Phonics Activity: Spaghetti letters

  Recently, I experimented with making words/letters out of spaghetti with a Starter class (although there’s no reason you couldn’t do this with a Kindergarten level class). It worked really well. All you need is an inexpensive packet of spaghetti....

EFL + ESL Kindergarten Games: Twister

Here’s a fun activity for teaching phonics to your higher level kindergarten English classes: Twister. You set it up much like the classic game of Twister (illustrated above) by drawing a 3×3 or 4×4 grid on the floor with an erasable whiteboard marker....

Super Simple Songs Phonics songs

Yesterday, I discussed some of the reasons many phonics songs you might find online aren’t so great for learning phonics. One of the series of songs that I prefer comes from none other than Super Simple Songs. I’m pretty sure, almost every Kindergarten English teacher...