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Phonics: Letter-Sound Correspondence, Letter Sound Match ActivityPhonics: Letter-Sound Correspondence, Letter Sound Match Activity
Publisher
Florida Center for Reading Research
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Grade
2nd - 3rd
Subjects
English Language Arts
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Duration
30 mins
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Collaborative Learning
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Year
2005
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Phonics: Letter-Sound Correspondence, Letter Sound Match

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Scholars match initial, medial, and final phonemes to individual graphemes. They pick a card, say its name, then find the letter that makes that sound. If the card is a monkey, the learner finds the letter m, matching the grapheme to the initial phoneme in the word.

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Concepts

final sounds, phonemes, phonemic awareness, phonics, initial sounds, letter-sound correspondence, emergent reading, graphemes

Additional Tags

early reading, letter sounds, phonics, graphemes, letter sound correspondence, final phonemes, initial phonemes, medial phonemes, english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Assign the activity during ELA center rotations

Classroom Considerations

  • Requires copies

Pros

  • Matching letters to letter sounds builds strong phonemic awareness.

Cons

  • None

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