ABCya
Ab Cya: Monster Mansion Letter Match
Monster Mansion Letter Match is a fun educational game for kids to practice matching capital and lowercase letters. Click on the windows of the Monster Mansion to reveal the friendly monsters inside and match the uppercase to lowercase...
Auburn University
Auburn University: Teaching Letter Recognition
How can you teach your students letter recognition? This site offers insight into this necessary pre-reading skill set. Come and explore this informative resource.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Letter Bubble Alphabetical Order
Letter Bubble: Alphabetical Order is a fun educational game for kids to practice putting the letters of the alphabet in order. Children can play with letter names or letter sounds and must pop bubbles to release letters on the correct...
Starfall
Starfall: Letters of the Alphabet
This site features activities for the letters of the alphabet. Students have an opportunity to click on a letter and hear a story about that letter.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Super Why: Letter Sounds Worksheet [Pdf]
An excellent resource for teaching beginning letter-sound correspondence. Student must identify the object in the picture and circle the letter that begins the word.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: What's Your Name? (U)
This video segment from Between the Lions uses a fun hip-hop song about names to highlight the /uh/ sound that the letter "u" makes and to boost phonemic awareness: an understanding of the sounds within words.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Student of the Day: Create Sound/letter Understanding With Names
A recurring lesson plan focused on understanding letters and sounds. Each session lasts ten to twenty minutes with one session for each student in the class. Each student has a turn at being the Student of the Day and other students...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Give Me Five; Letter Sound Accuracy Activity
An exciting game to build students' understanding and accuracy of producing words that begin with the same letter. Students sit in a circle and the teacher says the sound of the letter. One student must pass a bean bag around the circle...
Starfall
Starfall: Gus the Duck
Learn the short U vowel sound with this cleverly illustrated and animated read-along story about a duck named Gus. Students can click on the word and it will show them how to blend phonemes to pronounce the word.
TeacherLED
Abc Game: Iwb Resource
This interactive whiteboard game requires students to click to identify letters of the alphabet by name or sound. Students can choose upper case or lower case letters.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Activity: Episode 102: Hansel and Gretel: Super Why!
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Make these gingerbread cookie letters with your child to teach lots of literacy skills: letters of the alphabet, the names and sounds of letters, and word writing.
TVOntario
Tvo Kids: Games: Animal Who? [Learn the Alphabet]
A simple activity that connects letters of the alphabet to simple words, specifically names of animals. Typing any letter on the keyboard reveals an illustration of a common animal, its name, and the sound that animal makes.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Lucky Dip Game: Oral Blending and Segmenting
Students pull an object from a bag, keep it hidden, stretch out its name by pronouncing each letter sound for at least a second, and everyone else has to guess the object.
Other
Laus Dnet: Kinder. Word Lesson Alphabet Potluck Feast [Pdf]
Students will create a class book (PDF) modeled after the book Potluck, by Anne Shelby, to identify the beginning sounds of words and the letter of the alphabet representing that sound (phonemic awareness). Contains links to step sheets...
ABCya
Ab Cya: Abc & 123 Magnets
Children can practice alphabet, number, and punctuation recognition by clicking and dragging magnets to the refrigerator. Children will hear the letter or number when they click on a magnet. Practice writing names, birthdays or short...
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Rosetta Stone
In 1799, the Rosetta Stone was found and gave the first key to the reading of hieroglyphics. On this stone the same inscription was given in three different sets of characters, -the hieroglyphics, the demotic text (a briefer and more...
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Rosetta Stone
In 1799, the Rosetta Stone was found and gave the first key to the reading of hieroglyphics. On this stone the same inscription was given in three different sets of characters, -the hieroglyphics, the demotic text (a briefer and more...
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Rosetta Stone
In 1799, the Rosetta Stone was found and gave the first key to the reading of hieroglyphics. On this stone the same inscription was given in three different sets of characters, -the hieroglyphics, the demotic text (a briefer and more...