This printable consonant letters worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will find hidden words that begin with /g/ and end with /x/. An answer key and lesson extension are...

This printable vowels worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Learners will find a hidden picture by identifying words that contain the ending consonant /s/. An answer key and lesson...

This printable phonics worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will fill in words to complete sentences with words that end with -al or -all. Then students will complete a word...

This resource has two sections: Overview of Consonant-Vowel-Consonant Words/Closed Syllables and video Demonstrations. It provides downloads of the following: lesson plan, lesson materials, word list, and video transcript. This section...

This resource has two sections: Vowel-Consonant-e Syllables and video demonstrations. It provides downloads of the following: lesson plan, lesson materials, word list, and video transcript.

Grammar rules taught through song. A familiar tune helps to teach the E and O at the end of the word that make a long vowel sound. There are opportunities to demonstrate understanding by identifying words that that follow the rule.

A wonderful site full of tips for teaching Word-form recognition activities. This site has a plethora of links that provide an excellent way to practice and memorize the essential skills of recognizing words without sounding out each...

A short animation that explains the role that vowels play in making words. With reinforcement for pronouncing select vowels and consonants.

A seventeen-part learning module with links to images and videos to help students learn about ou/ow and oi/oy diphthongs.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Information and examples of words containing the vowels "a", "e", "I", and "o."

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

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

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...

What is a digraph? The objective of this lesson plan is that young scholars will be able to recognize and use consonant digraphs in sentences and speech.

This site includes 15 different phonics and reading games to download, laminate, and cut out. Includes games for phonics blends; "When two vowels go walking;" ee; ir, ur er; tion, etc.

There are a large number of vowel combinations that produce completely different sounds. These are known as vowel teams. These worksheets can help students be successful with the usage of vowel pairs and adjoining consonants.

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...

Students play detective and discover a given letter at the beginning of a word. They keep a "tally" sheet and compete with their classmates. This site includes links to Letter cards and a Letter Hunt Tally Sheet.

A comprehensive site on English pronunciation for English language learners and their teachers. It offers explanations and activities for pronunciation of specific sounds, of letter combinations, of word stresses, and of phrasal words....

Ancient Scripts features a tutorial on phonetics and the terminology used to describe the sounds and the tones that make up spoken language.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Choose from a variety of worksheets to reinforce the common core standard of writing letters for most consonant and short-vowel sounds.

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.

This webpage article is a very technical discussion of articulation of speech sounds. Multiple technical linguistic terms are used throughout the essay.

Did you know that letter guessing on Wheel of Fortune is based on probability? In this challenge taken from one of TV's most popular game shows, discover what consonant or vowel should be guessed next based on letters already given. A...