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Teacher.org: Beginning Sound Match
This lesson will allow young scholars to practice both writing names and identifying beginning sounds for common item names.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Alphabet Matching
This is a fun educational activity where children must match letter sounds to beginning word sounds. All letters and words are sounded out for children as they play the game.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Monster Mansion Letter Match
Monster Mansion Letter Match is a fun educational game for kids to practice matching capital and lowercase letters. Click on the windows of the Monster Mansion to reveal the friendly monsters inside and match the uppercase to lowercase...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Upper and Lower Case Match Up
This technology-based lesson has students navigate Internet sites to assist them with learning the letter names and sounds. Students also use slideshow presentations to identify letter matches and learn beginning sounds.
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.
ICT Games
Ict Games: Letters and Sounds: Phoneme Pop
Click on the correct letter to match the phoneme and catch the letters to practice letter sound recognition.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Guess What I'm Thinking?: Initial Sound Accuracy
A version of the "20 Questions" game. The instructor tells the class he is thinking of something that starts with, for example, /b/. The students have to come up with what the teacher is thinking of.
Utah Education Network
Uen: 1st Grade Act. 07: Seven Fat Cats
With the aid of Joy Cowley's Seven Fat Cats as a shared text, 1st graders will listen and match the sounds (rhyming, beginning, ending, and vowel.)
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.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Letter of the Week Nn
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart students will identify & match upper/lowercase Nn, the sound of N, and correctly form letter Nn.
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.
TVOntario
Tvo Kids: Letter Tree Abc
Shake the tree then match the fallen letter to the word that has that alphabet sound.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Mix, Mix, Match: A Sounding Out Accuracy Game.
A small group game to practice word and sound recognition and accuracy. Students receive a card with a word part on it. The instructor plays music and when the music stops, the students "mix" and put their cards with another student.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Clifford the Big Red Dog: Letter Match
Practice initial letter sounds with this game from Scholastic.
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...
SEN Teacher
Sen Teacher: Alphabet Cards
Generate and print out two sets of alphabet cards to use in a matching game to help students with their letters and sounds.
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...
TVOntario
Tvo Kids: Alphabet Goop
A colorful game to help young readers or beginning English language learners practice the beginning sounds of words.
ICT Games
Ict Games: Cvc Pop
An interactive game where students can practice identifying words with short vowel sounds following the consonant-vowel-consonant pattern. Students listen to a word and then click on all of the matching words as they float by on bubbles.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Detective Elmo: The Cookie Case
Critical thinking is the spotlight here as you help Detective Elmo save Cookie Monster and crack the cookie case!
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: 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: 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...