Description

Build phonics skills and beginning computer skills at the same time with this bundle of digital phonics activities for PreK, Kindergarten, and early elementary students. Each themed set gives students repeated practice with essential early literacy skills while also helping them develop mouse control, clicking, dragging, typing, and digital navigation skills. The activities are designed for use in Google Slides or PowerPoint and work well in the computer lab, technology class, literacy centers, intervention groups, or as independent digital practice.

The seasonal themes help keep the activities feeling fresh throughout the year while the consistent activity formats make it easier for young students to work mostly independently.

Skills Included in Each Theme

Each themed set includes activities for practicing:

• Matching uppercase and lowercase letters
• Sorting uppercase and lowercase letters
• Sorting vowels and consonants
• Adding a vowel to make a word using a picture prompt
• Building real words in word families
• Optional typing practice with word families
• Finding the word that is not like the others
• Sorting blends
• Sorting words by beginning letter
• Sorting word family pictures
• Matching blends to pictures
• Matching pictures to blends
• Matching CVC pictures to words
• Building and typing CVC words

Students practice a combination of letter recognition, phonemic awareness, phonics, CVC words, word families, blends, beginning sounds, and early typing skills while strengthening their ability to use a mouse or trackpad.

Great for Beginning Computer Skills

These activities are especially helpful for young students who are still learning how to use a computer.

 

Students practice:

• Clicking and dragging
• Moving objects accurately on the screen
• Controlling a mouse or trackpad
• Selecting and sorting digital objects
• Using movable letters
• Beginning keyboarding and typing
• Navigating interactive slides

This makes the bundle a great choice for computer readiness, digital literacy, technology integration, and elementary technology lessons.

Editable Templates Included

Want to extend the activities even further?

Each set also includes extra template slides so you can create additional matching and sorting activities for your students.

Movable letters are included on the final slide for easy copying and pasting, making it simple to customize the activities or create additional practice slides.

 

Use These Activities For

These digital phonics activities work well for:

• Elementary technology class
• Computer lab lessons
• PreK and Kindergarten technology practice
• Literacy centers
• Phonics centers
• Morning work
• Small group instruction
• Intervention
• Early finishers
• Independent practice
• Mouse skills practice
• Computer readiness lessons
• Digital literacy instruction

Because students are practicing academic skills and computer skills at the same time, these activities are especially useful when you want technology practice to have a meaningful literacy connection.

 

What You Will Need

Students will need:

• iPads, laptops, or desktop computers
• Access to Google Slides or PowerPoint

 

Why Teachers Love This Format

Young students often need lots of repetition to become confident with both phonics and technology skills. These activities give them that repetition without having every lesson feel exactly the same.

Students get to practice familiar skills through seasonal themes while strengthening the click-and-drag, mouse control, typing, and computer navigation skills they will need for future digital learning.

If you are looking for digital phonics activities, mouse practice, click and drag activities, beginning computer skills, computer readiness activities, or technology activities for PreK and Kindergarten, this bundle gives you a full year of engaging practice in one place.