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Beginning Sounds: A is for Ant

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The ABC's and beginning letter sounds are the foundation of strong reading skills. Use this presentation to build your young learner's abilities to recognize beginning sounds and alphabet letters. Each slide contains an image and a word that begins with a letter of the alphabet. Students are to look at each picture and say the letter that words starts with. There are several examples for each letter of the alphabet.

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prereading, phonemic awareness, phonemes, initial sounds, phonics, the alphabet

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alphabet, beginning sounds, early literacy, letter recognition, phonemic awareness, pre-reading, english language arts
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Grade
K
Subjects
English Language Arts
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Lesson Plans
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Number of Slides
50

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