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Kindergartners enter your classroom eager to learn, and your role as guide to the world of Literacy is vitally important. The children go into the first grade with a firm grasp of early reading and writing strategies -a solid foundation on which to build.


Let's Go Fishing: an activity to promote reading at the Srkg level.
Material/Preparation:cardboard, magnetic tape, bowl, unsharpened pencil, apiece of string, a string, a paper clip, magnetic letters in a sorting tray.
Cut out 10-15 cardboard fish and write one high frequency word on each .Stick a piece of magnetic tape behind each .Put the fish in the bowl.To make a fishing rod ,tie a large paper clip to the end of a string and attach the string to the end of the pencil.
Skill Practiced: Reading, Forming, and Writing quick and easy words.
What Children Will Do:

1. One partner puts the fishing rod in the bowl, picks up the fish and reads the word on it.
2. The other partner makes the word with the use of magnetic letters.
3. Each partner keeps a list on a separate sheet of paper of all the words they caught.