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PBS

Pbs Kids: Super Why: Letter Sounds Worksheet [Pdf]

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
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.
Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: What's Your Name? (U)

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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.
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Other

Teacher.org: Beginning Sound Match

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This lesson will allow young scholars to practice both writing names and identifying beginning sounds for common item names.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Student of the Day: Create Sound/letter Understanding With Names

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
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...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Give Me Five; Letter Sound Accuracy Activity

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
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...
Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: Talk to Me Alphabet

For Students Pre-K - K Standards
Talk to Me Alphabet is a fun activity for young children learning letter names and sounds. Use either the keys on your keyboard or tap on a letter to hear the letters name or letter sound! You can also switch the letter layout between...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Name Game, a Phoneme Substitution

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A quick activity to reinforce the students' ability to recognize different sounds. When calling children to line up or go to lunch, substitute the letter or sound of the day for the first letter of the child's name. Till, Tuzy, Tob, and...
Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Gus the Duck

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
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.
Whiteboard
TeacherLED

Abc Game: Iwb Resource

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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.
Activity
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Activity: Episode 102: Hansel and Gretel: Super Why!

For Students Pre-K - 1st
[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.
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Teachers.net

Teachers.net: Alphabet Fishing (Lesson Plan)

For Teachers Pre-K - K Standards
This site has a cute game young young scholars will enjoy playing to review letter recognition. Students "go fishing" for letters. For each letter they "catch" they must tell what the letter is and a sound it makes.
Interactive
TVOntario

Tvo Kids: Games: Animal Who? [Learn the Alphabet]

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
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.
Activity
Free Reading

Free Reading: Lucky Dip Game: Oral Blending and Segmenting

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
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.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: We Saw Him at the Zoo

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson plan, the mentor text utilized is Deborah Guarino's book, Is Your Mama a Llama?, with the focus of sentence fluency. Each student will think of an animal that that has the same initial sound as his/her name. Using the...
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Other

Laus Dnet: Kinder. Word Lesson Alphabet Potluck Feast [Pdf]

For Teachers K Standards
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...
Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: Abc & 123 Magnets

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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...
Graphic
Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Rosetta Stone

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
Graphic
Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Rosetta Stone

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
Graphic
Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Rosetta Stone

For Students 9th - 10th
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...