Here are some of the first materials I began to develop on my own for use in my classes (though the downloads here are slightly modified and formatted versions of the earlier originals) with quite young children.
I call these "Phonics Starter" kits, and they combine things like initial motor skills with alphabet and phonemic awareness. When I designed them, I deliberately made them small, separate files so that teachers could mix and match them as needed. They were (and still are, I guess) an alternative to phonics materials that are either too brief and flimsy or too over-the-top and involved.
As a precious English Raven blog visitor, these materials are free for you to download, use in your classes, and distribute to other teachers (so long as you don't modify them and ensure that you link back to this blog or my main resource site at www.EnglishRaven.com).
Phonics Starter Kit 1!
-> Phonics Starter 1 Teacher's Guide
It's been quite a few years now since I taught English to young learner classrooms, but I now use these materials with my own 4-year old son, Jamie. He quite likes them! There's a blog post from mid last year called Phonics Fun with Dad which shows some YouTube videos of us using the materials together at home.
You can find more Phonics materials at my resource site in the Kidzfoniks section.
I plan to pull a lot more material out of the English Raven vault over the coming year and distribute a lot of it here for free access on the blog, so I hope it helps out somebody somewhere!
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