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Beginning Sounds: A is for Ant
The ABC's and beginning letter sounds are the foundation of strong reading skills. Use this presentation to build your young learner's abilities to recognize beginning sounds and alphabet letters. Each slide contains an image and a word...
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Using Initial Sounds and Picture Clues to Read Unknown Words
Kindergarteners read the bold words that are unknown by using the strategies of initial sound and picture clues. They meet individually with their teacher in order to assess this concept. Excellent resource!
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Phoneme Substitution, Harder (With Letters)
Emergent readers create new words by changing a phoneme, using sets of letter cards to spell out each CVC word. They begin by substituting initial sounds, then final sounds, and lastly the middle vowel. Help them sound out each word,...
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Beginning Letters
In this initial consonant worksheet, students analyze 9 pictures of common objects. From a list of 3 choices, students circle the beginning letter of the word.
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Find the Objects/Beginning Sound Indentification
If you are just starting out as a teacher for children with visual impairments and want a fun way to teach braille and phonemic awareness, look no further. You'll fill 21 boxes with objects that start with specific letter sounds. You'll...
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Beginning Sounds
Kindergarteners recognize words that begin with the same sound. In this word study lesson, they identify initial consonant sounds in words written on the board and write another word with the same beginning sound. Also, there is a...
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Letter L
For this beginning sounds worksheet, students say the name of the 9 objects pictured and then identify those that begin with the letter L by circling them.
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Letter K
In this beginning sounds worksheet, pupils say the name of the 9 objects pictured and then identify those that begin with the letter K by circling them.
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Letter S
In this beginning sounds worksheet, students say the name of the 9 objects pictured and then identify those that begin with the letter S by circling them.
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Letter B
For this beginning sounds worksheet, young scholars say the name of the 8 objects pictured and then identify those that begin with the letter B by circling them.
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Correct Beginning Letter
In this basic spelling worksheet, learners look at a picture in a box and then select the correct beginning letter of the object in the box. They circle the right answer from the three options underneath the picture. There are 9 problems...
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Correct Beginning Letter
In this initial consonant worksheet, students analyze 9 pictures of common objects. From a list of 3 choices, students circle the beginning letter of the word.
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Beginning Letter Sounds
Students practice working with beginning letter sounds. In this phonics lesson, students state the letter sound that their name starts with, read a book about beginning letter sounds and complete a worksheet.
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Introduce First Sound Segmenting
Mico is back, and he's ready to test your scholars in initial sounds in single-syllable words. Using a puppet and the picture cards provided (these are great and in full-color), play a game with pre-readers. Hold up three picture cards...
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Reintroduce /r/
The /r/ sound can be a difficult one, but scholars use some helpful tips to get it right. After examining the letter shape they listen to you pronounce this phoneme and describe what you are doing to create the sound. They try on their...
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Introduce /n/
What is this letter? Once your class is ready to explore the letter n, use these strategies to combine word examples, pronunciation, and letter recognition. First, can they identify the letter? Make the /n/ sound, explaining how you do...
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The Letter O at the Beginning of Words
In this letter O worksheet, learners fill in the initial letter blank in 3 words with the letter O. Students read the words and color the pictures that go with them.
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Pictures That Start With Letter J
In this letter J worksheet, young scholars analyze 12 color pictures of common objects. Students circle the pictures of words that start with the letter J.
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Pictures That Start With the Letter I
In this letter I worksheet, young scholars analyze 12 color pictures of common objects. Students circle all the pictures that illustrate words beginning with the letter I.
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Beginning Sounds - Kindergarten Reading
Students practice the use of beginning sounds to improve their emerging reading skills. In this beginning sounds lesson, students review beginning sound of words before participating in a "Bingo" type game that has them use the sounds...
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Initial Sound Memory Game
Students are reintroduced to initial sounds and play a picture card game to build accuracy. In this initial sound lesson, students place the picture cards face down and organize the picture cards into an even number of rows and columns...
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Beginning Sounds
Students find the beginning letters of words. In this alphabet instructional activity, students sound out words to find the beginning sound and the beginning letter. They play a game to mark these letters on a card.
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Beginning Sounds: Poem
Students practice identifying beginning sounds. In this phonics lesson, students review different beginning sounds and read a poem. Students then work together to identify the words in the poem with their particular beginning sound.
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Initial Sound Accuracy, Same Sound!
Students study words. In this phonemic awareness lesson, students play a game in which they identify if two words have the same initial sound. They play the game in pairs using a stack of word cards prepared by the teacher. This lesson...