A printable maze where students follow words that use the schwa sound to work their way through the maze.

Help the bees collect words that rhyme with top by clicking on the bees, finding the words that rhyme with top, and dragging them to the nest. Links to lesson plans and materials are available.

Help Belinda the Chicken collect her fruit by clicking on the apples, finding the ones that rhyme with cat, and dragging them to her house. Links to lesson plans and printable materials are available.

A group of ten simple activities easily incorporated into the course of a day to reinforce phonemic awareness.

Here is a collection of our common core aligned worksheets for core standard L.K.2.C. A brief description of the worksheets is on each of the worksheet widgets. Click on the images to view, download, or print them. All worksheets are...

This resource provides a look at the Korean language and the history of the written language. The article professes that it is an extremely easy language to learn to read. See examples of the vowels and consonants and discover why the...

A fascinating look at the Korean language and the history of the written language. The article professes that it is an extremely easy language to learn to read. See examples of the vowels and consonants and discover why the letters look...

This lesson plan will allow young scholars to practice both writing names and identifying beginning sounds for common item names.

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 sounds game that students will love! They toss a bean bag onto a poster board with pictures on it, and tell what the first letter and sound is of the picture that the bean bag lands on. This site includes a link to printable...

A great game to teach students how to sound out words. Each student picks a piece of long paper out of the teacher's basket and pronounces the letters on it.

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...

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.

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 build learners' abilities to identify letters and their sounds. A student shakes an egg carton, opens it to see where a chip landed, and says the letter and its sound.

A reading game based on "Connect 4" that will build student's abilities to say the name and sound of a letter and find a word beginning with that sound.

An exciting activity for the whole class to practice listening for a specific letter sound. When they hear a word with the sound they are listening for they give it a thumbs up; if it doesn't have the sound, they give it a thumbs down....

A letter sound version of Tic Tac Toe that students play with partners. Before they can take their turn, they must draw a letter and give three words that begin with that letter. Their partner must give them a thumbs up before they can...

A small group game to practice word and sound recognition and accuracy. Given a sound or word, each student on team runs to pile of holiday shapes, finds the letter, or picture that begins with the sound, or brings back all the letters...

Use this game of "I Spy" to help students build their accuracy of letter identification! Can be student- or teacher-led.

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...

Fantastic site for learning the basics of Spanish pronunciation. The audio clips are great for contrasting Spanish and English sounds.

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