Making Words Using Beginning Sounds

What do dominoes and phonemes have in common? Quite a bit in this engaging phonics game! Each domino has a letter on one side and an image on the other. Everything you need is here; partners place the starting domino on the table then...

Nine pictures help your learners practice filling in consonant blends. All blends are are initial sounds and the end of the words are written out. Help your beginning pupils by providing a list of the blends that will be used; challenge...

Matching letters to letter sounds can be fun and builds strong phonemic awareness. Kindergarteners take turns matching initial, medial, and final phonemes, to individual graphemes. They pick a card, say its name, then find the letter...

The phoneme train is leaving the station! Get your budding readers familiar with letter-sound correspondence using this fun phonics activity. They set up the initial sound and final sound train cards (included), placing a letter between...

Sixteen colorful images make up a phonics worksheet focusing on initial sounds. Scholars name engaging images and identify what letter the word begins with.    

Copy these letter circles on cardstock, laminate, and bring out any time you want to practice letter recognition in a fun way! There are two circles here, one surrounded by capital letters and one with lowercase. Using clothespins with...

Young scholars learn to find meaning in words using affixes with a language arts activity. Working in pairs, children sort cards with sentences printed on them that include words with the prefixes mis- and pre- and the...

Become acquainted with the lowercase letters i and j and the many words that begin with them. First, printers follow guiding arrows to trace each letter, writing several on their own. Next, they connect the letters to images of words...

Manipulate color-coded letters to make word families. The teacher will model basic letter changes before learners participate in six centers to strengthen their skills. They demonstrate their abilities by creating a word in front of the...

Young writers identify and generate words using the strategies of phonics on the Making Words computer program. Words are typed instead of having to use tiles or paper. Extension activities such as playing the memory game, drawing...