Who says your budding readers are too young for crossword puzzles? Scholars use visual clues instead of written ones to complete single-syllable words. They fill in the initial letter for each of six words, and a second letter for one of...

For anyone who's ever wished their drawings could sing, the answer has arrived! Simply draw while speaking, singing, or even playing an instrument. With a simple yet engaging premise, this app offers a wide range of possibilities, from...

These are challenging phonics review sheets. On the first page, learners match the end sounds to the pictures and write a rhyming word for each word. For the second page, pupils choose an end sound to complete a series of incomplete...

Build familiarity with alphabet letters to ensure your pre-readers are set up for reading success. They examine six lowercase letters on leaves, drawing lines to connect them to trees with the same letter. They will develop awareness of...

Tree, bee, knee, three... what do these have in common? Focus on vowel sounds in this matching worksheet for beginning readers. Learners connect a picture of a tree to pictures that rhyme with it and then get some printing practice. All...

There is one object that doesn't belong in each of these sets. Scholars circle the one that doesn't rhyme, listening for the /o/ vowel sound (long and short) in the others. They connect two of the objects to printing practice,...

Use this resource to provide a quick review of words with short vowel sounds. Learners view pictures, and read and write words with the short vowel sound o. Afterwards, they write a sentence using some of the short o words. Students...

Build a foundation of alphabet familiarity using this matching worksheet. Learners focus on lowercase letters a, o, c, d, g, and q as they match balloons to corresponding children. Each balloon and child has a letter inside, so...

Before youngsters begin reading, they need a foundational familiarity with alphabet letters. This matching worksheet focuses on lowercase letters m, n, u, v, and w. Learners match letters on teddy bears with the same letter on hats by...

Combine your friendly letter lesson, grammar lesson, and technology lesson with this fun activity! Young writers compose letters to friends, and then convert the text to Webdings font. Their friends then decode the letter based on a key....

Pre-readers need to build a foundation of familiarity with letters. This visual matching instructional activity has youngsters pair bees with flowers based on the lowercase letter inside each. They work with the letters t, j, d, i, p,...

This activity is straight-forward and easy to follow. Have your young learners look at the words below and place them in the correct category. Does the word have the ew letter combination or a u and silent e combination? For you very...

Go fishing for initial sounds with this engaging phoneme game! Similar to the card game Go Fish, pairs use picture cards and try to match initial sounds. They set aside any pictures that are a match and ask their partner for specific...

In this letter pronunciation, /p/ activity, students examine 7 colorful clip art pictures. They circle the word that best describes the picture and use each word in a sentence.

Learners practice the strategy of phoneme awareness in order to identify phonemes with vocal gestures in spoken words. They blend letters and sounds together utilizing the phoneme /i/ by symbol and letter representation and listen as the...

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...

Dazai Osamu’s short story, “A Sound of Hammering” is the focus of a three-day investigation of modern Japanese literature and life in post-World War II Japan. The events in Osamu’s story mirror those in his own life, and give a...

Kindergartners will cut, paste, and label the words that contain a short or long e sound. They can build their phonemic awareness as they say each word to determine which e goes where.

If the cat in the hat had a fan and a can, what would they all have in common? The short a sound! Youngsters cut and paste images of words with the short a sound, and then practice writing the words beneath each picture.

Capital letters are the star of the show in a wonderful language arts lesson. After a teacher-led demonstration and discussion on capital letters, groups of pupils get together and work on the computer to fix the flashing letters that...

Using a familiar decodable text, pairs take turns reading sentences. The partner who isn't reading follows along silently, helping if needed. They alternate sentences until the entire book is finished and then reverse to read the other...

There are words in the English language that actually make sounds, such as vroom, and, buzz. Here is a clever lesson which introduces young readers to these sound-making words. They play an interactive game on the computer that has...

What’s in a name? Letters, of course! Partners place the letters of their names on a Venn diagram. Letters they have in common are named and placed in the overlapping area of the circles, while letters unique to just one of the names are...

Practice initial consonant blends with a fun, interactive game! Choose the sounds you'd like to practice, and then have kids place the appropriate pictures for their brick breaker boards. Spin the spinner to select a blended sound, and...