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Initial M: Word Match

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
For this word recognition worksheet, students examine 5 pictures and select the words that represent each of the pictures from the listed possibilities.
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Intial E: Word Match

For Students K - 2nd
In this word recognition worksheet, students examine 6 pictures and select the words that represent each of the pictures from the listed possibilities.
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Initial K: Word Match

For Students K - 2nd
For this word recognition worksheet, students examine 12 pictures and select the words that represent each of the pictures from the listed possibilities.
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Word Recognition: Letter U

For Students K - 2nd
In this word recognition worksheet, students examine 5 pictures and select the words that represent each of the pictures from the listed possibilities.
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What Letter Do These Begin With?

For Students Pre-K - K
For this initial consonant worksheet, students complete 9 pages with 9 questions on each page pertaining to initial consonant sounds. Students say the name of the picture and write the letter that starts each word.
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Sound it-Bag it

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Scholars sort picture cards based on the initial phoneme they hear as they say the name of each image. They pick a card, say its name, then place it in one of five bags based on how its initial phoneme matches the initial phoneme...
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The ai Sound

For Students K - 1st Standards
There are multiple vowels that make the /ai/ sound within words; show your learners three of them in this spelling learning exercise. They look at some examples, then complete three sets of words by adding in the vowels to make this...
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Alphabet Borders

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
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...
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Phonological Awareness: Onset and Rime, Sound Detective

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Play letter sound detective with your class, and snoop out sounds, onsets, blends, and rhyme. In pairs, children take turns choosing a card from the pile; as they sound out part of the word, their partner attempts to figure out which...
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Phonological Awareness, Phoneme Manipulating, Phoneme Position Sort

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Scholars make new words out of old ones by manipulating phonemes. Pupils mix and match initial, medial, and final phonemes to change words like cap into cup or head into bed.
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Connect the Rhymes

For Students Pre-K - K Standards
As your pre-readers begin to understand phonemes and rhyming, give them this practice learning exercise which has them matching rhyming pictures. For each of six images, they identify the corresponding image which has the same vowel...
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Connect the Rhymes

For Students Pre-K - K Standards
Introduce your pre-readers to rhyming using this matching exercise! They examine two sets of images, connecting rhyming pictures with a line. All 10 words use the vowel sound i. Note that some of these images may be difficult for...
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Guided Reading: Cold and Hot

For Teachers K - 1st
Explore the text, Cold and Hot, with comprehension strategies for young readers. First, give them a purpose for reading: find out what the boy wore outside in the snow! Then have them use one-to-one matching and picture clues to...
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Ehhh...What'd you say?

For Teachers K - 1st
Practice pronouncing and spelling words with the /e/ sound with spellers. They blend phonemes with spelling maps to master important representation and letter symbol of the short vowel /e/. They also make sock puppets and study the...
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Connect the Rhymes

For Students Pre-K - K
Pre-readers benefit from visual context clues like the ones in this rhyme worksheet. There are two sets of objects here, and scholars connect objects on the left with their rhyming counterparts on the right. Each word has the vowel...
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Confusable Letter Pairs

For Teachers K - 1st
Students practice distinguishing between pairs of similar-looking lowercase letters, such as b and d, p and b, m and w, n and m. They distinguish between easily-confused letter pairs by reading and listening to a story that highlights...
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My Family- Long I or Long E Sounds of Letter Y

For Students 1st - 2nd
Provide this awesome word packet to your young learners! Long vowel sounds are covered through coloring activities, writing activities, and matching activities. The long i and e sounds of the letter y are covered, and several word...
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Phoneme Dominoes

For Teachers K - 1st
Unlike regular dominoes, these have pictures of simple objects. Images are matched (like pig and plant) based on their initial phonemic sound. Learners will have fun playing and saying various words, matching initial letter sounds as...
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Kelly's Kindergarten: L Words

For Students K - 1st Standards
Learn a lot with lists of letters! Park the correct trucks into their parking spaces with a worksheet that focuses on the letter L. After kids study the signs next to six parking spaces, they match the words on the trucks that include...
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Reading: Classroom Words

For Students K
There are 10 classroom words located at the top of this instructional activity. Kindergartners match the word to the object in the picture, they write that word on the line near that object. This is a great way for them to recognize...
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Picture Match

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students match pictures with words that have specific phonics connotations. In this picture matching lesson plan, students have groups of words with the same phonics sayings.
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Matching Beginning Sounds: C

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this matching beginning sounds worksheet, students color the 9 pictures and circle the letter below each picture that begins each word. In addition, students draw 3 of their own pictures that begin with the identified letters.
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Matching Beginning Sounds Worksheet: C

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this early childhood beginning sound worksheet, students color the pictures and identify the letter that each of the 9 words begins with. In addition, students draw 3 of their own pictures that begin with the 3 listed letters.
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Beginning Sounds Worksheet: Part 2

For Students K
In this matching sounds worksheet, students study the pictures and then write the letter that each picture begins with on the line. Students may reference a letter bank to help them with the pictures.