An exciting classroom word game based on the game "Boggle." The classroom is divided into groups. The teacher says a letter, and each students writes down as many words as they can that begin with that letter. Then they compare with the...

This page contains audios of sounds for single letters. The audios give the letter sound and then pronounce a word that uses that sound. It gives only the short vowel sounds. The sounds are pronounced in a North American accent.

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.

A fun classroom game! The teacher says a riddle, gives the sounds that make up the answer, and the students guess the answer by blending the sounds together.

A fun, unique version of the game "Ring Around the Rosie" that builds the students' accuracy in identifying letters, sounds, and words that begin with that letter. A link to printable letter cards is provided on this site as well.

This site is an interactive quiz to assess knowledge of the soft /g/ in words that incorporate the "ge" and "dge" spelling patterns. The quiz is designed to follow the "Reading Bear: ge, dge, etc." lesson.

How do you count phonemes in spoken words? Check out this site to discover more about how to approach dealing with question in the classroom. This site offers exercises dealing with counting phonemes.

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

A small group game using cards with letters of the alphabet on them. The object is to place cards face down in a pile in alphabetical order. Based on an old card game called "I doubt it." This site has a link to a Letter card site for...

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 beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "ck" in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see words...

A small group game to practice word and sound recognition and accuracy. A word version of "Hot Potato" in which the students pass around a basket of words. The last student to hold the basket must pick a word and sound it out. If they...

In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "x" or digraphs. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see...

In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "ph"or "gh" in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see...

In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "ch" and "tch" in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words,...

Key to learning how to read is the ability to identify the different sounds that make words and to associate these sounds with written words. There are 44 phonemes in the English language, including letter combinations such as /th/,...

This English pronunciation guide is useful for young English speakers, as well as English language learners of all ages. It offers practice in reading, pronunciation, and writing of vowels and consonants and of vowel and consonant...

Focus on the important skills of identifying where in a word a given sound appears, and on learning four consonant digraphs vital to learning to read (ch, sh, th, and wh).

A quick alphabet game for the whole class. Students stand in a circle and throw a beanbag to each other. When they catch it, they must say a word that begins with the letter given. Continue this in alphabetical order.

A letter sound accuracy game based on Musical Chairs. But to keep the chair that they sit in the student must pick a letter from the teacher's bucket and give a word that starts with that letter. A link to Letter Cards is included on...

An exciting game to build students' understanding and accuracy of producing words that begin with the same letter. Students sit in a circle and the teacher says the sound of the letter. One student must pass a bean bag around the circle...

A small group game to practice word and sound recognition and accuracy. Students are divided into two teams and when "up to bat" sound out a word on a card accurately, and then pick a card from the baseball plays in a bucket.

For this lesson, young scholars will learn how to segment words. Then students will play a segmentation game that utilizes Elkonin boxes and markers.

In this lesson, young scholars will learn or review the topic of "alliteration" in writing. Then each student will create a 25-word headline poem that contains at least three examples of alliteration. [Requires Adobe Reader.]