Fun from A to Z! Use a collection of alphabet worksheets to help kids practice their letters. Kids can color and trace each letter, and draw items from a word list to indicate each letter.

The best way to get your scholars familiar with the alphabet is to expose them to each letter in multiple contexts. This strategy incorporates letter recognition, sound, word examples, and pronunciation, and emerging readers will feel...

As you come to an end in your alphabet study, use these strategies to examine the letter y. Scholars examine the letter shape and listen to you pronounce the /y/ sound. Use these tips to explain how you do it as they try. Can they...

Practice matching letters to pictures of items that match those letters with activity cards. Each card features the upper- and lower-case letter, as well as matching items for additional practice.

Reinforce the alphabet with a set of letter cards. Fifty-two cards make up the entire collection of 26 lowercase and 26 uppercase.

There are many words that begin with the /o/ sound; scholars study this letter in multiple contexts including intial phoneme examples, pronunciation, and letter recognition. Write the letter on the board to see if learners can identify...

What is this letter? Once your class is ready to explore the letter n, use these strategies to combine word examples, pronunciation, and letter recognition. First, can they identify the letter? Make the /n/ sound, explaining...

These inventive strategies help emerging readers focus on the letter e, forming sound associations along with letter recognition. Explain the mouth movement in making the /eee/ sound, asking learners to try it. Can they think of words...

Get involved with phonics by recognizing one particular letter. Learners name a letter, know it by sound, decode basic CVC words and use the letter in writing. A variety of options are given to the your learners: making a letter collage,...

All you need is a file folder and these fun kites to help kids with their letter identification! After laminating a set of kites on the inside of a file folder, kids match additional kites to the ones on the game board.

Dinosaur begins with the letter D! Kids find, cut, and paste five pictures that also begin with the letter D. After they cut and paste, they write the name of their pictures in the blanks provided. 

Which of these have /u/ as a middle sound? There are images of seven CVC words surrounding the letter u here, and scholars draw lines from the letter to words with the same middle phoneme. Be sure they know what these images are...

As scholars become more comfortable with initial sound correspondence, introduce them to medial sounds. As they focus on the vowel sound /i/, youngsters examine a set of images and draw a line from the letter i to any with that...

Drill and practice phonemes, letter formations, written language, vowel correspondences, as well as consonant correspondences with youngsters. They will locate and identify the /b/ in written and spoken words from flash cards containing...

Early readers put their short vowel know how to the test. They read a series of simple cvc words, circle all the words that contain the medial short vowel sound indicated, then write those words in the space provided. Phonics, reading,...

As kindergartners are learning the alphabet, expand their vocabulary in the process using Jacqueline Rogers' book Kindergarten ABC. Each page features a letter and various objects for scholars to locate in the picture, and...

Young readers should benefit from this basic PowerPoint which gives many examples of how the "at" sound can be used in a variety of words. A variety of consonants, and consonant blends, are put in front of the "at" sound to make many words.

For this handwriting of alphabet letter Q worksheet, learners read two short sentences, trace the uppercase and lowercase letter Q once and then write both letters in the four boxes provided.

Here's a great way to practice handwriting and word recognition. In this letter identification instructional activity, learners identify eight words with pictures to help them learn vocabulary and reading skills as they use lowercase...

It's a flurry of vowels! Learners review a series of snowflakes featuring pictures that include the letter E, glue them into place, and write the words underneath. 

Students explore language arts by participating in a letter identification activity. In this spelling activity, students identify the letters of the alphabet and the sounds they make. Students collaborate in small groups and utilize...

The book Good Night, Good Knight is the inspiration for this plan. Learners get into small groups to search for words in books that begin with their names and fill out and illustrate their own personal letter and name pages.

Scholars sort picture cards based on the initial phoneme they hear as they say the name of each image. They pick a card, say its name, then place it in one of five bags based on how its initial phoneme matches the initial phoneme...

Give your beginning printers some kid-friendly practice with the letters p and b that will ignite their artistic side. They connect the dots to trace the lowercase letters before copying them in the space provided. There...