Kindergarten
Training for Kindergarten Teachers
Johnny Can Spell
Learn how to integrate instruction and practice in phonemic awareness, phonetics, penmanship, and spelling, supporting development of encoding and decoding skills.Read More
The Sounds and Symbols of English
Examine the basics of teaching systematic, explicit phonics with handwriting for a multi-sensory approach.Read More
Handwriting
Learn the basics to successfully teach students how to hold a pencil and how to form letters. Examine the habits of handwriting and ways to help students improve.Read More
Sentences under Construction
Do not think about right or wrong; just play with sentences. Zoom-in and zoom-out, creating long flowing sentences or very short skeleton sentences. Use puppets, sentence codes, and drama to understand the different kinds of sentences--Read More
Products for Kindergarten Teachers
Johnny Can Spell Phonogram Card Set
A laminated, class-sized (5.5 x 8.5 inches) set of the 70 common phonograms. Front of card has large image of phonogram.View Product in Store
Practicing the Phonograms with Alice Nine (Audio CD)
An audio CD designed to facilitate practice of the correct pronunciation of the isolated speech sounds associated with the 70 common phonograms.View Product in Store
Alphabet Sounds Song with Tommy Turtle (Audio CD)
A song with a catchy melody. The song links -- in alphabetical order -- letter names to their common sounds.View Product in Store
Student Phonogram Card Sets
Miniature version of the front side (with card number) only of Johnny Can Spell Phonogram Card Set (back is blank).View Product in Store
Johnny Can Spell Teacher's Guide
A nongraded guide for the teaching of phonemic awareness, phonics, handwriting, and spelling in an integrated approach.View Product in Store
Johnny Can Spell/Write Lesson Planner, Book K
Day by day guide for kindergarten teacher. Provides 100 lessons (a year of instruction) that integrate phonemic awareness, phonics, handwriting, vocabulary, spelling, oral and written sentence composition.View Product in Store
Johnny Can Spell Objectives in Kindergarten
- Correct penmanship habits and proper use of tools
- To form manuscript letters correctly
- The names of letters
- Capital and lower case correspondents
- Alphabetical order
- The common sounds of the alphabet phonograms
- A few common spelling rules
- Additional multi-letter phonograms beyond the alphabet letters
- 100 high frequency, easy words
The kindergarten student using Johnny Can Spell will learn...
- Match capital and lower case correspondents
- Alphabetize letters
- Write phonograms from isolated dictation
- Give sounds for phonograms in isolation
- Recognize phonograms in printed text
- Use phonograms to sound out new words in print, reading
- Use phonograms to write new words, spelling
- Count syllables in a word
- Count sounds in a word or syllable
- Count words in a sentence
- Blend sounds into words he/she recognizes
- Analyze words by syllables and sounds in order to write them, spelling
- Learn how to sound out words in print, reading
