Core Word and Letter of the Week

The “Core Word and Letter of the Week” program was created to help your preschool, and early language learners communicate! This program makes lesson planning a breeze, gives you more time to focus on students, and helps you teach crucial language skills.

You can see videos of these products in action here.

Included in this download are easy to implement sets of activities, worksheets, and ideas focusing on CORE vocabulary for every letter of the alphabet. Core vocabulary is used for 94% of all the words spoken, and, therefore most important vocabulary for all early language learners. Core vocabulary provides flexibility to request, comment, ask for help, and engage socially. It is the foundation for later language.

With “Core Word and Letter of the Week”, you will use a systematic way to teach the alphabet and increase phonics skills. My teachers and I have chosen to teach the letters in alphabetic order, however, they could be taught in any order that works with your other curriculum. Because there are more weeks in the school year than letters of the alphabet, go back and start over after finishing the first round.

For each letter of the alphabet, the following materials are included:

• ★ Letter for parent/staff, including links to songs and books to support the word
• ★ Communication board
• ★ Poster for classroom and Engineering the Environment cues
• ★ Activity
• ★ Worksheet
• ★ File Folder activity
• ★ Book

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FEEDBACK:

❤️ “It’s as if you read my mind and knew exactly what I needed for my student! I was trying to figure out how to create a curriculum for my students who are nonspeaking and use AAC, and then your email came. 🙂 This is an amazing product in that it combines literacy and core vocabulary. I love the variety of weekly activities and the parent/teacher strategies to support language learning throughout the child’s day. Thank you – thank you – thank you!”

❤️ “This is going to MAKE my year!!!!! I am working closely with one of the kindergarten teachers this year with a special transitional K class for children too old for pre-k, but not ready for gen ed K. I was looking for something like this and now that I’ve looked at it, there’s so much more than I expected. Love it already.”

❤️ “WOW! WOW! WOW! This product is amazing and will be a great addition to my cooperative teaching opportunities in a busy preK classroom as well as with my AAC user who is very capable of this work. I’m so excited! I can see exactly how it will fit into/replace my plan – for the better!”

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Hi! I’m Dr. Cheri Dodge Chin. I am a published researcher, adjunct professor, and national presenter with a clinical doctorate in speech-language pathology. I have over 20 years of experience in empowering children, educators, and families. I began my blog, Super Power Speech, in 2008 with the hope of engaging other speech pathologists and passing on ideas and resources. The blog is now recognized as one of the first SLP blogs in the world and has been nominated for multiple awards. While browsing, make sure to check out my courses and resource library with over 50 FREE downloads! Aside from flying around and trying to save the world, you can find me studying for my second doctorate degree (this time in education).

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