Print this worksheet for your students while teaching a rhyming/spelling unit. Student will fill in the beginning sound using picture clues to make a word ending in A-L-L. [Requires Adobe Reader.]

A classroom activity to help the student determine what is different about a one syllable word. The teacher says a word, then changes one sound in the word, and asks the students what is different.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson uses Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Ehlert to teach students to use picture cues and initial word sounds to identify unknown words. Ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and independent...

For this lesson plan, the mentor text utilized is Deborah Guarino's book, Is Your Mama a Llama?, with the focus of sentence fluency. Each student will think of an animal that that has the same initial sound as his/her name. Using the...

This video lesson focuses capitalization in sentences including initial letter, proper nouns, interjections, and conversation fragments. Real Player is required.

In this classroom activity, the instructor creates a list of simple sentences that include a three or four letter word that the students are asked to blend. The instructor says the sentence and asks the student to help blend the letters...

A simple, yet effective activity to teach students to identify the same sounds in different words. The teacher says a word and the students give a thumbs up or thumbs down. This site also includes a Word Generator list link as a resource.

This activity uses the students' favorite classroom book as a resource. The instructor says We are going on a Picture Hunt! and then asks the class where an object is in the picture, but leaves out the first letter sound when asking.

A classroom game designed to build accuracy skills in students' abilities to identify syllables. The teacher prints picture cards (this site links to the site for pictures) of one-, two-, or three-syllable words. Students pull a picture...

A higher level activity that helps students develop fluency in identifying open and closed syllable words.

An activity to build students' abilities to identify sounds, even in nonsense words. The teacher says a word and states that it is not a real word, but asks the students to just listen for the sounds.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart will assist students in recognizing all initial consonant and short vowel sounds (a-z, ch, sh, th) in speech and writing; to identify and write correct initial letters in response to the...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A Christmas themed activity for studying the letter /f/. Includes a graphic organizer, identification of upper and lowercase /f/, identification of the initial sound in Christmas vocabulary words, and...

In this interactive, student learn to pronounce and produce rhyming words containing the short A sound. Using the word maching, students can change the beginning or the ending sounds to make new words which are then clearly pronounced.

In this beginning reading module, the instructor introduces words with initial consonant blends. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see words sounded out,...

In this lesson plan, Potluck by Anne Shelby, is used as a mentor text for word choice. The content focus of the lesson is to highlight alliteration. Each student will use alliteration in a sentence as the student include his/her name, a...

Type in the right letter to begin each word, then see your score.

Celebration words can be used to help students review and practice beginning sounds. This instructional activity will help students recognize and produce the initial sound of a given word. Included are an assessment checklist, videos of...

Knowing the relationship between written letters and spoken sounds will help children recognize words accurately and automatically. In this lesson plan, children practice matching letters with initial sounds.

In this activity for grades K to 2, students use letter sounds to identify words that begin with each of the letters of the alphabet.

[Free Registration/Login Required] In this Flipchart children can drag the beginning letters to make words with the -at and -an word families.

A fun activity that has students draw each individual letter and then blend them together.

A classroom or small group game to build accuracy of students' abilities to blend phonemes. Students write the sounds that the teacher gives them on their own slate/dry erase board and then blend the sounds together to form words.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A one page flipchart that has an activity for students to create words. Have students move initial letters to appropriate endings to create words.