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Initial Sounds: Ch
In this word and letter recognition worksheet, learners examine 6 words that are missing letters. Students fill in the initial letters in the words as instructed. Picture clues are included. Learners also practice tracing the letter.
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Initial Sounds Review
For this initial sounds review worksheet, students examine 8 pictures and the words that accompany each of them. Students fill in the missing beginning letter in each word with the appropriate letter from the word bank.
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Introduce /n/
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...
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Reintroduce /r/
The /r/ sound can be a difficult one, but scholars use some helpful tips to get it right. After examining the letter shape they listen to you pronounce this phoneme and describe what you are doing to create the sound. They try on their...
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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...
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Reading Strategies for Decoding Tricky Words
Help primary school pupils learn valuable reading strategies. As they choral read a poster or big book, they predict covered words and learn various reading strategies for figuring out an unknown word. This will help them gain an...
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Phonics: Letter-Sound Correspondence, Letter-Sound Pyramid
This fun game is a way to help your littlest learners build strong phonological awareness. Scholars equipped with letter triangles, a stack of picture cards, and counters choose a picture card, say the name of the image, and attempt to...
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ABC Sound Off
If your young readers are in need of practice identifying beginning sounds to words, this PowerPoint is for you. First, they will look at a cartoon picture. Next, they will click on the letter they think that word begins with. Excellent...
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Beginning Sounds
In this early childhood beginning sounds worksheet, students learn to recognize beginning letters of words as they look at the pictures of the ball, goat, money, octopus and zebra on the page and then draw a line to the letter each item...
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Christmas Phonics: Initial Sounds
In this Christmas phonics learning exercise, students look at the Christmas images and say each word. Students circle the initial sound in the 9 words.
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Beginning Sounds of Letters
Big B little b what begins with B? That's a great question! Children read a string of words and circle the ones that have the same beginning letter sound. The page contains 15 word strings for learners to assess.
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Odd One Out
Letters q-z are the topic of the activity. 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.
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Summer Build-a-Word Puzzles
Help beginning students build words from sounds right before summer with a set of build-a-word puzzles. The 17-page packet comes with 45 beach-themed word puzzles.
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Letter Pronunciation - /f/ Sound
Are you working on the /f/ sound in your class? Develop phonemic awareness with this instructional activity. This graphic organizer has learners circle the word that best describes the picture in the right-hand column. Then, in the...
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Monterey Bay Aquarium: ABC Search
This attractive instructional activity has students identify beginning sounds in words using sea animals and related topics as a guide. Students fill in the beginning sounds for such words as diver or octopus. It can be used as a...
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Matching Beginning Sounds: C
In this matching beginning sounds worksheet, students color the 9 pictures and circle the letter below each picture that begins each word. In addition, students draw 3 of their own pictures that begin with the identified letters.
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Matching Beginning Sounds Worksheet: C
In this early childhood beginning sound worksheet, students color the pictures and identify the letter that each of the 9 words begins with. In addition, students draw 3 of their own pictures that begin with the 3 listed letters.
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Beginning Sounds-Missing Letters
In this beginning sounds worksheet, students fill in missing initial letters in words beneath their matching pictures. The alphabet is written at the top of the page for students.
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Sounding Out the Symbols
Using the states as a hook, kindergartners identify beginning sounds. They identify the initial sound in words like Mississippi and Indiana and complete a set of worksheets related to this skill.
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The Letter O at the Beginning of Words
In this letter O worksheet, students fill in the initial letter blank in 3 words with the letter O. Students read the words and color the pictures that go with them.
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Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Isolating, Sound Quest
Scholars cut, paste, and identify specific initial, medial, and final phonemes by placing them on a phoneme chart.
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Fluency: Words, Fast Match
Here is an interesting take on the old timed-fluency activity. In pairs, learners work together to see how fast they can read two sets of high-frequency words. Peer one reads a word from his list; peer two works fast to find that word in...
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First Letter on the Farm
In this phonics worksheet, students will name pictures of things found on a farm. Students will listen to the beginning sound of each word and write the missing letter on the line to complete each picture name.
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Beginning Sounds of Fruit
In this recognizing beginning word sounds worksheet, students view pictures of fruits, say the names of the fruits, and choose the letters that make the beginning sounds. Students write eight multiple choice answers.