Children in Transitional Kindergarten learn the alphabet and sounds. Teachers generally progress through a sequential set of phonics lessons. They might teach TK students to identify the /k/ sound at the beginning of “car” and “cane.” They help them recognize patterns and word families. For example, when students can read the word “an,” they learn to extend the pattern to other words in that same family, such as “can,” “ran” and “fan.” They learn to sound out words, matching sounds to letters and blending them together.
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Phonics and Word Study Resources:
Starfall WebsiteThis is one of my favorite web-sites for beginning readers. Fun free interactive phonics readers, games, and so much for your beginning reader!
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Phonics Rhyming GamesThese games focus on short vowels, rhyming words
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Digraphs and BlendsFun Games that focus on Digraphs, and Beginning Consonant Blends
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