review concepts that your child or student has already learned, while they race against the spinner. Perfect for summer review!

The rules of play are simple:

• Place your fidget spinner over the image in the upper left corner.
• Give it a spin.
• Moving from start to finish, see how many words/letters/numbers the child can read before the fidget spinner stops.
• Can the child reach the finish? If not, spin again and keep going!
• Optional: Kids can use a dot marker to mark the words/letters/numbers as they read them.

What's Included

The following games are included, plus a blank sheet so you can create your own fidget spinner challenge!

• CVC words
• dolch pre-primer sight words
• uppercase letters
• lowercase letters
• numbers 1-10
• random numbers 11-99
• blank sheet (use it for addition, subtraction, different sight words, etc.)

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CVC Word Puzzles: Pig Themed

Learning to read is an exciting time in a child’s development. Kids need plenty of practice in segmenting and reading CVC words. The more activities and opportunities we give them, the more they are able to segment and join their letter sounds. These fun pig themed CVC puzzles are a great set to add to your farm unit if your kids are ready for some fun CVC activities!

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To prepare

Preparing these puzzles are simple, here’s what you’ll need:

• Scissors
• Activity puzzles (below)
• Laminator
• Laminating sheets
• Printer
• Paper

Print and laminate as many sets as you need, and if you’re using it for a class have a few sets ready for some independent stations and groups.

CVC Pig Themed Puzzles

Depending on the needs of your class, you may decide to work on two vowels at a time or all five. The puzzles include the short vowel sounds (a, i, e, u, and o).

In the group I was working on some of my kids weren’t ready to tackle the vowel sounds ‘u’ and ‘o’ and they are learning English as a second language so I only gave them the a, i, and e short vowel sound puzzles.

First we placed the beginning letter sounds in one basket, the short vowel sound and the ending sound in two separate baskets. You can place them in little piles if you don’t have baskets. The kids then began by choosing a beginning sound and a middle sound then finally an ending sound. They would see if the word makes sense once they sound it out and if it does they leave it on the side and made another. I got them to read their words several times before moving on to the next word. I watched them do this and checked their words as they built them!

At the end, I got the kids to write their CVC words in their books.

Ready to download this activity?

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Yara from Sea of Knowledge
Founder of Sea of Knowledge, an ESL teacher with a passion for making learning fun and engaging. She loves creating fun activities that children and learners can benefit from. You can also find me on: Facebook and Pinterest.

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