Kindergarten Lesson Plans
77 ready-to-teach plans for kindergarten, each with a timed sequence and the printable pages that go with it. Free to read and print.
Kindergarten is the year the formal skills start: letters to sounds, numerals to quantities, and the first independent writing. Lessons still run on short blocks with plenty of modelling.
Kindergarten math moves from counting objects to recognising and writing numerals, then to joining and separating small groups. By the end of the year most children work confidently within 10 and are meeting 20.
Numbers6 practice pages
Counting6 practice pages
Addition6 practice pages
Learning numbers6 practice pages
Shapes6 practice pages
Subtraction6 practice pages
Counting numbers6 practice pages
Measurement6 practice pages
Number patterns6 practice pages
Ordinal Numbers6 practice pages
Counting objects6 practice pages
More or less6 practice pages
Reading
Kindergarten reading joins letters to sounds. Phonemic awareness, letter-sound correspondence, and the first sight words turn decoding from guesswork into a method.
Letters6 practice pages
Sight Words6 practice pages
Sentences6 practice pages
Vowels6 practice pages
Vocabulary6 practice pages
Vocabulary cards6 practice pages
Phonemes6 practice pages
Reading passages6 practice pages
Short stories6 practice pages
Reading6 practice pages
Printing words6 practice pages
Writing6 practice pages
Grammar
Kindergarten grammar is sentence-shaped: capital at the start, a mark at the end, and words with spaces between them. Parts of speech arrive as naming and doing words.
Letters6 practice pages
Sentences6 practice pages
Prepositions6 practice pages
Writing6 practice pages
Punctuation6 practice pages
Compound Words6 practice pages
Capitalization6 practice pages
Plural words5 practice pages
Multiple meaning words2 practice pages
Creative Writing6 practice pages
Handwriting6 practice pages
Letter Tracing6 practice pages
Vocabulary
Kindergarten vocabulary grows through talk and pictures: naming things precisely, noticing words that sound alike, and matching words to meaning.
Science
Kindergarten science is noticing. Weather, plants, animals and the five senses, taught through observation and description rather than explanation.
What is in every kindergarten lesson plan
- A real objective
- Written as what students will be able to do, tied to the standard the practice pages are built against.
- A timed sequence
- Warm-up, modeling, guided practice, independent work and a close, with minutes on each step so it fits a real block.
- A check for understanding
- One concrete way to find out who has it and who needs it retaught, before you move on.
- Matching practice pages
- Two to six printables chosen to match the independent-practice step, not a random grab from the library.