This is an enormous literacy skills bundle that does a great job of reinforcing major kindergarten skills. For example, each component correlates to several standards that are conveniently displayed.
Boat of Syllables
First is the syllable unit. Teaching kindergartners the concept of identifying syllables is difficult. Usually, students want to stretch out the word by individual sounds instead of chunks of a word. Consequently, they need lots of practice with clapping, songs and fun identification games.
Understanding syllabication helps students with literacy skills. In the Boats of Syllables activity, there are over 20 colorful pictures that turkeys are holding. Additionally, students need to match the number of syllables in each word to the boat that has 1, 2, 3 and 4 on them.
Materials are in color and in black and white. Also, there are cut and paste and color the syllables worksheets at the end with the same pictures from the matching activities. Consequently, I love this syllables unit as it has plenty of opportunities for reinforcement and mastery.
Rhyming Word Identification
The next unit in this bundle is the identification of rhyming words. I am not sure if parents are reading nursery rhymes to their children anymore. As a result, this is now a skill that kindergarten students have a difficult time with.
In addition, this unit has students matching leaf cards to a corresponding tree that belongs to the same word family. Leaf cards have only the pictures on one set. Another set has the pictures with the written word. 5 recording worksheets are included in the set.
Conveniently, this can be used to record answers while doing the matching activities or later for reinforcement. Rhyming helps build phonemic literacy skills.   
Medial Sounds
Pumpkin in the middle is a unit that helps students practice the literacy skills of identifying medial sounds. Students usually have an easy time with initial sounds in words followed by ending sounds.
In contrast, middle sounds are the toughest for kindergarten students to hear. This set has colorful and black and white pictures. One set has the word written with the middle letter left blank. The pictures are placed appropriately on wagons. Also, there are pumpkins with the vowel sound that need to be placed in the middle.
Another set of cards has just the pictures with no letters. Students need to match the appropriate vowel sounds to the card. There are recording sheets for both sets. Moreover, I laminated the cards and had the students write in the middle letters on the actual card.
For the picture cards, I line all of the pictures up in numbered order on my white board tray. This makes it easier for students to write down the words on their recording sheets in order.
As a result, students were able to write down the words easier.
Sentence Scramble
Sentence scramble is a great way for students to practice the literacy skills of sentence order and language conventions. Each sentence has about four or five words. Also, each word has a number on the card to indicate the sentence it belongs to.
As a result, it helps to keep the pieces together. There are recording sheets for the sentences. One variation of this activity to differentiate instruction is to write the sentence on sentence strips and place in a pocket chart. Students can match the words on their cards to the words on the pocket chart.
Words For Dinner
Words for dinner teaches initial and final sound identification. This set has colorful and black and white pictures. Additionally, this set has the word written with the initial and final sounds left blank.
The pictures are placed appropriately on plates. Forks with the consonant sounds need to be placed in the beginning and end.
Turkey Sight Words and Letter Match
Finally, turkey sight words is a fun way for students to learn to spell and read sight words.
Frequently used words are written on turkeys. Students make the words with feathers and adorn the cute bird bodies. As a result, this word work center enhances so many literacy skills.
Letter match is also included in this fantastic bundle of early literacy skills. Students match uppercase letters to the lower case letters.
This fall bundle was a huge success in my kindergarten classroom It is very valuable in keeping students actively engaged while learning basic literacy skills that improve learning.
Each skill is correlated to several common core objectives. We highly recommend ItsKinderTime
