“Playful Paths to Reading: Hands-On Early Literacy Activities”

By Southern Schoolhouse

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Hands-on early literacy activities is all about making early literacy development fun, interactive, and engaging for young children. I am sharing some tools and games that combines play with learning, giving children an opportunity to explore and practice literacy skills through interactive experiences. These also connect great with the ABC books, I shared.

Letters and Sounds

Wooden Alphabet Puzzles, Sight Words Letter Puzzles 
Letter Tracing Sensory Pad, Reusable Handwriting Practice, Learn to Write, Letter Tracing Board
Interactive Alphabet Learning Toy, ABC Number Letters Spinning Game
Teaches image and vocabulary recognition, matching, memory, concentration, and social interaction
Wooden Magnetic Fishing Game

Mystery Alphabet, 26 PCS Letters, Sorting Matching Game Activities, Letter Sounds 

ABC Bingo, Six Alphabet Bingo Popping Mats
Numbers and Alphabet Flash Cards 
Alphabet Robots Toys for Kids
Learning Resources POP for Letters
Alphabet Puzzles for Kids
Alphabet Bingo, Learn Capital and Lowercase Letters
Melissa & Doug Self-Correcting Alphabet Wooden Puzzles

Letter Sounds and Sight Words

26 Alphabet Soup Sorters with 245 Flash Cards for Early Letter Awareness & Recognition
The Fidget Game SquishyLand in Rainbow Reef helps children develop essential literacy skills at every grade level, thus, fostering achievement of foundational Reading Mastery.
Zingo, Sight Words is a fun and interactive word game that brings fast-paced excitement and learning to the classic game of Bingo.
Sight Words, 220 High-Frequency Dolch Sight Words
Sort That Sound! Activity Set​, Phonemic Awareness Manipulatives, Letter Sounds

CVC (Consonant Vowel Consonant Words)

Word Building Activities, Letter Blocks, CVC Words 
Wooden Short Vowel Reading Letters Sorting Spelling Games
Word Pop, CVC Words , Multisensory Reading & Phonics Interactive Game
Wooden CVC Word Spelling Games, Learning Activities
Double Bananagrams Word Game 
Bananagrams My First : Multi-Award Winning Kids Spelling Board Game 

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