Learners follow five steps to compose an alliteration poem. They choose one consonant and brainstorm as many nouns, verbs, and adjectives they can think of to create rhyming sentences that come together in a poetic fashion. 

First graders practice blending words with the consonant-vowel-consonant pattern. Given a card with a decodable word part, 1st graders add an initial consonant sound and blend the sounds to read the new word. They practice reading a...

Second graders participate in a reading lesson in order to improve phonics skills. They generate the short vowel sound in CVC pattern words. Students blend beginning consonant, short vowel sound and final consonant into words.

in this recognizing words with the "sh" sound at the beginning worksheet, students read picture words and bracket the "sh" sounds. Students answer 5 questions.

Young scholars explore letters and their sounds.  For this beginning phonics literacy lesson, students bring objects from home that begin with an assigned letter.  Young scholars show their object/s and the teacher takes a...

In this CVC words instructional activity, students write a set of 20 consonant, vowel, consonant words, all with short vowels in the middle. Students copy by tracing the word as it appears beneath its corresponding picture.

First graders identify the grapheme and phoneme for S. They practice writing the letter S and through listening activities, discriminate the phoneme /s/. They associate the phoneme /s/ with its letter representation and identify it as...

For this CVC words worksheet, students write the name of the pictures on the blank for the pictures. Students name 8 consonant vowel consonant words.

In this letter z worksheet, students trace the letter, then draw a line to connect it to pictures that begin with the letter. Worksheet has a web site reference for additional activities.

Set your pupils straight with spelling and sounds by using these materials for practice. Included here are three booklets and workbooks that cover just about any sound or blend you could think of!

Study diphthongs in the Spanish language. This resource contains a lot of information, so consider printing one for each learner to reference and walking them through it as a class. There is a short exercise at the bottom of the page to...

Have your young readers practice phonetic analysis skills with onsets and rhymes. Groups of young scholars create animations in PowerPoint to demonstrate combining beginning letters with rhyme patterns.

Dr. Seuss's ABC Book is used to help young readers distinguish between the letters of the alphabet and their letter sounds. After a discussion reviewing the letters that are vowels and consonants, the book is read to the class. Then, the...

Students produce the long sounds in the initial position of words making silly soup.

In this consonant blends worksheet, students study the pictures and listen for the initial cluster sounds. Students write in the correct consonant blend for each picture. Students make up a sentence containing 'cl' words and one for 'cr'...

Students comprehend how to produce these pronuciation features, recognize the various blends of two and three letter consonant sounds, hear the sounds, produce them correctly when thinking about it, and practice correct pronuciation to...

In this consonant blends activity, students write in the correct initial cluster for each picture. Students make up a sentence containing 'gl' words and one for 'gr' words.

First graders identify the digraph /ch/ in written and spoken language. After a brief discussion of the independent and combined sounds of the phonemes /c/ and /h/ students practice identifying initial and final placement of the new...

In this consonant blends worksheet, students find the correct word for each picture using the words in the box. Students then write the word on the line and circle the consonant blend.

In this matching pictures and words worksheet, students cut out the pictures and the word boxes and then match each picture with the consonant vowel consonant word.

Pupils identify the digraph /sh/ in written and spoken language. After a brief discussion the independent and combined sounds of the phonemes /s/ and /h/ students practice identifying initial and final placement of the new digraph /sh/...

First graders identify the digraphs in written and spoken language. After a brief discussion of the combinations of /c/ and /h/ that comprise th /ch/ digraph, 1st graders practice identifying initial and final placement of the digraph...

Students identify the digraph /ch/ in written and spoken language. After a brief discussion of the independent and combined sounds of the phonemes /c/ and /h/ students practice identifying initial and final placement of the new digraph...

In this consonant-vowel-consonant instructional activity, students read sentences and write the words with the c-v-c patterns. Students write eight consonant-vowel-consonant words.