Sentences for preschool
The Best Simple Sentences for Kindergarten
There are so many fulfilling perks to teaching kindergarten, but near the top of the list is teaching students how to read. I think one of the best parts of literacy instruction is seeing the excitement in my students’ eyes when they start reading sentences! Once students are ready to take that step, it’s just a matter of keeping up that momentum and excitement with additional practice. In this post, I’m sharing some of my favorite ways to use simple sentences for kindergarten reading instruction.
Are My Students Ready for Reading Sentences?
Before we can expect young learners to read even simple sentences, it’s important to make sure they have the right foundation. The road to reading sentences includes important milestones such as:
- Identifying letters by name
- Identifying the sounds that letters make
- Blending sounds together to read words
- Reading words fluently in isolation, including sight words
Plus, between each milestone is a variety of phonemic and phonological awareness skills that need to be mastered in order to build a solid foundation for reading.
Once this foundation is in place, students are ready to begin reading words within sentences. Keep reading if you’d like to sneak a peek at the simple sentences that I use with kindergarten students when they’re ready to take this exciting step!
Simple Sentences for Kindergarten
There are many ways to practice reading sentences in kindergarten. Below are some of my favorite ways to incorporate simple sentences into literacy instruction. I love that these activities are perfect for literacy centers, morning work, small group intervention, or even homework! These activities also grow with students, so that they can read more challenging sentences as they learn more phonics patterns and master additional high frequency words.
Sight Word Fluency Sentences
When students first start reading words within sentences, it’s helpful to start with predictable text. I find that sight word fluency sentences are perfect for this!
These simple sentences often arrange the sight words in a predictable pattern, such as “I see a cat.
” and “I see a pig.” This means that students can practice decoding words within sentences while building their sight word fluency. It’s a win-win!
Read and Reveal Sentences
Hands-on activities will help students stay engaged in reading practice. Read and reveal cards are always a hit with students! This activity has students read simple sentences on a card, then unclip the flap to reveal a picture that corresponds to the sentence. Students will use their comprehension skills to decide if the sentence they read makes sense with the picture they just uncovered.
Since this adds an element of self-correction to the activity, read and reveal cards are perfect for literacy centers, morning work, or even a fast finisher activity. The fine motor practice from using clips for this activity is an added bonus!
Sentence Scramble Activities
As students grow more comfortable with reading sentences, they will start to get a feel for the natural rhythm of language and word order.
This, in turn, will help improve reading fluency. One of my favorite ways to help students understand and practice word order is with sentence scramble activities. After putting a sentence in the correct order, they can practice reading it fluently.
You can add some cutting practice by having the students cut out the scrambled words themselves. Plus, having the word strips available to move around helps students in the task of unscrambling each sentence.
Sentence Dictation
Writing activities are another way that I incorporate simple sentences into literacy instruction. When students write sentences, they are able to practice their phonics skills in a different, yet still very important, way. Sentence dictation is a great activity that incorporates many kindergarten skills!
After listening to a simple sentence, students will use their phonics skills to write each word in the sentence. Then they will use their fine motor skills to form the letters and words in the sentence.
Finally, students will practice reading what they wrote as they decide if their written sentence matches what the teacher said. Sentence dictation doesn’t have to take a lot of time! If you have whiteboards and markers out for a different activity, do a quick sentence dictation before having the students put things away.
Sight Word Sentence Strips
This is another activity that incorporates writing as students practice reading sentences. Students can use these sight word sentence strips to practice decoding sentences fluently as they practice writing them as well.
Once these strips are laminated for durability, students can use dry erase marker to practice letter formation as they copy each sentence. This is another activity that students can work on independently during literacy centers or morning work time.
Since these sight word sentences are prepped and on binder rings, you can also take them on the go for even more practice! Use them as “password” flashcards: Have each student read a sentence from the bundle before entering the cafeteria, going outside for recess, or leaving for the day.
Kindergarten Reading Fluency Passages
Young learners get so excited when they can start reading passages with multiple sentences! This is why I love to use kindergarten reading fluency passages. Students are able to review phonics patterns and high frequency words as they improve their reading fluency and comprehension skills.
After students have had time to practice each passage in the classroom, I encourage them to take it home and read it to friends and family. They are always so excited to show off their reading skills!
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preschool in a sentence | Sentence examples by Cambridge Dictionary
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
Developing appropriate tasks for children in their preschool years is difficult for two reasons.
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She was in a special education preschool for her language delays and behavior.
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Barely able to talk, she phones the preschool to tell them she will soon pick up her child.
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As the present study concerned preschool children with minimal training in reading and writing, few readers were expected to be found in the sample.
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Two factors have been proposed as being responsible for the growth in segmental representations in preschool children: vocabulary level and letter - sound knowledge.
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Even fewer studies addressed adult learners in nonuniversity contexts or preschool or elementary-school-aged children.
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Representational language becomes accessible to the cognitive system during the preschool years as a supplement to experientially based conceptual processing, resulting in a dual-process system.
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All participants attended preschool programmes in the suburbs of a major metropolitan area.
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Many of the preschool teachers and child minders stressed the social connections that arose through music.
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The feelings of belonging permeate the work with music in preschool in general.
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These differences disappeared after the campaign and only 6 % of preschool and 5 % of primary school aged children remained susceptible.
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Disorganized infant attachment classification and maternal psychosocial problems as predictors of hostile - aggressive behavior in the preschool classroom.
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Disorganized infant attachment classification and maternal psychosocial problems as predictors of hostileagressive behavior in the preschool classroom.
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Disorganized infant attachment classification and maternal psychosocial problems as predictors of hostile-aggressive behavior in the preschool classroom.
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Many thanks to the parents who allowed their children to participate and the daycares and preschools who welcomed us while we ran this study.
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A preschool child does not choose to study another language because it would be interesting to do so, or would give her academic credits.
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Compared to preschool conversations, family mealtime conversations less frequently revolved around turn negotiations, maybe due to the much lower number of participants in family interaction.
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We are currently evaluating the effectiveness of the blending and segmentation modules with our preschool population.
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This meant questioning preschool teachers and child minders about their musical memories at different points in time.
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These elementary school children were tested on the university campus in the same facility as the one used to test the preschool children.
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The acquisition of literacy occurs along a developmental continuum with origins in the preschool years.
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A longitudinal study of the relationship between preschool writing and grade 1 literacy.
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There were significant genetic and shared environment correlations among the preschool traits.
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Even as adults, the preschool teachers and child minders spoke about music in this way.
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These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
What is the offer. How to explain to preschoolers. | Presentation for a lesson on teaching literacy (preparatory group):
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What is a proposal? Teacher Andreeva S.L. MOBU "Aleksinskaya secondary school"
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In elementary school, a clear definition of what a sentence is is given.
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It is quite difficult to explain the definition of a sentence to preschoolers. Try this way.
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Show the children a set of words or pictures. For example: mother children Kindergarten go morning
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Say all the words with the children. Ask them how they think it could be called a proposal? Is it clear from the set of words what is being said?
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Ask them to phrase these words so that it is clear what they would like to say. For example: mother children go to kindergarten In the morning and at
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Ask the children: How did the words change when they were made into a sentence? - Yes, the words “tuned into each other”, as if they stood in a “row” and held hands.
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Ask the children to come up with more sentences.
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FOR EXAMPLE: A father is reading an interesting book to his son. -Is it clear what you are talking about? Can this sentence be called a sentence? AND IF I SAY: Book, dad, son, read. - Then you understand what I wanted to say?
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Correct! The first phrase is called a sentence. And it consists of several words that stand one after another in order. And if this order is violated, as I did, then you get just a set of individual words.
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Demonstrate this with an example: "we drink very tasty tea at the table" (correct) and "we drink very tasty tea at the table" (isn't it clear?) or come up with your own sentence. Ask the child to determine if the phrase you said is a sentence? What is it about? I am sure that the preschool child will not be able to explain the meaning of the new "sentence" and even laugh at a funny set of words.
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Have the child make sentences based on the picture.
Play a fun game with him: suggestion and nonsense. Make up phrases together and rearrange the words in them.
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Together with your child, conclude what a sentence is: SENTENCE, these are words that follow each other in a certain order. They are related in meaning. And if the order is violated, then the proposal will no longer work.
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Yulia Arteeva suggests this method. Tell the children this fairy tale: "The Tale of the Proposal" In one Magical country, there lived a Queen Speech. Words were the inhabitants of this kingdom. They lived very friendly and loved to play with each other in the same game, which was called "Proposal". The words were lined up one after the other in order. But the order must be such that the resulting sentence matters. For example: "Mom came home from work."
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Playing this game, residents could tell each other fairy tales, various interesting stories, and sing songs. With her help, everyone could talk and understand each other perfectly.
💫 But one day all the words quarreled and stopped playing "Offer".
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How to be now, how to talk? How to understand each other? Each word could only say its name: "mother", "work", "came", "from" 😢 To clean up the mess, the queen came to the rescue - Speech and suggested playing such a game: All words should join hands and spin in a round dance but you have to hold on tight! The words swirled in a round dance and said: "Words, let's live together!". And then they all sang a very funny song together. They liked the game so much that everyone decided to make peace again! After that, the residents played their favorite game again, and everyone in the state again began to understand each other!0003
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After you tell this fairy tale to a preschool child, be sure to conclude that our speech consists of sentences. And to make the sentence clear, you need to put all the words in the correct order!
20 reading texts for children aged 5-6-7-8
A child who has learned to put sounds into syllables, syllables into words, and words into sentences needs to improve his reading skills through systematic training.
But reading is a rather laborious and monotonous activity, and many children lose interest in it. Therefore, we offer small texts , the words in them are divided into syllables.
First, read the work to the child yourself, and if it is long, you can read its beginning. This will interest the child. Then invite him to read the text. After each work, questions are given that help the child to understand what they have read and comprehend the basic information that they have learned from the text. After discussing the text, suggest reading it again.
Mo-lo-dets Vo-va
Ma-ma and Vo-va gu-la-li.
In-va ran-sting and fell.
It hurts no-ha, but Vo-va does not cry.
Wow!
B. Korsunskaya
Answer questions .
1. What happened to Vova?
2. What made him sick?
3. Why is Vova doing well?
Clever Bo-beak
Co-nya and co-ba-ka Bo-beak gu-la-li.
So-nya played-ra-la with a doll.
So So-nya in-be-zha-la to-my, but the doll for-would-la.
Bo-beek found a doll-lu and brought it to So-ne.
B. Korsunskaya
Answer the questions.
1. Who did Sonya walk with?
2. Where did Sonya leave the doll?
3. Who brought the doll home?
The bird made a nest on a bush. De-ti our nest-up and took off on the ground.
- Look, Vasya, three birds!
In the morning de-ti came, and the nest was empty. It would be a pity.
L. Tolstoy
Answer questions.
1. What did the children do with the nest?
2. Why was the nest empty in the morning?
3. Did the children do well? How would you do?
4. Do you think this work is a fairy tale, a story or a poem?
Pete and Mi-shi had a horse. They began to argue: whose horse. Did they tear each other apart.
- Give me - my horse.
- No, you give me - the horse is not yours, but mine.
Mother came, took a horse, and nobody's horse became.
L. Tolstoy
Answer the questions.
1. Why did Petya and Misha quarrel?
2. What did mother do?
3. Did the children play horse well? Why do you think so
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FILVORDA for the development of reading, attention here.
It will be interesting for children to read selected texts, they affect the emotional world of the child, develop his moral feelings and imagination .
Children will get acquainted with the works of L. Tolstoy, K. Ushinsky, A. Barto, S. Mikhalkov, E. Blaginina, V. Bianchi, E. Charushin, A. Usachyov, E. Uspensky, G. Snegiryov, G. Oster, R. Rozhdestvensky, as well as fairy tales of different nations.
It is advisable to show children the genre features of poems, stories and fairy tales using the example of these works.
Fairy tale is a genre of oral fiction containing events unusual in the everyday sense (fantastic, wonderful or worldly) and distinguished by a special compositional and stylistic construction. In fairy tales there are fairy-tale characters, talking animals, unprecedented miracles happen.
Poem is a small poetic work in verse. The verses are read smoothly and musically, they have rhythm, meter and rhyme.
Story — small literary form; a narrative work of small volume with a small number of characters and the short duration of the events depicted.
