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Phonemic Awareness
Phonemic Awareness

Phonemic Awareness

Practice phonemic awareness with this free, editable Kindergarten lesson. Aligned to the Common Core (RF.K), covering objectives such as: recognize and produce rhyming words. Created with Chalkie.ai and fully customizable for your class.

Phonics
Phonics

Phonics

This Kindergarten phonics lesson is ready to present in class. Aligned to the Common Core (RF.K), covering objectives such as: associate the long and short sounds with common spellings for the five major vowels. Made on Chalkie.ai. Edit, download, and present for free.

Reading Comprehension
Reading Comprehension

Reading Comprehension

Help your Kindergarten students build reading comprehension with this editable lesson. Aligned to the Common Core (RL.K), covering objectives such as: retell familiar stories including key details. Sign up free to Chalkie.ai to adapt this for your class.

Writing
Writing

Writing

A Common Core-aligned Kindergarten lesson covering writing (W.K), including objectives such as: use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose opinion pieces. Fully editable on Chalkie.ai. Sign up free to customize.

Vocabulary
Vocabulary

Vocabulary

Build confidence in vocabulary with this editable Kindergarten resource. Aligned to the Common Core (L.K), covering objectives such as: determine or clarify the meaning of unknown words. Built with Chalkie.ai. Free to edit, present, and share.

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Before students can read, they need to hear the sounds inside words. These Kindergarten ELA lessons cover the full arc of early literacy in the Common Core: phonemic awareness and phonics from the Reading Foundational Skills strand (RF.K), story retelling from Reading Literature (RL.K), composing opinion pieces through drawing, dictating, and writing (W.K), and vocabulary from the Language strand (L.K).

The lessons are slide decks designed to be presented, not printed. Rhyming practice happens out loud, letter-sound slides use large friendly visuals, and retelling activities give the whole class a shared story to talk about. Each deck follows a teaching sequence you can deliver as-is or trim to fit your literacy block.

When a lesson is close but not quite right, open it in Chalkie and edit the slides directly — swap the examples, add your class's sight words, or regenerate an activity. It is a faster path to ready-to-teach kindergarten ELA lessons than building decks from scratch.

What Kindergarten ELA covers

  • Phonemic Awareness

    Covers Common Core RF.K phonological awareness objectives, including recognizing and producing rhyming words through listening and speaking practice.

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  • Phonics

    Targets Common Core RF.K phonics objectives, associating long and short sounds with common spellings for the five major vowels.

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  • Reading Comprehension

    Aligned to Common Core RL.K, students retell familiar stories including key details about characters and events.

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  • Writing

    Covers Common Core W.K, where students use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose opinion pieces.

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  • Vocabulary

    Addresses Common Core L.K vocabulary objectives, helping students determine or clarify the meaning of unknown words they hear and encounter in stories.

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