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Free Reading

Free Reading: Letter Hunt Tally: A Letter Sound Accuracy Game

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students play detective and discover a given letter at the beginning of a word. They keep a "tally" sheet and compete with their classmates. This site includes links to Letter cards and a Letter Hunt Tally Sheet.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Give Me Five; Letter Sound Accuracy Activity

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
An exciting game to build students' understanding and accuracy of producing words that begin with the same letter. Students sit in a circle and the teacher says the sound of the letter. One student must pass a bean bag around the circle...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Connect 4 Words: Letter Sound Accuracy Activity

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A reading game based on "Connect 4" that will build student's abilities to say the name and sound of a letter and find a word beginning with that sound.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: "I Spy" Letter Sound Accuracy

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Use this game of "I Spy" to help students build their accuracy of letter identification! Can be student- or teacher-led.
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Other

Alphabet Sound Recognition With Motions

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A fun activity for kinesthetic learners! Students learn motions to go along with letter sounds. This site includes a link to a building fluency site.
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Rock ’N Learn

Rock 'N Learn: The Hole Story

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This printable vowel letter worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will look at a fill-in-the blank paragraph. Students will choose a long /o/ word that ends with the silent -e...
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St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: A E and E E Quiz

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site is an interactive quiz to assess knowledge of "a_e" and "e_e" letter patterns. The quiz is designed to follow the "Reading Bear: a_e and e_e" lesson.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Catch a Sound: Final Sounds Game

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This site contains a flexible activity that teaches students how to "catch" or identify the final sound of a word.
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Activity
Free Reading

Free Reading: Listen for My Sound. A Phoneme Segmenting Activity

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
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.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Word Swatter Game: Sounding Out Accuracy

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A team game to practice sounding out words and letters.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Free Reading: Alien Word Game: Sounding Out

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A game where students distinguish between real words and "alien" or nonsense words.
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Lesson Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Around the World Game: Sounding Out Accuracy

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A fun game involving the entire classroom that builds word and sound recognition phonetically.
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Unit Plan
St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: The, Se, Etc. Lesson

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "the" or "se" in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words,...
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St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Y and More Lesson

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "y" to form words with the long /e/. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Works from famous artists...
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St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: U E Quiz

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site is an interactive quiz to assess knowledge of long /u/ with silent e.The quiz is designed to follow the "Reading Bear: u_e" lesson.
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St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: U E Lesson

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
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...
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Unit Plan
St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: O E Lesson

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
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...
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Unit Plan
St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: I E Lesson

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
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...
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Unit Plan
St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Short Vowel Lessons Review

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
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...
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Unit Plan
St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Short U Lesson

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate short "u" in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see...
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Unit Plan
St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Short O Lesson

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate short /o/. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see words...
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Unit Plan
St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Short I Lesson

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate short /i/. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see words...
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Other

Teacher.org: Beginning Sound Match

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This instructional activity will allow students to practice both writing names and identifying beginning sounds for common item names.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Match That Pie

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Knowing the relationship between written letters and spoken sounds will help children recognize words accurately and automatically. In this lesson, children practice matching letters with initial sounds.