So much to teach, so little time. Keep track of phonics instruction with a guide that permits you to plan phonics lessons addressing 12 difference concepts, in four strands, in the handwriting, maintenance, instruction, and...

Pre-readers benefit from visual context clues like the ones in this rhyme worksheet. There are two sets of objects here, and scholars connect objects on the left with their rhyming counterparts on the right. Each word has the vowel...

If your budding readers are new to rhyme, this is a visual way to give them practice. They examine familiar sets of objects, matching them to their rhyming partners by drawing a connecting line. Practice left to right skills by asking...

In this vowel recognition memory worksheet, students look at 20 pictures and circle the letter or letters from each column that spells out the word seen in the picture correctly. Students write the word in the space below the letters.

In this early childhood alphabet letter N worksheet, students practice handwriting skills and letter recognition as they trace uppercase and lowercase letters. In addition, students practice writing the uppercase and lowercase letters on...

Students practice using the letter u in order to understand letter-sound correspondence. In this letter-sound correspondence lesson plan, students write, read, and say different words with the letter u in them.

Practice lowercase letters i-n with this initial sounds worksheet. There is a row of three objects for each of these letters, and scholars examine them to determine which does not begin with the letter sound. This would work best with...

In this creating words with consonant digraphs worksheet, students say the picture words, guess the letters that make the beginning sounds, circle the letters that make the middle vowels and final sounds, and write the words. Students...

24 activities make up this phonics activity book that focuses on the short vowel /a/.  Early readers take part in tracing, filling in the blanks, coloring, finding differences in pictures, and completing mazes while using...

As you come to an end in your alphabet study, use these strategies to examine the letter y. Scholars examine the letter shape and listen to you pronounce the /y/ sound. Use these tips to explain how you do it as they try. Can they...

In this initial sounds worksheet, students examine each of 5 rows of pictures and identify the letter that makes the same beginning sound as the picture names.

Learners practice letter sounds. In this phonemic awareness lesson, students practice saying each letter sound by playing a game. Learners use index cards that have letters printed on them and say the letter sound. Students go as fast as...

Give your class experience with pronunciation. This worksheet has learners place the given verbs ending in /-ed/ into columns based on the final sound, then state the rules for pronunciation. This is a more advanced activity and is very...

In this letter M instructional activity, 1st graders study the mini arrows to learn the stroke pattern for the uppercase letter M. Students then fill in the missing letter M for the words milk, mouth, and milkshake.

Say aaaaa, because today your class will be practicing the short a vowel sound. They complete two activities. First the draw a line from the letter a to the objects that contain the medial /a/ sound. Then, they fill in the missing a to...

In this matching word to picture beginning with M worksheet, students look at 6 pictures and 6 words beginning with M, then type the number for the ones that match, answers can be checked online.

What happens when I add an 'e' to the word mad? It becomes made! Decoding and writing words with the silent e is the lesson for today. The class discusses what the e can do to a cvc word, then they practice adding e's to various words in...

Explore CVC words with the vowel sound a to give pre-readers a grasp of rhyme. They draw lines from a van to surrounding pictures that rhyme (man, pan, fan, can). Then, leaners get printing practice by tracing the words van...

Tree, bee, knee, three... what do these have in common? Focus on vowel sounds in this matching activity for beginning readers. Learners connect a picture of a tree to pictures that rhyme with it and then get some printing practice. All...

Students practice identifying the letters /a/ and /m/. In this letter identification lesson, students examine letter cards for /a/ and /m/, tell the difference between the two, and say the sound for each. They play an identification game...

In this phonemic awareness worksheet, 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/ sound at the...

In these eight recognizing the phonetic sounds in picture words activity, students observe pictures of farm animals and color the ones that have the specified /c/ , /d/, /p/, /h/, /m/, /g/, /sh/, or /ch/ sounds. There are five pictures...

In this letter recognition instructional activity, students name various letters and say the sounds. There are six sight words to memorize and seven short sentences to read.

Complete a variety of activities related to the long /a/ sound with a focus on words containing the ai and ay correspondence with your readers. As a class, they recite a tongue twister, then spell different words containing ay and ai...