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• Pick a letter from the basket. If you have that letter on your Bingo sheet, mark it. First one with four in a row wins! Spoons Alphabet Activity. Scoop a letter out of the basket with a spoon. See if you can scoop out every letter on the worksheet. Letter Matching Pockets.

Teaching a child to read is one of those amazing things that can build your relationship and open new worlds or it can be a repetitively miserable experience. In college I had the opportunity to work for the America Reads program where I would visit public schools and work with the children who needed a bit of extra attention with their reading. Sitting there in the warm afternoons, after a late night of college lifestyle and homework the evening before, I would find myself starting to doze off to the monotonous sound of a sweet child slowly sounding out word after word of their boring readers. After my head nodded a few times I decided that something had to change. If I was that bored, how were they feeling? From that time on I made it my daily mission to come up with original and interactive ideas that were so fun they didn’t realize they were learning.

Now I’m in that stage of life where I am teaching my own children to read. Every Monday my kindergartener comes home, drops her shoes and backpack on the floor, and, with a huge sigh, hands me the list of site words she’s been given to memorize by the end of the week. It all seems so overwhelming to her because, “It’s so boring,” and the sight words often don’t follow the phonetic rules I’ve been teaching her to read by. So I came up with a plan – a beautiful, devious plan. If she will read to me and do our phonics activities, then we can play Bingo. Yay! She loves Bingo. She is all for this plan. Let’s read so we can play. I hand her a Bingo card that is filled with her sight words, but she doesn’t care because it’s a game. Suddenly sight words are fun. Let’s start finding words and get a Bingo. (It might also help that I sometimes use smarties or goldfish for her bingo markers, but all’s fair when it comes to sight words;)

I created blank bingo cards so that I could switch them up and add whichever words I feel like she needs extra work on. We’ve been playing the game a couple of times a week for a month now, and the results are amazing. She can now read over 50 sight words with little effort, and the greatest part is, Mom’s a hero because I play games with her.

Does this sound like something that might work at your house? Here are the things you need to become the Sight Word Bingo Hero in your home. Just add some markers of your choice and you are ready to go.

Blank Bingo Card

Fry’s First 100 Sight Words

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Do you need fun Alphabet Worksheets and Activities for preschool and kindergarten? This pack is hands-on, fine motor filled, and LOADS of fun.

Kids will get to make letters with playdough, find them on bingo cards and match them to their paired upper or lowercase letter.

Alphabet Bingo

Pick a letter from the basket. If you have that letter on your Bingo sheet, mark it. First one with four in a row wins!

Spoons Alphabet Activity

Scoop a letter out of the basket with a spoon. See if you can scoop out every letter on the worksheet.

Letter Matching Pockets

Match the lower case letter on the stick with the upper case letter on the pocket.

Missing Alphabet Letter Hunt

Find and fill in the missing letter to make the alphabet complete.

Alphabet Letter Find Cards

Use a manipulative to cover all the corresponding letters on each card. Make sure to find the upper case and lower case letters.

Rainbow Roll & Trace Alphabet Worksheets

Trace the alphabet in a rainbow! Roll the dice to see which color to trace each letter.

Alphabet Patterns

Match the correct upper case and lower case letter to each letter strip.

Dot It Alphabet Letter Formation

Use dots to fill in each circle to create the letter.

Playdough Alphabet Letter Cards

Use Playdough to form each letter.

Letter Tracing Cards

Follow the dotted lines and trace each letter. Be sure to start with number 1 and follow in order.

Alphabet Bath Sensory Bin

Find and match each letter with the corresponding one on the worksheet.

Letter Sound Clip Cards

Use a clothespin to mark the letter that each picture begins with.

Alphabet Worksheets

In addition to all of the awesome, hands-on centers above, we also included 26 Alphabet worksheets for this set. Kids get to color the matching letter balloons, sort the capital and lowercase letters, trace the alphabet and practice the sounds each alphabet letter makes.

What did you think of these fun alphabet worksheets and activities for preschool or kindergarten? We’d love to hear how they are working for you. Let us know in a comment below or leave a review on the product.

Happy Learning!

Amy

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