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Kindergarten Reading Mini-Lessons Master List

Why a kindergarten reading mini-lessons master list?

Aren’t we wanting to teach full lessons?

You’ve likely noticed your child has an attention span that’s about as long as they are old.

So, if I’m teaching a five-year-old, my lesson should be short and sweet if I want it to stick.

This article is meant to be a resource to you throughout the school year.

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MASTER LIST

The beauty of homeschool is time.

Take your time. Practice these daily until your child can do them on his/her own, achieving true mastery.

The following are things good readers do. You’re setting up your child’s reading foundation.

To make it strong, practice is key.

This, of course, is not an exhaustive list, but it’s a great working one!

This kindergarten reading mini-lessons master list is adapted from state standards. Read here about how you can add these to your homeschool without allowing it to crowd out the good you’re already doing!

This list could lead to a month-long study on each.

Or more. Or less.

The best thing you can do for your child is dig into lots of books with you!

The more they’re exposed, the greater their vocabulary and a better reader they’ll be.

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NINE SIMPLISTIC LESSONS:

Find key details in a text.
Retell a familiar story, including key details.
Identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
Ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
Recognize common types of texts (e.g.,storybooks, poems).
Name the author and illustrator of a story and define the role of each in telling the story.
Describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear.
Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories.
Activate prior knowledge and draw on previous experiences in order to make text-to-self or text-to-text connections.

Just Keep Reading!

Check out this list of 20 different Kindergarten read alouds!

One of the best things we’ve done is added to our home library in gift-giving seasons.

Even better is when we surprise them with a new book just because.

As our boys have aged, they’ve come back to their kindergarten books time and again.

There’s just something special about those first favorite reads.

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20 Kindergarten Read Aloud Books

Great kindergarten read aloud books aren’t hard to get your hands on if you know where to look.

Today, I want to share our boys’ top 20.

I’ll separate them into two categories: picture books and chapter books.

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This handy list of our top 20 kindergarten read aloud books is great to help your child become a strong reader.

Chapter Books

The Kindergarten read aloud list is linked so you can easily add it to your child’s library.

Picture Books

*NOTE: While these are great for Kindergarten, our boys (now 8 and 10) have loved every one of these for years beyond!

Another Way to Use this List

Check out this master list of mini-lessons.

They’ll help your child become a strong reader while enjoying good stories.

I hope you love this list as much as we have.

We like to add books to our home library as often as possible. The trail to the tree, Easter baskets, and birthdays are some of our favorite times to surprise the boys with new ones!

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This Math Card Game is Rubbish!

We have played the math card game Rubbish approximately one billion times, and I’ll play it 1 billion and one if it means our boys practice the skills this game sharpens.

My five-year-old loves it, my three-year-old wants in, and we all enjoy the time together.

It’s quick, and super simple, too!

The Rules

1.) Lay out two rows of five cards, horizontally for each player. The rest of the cards are for the draw pile.

2.) Choose the first player. We rock-paper-scissors for it. 🙂

3.) The first player chooses a card. Each of the cards you laid face down represent a number (left-to-right) Ace-5 in the top row; 6-10 on the bottom row.

4.) If the card drawn is Ace-10, pick up the face-down card in the corresponding spot, and replace it with the card drawn (lay it facing up).

5.) The face-down card you pulled to replace with the drawn card is now the next card you play. If it fits in to what’s left, you pick that spot’s card up and lay the one in your hand down in its place. Your turn continues until you don’t have any more spots available for the switch out.

Example: I draw a 5. I pick up the card face down that’s in the 5 spot (top row last card on the right) and lay the 5 I just drew where it was. The card that was face down was an Ace. I pick up the first card on the top row and lay the Ace down in its place…keep going until you run out of spots to fill.

A math card game called Rubbish teaches your child base ten, numbers, and strategy with a bit of luck thrown in for lots of laughs.

The first to fill all his or her spots is the winner!

Other Handy Rules:

1.) If you pick up a Jack or Queen, you automatically discard into a discard pile next to the Rubbish draw pile.

2.) If you pick up a number you already have face up, discard.

3.) If you pick up a King, it’s wild and can be used as any number Ace-10!

4.) When you run through the entire deck of draw cards, shuffle the discard into a new draw pile and keep going until you get a winner.

The Best Part

The best part about Rubbish is that it looks exactly like the ten-frames my oldest is learning in Kindergarten math!

He works with numbers, placement, and I was really surprised by how quickly he learned the numbers associated with the face-down cards.

For our three-year-old, this has been great to help drive home learning his numbers.

Final Thoughts

I love this silly game called Rubbish and how it helped the boys’ skills grow so quickly, how it’s teaching and reteaching number sense, and most of all how it always brings us together.

A bowl of popcorn, a game of Rubbish, and our two boys makes for a great time in our homeschool day!

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