Morning Meeting Early Literacy Activity Using Word Wall Words

This is a simple and quick activity using word wall words during morning meeting calendar time. The focus is to assist children to look for a familiar word (word wall word) within a word.

For this activity prepare multiple index cards or sentence strips with the word  day printed on them. In addition have the day of the week printed onto a sentence strip. When talking about the name of the day of the week, display the word (Monday) and have a match card of different color available to match to the word  day within the word, Monday.

I like to focus on the word wall word day  because it is repeated daily and used in a natural learning setting during Kindergarten morning meeting calendar time.

This activity has multiple benefits to help children

• look for patterns in words
• match letter forms to other letters
• use words in meaningful ways
• match letter sound to first letter in the word (day)

Encourage children to look for the word day in environmental print around the classroom and school. Go on a word hunt to find specific words within words - you may have to display the word throughout the environment to facilitate children finding the focus word.
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