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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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CH words
In this ch words worksheet, students fill in the missing words from the list to the sentences. Students fill in 10 words to 10 sentences.
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Beginning Sounds - Kindergarten Reading
Students practice the use of beginning sounds to improve their emerging reading skills. In this beginning sounds lesson, students review beginning sound of words before participating in a "Bingo" type game that has them use the sounds...
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Jake's Tale
In this literacy instructional activity, students look at pictures, circle their long /a/ name from a word bank, and write it.
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Beginning and Ending Sounds: Springtime Bouquet
For this vowel worksheet, students fill in the beginning and ending letters of 7 consonant-vowel-consonant words to complete the word. All words have the short vowel sound "u" in the middle.
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Long Vowel Worksheet
In this long vowels instructional activity, learners respond to 4 questions that require them to fill in the blanks in each of the 4 words listed with the appropriate vowels. Picture clues are provided.
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Beginning letters
In this beginning letters activity, students write the beginning letters for 3 letter words by looking at their pictures. Students complete 5 words.
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The Fly Swatter Game
Students are placed in small groups to participate in the "Fly Swatter Game" to reinforce phonetic sounds of letters.
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Using Starfall to Review the Short A Sound
Students read a story with the short a sound. The story is about a rat. They access Starfall and select the story called Zac the Rat. They read the story out loud as a group then the students answer comprehension and skill questions...
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I Ate Grape Cake
Students distinguish between the sounds for short vowel a and long vowel a. They are introduced to the vowel patterns that comprise long vowel sounds, with a particular emphasis on vowel-consonant-e pattern. They practice reading and...
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Eager E
Students complete a variety of activities related to the long /e/ sound. As a class they recite a tongue twister, then trace and write the letter E. Students then play a concentration type game, listen to the book "Lee and the Team,"...
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Method for Teaching the Blending of Sounds: Train Technique
Students explore the blending of individual sounds to make words and, using visuals and manipulatives, equate this process to the hooking up of railroad cars to make a train. They link individual letters/sounds to make short words.
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Shhhh...Something Is Fishy!
Students study the consonant digraph /sh/. They listen to tongue twisters containing the /sh/ digraph and write words beginning with /sh/. They create words using Elkonin boxes that have the /sh/ digraph.
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Rhyming Words
Students practice reading and spelling by identifying rhyming words. In this rhyming lesson, students complete a worksheet to pair rhyming words.
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Go Far in a Car
Students listen to the song, The Wheels on the Bus. They are shown the book, This is the Way We Go to School. Afterward, they learn the phonetic principle of rhyming words.
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Short Vowel Sounds
Students write down all short vowel sounds. They read their spelling words and attach them to each short vowel sound. They practice writing each spelling word under each short vowel sound that they have listed on their paper. They...
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Rhyming Worksheet - Worksheet 1 of 4
In this rhyming worksheet, students draw a line from the 5 words on the left to the rhyming word on the right. They rhyme words such as pool, yarn, rug, van and kite.
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Rhyming Words
In this early childhood rhyming words worksheet, students name the 10 objects pictured in the right and left column and draw lines between those pairs of objects whose names rhyme.
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Poetry in Motion
Students explore poetry and technology. In this poetry writing lesson, students choose a theme and write a pattern poem, then create a related slideshow.
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Play Ball Ya'll!
Students explore the /awl/ phoneme. They examine the /awl/ sound and how to make the sound themselves. They say /awl/ tongue twisters and use letterboxes to write several 'all' words. They read stories with the /awl/ sound.
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Let's Write Around the World
Students participate in an ongoing writing project about the seven world continents. In this continents writing lesson, students work on an interactive game to write about the seven continents. Students locate the continents on the map....
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Got the Giggles
Pupils identify the grapheme and phoneme for G. They practice writing the letter G and through listening activities, discriminate the phoneme /g/. They associate the phoneme /g/ with its letter representation and identify it in various...