Skills

especially appropriate for 3-4 year olds
Alphabet skills
3D Letter Shapes Multi-Sensory Letters 1 Spaghetti Letters
Digging for Letters Multi-Sensory Letters 2 Straight Lines & Curves
Environmental Print Book Multi-Sensory Letters 3  
Erasable Letters Name Bingo  
Erasing with Water Name Cards  
Fishing for Letters Playdough (cooked)  
I Spy Playdough (edible)  
Learning Our Names Playdough (uncooked)  
Letter Bingo Point in the Dark  
Make a Cereal Book Sand Names  

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Comprehension
Beeswax Animals Story Retelling  
Covered Pictures Three Little Pigs, The  
Five Little Pumpkins    
Guess My Story    
Guess the Animal    
Mitten Play    
Mittens    
Mystery Game    
Shadow Puppets    
Shared Reading    

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Descriptive language
Animal Sandwiches    
Colorful Flowers    
Gluep    
Leaf Rubbings    
Move like an Animal    
Mystery Box    
Mystery Game    
Snowman Dress-up    
Transparencies    
Winter Solstice Party    

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Following directions
Autumn Leaf Pictures I've Got Rhythm  
Blocks Leaf Rubbings  
Candle Decorating Paper Candles  
Cinnamon Playdough (uncooked) Paper Snow Flakes  
Cobbler, The Pirate Treasure  
Colorful Flowers Rice Cake Snowpeople  
Color Search Shadow Puppets  
Did You Feed My Cow? Shaped Cookies  
Fruit Ice Pops Silly Slime  
Gluep Snow Pictures  
I Can Turn Myself Wake Up You Sleepyhead  
It's Raining    

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Handwriting
Erasable Letters    
Erasing with Water    
Multi-Sensory Letters 1    
Multi-Sensory Letters 2    
Multi-Sensory Letters 3    
Paper Candles    
Spaghetti Letters    
Straight Lines & Curves    
     
     

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Motivation to read
Animal Books Mitten Play  
Beautiful Butterfly Mittens  
Bees Point in the Dark  
Environmental Print Book Sandwich Bag Books  
Five Little Pumpkins Shadow Puppets  
Guess My Story Shared Reading  
Jack Frost 1 Story in a Box  
Jack Frost 2    
Lotto    
Make a Cereal Book    

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Motivation to write
All About Me #1    
All About Me #2    
All About Me #3     
Animal Books    
Erasable Letters    
Erasing with Water    
Leaf Rubbings    
Sandwich Bag Books    
Story in a Box    
     

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Names
All About Me #1    
All About Me #3    
Name Bingo    
Name Cards    
Paper Candles    
Sand Names    
     
     
     
     

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Phonemic awareness
3D Letter Shapes    
Bees    
Can You?  I Can!    
Chip Chop    
Fishing for Letters    
Guess the Rhyme    
I'm Thinking of a Sound    
I Spy    
Learning Our Names    
     

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Phonics
Fishing for Letters    
I'm Thinking of a Sound    
I Spy    
Learning Our Names    
Multi-Sensory Letters 3    
Name Cards    
     
     
     
     
     

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Print Awareness

 
All About Me #2   Silly Slime  
All About Me #3 Story in a Box  
Animal Books Texture Book  
Covered Pictures    
Make a Cereal Book    
Name Bingo    
Name Cards    
Point in the Dark    
Sand Names    
Sandwich Bag Books    


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Rhyming
Can You?  I Can!    
Chip Chop
Five Little Bunnies    
Guess the Rhyme    
I Can Turn Myself    
Jack Frost 1    
Jack Frost 2    
     
     
     

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Self-Concept
All About Me #1    
All About Me #2    
Can You?  I Can!    
I Can Turn Myself    
I've Got Rhythm    
Open, Shut Them    
     
     
     
     

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Story sense
Beeswax Animals    
Five Little Pumpkins    
Guess My Story    
Story in a Box    
Story Retelling    
     
     
     
     
     

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Vocabulary development
Beautiful Butterfly Pirate Treasure  
Blocks Rainbow Water  
Can You?  I Can! Rice Cake Snowpeople  
Chip Chop Silly Slime  
It's Raining Slime 2  
Me Snowman Dress-up  
Memory Game Synonyms  
Move like an Animal Texture Book  
Mystery Box Transparencies  
Mystery Game Winter Solstice Party  

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Word recognition
Bees    
Environmental Print Book    
Learning Our Names    
Lotto    
Make a Cereal Book    
Memory Game    
Name Cards    
Point in the Dark    
     
     

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