Stamp That Sound!

Stamp, slap, and clap! Emergent readers demonstrate their awareness of the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds in spoken, short vowel, single-syllable words with a stamp/slap/clap activity. After identifying the letters and sounds of...

Teaching children to read is no simple task, but this collection of phonics resources will make the journey a little easier. From simple activities and games that improve young children's letter recognition, to a reader's theater script...

Practice onset and rime with this word sort activity. All the printouts you will need are included here, and it works best with a pocket chart. Beginning readers lay out the four picture cards along the top of the chart: fan, cap,...

Students create a computer page of their own name in both upper and lower case letters to review the order of letters in the alphabet. They must scroll through the alphabet using an alphabet template on Kidpix then find the letters for...

In this consonant blends worksheet, students say the words for the 10 pictures, circle the ending consonant blend, and write the word on each line.

First graders match different pictures to the correct beginning and ending sounds they go with. For this sound lesson plan, 1st graders will use the computer program Kid Pix to go through a variety of pictures. They then match the...

Participate in a scavenger hunt to find objects beginning with a particular letter sound and take digital photos of them with your scholars. Using software, they find word pictures beginning with particular letters and locate picture...

Practice pronouncing and spelling words with the /e/ sound with spellers. They blend phonemes with spelling maps to master important representation and letter symbol of the short vowel /e/. They also make sock puppets and study the...

Students complete a variety of activities related to the /s/ phoneme. As a class they recite a tongue twister, then trace and write the letter S. Students then listen to word pairs and identify the word in each pair containing the /s/...

In this long a sound set of worksheets, students complete a variety of activities related to the long a sound: word chains, identifying the long a sound, sentence completions and syllabication.