Spring Word Wall Cards for Preschoolers
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These Spring Word Wall cards are a very useful literacy tool to help your preschoolers learn the alphabet, letter sounds, and words related to Spring. Using them to support what you are trying to teach, could be a lot of fun and an effective way to complement your preschooler’s learning process.
These FREE printables include two sets of 8 pages each (8 in English and 8 in Spanish). Each set contains 24 cards, 12 with the entire word in black, and 12 with the first letter of each word in red, to make it stand out and make it easier for children to identify the first letter of each word. You can download them at the end of this post.
All these cards can be used by your preschoolers to develop skills such as:
- Language development – talking about the pictures in the cards.
- One-to-One correspondence – matching magnetic, foam, or wooden letters with the letters on the words.
- Pre-writing/fine motor development – copying the words with magnetic, foam, or wooden letters, tracing them with dry-erase markers, and copying them with crayons, markers, or pencils.
- Phonological awareness – sounding out the beginning letter or the syllables in the words.
- Pre-reading – when they observe the picture and say its name (word).
Display these cards where children can see them clearly. I personally like to place them, not only on the word wall, but also in the Reading, Writing, and Quiet Areas, and use them during center time as a large group activity as well.
How to Prepare the Spring Word Wall Cards
As usual, I try to create activities that don’t require a lot of materials. Because of that to prepare them, you will only need:
Choose the version you want (Spanish or English) and print out the pages using white cardstock. Then cut out and laminate each of the cards to protect them. Remember you print more than one set if you want to place these cards in different centers, besides the word wall.
Take one set and place the cards on your word wall under the same alphabet letter of the beginning letter of each word.
How to Use the Spring Word Wall Cards
Introduce the word you want to use first holding up the correct picture, and telling the students what it is. Repeat the name of the picture several times emphasizing the first sound. Call on a volunteer to place the card under the correct letter on the word wall, or do it yourself.
Never ask your children to say what the picture is before you tell them first. If you ask a child to name the word (or the picture) and that child uses the wrong word, that is the word that will get imprinted in the minds of the other children, and it will be more difficult to correct the mistake than to learn the right word, from the beginning, because preschoolers learn the first sound they hear.
Use the word wall daily to practice the words in a fun way by chanting, and clapping the syllables. Once you introduce all the words, you can also play a matching game, having your children match the written word with the picture. This activity will not only help them recognize printed words but also will help them develop one-to-one correspondence and creating sets skills.
As the children interact with the word wall cards in the different centers, encourage them to repeat the beginning sound of the card they are using. Do this as often as possible during the day as well.
Other Activities
I like to combine several related activities to avoid boredom and keep the children interested and engaged.
To accomplish that, I would like to give you some suggestions of other activities that you can do in combination with your Spring Word Wall Cards. These activities are:
- Cactus Letter Tracing and Matching.
- Spring Pre-Writing Activities.
- Spring Compound Words.
- Spring Pre-Writing.
- Spring Count and Clip Cards.
- Spring Letter Match activities.
- Spring Math puzzles.
- Spring Tic-Tac-Toc game.
- Read Spring-related books.
- Dance to Spring music.
- Have the children do Spring-related artwork such as painting, coloring, or doing a collage using Spring colors.
- Have a Spring dress-up day and have a parade for their classmates.
Spring-related Stories
Remember that reading and writing go together, and children cannot properly learn one without the other; therefore, you have to read to your children every day and change your library and book baskets with theme-related books.
These are some of my favorite Spring stories. You can find them at your local library, used book store, or Amazon. For your convenience, I added my affiliate links to each of the pictures. You just have to click on your favorites and that will bring you to the Amazon website in seconds.
Use every opportunity to give them plenty of variety and choices, for their different levels of skills and interests, and most importantly, have fun while doing it. The children will pick up on your excitement and it will give them the extra encouragement to keep them engaged.
Pin It For Later
If you are in a rush and don’t have time to read the post and download the printable but want to save it for later, pin this to your Springboard on Pinterest.
Remember to use the opportunity that this season gives you to talk to your children about things related to Spring, such as the different holidays and how other cultures celebrate them, changes in the weather, flowers and trees growth, insects you see, etc. It is a perfect opportunity to expand your children’s world knowledge.
Don’t forget to grab your free Spring Word Wall Cards printables! Just choose the one you like, in English or Spanish, or both, and start using them every day in your classroom, during the entire season.
And, if you are interested in expanding your collection and giving your children variety and different opportunities to learn and develop their skills, check out the rest of my Spring activities with free printables below.
I hope you and your preschoolers enjoy this season and become a fun and memorable one for all of you.
Be happy, safe, and creative. I wish you well.
Love,
P.S. If you would like to see an article about how to make something specific, please let me know and I will try my best to write it for you. My goal is to help you in any way I can and I don’t like anything better than to post something that you might find useful.
