Kindergarten · Reading
Kindergarten Reading Lesson Plans
26 plans covering the reading topics kindergarten actually teaches. Each one is a full lesson: objective, timed steps, a check for understanding, and the practice pages to hand out.
What reading looks like in kindergarten
Kindergarten reading joins letters to sounds. Phonemic awareness, letter-sound correspondence, and the first sight words turn decoding from guesswork into a method.
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.
All 26 reading lesson plans
Letters Lesson Plan6 practice pages
Sight Words Lesson Plan6 practice pages
Sentences Lesson Plan6 practice pages
Vowels Lesson Plan6 practice pages
Vocabulary Lesson Plan6 practice pages
Vocabulary cards Lesson Plan6 practice pages
Phonemes Lesson Plan6 practice pages
Reading passages Lesson Plan6 practice pages
Short stories Lesson Plan6 practice pages
Reading Lesson Plan6 practice pages
Printing words Lesson Plan6 practice pages
Writing Lesson Plan6 practice pages
Multiple meaning words Lesson Plan6 practice pages
Rhyming Lesson Plan6 practice pages
Consonants Lesson Plan6 practice pages
Writing prompts Lesson Plan5 practice pages
Reading Comprehension Lesson Plan6 practice pages
Beginning Sounds Lesson Plan6 practice pages
Question Words Lesson Plan3 practice pages
Plural Words Lesson Plan4 practice pages
Synonyms Antonyms Lesson Plan6 practice pages
Compound Words Lesson Plan5 practice pages
Practice Words Lesson Plan6 practice pages
Spelling Lesson Plan6 practice pages
Word Families Lesson Plan6 practice pages
Syllables Lesson Plan6 practice pages
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