1. Charts

I have many charts that we use in class each week.  We have a weekly color song chart, nursery rhyme chart, etc.  In the picture above on the left a student is reading the color song "Orange" from  Frog Street Press.  She is using a pointer and following along as she sings and reads.  She is practicing one to one correspondence, left to right progression, and she obviously knows print has meaning, but she thinks she's just having fun! 

2.Pocket Charts 1

This learn your colors pocket chart from Lakeshore is fantastic, it's great a great tool for building vocabulary in your ESL students.

3. Flannel Board

Flannel boards are great tools for re-telling stories.  I have a flannel board for at least one main/focus story for every unit as well as for many, many fingerplays and nursery rhymes.  Re-telling a story is an important part of oral language development.  I highly recommend the Little Folk flannels listed below, I own all of the Nursery Rhyme sets and most of the Fairy Tale sets and they are very durable and colorful.

4. Pocket Charts 2

The kids love to match the letters to the correct pocket in this chart, then later in the year they can start putting the pictures in the pockets according to the first letter sound. 

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