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Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Matching, Medial Phoneme Dominoes
Matching medial phonemes can be as easy as playing a game of dominoes! These dominoes contain pictures of items children can say. As they say each word aloud, they work to match the medial sound to one on an adjacent card. Just like real...
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Final /-s/ and /-es/ Pronunciation
Practice the pronunciation of the final /-s/ and /-es/ sound with this learning exercise. After reading information about and looking at charts of voiced and voiceless sounds, learners determine what the final sounds of plural words...
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CVC Words - Final Sounds
For this phonics worksheet, students study each picture and fill in the missing sound for each word. Students follow the consonant-vowel-consonant pattern.
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Ending Consonant Sounds Worksheet
In this consonant words instructional activity, students study the pictures and circle the letter that makes the ending sound for each of the 4 pictures.
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Phonics: Variant Correspondences, Say and Write Letters
Scholars sound out and write twelve different words. Using Elkonin boxes, pupils say the name of each picture, then write the letters that make each sound.
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Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Matching, Initial Phoneme Picture Sort
An activity focuses on phonemic awareness and initial letter sounds. Scholars sort picture cards by saying and matching the initial sounds each word makes.
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Last Letter: G, T, and X
In this ending sounds learning exercise, 1st graders study the pictures and the first letters for each word. Students then write the last letter for each word on the lines. Students learn the ending sounds of g, t, and x.
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Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Matching, Sound Maker - Sound Smacker
Scholars sort words based on their initial phonemes. They choose cards, say their names, and match the initial phoneme to the one posted on one of the sorting bins. If the initial sound matches, they put the card in the sound maker bin,...
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Phonics: Letter-Sound Correspondence, Photo Chart
Have fun with student photographs in this phonics activity! Learners sort their classmates' photos by initial sound on a large poster board with the alphabet written vertically down the left side. Also provided are various pictures...
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Poems: Itsy Bitsy Spider
Act out the "Itsy Bitsy Spider" rhyme with youngsters. Learners observe visual instructions before completing the corresponding actions, then draw the spider into a scene. Finally, they write down rhyming words that have the ai spelling...
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Ending Consonant Sounds Worksheet
In this consonant sounds worksheet, students study the 4 pictures and circle the letter that makes the ending consonant sound for each picture.
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Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Manipulating, Phoneme Swap
Reading readiness can be a fun skill to foster. Scholars manipulate phonemes to change one word into another. They pick picture cards, say the object's name on the card, then change the final phoneme to create a new word. They then find...
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Ending Consonants Worksheet
In this consonant sounds worksheet, students draw a line from each letter to the picture that ends with the consonants sounds: K, R, Y, and G.
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Ending consonants Worksheet: K, G, N, P
For this ending consonants worksheet, students study each of the pictures and write the correct ending consonant to complete the 4 words.
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C and G up the Coconut Tree
Students study letter recognition and differentiation of the letters C and G. They write the letters, listen to their sounds, and identify pictures with the C and G beginning sounds. They recite tongue twisters and write the letters....
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Circle the Picture: Ending Consonants
For this ending consonants worksheet, students say the sound of the letter in each of 5 questions. From two picture choices, students circle the picture that ends with the given letter.
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Using Starfall to Review the Short A Sound
Students read a story with the short a sound. The story is about a rat. They access Starfall and select the story called Zac the Rat. They read the story out loud as a group then the students answer comprehension and skill questions...
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Phonemic Awareness: Phoneme Blending
This resource is more of a suggestion than a full lesson. It explains how young pre-readers can work with their teacher to practice blending phonemes to make words. The class watches the teacher as she says and orally segments a word...
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Short Vowel Sounds: Listening Exercise
For this CVC pattern words worksheet, learners examine eight pictures, say the name of each picture, and use the provided letters to spell the words. Pupils also write a sentence using as many of the eight words as they can.
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Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Isolating, Move and Tell
Build phonological awareness with this fun game focused on isolating and identifying medial phonemes. This game board contains an image on each square; when the child lands on a square, they must say the medial sound of the word they...
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Learn-to-Read Pumpkin Patch
Students practice identifying and pronouncing the short letter "u" sound. In this phonetic awareness lesson plan, students access the Starfall.com website and follow the directions on the screen to reinforce the short "u" sound. Students...
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Drop and Say
This neat idea gets kids to use phonics and puzzle-solving skills. Pairs take turns picking picture cards from a pile, say the name of the object on the card, drop a letter to turn that word into a new word, then look for the new word on...
It's About Time
Sounds in Strings
How many of your pupils play an instrument? A musical science lesson will help all of them understand how string instruments work. Young scientists construct a string-and-pulley system to test frequency and pitch. The lesson ends with a...
Perkins School for the Blind
Initial Consonant Activity
Bingo is a super fun game and can be used to reinforce a vast number of recognition skills. These bingo cards are prepared by constructing nine squares, each delineated with raised Wikki Stix or gluedyarn and containing a braille...