Description
Engaging and hands-on letter matching, beginning sounds, and CVC word reading practice! Your students will love fishing for pictures and letters/words (fish and oceans) and using the recording sheets to write down all of the letters, sounds, or words they catch! These are great for whole-class teaching, small group instruction, literacy centers, independent practice, morning work, or intervention.
What’s Included:
170 pictures (fish) and 170 corresponding letters or words (oceans) in color OR black and white that can be matched together to practice important and crucial beginning reading skills, alphabet recognition, beginning sounds, and decoding CVC words . These locks can be used for many different purposes and in a variety of ways.
Why use Literacy Fishing?
Research supports how important it is for beginning readers to practice letter recognition, sounds, and decoding. Intentional, frequent, and focused opportunities to practice over an extended time (deliberate practice) facilitates automaticity with these skills. Since research also shows that learners are more motivated to do an activity that is fun and novel, Literacy Fishing is an activity that meets that criteria. Literacy Fishing combines the motivation of hands-on, engaging activities and deliberate practice with the goal of helping students gain automaticity in letters, sounds, and decoding CVC words and does it in a way that is both fun and motivational.
How to Use:
Spread the fish out face down on the floor or a table. The students can use their poles to “catch” a fish. To make it more fun, put the fish in a small plastic swimming pool! Students will identify the letter, beginning sound, or CVC word of the picture on a fish, and find the matching letter or word on an ocean scene and put the fish in the ocean. They can then write the letter, sound, or word on the recording sheet (optional). Go over any of the picture “names” on the fish that your students may have difficulty identifying.
We purchased magnetic fishing poles from Lakeshore Learning; however, you can also make your own poles with wooden dowels, pencils, chopsticks, or anything that would make sturdy “fishing poles.” Tie string on the end of each “pole.” Then, attach a magnet on the end of each string. Put a paperclip or brad on each fish. This can also be played without using magnetic fishing poles. Simply place the fish in a sensory bin (filled with blue shredded paper, water beads, etc.) and students can pull a fish from the “ocean”.
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Literacy and Math Locks BUNDLE
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If you have any questions, please e-mail us at kinderbrations@gmail.com. Be sure to click HERE to follow our store for new products and freebies! We will be adding additional fishing games for a variety of math and literacy skills!
Thank you,
Linda Ekstrom and Michelle Woods
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