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Kindergarten Success: Handwriting and Reading Tools

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This list is a collection of resources to help parents prepare their learners to be confident in their writing skills. Looking to skip the tears and avoid hearing “this is soo hard” when it comes to learning letters? Want to help your learner practic...
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Phonics Handwriting

Resources to help with letter formation, letter sounds, and the best part is I can teach them! Hop on my youtube channel or etsy page @Relatablelearning

 
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Let's practice handwriting together. Using the techniques from Fundations, with keyword sounds to help learners remember what sounds each letter makes, with built it breaks every 5-6 letters. There's even a reading section at the end to help your lea...
Kindergarten Ready | Letter Formation | Alphabet Writing | Letters and Sounds | Upper Case Letters
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Looking for 20 second videos on how to write upper case letters and the sounds to go with them? Check out this youtube playlist
Upper Case Letter Formation #writing #uppercaseletter #alphabet
 
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Upper Case letter practice with handwriting sheets to help with letter formation. Each page has a hand drawn pictures to help learners remember the sounds each letter makes
Handwriting Practice Upper Case Letters A-Z, Letter formation, Alphabet writing, 1st grade review, Kindergarten review
 
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Lower Case letter practice to help with letter formation and remembering the sound each letter makes
Handwriting Practice Lower Case Letters a-z, Letter formation with letter sound pictures to help with reading skills, Kindergarten review
 
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Practice lower case letter formation with me on youtube!
Lower Case Letter Formation i, x, o | Handwriting Practice for Kindergarten | Simple ABCs | Alphabet
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Digraph and Blends

What are those? Great question! Digraph and blends are two letters combined to make certain sounds. (Think sh, ch, wh, st, sl) These skills come in handy when your learner is writing and building words (encoding) or reading and breaking down the soun... 

 
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Writing digraphs helps children practice letter formation, become familiar with the sounds, and builds those neural pathways for reading and writing. The best part? You don't have to teach them! Hop on to my youtube channel and I can show them how!
Digraphs CH, WH, SH | Phonics Handwriting Practice | Phonemic Awareness with Eyecatching Dani
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Let's work on digraphs in a practical way! In this digraphs game we read basketball player's names and circle the digraphs. This activity is easily customizable to fit your learner's needs and interests
Digraph Game for Kindergarteners | Phonics Game | sh, ch, wh | Read and Find | Basketball Players
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Handwriting practice for blends and digraphs. Each page has a hand drawn picture to help learners remember keyword sounds (this helps later in writing sentences and reading). Plus there's a freebie packet to help with writing stories
Handwriting Practice Blends and Digraphs, Letter formation, writing, 1st grade writing, Kindergarten, reading and writing, 2nd grade writing

Sight Words

Sight word practice to help build your learners reading and writing skills

 
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77 Kindergarten sight words! Each page has 6 activities to reinforce letter formation, spelling pattern, and muscle memory.
Kindergarten Sight Words, Sight Word Review, Sight Word Handwriting Practice, Reading Skills, Writing Skills