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Tutoring ideas for Kindergarten

Submitted by Terri (07-11-2012)

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I'm a second year teacher, and taught second grade last year. The district moved me to Kindergarten this year and I recently started tutoring my lowest kiddos. Do you have some ideas I could use for our 45 minute sessions?

Thanks!!!

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Anonymous (05-03-2012)

I use small cut out squares of the alphabet. Using 5 upper and 5 lower case letters at a time, I deal them out to the kids randomly,each getting 5 and 5. They have to arrange them in 2 rows. "Big" on the top "Little" on the bottom row. Then I say" Push the letter forward, that's the letter _____."They have to find it and push it to me. I gather all these up until the final letter. Then I have them work with the lower row. These will be the sounds. So I say," Push the letter forward that has the sound of_____" and they find it and push it to me until the final card and sound. On the last one I have them tell me a word that uses that sound.


Ann Foster (27-10-2011)

Kindergarten students need lots of phonological awareness. I would decrease the lesson times, make them shorter and more frequently.


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