Curated OER
The Big City
Students explore structures in a big city. In this big city lesson plan, students become familiar with vocabulary about big cities through songs graphs, and hands-on art. Students practice phonic sound /M/.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Alpha Pig's Paint by Letter
A paint-by-letter interactive game where students match the letter on a color palette to the letter on a picture in order to paint the picture. Three levels of difficulty allow students to match capital letters, lower-case letters, or a...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Beginning Sounds
[Free Registration/Login Required] Match beginning sound to the correct picture.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Initial Sound Memory Game: A Pre Reading Game
A teacher-led activity that helps students learn to isolate initial sounds of words. Students match pictures according to the initial sounds of the words that the pictures represent.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Letter E
[Free Registration/Login Required] These activities include matching words and pictures, blending short vowel e, action words, and a story structure activity.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Uppercase & Lowercase Letter Matching
Play a game by dragging the lowercase letters to their matching upper case letters in order to get all the colors back in the picture.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Alphabet Bubble
Alphabet Bubble is a fun educational game that helps develop phonemic awareness. Children pop bubbles to match letters with words that start with the correct letter sound. Once a match is completed children are shown a picture of the word.
Starfall
Starfall: Make a Word: At
Use initial sounds to build words. Match AT sound pictures words.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Beginning Letters
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is good to use toward the beginning of first grade or the end of kindergarten. It has children look at pictures and match the beginning letter with the pictures. A pretest and posttest is...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Ab Cs Easy as Can Be!
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart students will match upper and lowercase letters to pictures that begin with the corresponding letters by dragging to create the match. Students will hear audio recordings of each...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: The Bubbly Bb
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is an introduction to the letter Bb and its sound. Students move Bb words to match the correct pictures, discriminate between Bb words, use the highlighter and pen tool to write, draw,...
TVOntario
Tvo Kids: Alphabet Goop
A colorful game to help young readers or beginning English language learners practice the beginning sounds of words.
Starfall
Starfall: Make a Word: Og
Given the letters "og" with a blank before them and a list of letters from which to choose, students make words to match given pictures. Vocabulary words: dog, log, fog, frog. Audio and graphs make this page kid-friendly. When finished,...
Starfall
Starfall: Make a Word: Ig
Create short IG words using picture cues. Drag the initial letter sound to spell each short I word. Match pictures to make words: pig, wig, big, dig.
Starfall
Starfall: Make a Word: Ip
Play interactive game building IP words. Also practice identifying initial sounds and matching pictures. Short I words: zip, rip, dip, sip.
Starfall
Starfall: Make a Word: An
Play interactive game building AN words. Also practice identifying initial sounds and matching pictures.
Starfall
Starfall: Make a Word: Et
Interactive word game that matches pictures to short vowel ET words. Build short vowel words using picture cues. Word list: jet, pet, wet, net.
Starfall
Starfall: Make a Word: Ug
Interactive word game. Match the initial sound to spell the short vowel picture word. Vocabulary words: mug, hug, rug, bug.
Starfall
Starfall: Make a Word: Ot
Create short O words. Drag the initial sound to spell the OT word and match the picture. Vocabulary words: cot, hot, dot, pot.
Rock ’N Learn
Rock 'N Learn: Splendid Sounds
This printable worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will match each short vowels to the picture that begins with it. An answer key and lesson extension are included.
History is Fun
Jan Brett: A Jan Brett Alphabet
Choose a type of alphabet from traditional, cursive, or modern manuscript. Each letter is shown in capital and lower case and has a matching picture illustrated by Jan Brett.
Rock ’N Learn
Rock 'N Learn: The Hole Story
This printable vowel letter worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will look at a fill-in-the blank paragraph. Students will choose a long /o/ word that ends with the silent -e...
Starfall
Starfall: Make a Word: Long I
Given the letter I with a blank before it and a list of letters from which to choose, students make words to match given pictures. Audio and graphs make this page really kid-friendly. When finished, the game moves on to new letter...
Starfall
Starfall: Make a Word: Long U
Given the letter U with a blank before it and a list of letters from which to choose, students make words to match given pictures. Audio and graphs make this page really kid-friendly. When finished, the game moves on to new letter...