Free Reading
Free Reading: Give Me Five; Letter Sound Accuracy Activity
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...
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Free Reading: Egg Carton Game; Letter Sound Accuracy Activity
A small group game to build students' 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.
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Free Reading: Connect 4 Words: Letter Sound Accuracy Activity
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.
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Free Reading: Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down? Letter Sound Accuracy Game
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....
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Free Reading: Tic Tac Toe; Letter Sound Accuracy Activity
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...
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Free Reading: Holiday Relay: A Sounding Out Game
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...
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Free Reading: "I Spy" Letter Sound Accuracy
Use this game of "I Spy" to help students build their accuracy of letter identification! Can be student- or teacher-led.
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Free Reading: "You're a Liar!" a Letter Sound Accuracy Game
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...
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: La Pronunciacion
Fantastic site for learning the basics of Spanish pronunciation. The audio clips are great for contrasting Spanish and English sounds.
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Free Reading: Riddle Game: Oral Blending
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.
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Free Reading: Draw My Sounds: Oral Blending Fluency Activity
A fun activity that has students draw each individual letter and then blend them together.
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Free Reading: Slate Races: A Phoneme Blending Game
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.
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Free Reading: Word Swatter Game: Sounding Out Accuracy
A team game to practice sounding out words and letters.
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Free Reading: Free Reading: Alien Word Game: Sounding Out
A game where students distinguish between real words and "alien" or nonsense words.
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Free Reading: Around the World Game: Sounding Out Accuracy
A fun game involving the entire classroom that builds word and sound recognition phonetically.
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Free Reading: Bam! Game: Sounding Out Accuracy
A small group game to practice word and sound recognition and accuracy. Students pull cards out of a hat and if they can sound it out accurately they keep the card.
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Free Reading: Bingo! Sounding Out Accuracy Game.
A game of Bingo! for the whole classroom where the teacher sounds out a word and the students try to find the word on their individual bingo cards.
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Free Reading: Build a Word: Sounding Out Accuracy Game
A small group game to practice word and sound recognition and accuracy. Students pull cards with word parts printed on them out of a hat and if they can put it together and sound it out accurately they keep the card.
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Free Reading: Draw Two: A Sounding Out Accuracy Game
A whole group game to practice word and sound recognition and accuracy. Learners pull a card out of a hat and if they can sound it out accurately they keep the card. But Watch out! You may draw a card that says Draw Two! Then the student...
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Free Reading: Word Potato: A Sounding Out Accuracy Game
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...
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Free Reading: Word Baseball: A Sounding Out Accuracy Game
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.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: What Do You Hear?
Celebration words can be used to help students review and practice beginning sounds. This lesson will help students recognize and produce the initial sound of a given word. Included are an assessment checklist, videos of the lesson in...
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Better Lesson: Match That Pie
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.
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Phonemic Sound Chart for Khowar
This simple chart lists the 39 consonants and the 5 vowels of the Khowar language. It explains how to pronounce each of them, as well. Included are many links for other aspects of the Khowar language.