Young readers explore consonant sounds. In this beginning phonics instructional activity, learners fill in a beginning/middle/end vertical column chart with the sounds they hear in the pictured object. Practice spelling CVC words.

Practice thirty-three different consonant blends, digraphs, and trigraphs with your emergent readers! Each letter combination has its own column in which you and your learners can write down five different words that demonstrate the...

Young readers practice their beginning consonant sounds. Solid worksheets prompt students to practice their consonant in fun ways. These worksheets use Clifford the Big Red Dog as a theme, and give the kids excellent and colorful practice.

Neighborhood and community is the theme of a unit comprised of extra support lessons. Following practice pages and a teach, blend, guided practice, practice/apply routine, the series of lessons provide additional reinforcement...

First graders practice the beginning and ending sounds of words. In this phonological awareness lesson, 1st graders use picture cards for one syllable words and pronounce each word. Students match other picture cards with the same...

Reading often times starts with phonemic awareness and letter sound correspondence. Get little ones blending those letter sounds together to read and write simple words. As the teacher sounds out each word, learners count phonemes, and...

Young readers demonstrate phonemic awareness in words and blends, and recognize 100 high-frequency words. Use a nursery rhyme to point out rhyming words, and change the words by putting a new letter at the beginning. Each learner will...

Supercharge beginning readers phonics skills with this extensive collection of worksheets. With exercises on long and short vowels, consonant blends, rhyming words, word endings, and much more, this resource is a primary grade teacher's...

First graders practice their letter and word recognition skills. In this initial and final sounds lesson, 1st graders participate in a classroom activity that requires them to blend phonemes into spoken words and sound out multisyllable...

High schoolers practice combining consonant-vowel-consonant sounds to form words. They read closed and silent "e" syllables. Students construct two-syllable words. They arrange syllables to form three and four syllable words.

Practice reading strategies using Elizabeti's Doll by Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen. Readers utilize decoding and comprehension strategies before, during, and after reading the story. A detailed list of text features, high frequency words,...

Who doesn't love playing detective? Get out those magnifying glasses because your class has to snoop to determine which vowels have gone missing. They are presented with a beginning and ending consonant, it's up to them to determine...

ESL students practice saying and spelling consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words. In this spelling lesson, students play a board game that requires them to look at a picture and say then spell the word pictured. The first student to the...

In this consonant digraphs learning exercise, learners examine 25 words and identify those that begin with the sh digraph and end with the consonant digraph sh.

Pupils practice cononant sounds within reading passages. They articulate the /ng/ sounds and identify their placement in words. Working with a partner, they read a passage aloud and listen for correct pronunciation of sounds.

Learners review the concept of rhythm and this lesson looks at some specific sound devices in the study of music. They focus on assonance, consonance, and alliteration. Students define the concept of rhythm and give poetry as an example...

Students, while defining an extensive list of vocabulary terms on the board, identify common signs and symbols that they may encounter when traveling or using some form of transportation (enter, exit, push, pull, men, women, caution, no...

Just because it's summertime, doesn't mean that learning has to stop. Support children with continuing to develop their reading fluency with this extensive collection of literacy activities.

Students explore consonant digraphs in written words and use them in their own sentences. They work with /th/, /sh/, and /ch/ digraphs. Students read The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything and identify words with the...

Learners play an alphabet game with beans that asks them create simple short vowel words. They spill several marked beans onto a paper and separate those that have fallen face-up. They arrange the beans into words and read them aloud.

Students study the /sh/ digraph using a tongue twister chart and practice saying the sound. They examine pictures to decide which contain the /sh/ sound and determine if the sound is at the beginning or end of the word. Next, working...

Second graders identify the digraph /th/ in written and spoken language. After a brief discussion of the independent and combined sounds of the phonemes /t/ and /h/ students practice identifying initial and final placement of the new...

For this consonant digraph CH activity, students circle the word in three train sets that begin with the same sound as check and then circle the word in three train sets that end with the same sound as match.

Students recognize the phoneme /m/. Through listening and matching activities, students discriminate the phoneme /m/ from other letters and phonemes. They associate /m/ with its letter representation and identify the phoneme in various...