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Phonics: Beginning and Ending Sounds
What does the word door start with? Little ones will look at each of the eight images, say them, then fill in the initial or final phoneme that is missing. Afterward, they play an independent game where they think of other words that...
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Reintroduce Soft-g
Do your scholars know that the letter g sometimes steals the j phoneme? Explore the letter g using these strategies combining pronunciation, recognition, letter sound, and word examples. Scholars examine the letter shape and listen to...
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Introduce /y/
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 think...
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Odd One Out
One of these words doesn't belong! As they practice first-letter recognition, scholars examine rows of familiar objects to determine what letter each begins with. For each row of three items, they decide which does not begin with the...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Phonics: Letter Recognition, Alphabet Borders
Reinforce early reading skills with an activity focusing on letter recognition. Class members work in pairs to match uppercase and lowercase letters of the alphabet.
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Review Letters and Words: 20
In this reviewing letters and words activity, students name letters, say sounds of letters, read sentences, say beginning sounds, and more. Students complete 5 exercises.
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Beginning Sounds and Pictures
In this matching beginning sounds to pictures worksheet, learners view pictures, say their names, and draw a line to match their beginning sound letters. Students match ten letters and pictures.
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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.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Phonological Awareness
Kindergarteners and first graders alike are engaged as they learn the initial sounds of objects by taking turns flipping cards to form a long train. This complete and ready-to-print activity helps young ones build the basic foundations...
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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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Beginning Sounds
In this beginning sounds worksheet, students say the name of the pictures in each row. Students circle the letter that makes the same beginning sound as the picture names. Students recognize the beginning sounds for the letters h, c, t,...
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Beginning Letters Matching
In this beginning letters worksheet, students draw lines to match pictures with their beginning letters; letters used are b, f, d and h.
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Review of Initial Sounds: F, G, H, Q
In this initial sounds worksheet, students look at pictures and write the initial sound, first on a line next to the picture, then at the beginning of the word that describes the picture.
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Initial Consonant H
In this initial consonant worksheet, students write the beginning sound [h] of 5 words. One example is completed for students.
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Beginning Sounds Worksheet
In this letter recognition worksheet, students examine 4 colorful pictures. They circle the letter that each picture begins with after picking from the three letters shown under each picture.
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Matching Pictures and Words That Begin With H
In this matching pictures and words that begin with H learning exercise, students draw a line from the picture to one of six words that begin with H.
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Puzzle Page
Who says your budding readers are too young for crossword puzzles? Scholars use visual clues instead of written ones to complete single-syllable words. They fill in the initial letter for each of six words, and a second letter for one of...
Student Handouts
Alphabet Scavenger Hunt
Hunt through your classroom or around your school's campus for items that begin with every letter of the alphabet! Learners can record the words on this page, which lists the alphabet and provides lines to write on.
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Language Exercises
In this language worksheet, learners write words that start with the beginning letter given and complete the clue, and look at the picture and tick the sentences that are true. Students complete 2 activities.
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Phonological Awareness, Phoneme Manipulating, Phoneme Position Sort
Scholars make new words out of old ones by manipulating phonemes. Pupils mix and match initial, medial, and final phonemes to change words like cap into cup or head into bed.
PBS
Dear Pen Pal
Explore cultures from around the world with an engaging pen pal resource. Through a series of classroom activities and written correspondence, children learn about the favoritec pastimes, schooling, geography, and weather that is...
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Initial Consonant Sounds of M-N-W-L-H
In this initial sounds worksheet, 1st graders circle the initial consonant sound for each of the pictured words. Students circle the sound and write the word on the lines.
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Word Family
What do a man, a can, and a fan have in common? They are all in the same word family! Young readers practice adding the first letter or letters to each word within a particular word family.
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Fun Fonix: Hh
In this phonics worksheet, students respond to 8 questions by practicing the formation of capital and lower case H and writing the letter in the bubbles next to the pictures.