Reggio literacy activities

What's in a name? So much learning!

Tracing letters with loose parts is a great way for preschool and kindergarten students to learn the alphabet. It's a fun literacy provocation! Plus, it includes free printable letters!

At the beginning of every year my teaching partner and I incorporate lots of name recognition, construction, and writing provocations to engage children. Here are some of our favourites so far this…

Use this play dough writing tray to practice writing letters, sight words, numbers and more. This is a great way for preschoolers to practice fine motor skills.

I have been spending time in a grade 3/4 classroom working with a teacher to transform the physical environment and hone some of the frameworks being introduced and used. I was feeling quite nostalgic last night when we left as I did really love teaching my multi-age class. Many of the early intermediate frameworks she gets to use with her older students are lots of fun to teach. When I walked back into our kindergarten room I wondered how much rigor was happening with my little kinder…

Set up a fun phonics activity for preschoolers and school aged children with this sorting objects into baskets game! Easy, low-preparation and adaptable

How to promote early learning, story retelling, letter recognition, name recognition and more through loose parts play. By combining literacy and loose parts play preschoolers and kindergartens can engage in meaningful hands-on play as they develop early reading skills.

One of our friends kept making kites during Thinking,Learning and Discovering Time. Before we knew it, making kites was a favorite pastime for many of them so I asked them if they would like to investigate kites. They were very excited! We started by finding out what they wondered about kites. Next, I set up an area where they could investigate try to find out some of these answers themselves. When they first started, they had trouble drawing the diamonds and triangles, but as time went on…