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Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Isolating, Move and Tell

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Build phonological awareness with this fun game focused on isolating and identifying medial phonemes. This game board contains an image on each square; when the child lands on a square, they must say the medial sound of the word they...
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Lug and the Giant Stork - Capital Letters

For Teachers K - 1st
Capital letters are the star of the show in a wonderful language arts instructional activity. After a teacher-led demonstration and discussion on capital letters, groups of pupils get together and work on the computer to fix the flashing...
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CVC Words - Initial Sounds (1)

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this CVC words activity, students examine 6 CVC words with the initial consonant missing and use a picture to fill in the correct letter. Next, students look at 9 CVC words with missing initial consonants and add a missing consonant...
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Letter Sound Blending

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students play a game that asks them to blend sounds and differentiate between long and short vowels. They give clues to one student by sounding out all consonants and classifying the vowel as short or long. The student then blends the...
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Beginning Sounds

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this early childhood beginning sounds worksheet, students learn to recognize beginning letters of words as they look at the pictures of the ball, goat, money, octopus and zebra on the page and then draw a line to the letter each item...
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Initial sound: soft g

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this soft g worksheet, students fill in the initial sound of the soft g under the pictures that contain that sound. Students fill in the blank to 3 words.
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Phonics and Decoding Strategies for Struggling Readers Using Core Knowledge Poem

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students complete multiple activities to help them hear sounds, syllables, and spell words with vowel patterns, digraphs, or blends. In this word sounds lesson, students use letter tiles, sort words cards, analyze poems, and play a bingo...
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Beginning Sounds Worksheet

For Students K - 2nd
In this picture and beginning sounds worksheet, students study 4 pictures of objects and then determine which of the 3 letters each picture begins with. Students circle each of their answers.
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Initial Sounds Mixed 4s

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this beginning sounds recognition worksheet, learners say the words for the pictures of the gloves, tiger, balloon, and mushroom, and identify the letter that begins each word.
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Initial Sounds (1)

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this early childhood initial sounds worksheet, students examine 6 pictures and identify the letter that begins the words represented. Students also draw 2 objects that begin with the letters s and h.
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Family Member Missing Letters Worksheet

For Students K - 2nd
In this missing letters worksheet, students examine the 6 family member words that are missing letters and fill in the blanks in each of the words with the appropriate letters.
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Beginning Sounds Worksheet

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this beginning sounds worksheet, students look at each of the four pictures below and circle the letter that each picture begins with.
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The Very Quiet World of Silent Letters

For Students 5th - 6th
For this language arts and spelling worksheet, students learn that the English language contains words with letters that are spelled but not pronounced. Students analyze 30 words and fill in the missing silent letters.
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Silent Letters

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this silent letters worksheet, students add one or more silent letters to thirty words to help them to be pronounced correctly in the English language.
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Final Phoneme Spin

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Segmenting words into different phonemes helps kids on the road to reading and writing. Have some fun with this spinner game which includes all the print-outs you will need. Simply assemble the spinner using a brad and lay out the...
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G...G...Guzzle

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore letters and their sounds. They practice making the /g/ sound. Students say tongue twisters with the /g/ sounds. They practice other activities with phonics.
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Itchy Ritchy

For Teachers K - 1st
Itchy Ritchy can help your learners remember the /i/ sound! First teach young learners the fun tongue twister illustrating the target sound, and have them identify the target sound in other words. Use the reading Tim and the Top to...
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Last Letter: G, T, and X

For Students 1st
For this ending sounds worksheet, 1st graders study the pictures and the first letters for each word. Students then write the last letter for each word on the lines. Students learn the ending sounds of g, t, and x.
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Word Work: Blends, Digraphs & Trigraphs

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Practice thirty-three different consonant blends, digraphs, and trigraphs with your emergent readers! Each letter combination has its own column in which you and your learners can write down five different words that demonstrate the...
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Picture Slide

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Here is another fun and engaging way to help youngsters build phonological awareness. In pairs, they use the provided picture cards to sound out segments of words. As they slide the picture together they say a segment of the...
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Letters C A D O G L

For Students K - 1st
In these letter sounds worksheets, students study the various pictures in the worksheets and label each picture with its beginning letter sound of A, D, C, O, G, or L.
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Fun Fonix: Gg

For Students K - 1st
In this phonics worksheet, students respond to 8 questions by practicing the formation of capital and lower case G and writing the letter in the bubbles next to the pictures.
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Phonics Instructional Routine: Blending Sounds in Short Words

For Teachers 1st - 4th Standards
Young scholars strengthen their reading of new words with phonics and blending sounds in short words. They interact with word cards with short letter sounds like sit, mat, fit, etc. Each student also assesses magnetic letters to...
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What is the Beginning Sound?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this early childhood beginning sounds worksheet, students practice their phonics skills as they look at 6 pictures, say their names, and identify the letter that begins the 6 words. An animal habitat question is also included on the...