Do you have a dental health topic in your preschool or preschool classroom? Dental health topics can help you teach your children how to have healthy teeth. Don’t forget, February is Dental Health Month!
When your little learners engage in activities centered around common themes, they will begin to develop important speaking, literacy and vocabulary skills.
Your kids will love these fun, hands-on dental health literacy center activities and games that will help them build vocabulary and develop key emerging literacy skills like rhyming, syllables, beginning sounds, and more.
dental health syllable activity
Are your students learning to recognize syllables in spoken words? Syllables are an important part of developing phonological awareness skills. In this activity, students will identify and name pictures and record the number of syllables in each picture. This activity includes a black and white record sheet, found in the Dental Health Preschool Literacy Pack.
dental health introductory sounds
Are your students learning to identify opening sounds? Onset sounds are an important part of developing phonological awareness skills. In this activity, students will identify the beginning sound of each picture and attach a clothespin with the correct letter to the corresponding picture. This activity also comes with a black and white recording sheet. Getting started sound activities are available in the Dental Health Preschool Literacy Pack.
dental health rhymes
Are your students learning how to rhyme? Rhyming is an important part of developing phonological awareness. This is a fun game that can be played with multiple people and comes in both black and white and color. Students take turns rolling the cube and finding the rhyming picture. This activity can be found in the Dental Health Preschool Literacy Packet.
Dental Health Alphabet Game
Are your students learning to identify and name letters of the alphabet? Letter recognition is an important part of developing phonological awareness skills. The game includes uppercase and lowercase versions in black and white or color. To play this game, students will take turns drawing a card, identifying letters, and marking them on recording paper. This activity also includes two recording sheets, one for uppercase letters and one for lowercase letters, found in the Dental Health Preschool Literacy Pack.
Dental Health Vocabulary Cards and Charts
Are you looking for vocabulary cards for your community assistant unit? Printable word charts and word cards are available in black and white and color versions. Place printable word cards on a pocket chart or word wall. These cards can be used to help develop vocabulary and can be found in the Dental Health Preschool Literacy Pack.
Dental Health Pocket Chart Sentences
Are your students learning print concepts? The predictable text in this pocket chart set will help your students learn typographic concepts such as left-to-right directionality, flyback, one-to-one correspondence, and more. Printable pocket chart sentences are found in the Dental Health Preschool Literacy Packet.
Dental Health Printable Readers
Are you looking for printable emerging reading materials for your dental health preschool topics? The predictable words in this book are designed to support beginning readers. Use this book to reinforce typography concepts such as spaces between words, left to right, top to bottom, written words matching spoken words, common words, and more. This easy-to-assemble printable reader is available in black and white and color versions in the Dental Health Preschool Literacy Pack.
dental health books
Oh, and you’ll want some great age-appropriate books to read aloud to your kids for your Community Helper topic! Don’t worry, I’ve got your back and you can find tons of dental health books for preschoolers here.
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