First graders listen closely as their teacher sounds out a variety of words, one phoneme at a time. They then practice blending sounds to create words on their own. Tip: While you sound out words have your class write down each phoneme...

Explore the ins and outs of the letter k using these strategies combining pronunciation, letter recognition, and initial phoneme examples. Scholars examine the letter shape and listen to you pronounce the /k/ sound. Use these tips to...

Students practice using the letter u in order to understand letter-sound correspondence. In this letter-sound correspondence lesson plan, students write, read, and say different words with the letter u in them.

Study the short and long sounds of the letter e. Learners will practice words and tongue twisters using both the short and long vowel /e/. They use letter boxes and letter tiles to spell words containing the target sound. To close the...

Fourth graders work in teams to write individual friendly letters to the readers of the Careerville News who have written to the Career Information Columnist requesting information about working in Careerville. They focus their friendly...

Young scholars discuss Sir Ernest Shackleton and his participation in the Discovery expedition in 1901 to the South Pole. Students write a persuasive letter of application to an ad Shackleton placed in a London newspaper looking for...

Little ones are provided with all the tools needed to begin segmenting phonemes. There are twenty Elkonin box picture cards, five blank Elkonin box cards, and full instructions on how to help pre-readers practice splitting and saying...

Help young scholars name the letters of the alphabet. They use the provided alphabet border and letter cards to take turns saying and finding various alphabet letters. This simple game can be extended by having learners focus on the...

The snake goes sssss and the plane goes nnnnn! Practice letters and their sounds with a collection of activities. For each letter, kids get to color, practice the sound, and practice writing the letter. This is group one. See the...

In this letters d, e, f, and g worksheet, students trace the upper and lower case letters d, e, f, and g. Students trace 16 lines of letters and 1 line of words containing these letters.

Investigate mirror images with alphabet letters! In order to experiment with mirror images, distortion, and reflection, class members use small mirrors and place them over and near the alphabet letters on the worksheet. Individuals or...

In this word sounds learning exercise, students review the rules for using the hard and soft g sound in words. Students then count out the words at the bottom of the page and glue them into the correct sound box.

First graders observe that the key to reading words is memorizing the symbols that make them up. They observe a picture of children jumping rope and watch as the teacher models the /j/ sound. They then all pretend to jump rope and make...

Here is a writing worksheet that has learners review and discuss the importance of correctly-using capital letters. They  write two sentences that begin with a capital letter, and share them with a partner. A good worksheet!

Kindergarteners and first graders alike are engaged as they learn the initial sounds of objects by taking turns flipping cards to form a long train. This complete and ready-to-print activity helps young ones build the basic foundations...

Start off your young English language learners with this packet of materials, which covers three weeks of instructions. After completing the unit, kids will have practiced the letters K through Z, read several story books, talked with...

In this G words worksheet, learners read the g words and then rewrite them on the lines in alphabetical order. Students alphabetize the following words: gave, get, ghost, giraffe, girl, glove, goose, grab, guitar, and gym.

In this matching letters worksheet, students draw lines to match upper and lower case examples of letters F, G, H, I and J.

In this uppercase and lowercase E, F, G, and H worksheet, students practice recognizing letters as they look at the uppercase letter in each row and then circle the letter that is the lowercase version.

For this printing of upper and lowercase letter Gg learning exercise, learners trace seven Gg's, print four Gg's, and practice writing the letters Gg on the two lines provided.

In this matching letters worksheet, students draw lines to match 4 upper case letters with the lower case letters. On this page the letters A-D are used.

In this matching uppercase and lowercase P, Q, R, S, and T worksheet, students learn to recognize uppercase and lowercase letters as they match 5 uppercase letters on the left to the corresponding lowercase letters on the right.

In this matching letters worksheet, learners draw lines to match upper and lower case examples of letters U, V, W, X, Y and Z.

In this letter recognition worksheet, students draw a line from a lower case letter to its matching upper case letter. Worksheet is 2 pages and includes the entire alphabet.