Florida Center for Reading Research
Phonics: Letter-Sound Correspondence, Letter-Sound Match
Boost initial, medial, and final sound correspondence. Scholars practice decomposing word sounds using image cards and a worksheet. Learners cut out 10 three-letter images, sound them out, and glue them on the worksheet. Each word is...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Phonics: Letter- Sound Correspondence, Brown Bag It
Sorting objects according to their initial sound get scholars thinking about letter-sound correspondence. With 26 brown bags labeled with a letter of the alphabet, learners browse magazines and cut out images that begin with the...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Phonics: Letter-Sound Correspondence, Where's That Sound?
The phoneme train is leaving the station! Get your budding readers familiar with letter-sound correspondence using this fun phonics activity. Learners set up the initial and final sound train cards, placing letters between them. They...
Curated OER
Using Initial Sounds and Picture Clues to Read Unknown Words
Kindergarteners read the bold words that are unknown by using the strategies of initial sound and picture clues. They meet individually with their teacher in order to assess this concept. Excellent resource!
Kiz Club
-G/-M Sounds
Which sound does each of the items on this page end with? Kids choose between the final -g and -m sounds for eight different pictures and write the correct letters in the boxes next to the images.
David Suits
“Wild Readers” Decoding Skills Lesson Plan
Set young readers on the path toward fluency with this phonemic awareness resource. Based on the award-winning children's book, Where the Wild Things Are, this lesson allows beginning readers to practice isolating phonemes and...
Achieve3000
Discriminating Phonemes
Develop the fluency of beginning readers one sound at a time with this phonemic awareness lesson. Through a series of whole-class instruction, independent practice, and collaborative learning activities, children practice identifying the...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Word a Day
Students create a word bank of sight words. Each student creates his/her own personal word bank, and creates pictures to illustrate the word.
Have Fun Teaching
Feeling Bright, Green and Proud (words with R-Blends)
What words begin with an r-blend? Group each picture card into the correct category according to its initial consonant blend. After they complete the list, have kids write words into each box in the worksheets. Fun and educational for...
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: Or Lesson
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "or" in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see words...
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: Ew, Ue Lesson
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "ew" and "ue". Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see words...
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: A E and E E Lesson
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "a_e" and "e_e" in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words,...
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: Lessons 84 88 Review
In this beginning reading module, the instructor reviews words that incorporate "ie", "ui", "u", "3 syllables", "4 syllables", and more. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Guess What I'm Thinking?: Initial Sound Accuracy
A version of the "20 Questions" game. The instructor tells the class he is thinking of something that starts with, for example, /b/. The students have to come up with what the teacher is thinking of.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Most Common Sounds for Single Letters
This page contains audios of sounds for single letters. The audios give the letter sound and then pronounce a word that uses that sound. It gives only the short vowel sounds. The sounds are pronounced in a North American accent.
Rock ’N Learn
Rock 'N Learn: Chuggin' Choo Choo
This printable worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will look at a series of words and identify each word that starts with the /ch/ consonant digraph. An answer key and lesson...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Catch a Sound: Final Sounds Game
This site contains a flexible activity that teaches students how to "catch" or identify the final sound of a word.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Amplify Education, Inc.: Words Separated Into Phonemes
This page contains audio clips of words separated into phonemes. The audios give the word and then the word separated. There is a link to the Phonological Awareness activities page that utilizes this sound page. The sounds are pronounced...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Listen for My Sound. A Phoneme Segmenting Activity
A simple, yet effective activity to teach students to identify the same sounds in different words. The teacher says a word and the students give a thumbs up or thumbs down. This site also includes a Word Generator list link as a resource.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Finding Initial Sounds: A Pre Reading Game
A teacher-led activity that helps students learn to isolate the initial sounds of words.
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: U E Lesson
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate the silent e to form the long /u/. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound...
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: O E Lesson
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "o_e" pattern. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see words...
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: I E Lesson
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "i_e" to form words with the long /i/. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to...
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: Short Vowel Lessons Review
In this beginning reading module, the instructor reviews words that incorporate short vowels in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see words sounded...