The Early Literacy Toolkit is a great place to find relevant, easy-to-use, and enjoyable resources that build phonological awareness, vocabulary, and comprehension.
When logged in with an Educator Account you will have access to graphic organizers for vocabulary and comprehension, printables to reinforce learning, and instructional routines for phonological awareness. Open each of the accordion menus in the Early Literacy Toolkit to display a variety of resources.
Explore Resource Types
Vocabulary graphic organizers help students learn new words in a clear, step-by-step way. These organizers support readers as they increase word knowledge to promote reading comprehension.
Comprehension graphic organizers assist with understanding by breaking down ideas in a clear and visual format. Graphic organizers help guide students as they think through what they are reading.
- Cause & Effect: Helps to see how one event leads to another
- Fact & Opinion: Shows the difference between truth and what someone thinks
- Main Idea & Details: Reports the big idea and the supporting points
- Problem & Solution: Identifies challenges and how they are solved
Instructional routines help young children learn how to hear, think about, and work with the sounds in spoken words. Activities include:
- Sound Isolation: Practice finding the beginning, middle, and ending sounds
- Rhyming Practice: Recognize words that rhyme
- Phoneme Blending & Segmentation: Use sound boxes to blend sounds into words or break words into sounds
- Elkonin (Sound) Boxes: Visual tools to support sound awareness and phonemic skills
Printable activities help young learners practice key reading skills like phonics and sound awareness. Activities include:
- Dot Stamp and Write: Fun stamping and writing practice
- Read and Change It: Build words by changing sounds
- Read and Fill In: Strengthen word recognition and context
- Read-Trace-Write-Glue: Multi-step activity to reinforce word learning
Inspire a love of reading while building essential skills with TeachingBooks Early Literacy Toolkit activities.
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