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PBS

Pbs Kids: Super Why: Letter Sounds Worksheet [Pdf]

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
An excellent resource for teaching beginning letter-sound correspondence. Student must identify the object in the picture and circle the letter that begins the word.
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Auburn University

Auburn University: Teaching Letter Recognition

For Teachers Pre-K - K Standards
How can you teach your students letter recognition? This site offers insight into this necessary pre-reading skill set. Come and explore this informative resource.
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Songwriting for Beginning Letter Sounds

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A great resource for teachers. This lesson plan uses songs and singing as a guide for young scholars in learning letter names and beginning consonant sounds. Students in first and second grade can extend this lesson by creating new...
Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Letters of the Alphabet

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This site features activities for the letters of the alphabet. Students have an opportunity to click on a letter and hear a story about that letter.
Activity
Chateau Meddybemps

Chateau Meddybemps: Fun With Letters

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This interesting site has a variety of activities and games to use in the classroom or at home to teach letter recognition, phonics, and beginning writing skills. Learn about individual letters at the Alphabet Soup Cafe, create an...
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ABCya

Ab Cya: Uppercase & Lowercase Letter Matching

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Play a game by dragging the lowercase letters to their matching upper case letters in order to get all the colors back in the picture.
Lesson Plan
Teachers.net

Teachers.net: Alphabet Fishing (Lesson Plan)

For Teachers Pre-K - K Standards
This site has a cute game young young scholars will enjoy playing to review letter recognition. Students "go fishing" for letters. For each letter they "catch" they must tell what the letter is and a sound it makes.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Upper and Lowercase Letters

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Teachers will use this flipchart to review uppercase and lowercase letters.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Upper and Lower Case Alphabet

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart students will drag upper case letters out of a bucket, match the lower case letter with it and drag an image out of a bucket to match the correct letter.
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Super Why: Letters in Your Name Worksheet [Pdf]

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
An excellent resource for students learning to spell their names. The student must circle the letters in their name and then write their name in the space provided.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Name Game, a Phoneme Substitution

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A quick activity to reinforce the students' ability to recognize different sounds. When calling children to line up or go to lunch, substitute the letter or sound of the day for the first letter of the child's name. Till, Tuzy, Tob, and...
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: The Alphabetic Principle

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Children's knowledge of letter names and shapes is a strong predictor of their success in learning to read. Knowing letter names is strongly related to children's ability to remember the forms of written words and their ability to treat...
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PBS

Pbs: Sky Riding

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This learning game directly instructs the letters of the alphabet. Students will hear the name of a capital letter, fly along with the letter on a hot air balloon, and then find its matching lower case version of the letter.
Lesson Plan
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Unit: Grade K: Chrysanthemum

For Teachers K Standards
Young children are naturally interested in their names, and it is usually the first written language they recognize. Thus, using students' names is a powerful tool for introduction of the alphabet. Students explore their names and the...
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Chateau Meddybemps

Chateau Meddybemp's Parent's Guide: Write

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The author defines 11 steps children go through as they learn to write well, and provides suggestions of activities parents can do with their children to encourage the development of each of these skills.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Breaking the Code

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduced students to simple coding techniques (namely, the shift cipher). Students learn to translate codes from nonsense to English by quantifying each letter, and then...