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Word Wheel
Make a phonics wheel with your young learners! Either provide the pieces pre-cut for your learners, or have them practice their fine-motor skills to cut out the four circles provided. When the wheel is assembled, learners can create...
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Quick and Sticky Context Clues
Discuss strategies for defining word your young readers don't know. They read sentences with key words covered by sticky notes and guess from the context what the word might be. They peek at the first letter and guess again.
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Beginning Sounds: A is for Ant
The ABC's and beginning letter sounds are the foundation of strong reading skills. Use this presentation to build your young learner's abilities to recognize beginning sounds and alphabet letters. Each slide contains an image and a word...
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Snail
S is for snail. Use this worksheet to help your young readers learn the letter s. This simple coloring worksheet is great for youngsters who are learning the beginning letter s sound. They can practice saying the s sound and coloring...
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Beginning and Ending Sounds - Lesson 1 of 2
Stamp, slap, and clap! Emergent readers demonstrate their awareness of the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds in spoken, short vowel, single-syllable words with a stamp/slap/clap activity. After identifying the letters and sounds of...
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I Can Make New Words
A fun rhyming song written out on these slides help learners comprehend what word families consist of in order to make their own new words! For example, they first see tan, can, fan, and ran with the initial different letters in a...
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Letter Pronunciation - /f/ Sound
Are you working on the /f/ sound in your class? Develop phonemic awareness with this worksheet. This graphic organizer has students circle the word that best describes the picture in the right-hand column. Then, in the middle column,...
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Letter B
For this beginning sounds worksheet, learners say the name of the 8 objects pictured and then identify those that begin with the letter B by circling them.
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Letter S
In this beginning sounds worksheet, students say the name of the 9 objects pictured and then identify those that begin with the letter S by circling them.
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Pictures That Start With the Letter I
In this letter I worksheet, students analyze 12 color pictures of common objects. Students circle all the pictures that illustrate words beginning with the letter I.
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Letter K
In this beginning sounds worksheet, students say the name of the 9 objects pictured and then identify those that begin with the letter K by circling them.
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Pictures That Start With Letter J
In this letter J worksheet, students analyze 12 color pictures of common objects. Students circle the pictures of words that start with the letter J.
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Letter L
In this beginning sounds worksheet, students say the name of the 9 objects pictured and then identify those that begin with the letter L by circling them.
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ABC Sound Off
If your young readers are in need of practice identifying beginning sounds to words, this PowerPoint is for you. First, they will look at a cartoon picture. Next, they will click on the letter they think that word begins with. Excellent...
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ABC Sound Off!
Games are great ways to reinforce practical concepts. This game has students determine which letter each picture begins with. There are sounds for correct and incorrect answers, which the students will enjoy. The game is short and could...
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Monterey Bay Aquarium: ABC Search
This attractive instructional activity has students identify beginning sounds in words using sea animals and related topics as a guide. Students fill in the beginning sounds for such words as diver or octopus. It can be used as a...
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Beginning Sounds and Blends
In this sounding out picture words instructional activity, students say the picture word, determine the beginning sound letter, circle the middle and ending blend letters, and write the words. Students write twenty words.
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Final - E Rule
In this phonics worksheet, students look at 20 pictures and then say each picture out loud. Students circle the letters that make the beginning, middle and final sound of each picture underneath each picture. Students spell out each word...
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Beginning Sounds Worksheet
In this phonics learning exercise, students match the 5 letters on the left of the learning exercise to the 5 pictures on the right of the learning exercise that begins with that sound. Students draw a line from one to the other.
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Beginning Sounds
For this beginning sounds worksheet, students write the letter that each picture begins with on the line. The students are provided a letter bank at the bottom of the page.
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Phonemic Awareness
In these phonemic awareness activities worksheets, students demonstrate beginning sounds, and short a words. In these drawing, fill in the blank, matching, and cut and paste worksheets, students answer twenty-six words.
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First Letter on the Farm
In this phonics worksheet, students will name pictures of things found on a farm. Students will listen to the beginning sound of each word and write the missing letter on the line to complete each picture name.
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Animals on the Farm
In this farm worksheet, students cut and fold paper to make a barn. Students cut animal flashcards to place in the barn. Nine flashcards each have a picture of an animal, it's name and the beginning sound. Worksheet is in color.
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Word Sort ----at
In this rhyme instructional activity, students see 16 full color cards and word labels for the rhyme pattern ---at. This is an independent center activity and there are directions for sorting, writing, and classifying.