The focus of this group is to teach the students how to use letters in words and associate letters with their form characteristics, sounds, or uses. The students use the letters that are taught that week in meaningful context through structured reading or writing tasks. Usually the teacher leads this group. Often the activities are games such as matching letters, finding letters and words on the word wall, or identifying patterns of letters. These activities use repetition, active memory, and association skills to promote learning handwriting and writing skills.
The following are activity description sheets available for the cognitive strategies station. Click on each activity to access the printable PDF activity sheet.
- Am I Tall or Small?
- Dot the Difficult Spot
- Glitter Letters
- Identifying Letter Differences
- Letter Formation Practice
- Look Say Cover Write Check
- Magnetic Word Building
- Missing Letters
- Practice the Starting Point
- Rainbow Letters
- Talking it Through
- Upper and Lower Case Discrimination
- What Does it Sound Like?
- What’s a Sentence?
- Word Search
- Word Wall Words
- Write and Evaluate