Florida Center for Reading Research
Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Matching, Initial Phoneme Picture Sort
An activity focuses on phonemic awareness and initial letter sounds. Scholars sort picture cards by saying and matching the initial sounds each word makes.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Letter-Sound Dominoes
What do dominoes and phonemes have in common? Quite a bit in this engaging phonics game! Each domino has a letter on one side and an image on the other. Everything you need is here; partners place the starting domino on the table then...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Phonics: Letter-Sound Correspondence, Letter Sound Match
Scholars match initial, medial, and final phonemes to individual graphemes. They pick a card, say its name, then find the letter that makes that sound. If the card is a monkey, the learner finds the letter m, matching the grapheme to the...
Curated OER
Introduce /h/
Explore the letter h using these strategies combining pronunciation, recognition, letter sound, and word examples. Scholars examine the letter shape and listen to you pronounce the /h/ sound. As you explain how this sound is made, they...
Curriculum Corner
Beginning Letter Mats
Sixteen colorful images make up a phonics worksheet focusing on initial sounds. Scholars name engaging images and identify what letter the word begins with.
Curated OER
Practicing Letters g and h
Which of these pictures begins with this sound? Learners focus on letters g and h in this alphabet practice instructional activity. They trace and print each letter and add them to an incomplete alphabet. Then, they examine sets of...
Curated OER
Practicing Letters y and z
Get familiar with the end of the alphabet using this y and z learning exercise. Learners trace and print each letter and add them to an incomplete alphabet. Then, they draw lines connecting the letter to objects that begin with its...
Curated OER
Initial Sounds with Word Families
In this word sound worksheet, students practice different word and letter sounds. They repeat rhymes, name letters, review letter sounds, review similar word sounds and complete an activity where they use a word bank to fill in the...
Curated OER
What's the First Letter? (A to H)
Here are eight words, and each of them is missing a letter. Not just any letter but the first letter. Oh my! Put your phonics masters to work and have them determine which of the eight letters (a-h) completes each word.
Curated OER
Beginning Sounds H, C, T, A, and B
Can your class identify initial phonemes? They'll say the name for each of the pictures shown and read the letters in each row. They circle the letter that makes the same beginning sounds as the picture names. The letters focused on are...
Curated OER
Initial Sounds: H
In this word and letter recognition worksheet, students examine 6 words that are missing letters. Students fill in only the blanks with the letter h that should begin with the letter h. Picture clues are included. Students also practice...
Melanie Giovannone
Letter-Sound Match Cut and Paste
Develop beginning readers' understanding of letter-sound correspondence with this fun series of cut-and-paste worksheets. With each page focusing on four specific letters, children are able to practice isolating initial sounds as they...
Curated OER
Beginning Sounds Worksheet
In this beginning sounds worksheet, students look at pictures, pronounce the word, sound out the beginning sound, and circle the letter that each picture begins with. Students circle four multiple choice answers.
Curated OER
Odd One Out
Letters q-z are the topic of the worksheet. Learners circle the picture in each row that does not make the initial letter sound indicated. They then fill in the letter that is missing from the beginning or ending of four words.
Curated OER
Play I Spy
If you're looking for a fun way to practice initial phonemes with emerging readers, look no further! They examine a farm scene to find things that begin with f, h, or g, writing the total number they found in a box beside each letter....
Curated OER
Beginning Sounds Worksheet
In this picture and beginning sounds instructional activity, students study 4 pictures of objects and then determine which of the 3 letters each picture begins with. Students circle each of their answers.
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Beginning Sounds Worksheet
In this beginning sounds worksheet, students look at each of the four pictures below and circle the letter that each picture begins with.
Curated OER
Beginning Sounds Worksheet
In this phonics worksheet, students look at 4 pictures and circle the beginning letter that each picture begins with. Students sound out each picture to choose their answers.
Curated OER
Beginning Sounds of Vegetables
In this recognizing initial sounds of words worksheet, students view pictures of vegetables, say their names, and choose the letters that make their beginning sounds. Students write eight multiple choice answers.
Curated OER
Beginning Sounds Quiz
In this picture words activity, students observe pictures of everyday objects and circle the beginning letter of each picture. Students choose 10 multiple choice answers.
Curated OER
Initial Sounds (1)
In this early childhood initial sounds activity, students examine 6 pictures and identify the letter that begins the words represented. Students also draw 2 objects that begin with the letters s and h.
Curated OER
What is the Beginning Sound?
In this early childhood beginning sounds worksheet, students practice their phonics skills as they look at 6 pictures, say their names, and identify the letter that begins the 6 words. An animal habitat question is also included on the...
Curated OER
Word Recognition, initial sounds, Letter U, V Sound, letter V, U sound
In this letter H activity worksheet, students examine 12 pictures of various objects and identify the pictures of the items that begin with the letter H. A word bank is provided.
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Amazing Letters
Reinforce young scholars' alphabet skills with a twenty-six page packet featuring the letters of the alphabet. Individual pages focus on one letter, challenge learners to print in upper and lowercase, and copy five words that begin with...