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AM Reading Worksheets

Learning to read is a breeze with our free printable phonics worksheets! Each of our reading activities has been designed to help you engage your young reader with fun, hands-on applications. We’ve created quite a few free reading resources, including a phonics chart, handwriting worksheet, making words activity, flashcards, and even an early reader. If you’d like to extend your child’s learning, pick up our 30+ page AM activity pack which is filled with enough interactive skill-building resources for an entire week of reading, writing, grammar and language arts. Or try our complete 36-Week Reading Curriculum and find out why homeschooling families and teachers all over the world are excited about this new program.

Phonics Coloring Page or Chart: AM

This is a free printable coloring page featuring different pictures that all end with the word family AM.

Phonics Handwriting Worksheet: AM

This is a free printable phonics handwriting worksheet for students to practice writing words that end with AM.

Making Words Cut & Paste Sheet: AM

Students build a word with these free printable letter tiles. Students use the picture reference and the blank board as a guide to spell and write the words on the line.

Phonics Flashcards with Pictures: AM

This is a set of free printable phonics flashcards that can be used for matching games, spelling exercises, hands-on learning centers, and route memorization.

Phonics Minibook: AM

This is a free printable phonic minibook for students to practice reading and writing their word family words. Students color the star for each word they’ve mastered.

AM Word Family Pack

Learn more AM words with our AM Word Family Pack! Students will build key reading, writing, grammar and language arts skills with Week 1 of our R.E.A.D. program. 30+ Pages of hands-on activities and resources.

Kindergarten Writing Prompts: February

Encouraging your kindergarten students to write doesn’t have to be like pulling teeth! Our interactive kindergarten writing prompts are designed to engage and encourage your students to have fun while learning key writing skills. Best of all, these guided writing prompts are no-prep, meaning you can print them out, put them in a binder and your students will be ready to write for the entire year!

This past year, we’ve been working on a complete, year-long writing program, and our lastest set, for the month of February, has just been released! Writing topics for February include a variety of thematic and holiday topics. You can take a sneak peek below:

Groundhog’s Day Kindergarten Writing Prompts

Students will have a blast with these kindergarten writing prompts for Groundhog’s Day. There are five different writing prompts each focusing on a different skill. Students will work on predictions, drawing, writing in sequence, finishing a story, creative writing, and non-fiction research. These writing activities are sure to help you hit key standards while providing your kiddos with fun, engaging content.

Valentine’s Day Kindergarten Writing Prompts

The second week in February is filled with all sorts of Valentine’s Day fun! Students will work on capitalization, ABAB poetry, adjectives, Valentine’s Day cards, and making a list of different acts of love they can complete throughout the month. Each writing prompt has been designed to add fun and learning to your language arts studies.

Black History & Presidents Day Kindergarten Writing Prompts

Kindergarten students put their research skills to the test this month with multiple character studies on important figures throughout history. Students find and organize facts about Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, George Washington, and Abraham Lincoln. Next, students explore opinion writing as they write about what they would do if they were president.

Dental Care Kindergarten Writing Prompts (Tooth Fairy)

February is dental awareness month, so we’ve included lots of “toothy” fun for students to write about. Children will retell of a time when they lost a tooth, and write the steps to brush their own teeth well. Finally, students will explore some fun creative writing by responding to questions such as, “What does the tooth fairy do with all those teeth,” and finishing a story about a boy who never flossed.

Our February Writing Pack is filled with creative learning opportunities for your kindergarten students. Each pack is designed so students can cut out their writing samples and place them into a keepsake writer’s notebook.

Kindergarten Writing Prompts for February

These interactive guided writing prompts are simple and engaging for your beginning writers. With no-prep required these daily writing exercises will give your students thematic writing activities for every day in February.

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How to Use:

Each writing prompt is designed to allow students to complete the activity independently. Students are asked a simple question and then given a writing template to follow in order to answer the question. The word bank contains any words the student might need to personalize the response. Students copy and write their answers on the shaped writing templates. Then, students cut out their writing and glue it inside their composition notebook.

What’s Included:

This pack includes 20 interactive writing prompts for beginning writers. It is recommended that students keep all of their writing samples in their own notebook. This will serve as a keepsake and a portfolio of work.

February Topics:

  • Groundhog’s Day
  • Valentine’s Day
  • President’s Day (Washington & Lincoln)
  • Black History (Rosa Parks & Harriet Tubman)
  • Dental Care

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January Kindergarten Writing Prompts

Are you looking for some fun, interactive, no-prep writing prompts for your kindergarten students? Well, you’ve come to the right place! We’ve recently released our January Writing Prompts for Kindergarten Pack, and it is jam-packed with engaging writing activities for your students. This writing prompt pack is part of our Year-Long Interactive Writing Bundle, which is now available in our store.

Kindergarten Writing Prompts for Winter

Just because Christmas has passed, doesn’t mean winter has! For January, we’ve included lots of Winter topics and themes:

  • Snowmen Writing Prompts
  • New Year’s Eve Writing Prompts
  • Arctic Animal Writing Prompts
  • Penguin Writing Prompts
  • Extreme Winter Sports Writing Prompts
  • Martin Luther King Jr. Writing Prompts

Snowman Concrete Poetry

This little snowman is melting! Your kindergarten students will decide what kinds of expressions a melting snowman might make. “My nose if looking droopy,” or “Where did my button go?” These thoughts are then written around the outside of the snowman to create a unique example of concrete poetry. Students needing a little help can use some of the expressions from the word bank.

Arctic Animals Writing Prompts

Arctic Animal Writing Prompt: Adjective & Nouns

There is always something exciting when learning about arctic animals! Students love learning all about these unique creatures that were designed to live in extremely cold weather climates. We’ve created many fun activities to build writing and grammar skills while your student learns about Arctic animals.

One exciting arctic animal is the narwhal! With its unique tusk (or tooth), the narwhal is a fascinating create to learn more about during the winter months. Students using our program will write facts about narwhals, compare them to other arctic animals. Young writers will learn how to draw their own narwhal while writing out the sequence of necessary steps.

Penguin Writing Prompts

Oh, the poor penguins who never meet a polar bear! While penguins aren’t Arctic animals, they are certainly polar animals, and a great creature to learn about in the winter. Your kindergarten students will use these penguin writing prompts to keep track of simple facts, and interesting finds. Learning to draw a penguin is another fun hands-on writing activity in this set.

Arctic Animal Sequencing Prompts

Wrapping up the Arctic animal writing prompts, we have activities for snowy owls and the Arctic fox. Students learn and write about their life cycles, and finish the story prompts with their own ending. These stories are specifically designed with young readers in mind. Your kindergarten students will build key retelling skills with these writing activities.

New Year Writing Prompts

It wouldn’t be a package of January Writing Prompts without the traditional New Year’s Eve Resolution Prompt! We’ve included guided examples for students to write in their New Year’s resolutions, goals, and problem-solving skills.

Winter can be a time of extreme weather! Extreme is the key-word for these next writing prompts! Students retell of a time when the power went out at their house and tell of any extreme winter sports they have tried.

While we’re talking all things extreme, we thought it would be fun for your kiddos to build their own Extreme Snow Cone Menu! Students spin and build their flavor profiles with extreme options like blue-cheese, and bubble gum!

Our Kindergarten Writing Prompts for January will have your kiddos begging for more! Each of the 20 unique, hands-on writing activities has been designed to target important writing skills while keeping your little ones engaged. Best of all, it’s available in an instant download so you can get started today!

Be sure to check out our entire Year-Long Writing Bundle!

Free Kindergarten Writing Prompts

Storytelling is an important skill that helps children put their thoughts into words. It can be difficult for very young children to just tell a story though. They need some guidance. Better yet, they need a prompt that will set their imagination soaring. That is where story starters come in.

Free Kindergarten Story Starters:

Kindergarten story starters need to be simple enough that any 5-year-old could finish the thought. However, you do not want them to be too simple. The best story starters will have young children reading or writing several sentences. It gets the ball rolling for them, and inspires them to build their storylines. Try some of these free kindergarten writing prompts with your kindergartener this week.

50 Story Starters for Kindergarten

  1. If I flew to the moon, I would
  2. I went to the end of a rainbow, and found
  3. If I were 10 feet tall, I could
  4. My favorite season is______, because I can____
  5. You won’t believe the strangest thing I have ever seen. It was
  6. One time I took my teddy bear on an adventure. So, we
  7. If I owned a big boat, I would
  8. The best part about kindergarten is
  9. When I am 100 years old, I will
  10. I found $1000 on the road, so I
  11. When I grow up, I want to
  12. The craziest dream I ever had was
  13. If I could live under the ocean, I would
  14. If I could be any animal, I would
  15. I think 5 years olds should be allowed to
  16. I am a superhero and this is what I can do.
  17. Jack took me up the beanstalk and we
  18. Once, I snuck onto Santa’s sleigh, and then
  19. If I were as small as an ant, the world would
  20. What was your best day ever? What made it special?
  21. Where would you live if you could live anywhere in the universe?
  22. A genie promised me 3 wishes, so I chose
  23. My favorite color is______, because____________________
  24. My bedroom is so cool because
  25. My dad has taught me
  26. If I could build a house, it would
  27. I just got this super awesome, kid-sized car, and then
  28. If I could go into space, I might
  29. My grandmother always
  30. When I was a baby, I
  31. The best part about my neighborhood is
  32. The worst day ever was when
  33. In the winter, I
  34. I bet you never knew I could
  35. What is your favorite story? Can you tell it to me?
  36. If I were a farmer, I would grow
  37. Last night, I dreamt
  38. If you were trapped on a desert what 3 things would you want to have with you?
  39. Once upon a time, there was
  40. When I went to the zoo
  41. I was digging a hole, and then I found
  42. I cast my line into the lake, and then
  43. I walked backwards for two days, and then
  44. My sister made me
  45. The coolest toy ever would be
  46. If I could live in a movie, I would 
  47. If I were a parent, my kids would
  48. If you could design a vehicle what would it be?
  49. My favorite gift ever was
  50. The first memory I have is

Interactive Kindergarten Writing Prompts

If you have a little one that enjoys some hands-on learning then you’ll LOVE our new Interactive Writing Prompts Bundle! With 200+ Kindergarten Writing Prompts you’ll have everything you need to teaching writing over the entire year. Featuring no-prep writing activity pages, each sheet includes a helpful word-page, a starting sentence, and an engaging picture for students to write their responses. Best of all, these pages can be cut out and placed inside a notebook to create a lasting keepsake or writing portfolio for the kindergarten year.

December Kindergarten Writing Prompts

Whether you take a break during the holidays or push on through business as usual, you’ll appreciate these no-prep writing prompts for kindergarten. With 20 unique activity pages, these guided-writing prompts are just right for your early writers to build their skills. We offer this December Writing Prompts Pack separately, or as part of our year-long Interactive Writing Prompt Bundle.

Winter Writing Prompts for Kindergarten

Our December Writing Prompts for Kindergarten cover a variety of fun holiday and winter topics:

  • Winter Weather Writing Prompts
  • Abominable Snowman Writing Prompts
  • Hibernating Animals Writing Prompts
  • Ugly Sweater Writing Prompts
  • Gingerbread Man Writing Prompts
  • Christmas Writing Prompts

Abominable Snowman Writing Prompts

If this is your first time using our Interactive Kindergarten Writing Prompts then you are in for a treat! Each activity sheet will guide your student with a question and a response. Word banks are provided for common responses, and students are asked to write their answers on the pictures .

Ugly Sweater Writing Prompts

Each Picture Writing Prompt can be cut out on the thick black outlines and pasted into a writer’s notebook. We suggest using a spiral notebook where students can glue each prompt to a new page. Once complete, the notebook can serve as a keepsake or a writer’s portfolio of work to show growth over the year.

Christmas Writing Prompts

In our December Writing Prompt Pack, we include lots of unique writing opportunities. You’ll find students working on creative fiction, poetry, sequencing, lists, research/reports, expository, and so much more!

Snowy Weather Writing Prompts

Each day your students will be working on their fine motor skills as well! If you’re using these writing prompts in a classroom setting, try pasting the writing samples next to a winter art project for a classroom display!

Picture Writing Prompts for Kids!

Students and teachers all over the world LOVE our writing sets! They are interactive, while slowly building key skills over the scope of the curriculum. The entire year-long bundle will provide you with everything you need to cover writing during the kindergarten year.

Rhyming Word Games for Kindergarten

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Teaching children how to recognize rhyming words is an important step in the journey to reading. Beyond understanding similarities of word-families, young students should be able to identify words that rhyme based on the ending sounds they hear as they say the words aloud. If your students are working on rhyming words, then we’ve got some great review games to help solidify their skills.

Rhyming File Folder Games

File Folder Games are games that are easily contained to a manilla file folder….making them easy to store and transport for teachers, tutors, and homeschooling families. This set of Roll and Cover Rhyming games will provide you with 5 unique gingerbread house game mats, each with six rhyming word families for students to practice their rhyming skills.

Rhyming Learning Centers

You don’t have to store the games in a file folder. In fact, you can simply print out the games one at a time and use them as a learning center activity. You can even print this set in black and white or greyscale and it will still look nice, so don’t worry if you’d rather not use your color ink.

How to Play:

Students roll a single die and read the word associated with that number. Next, the student will find a rhyming word on the gingerbread house and cover it with a playing piece. We recommend using gumdrops, Spree, red-hots, peppermints, or mini-poms to add a little holiday fun. Once the roof of the gingerbread house is covered the game is over. This is a great single-player game, or you can easily turn it into a multi-player game by announcing that the person to place a cover over the last word wins the game.

Roll & Cover Rhyming Words

Print this free rhyming word game for use with your students today!

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Roll & Cover Sight Words:

This game is a HIT with students, so we have a second version of this game that will cover key sight words. Roll & Cover Sight Words gives your students extra practice reading 30 common sight words.

Learn to R.E.A.D. with Kindergarten Mom!

Ready, Eager, Able and Determined to READ!  This 36-week curriculum provides you with everything you need to teach your child to read.  Structured over a 4-day/week program you’ll cover phonics, digraphs, blends, sight words, grammar, and writing. Hands-on activities keep your child engaged and learning with little to no-prep required.  Click Here

Free Sight Word Printables

For students learning how to read, sight words are of great importance. While phonics will provide your students with a solid foundation in reading, sight words are just as important for fluency and speed. Sight words are words that cannot be sounded out phonetically, and thus must be memorized. We’ve put together a fun set of games you can use to teach your students common sight words.

Sight Word Games & Activities

Printable Roll & Cover Games

Roll and cover games are very simple to set up and are essentially no-prep. Generally, you’ll need a single die or pair of dice, and a handful of small manipulatives you can use to cover certain areas of the gameboard. In this case, you’ll need one die and a handful of your choice of holiday decoration. We suggest using gumdrops, peppermints, red-hots, mini-poms, or even scented playdough.

Black & White Sight Word Games

If you’re worried about all the color ink required, you can certainly print these games in black and white or greyscale and still have a working game that will engage your students….especially when you use colorful candies or mini-poms.

Roll & Cover Sight Words

Print this set on cardstock or laminate for reuse. Students will work on 36-different sight words with the entire set.

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Sight Word of the Week

Sight Word of the Week covers 40 key sight words for Preschool and Kindergarten students. Each week covers a single sight word with fun and engaging worksheets, activities, games and hands-on resources.  Students put their knowledge to the test with a weekly sight word mini-book that will bridge the gap between emergent and early readers.  Providing your students with a springboard to success with this ready to use program. The 40-week curriculum covers all 40 Dolch 220 Pre-Primer words and prints in the necessary order. Simply add the pages to a 3-ring binder and you are set!  Suggested Age: PreK or K4

What’s Included?

  • 40-Week Print & Go Program
  • New Dolch 220 Pre-Primer Sight Word Each Week
  • 8 Activities for each Sight Word (Monday-Thursday Schedule)
    • ASL Sign Chart
    • Playdough Mats
    • Sight Word Search
    • Fishing for Sight Words
    • Sight Word Dab &Dot
    • Touch & Read Sight Word Sentences
    • Sight Word Spelling Worksheet
    • Sight Word Cut & Paste Notebook
  • Sight Word Bingo
  • Mystery Monster Review
  • Sight Word Sticker Charts
  • Student Assessments

Interactive Guided Writing Prompts for Kindergarten

Interactive Picture Writing Prompts

Interactive: Our writing prompts are interactive, meaning students will be doing more than just writing. They will be coloring, cutting, pasting, and even interacting with friends and family members to complete the writing tasks. The writing prompts are all intended to be cut out and placed inside a writer’s notebook. The notebook can be used for a portfolio of work for homeschoolers or as a take-home keepsake for families.

Guided Writing Prompts

Guided: Our writing prompts feature easy to follow instructions that will build writing independence in your students. Each sheet includes a fill-in-the-blank style response that serves as a jumping-off point for even the most reluctant of writers. A word bank featuring common responses is provided so students are about to build sentences independently when possible.

Kindergarten Writing Prompts

For each month of the year, we’ve developed fun, interactive writing prompts that are sure to be a hit with your students. Each month will build upon the previously learned skills from the prior month, so you can rest assured that you’ll be developing strong, creative writers with this standards-based curriculum. Here is a look at each individual month:

Kindergarten Writing Prompts for September

Check out these fun and interactive writing prompts for September. September themes include back to school, all about me, apples and more!

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Kindergarten Writing Prompts for October

Autumn is in full swing with these free fall writing prompts for kindergarten. Students cover fun topics including pumpkins, squirrels, Halloween, bats, spiders and more!

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Kindergarten Writing Prompts for November

November writing themes cover squirrels, owls, veteran's day, voting, thanksgiving, turkeys and more!

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Kindergarten Writing Prompts for December

December writing themes cover Christmas, snow, presents, ugly sweaters, gingerbread, Yeti and so much more!

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Kindergarten Writing Prompts for January

January writing themes cover arctic animals, penguins, extreme winter sports, snow, and so much more.

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Kindergarten Writing Prompts for February

February writing exercises cover Groundhog's Day, Valentine's Day, President's Day, Black History, and Dental Care themes.

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Kindergarten Writing Prompts for November

If you are looking for some easy writing prompts for kindergarten, we have just the set for you! Our interactive and guided writing prompt packs take the sting out of writing and provide your students with fun, engaging topics and topic ideas.

Fun Writing Prompts for Kids

When you purchase our Guided Writing Bundle, you’ll soon find that boring writing prompts are a thing of the past! Included in the bundle are monthly thematic sets that will enrich your kindergarten writing lessons with fun, hands-on writing activities.

Each writing prompt provides students with a word bank to help students work independently.

Holiday Writing Prompts

After students compose their writing, they are encouraged to color and decorate the picture shapes. Each shape is outlined in a thick black line for easy cutting. (On a side note, these are fantastic for building beginner scissor skills and fine motor work.) Holiday writing samples can be paired with an art project for a beautiful classroom display.

Opinion Writing Prompts

Our guided writing bundle will grow with your student, so start in September if you have the opportunity! By November students will be working on multiple writing skills such as writing a list, taking a poll, opinion writing, letter writing, recipes, acrostic poetry, comparison writing and so much more!

Stay tuned!! Our December Writing Prompts will build upon November by proving students the opportunity to work on comparison writing, sequencing, descriptive writing, expository, haiku and more!

Free Fall Printables for Kindergarten

Fall Worksheets for Kindergarten

If you are looking for some fun fall activities you can use in your kindergarten classroom, then you’ve come to the right place! We have a fun variety of free fall kindergarten printables that will work perfectly in your homeschool or standard classroom setting. Each of the fall activities features fun thematic graphics like pumpkins, monsters, candy corn and more. And each resource has been designed to add a little fun to increase student engagement with your kindergarten lessons.

Free Fall Worksheets:

Free Monster Writing Prompts

If you have beginning writers, you’ll find these free monster writing prompts especially helpful to use this Fall. Each monster is different and contains a unique writing prompt for students to complete. You’ll likely end up with student’s wanting to complete more than one!

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Free Harvest Math Worksheets for Kindergarten

These harvest-themed math worksheets feature inequalities, tally marks, addition and following directions.

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Free Pumpkin Math Worksheets for Kindergarten

Pumpkin Patch Emoji Math is a set of 6 worksheets that will bring a little holiday fun to your Kindergarten classroom. Students work on key math skills including graphing, number words, tally marks, inequalities and more.

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Free Fall Guided Writing Prompts

Guided Writing is a fantastic way to build important writing skills during the kindergarten year. Here you'll find two writing prompts you can use for your Halloween and Thanksgiving lessons.

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Free Fall Comparing Math Worksheets

Students build number line skills by writing in the one more and one less from the given numbers. This free set of worksheets has a fun fall theme featuring pumpkins and sunflowers.

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More Fall Activities for Kindergarten

If you are looking for more fall fun for your kindergarten classroom. Be sure to check out our eStore, where you can find a huge variety of resources to help you teach this season. We’ve created interactive science projects, early readers, fall art activities, fall writing prompts, and so much more! Click Here for Details

Fall Printables Books Kindergarten

4-Fun-Filled, Thanksgiving-Themed early readers you can use to teach the story of Thanksgiving in your classroom. Students read about the voyage of the Mayflower, the friendships formed with Squanto, and learn what life was like as a Wampanoag Indian,

The Perfect Pumpkin: Printable Book for Kindergarten

  • The story of the hunt for a perfect pumpkin.
  • Sight Words: I, see, a, like, little, big, pick, perfect, pumpkin.
  • Vocabulary Words: Oval, triangle, square, rectangle.

We Sail: Printable Book for Kindergarten

  • The story of the pilgrim’s journey aboard the Mayflower (non-fiction)
  • Sight Words: See, are, is, like, me, no get, for, have.
  • Vocabulary Words: Sail, ship, pilgrim, land, winter, freedom, Mayflower.

New Friends: Printable Book for Kindergarten

  • The story of the friendship formed between the Pilgrims and the Woodland Tribes (non-fiction)
  • Sight Words: Were, had, is live, get, help, us, have.
  • Vocabulary Words: Friends, harvest, Indian, Squanto

Woodland Tribes Printable Book for Kindergarten

  • The story of a specific Woodland tribe called the Wampanoag. (non-fiction)
  • Sight Words: They, are, in people, help, get, have, live.
  • Vocabulary Words: Wampanoag, hunter, canoe, Indian, tribe, woodland.

Fall Science Projects for Kindergarten

This set includes five engaging science experiments and challenges for Thanksgiving. Each thematic activity guides students through a fun, hands-on science exploration with very little prep-work. Students work their way through the scientific method using step-by-step science journals. Each experiment includes a follow-up activity for added learning.

The experiments and challenges included are:

  • –Dancing Popcorn
  • –Leaf Pounding
  • –Peculiar Pinecones
  • –Making Butter
  • –Cranberry Building Challenge

You will also find scientific method posters (color and bw) included with this pack to help your students through research and discovery. Click Here for Details.