University of Florida
Phonological Awareness: A Sound Beginning
Choose from a variety of phonological activities to complement a reading lesson. The guide goes through the basic components of good phonics instruction focusing on sound types, levels of phonological awareness, assessment methods, and...
SEN Teacher
Literacy Dice
Reinforce literacy skills using a six-sided die that focuses on phonics and story starters. Scholars roll, and show what they know about blends, plots, and more!
Curriculum Corner
Guest Teacher Plans: Kindergarten
Emergencies happen. Be prepared the next time you have to call in a substitute with a lesson plan designed to meet the needs of a kindergarten class. Throughout the day, class members work with number and alphabet cards, identify numbers...
Literacy Connects
Activities to Build Phonological Awareness
Begin your reading program each day with a mini lesson on phonological awareness using these engaging activities listed in the resource. Young ones will enjoy word families, clapping and counting syllables, identifying single sounds and...
Student Handouts
Alphabet Scavenger Hunt
Hunt through your classroom or around your school's campus for items that begin with every letter of the alphabet! Learners can record the words on this page, which lists the alphabet and provides lines to write on.
Michigan Department of Education
Family Fundamentals for Summer Learning
Just because it's summertime, doesn't mean that learning has to stop. Support children with continuing to develop their reading fluency with this extensive collection of literacy activities.
Elementary AMC
Earth Day Grammar
Ensure you have a grammatically correct Earth Day with this series of task cards. Covering topics ranging from parts of speech and alphabetizing, to affixes and complete sentences, these Earth-themed exercises are a fun way for...
University of Texas
Alphabetic Understanding, Phonics, and Spelling
Have your youngsters reading in no time with with collection of literacy activities and lessons. Starting with a basic understanding of the alphabet, this unit progressively builds students' phonemic awareness and ability to decode and...
Curated OER
Odd One Out
One of these words doesn't belong! As they practice first-letter recognition, scholars examine rows of familiar objects to determine what letter each begins with. For each row of three items, they decide which does not begin with the...
Curated OER
Missing Instrument
Do you see an instrument in this picture? You will once similar word sounds are colored! Words that begin with yellow begin with the same sound as queen, words that end with the same sound as fox are red, and all other words are green....
Curated OER
Name That Sound
First graders match different pictures to the correct beginning and ending sounds they go with. In this sound lesson plan, 1st graders will use the computer program Kid Pix to go through a variety of pictures. They then match the picture...
Curated OER
What Begins With?
In this reading worksheet, students discover the sounds of all the alphabet letters by making a book. Students cut and paste the picture which begins with the letter on the page.
Curated OER
Correct Beginning Letter
In this basic spelling worksheet, students look at a picture in a box and then select the correct beginning letter of the object in the box. They circle the right answer from the three options underneath the picture. There are 9 problems...
Curated OER
Language Exercises
For this language worksheet, learners write words that start with the beginning letter given and complete the clue, and look at the picture and tick the sentences that are true. Students complete 2 activities.
Curated OER
Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?
In this beginning letters activity, students fill in the beginning letters to words in the sentences. Students complete 12 sentences total.
Curated OER
Beginning letters
In this beginning letters worksheet, students write the beginning letters for 3 letter words by looking at their pictures. Students complete 5 words.
Curated OER
Ending Consonants: Print the Letter
In this ending consonants activity, students say the name of eight pictures. From two choices, students circle the letter that is heard at the end of the word. Students print that letter two times.
Curated OER
Circle the Beginning Letters
In this beginning letters activity, students say the names of five pictures. From three choices of consonant digraphs, students circle the beginning letters for each picture. Students print the name of the picture and the beginning letters.
Curated OER
Flying High
In this beginning reading instructional activity, learners complete a picture by coloring spaces with words beginning with the same first sound as a kangaroo in black. They color spaces with the same beginning sound as a jack-in-the-box...
Curated OER
Apples and Bananas
In this letter and picture association learning exercise, students observe alphabet letters and match pictures of fruits that begin with those letters. Students circle five answers.
Curated OER
Beginning Consonants
In this early childhood beginning consonants worksheet, students say the name of the first picture in each row, listening to the beginning sound. Students then say the name of the other 3 pictures in the row and circle the picture that...
Curated OER
Match the Word to It's Beginning Letter
In this word matching worksheet, students read words that are shown on a picture of a bus. They match the words to their beginning letters that are shown on pictures of suitcases. They decide which letter comes next in the list and write...
Curated OER
Alphabet Letters
In this alphabet letters worksheet, students, after looking over nine pictures, choose the beginning letter of each picture from the three multiple choices given for each picture.
Curated OER
What words sound like rice?
Students experiment with sounds of words. In this word comparison activity, students complete a series of games to assist them in hearing and sounding out the letters in the word rice. Students use this information to find or think of...