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Draw it Yourself
What rhymes with fox? Get learners engaged with rhyming words through this drawing activity featuring four single-syllable words for beginning readers. For each, they draw something that rhymes with the word. Challenge learners who need...
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Poems: Eating Treats
Which poem is best? Your kindergarten class follows along as you read three different poems. They decide which one they like best, then draw a picture to illustrate it. The class can also discuss why they chose the poems they did. A...
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Poems: Humourous Verses
First grade is a great time to build strong reading skills. Here are three short rhyming poems or common nursery rhymes that are intended to help boost reading fluency. Because most children know these rhymes, they will have an easier...
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Find the Rhyme
Find the rhyming word. All of these rhyming, single-syllable words have the short i sound, but learners have to determine which ones they are. There are four starting objects each heading a row of three objects. They examine the...
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Initial Sounds
In this consonant sound worksheet, students focus on the initial sounds. Students say the names of eight pictures and draw a line from the picture to the initial sound and word for each.
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Long a Vowel Phoneme
In this long a vowel phoneme worksheet, students cut out the 35 word cards featuring the long a sound. Students sort the 35 cards into groups based on the patterns that make the long a sound.
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Beginning Sounds
In this consonant instructional activity, 1st graders focus on initial sounds. Students study 9 pictures and circle the letter of the initial consonant sound that is heard for each.
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Initial sound: long e
In this long e worksheet, learners fill in the initial sound of the long e under the pictures that contain that sound. Students fill in the blank to 3 words.
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Cool Cat: The Letter C
In this letter C worksheet, students color "c's" found on a picture of a cat . Students then circle yes or no beneath pictures to tell if they hear the hard c sound at the beginning of each.
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Initial Sounds
In this consonant sound worksheet, students focus on the initial letter sounds. Students study 8 pictures and circle those that have the same sound as the first picture on the page.
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Short Vowel Sounds: Listening Exercise
In this CVC pattern words worksheet, learners examine eight pictures, say the name of each picture, and use the provided letters to spell the words. Pupils also write a sentence using as many of the eight words as they can.
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Listening For Long Vowel Sounds
Provide young learners practice identifying different letters and the sounds they create. For each illustration, learners will say the word aloud and identify the correct spelling based on the word's pronunciation. Then they write the...
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Letter B Recognition
Students identify words that begin with the letter B in this simple activity. This activity could provide a short review of the letter B.
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Letter O Recognition
This worksheet provides a way for students to practice their letter recognition skills. In this worksheet, students identify the letter O as the beginning sound in a few words. It is a quick and simple review.
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Letter P Recognition
This worksheet is a short practice involving the letter P. Students identify the beginning sounds in a few words that start with P.
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Letter A Recognition
In this letter recognition worksheet students practice identifying the letter A. This could be a simple and quick way to have students identify words that begin with A.
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Letter D Recognition
Students can practice identifying the letter D using this worksheet. Using this short worksheet, students identify words with the beginning sound D.
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Letter N Recognition
Using a fill-in-the blank format, students identify words that begin with N. In this letter recognition worksheet, students begin an exploration of words that start with N.
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Beginning Sounds Worksheet
In this letter recognition worksheet, students examine 4 colorful pictures. They circle the letter that each picture begins with after picking from the three letters shown under each picture.
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Match the Beginning Letter to the Picture
In this beginning sounds worksheet, students draw lines to match 6 pictures with the initial consonant. Note: The consonants are capitalized.
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Family Fundamentals for Summer Learning
Just because it's summertime, doesn't mean that learning has to stop. Support children with continuing to develop their reading fluency with this extensive collection of literacy activities.
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CVC Words-Beginning Sound
In this CVC beginning sound worksheet, students say picture words, guess which letter makes the beginning sound, circle the letters that make the middle and final sound and then spell the word beneath each picture.
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Beginning Consonants S-T-V
In these beginning sounds worksheets, students fill in the beginning consonant letter for each word. Students then draw a line from the word to the matching picture.
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Where is the Sound Of - m ?
In this phonemic awareness instructional activity, students say each picture word and if they hear the /m/ sound at the beginning of the word they circle the first "m." They circle the "m" to the right of the picture if they hear the /m/...