Florida Center for Reading Research
Phonological Awareness: Onset and Rime, Sound Detective
Play letter sound detective with your class, and snoop out sounds, onsets, blends, and rhyme. In pairs, children take turns choosing a card from the pile; as they sound out part of the word, their partner attempts to figure out which...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Isolating, The Last Sound Is...
Partners work with real objects as they practice final phonemes. Here's how it works: Partner A silently chooses an object and sounds it out, determining the final phoneme and saying the sound aloud. Partner B examines the group of...
Kelly's Kindergarten
Kelly's Kindergarten: Short /u/ Sound Words
From hugs to the sun, you can find many great words with the short /u/ sound! Your youngsters will do just that with this worksheet, in which they identify words with the short /u/ sound from a selection of provided images, and then...
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: Letter Bag
An activity focuses on final sounds sorting. Scholars pull objects out of a bag, identify what letter sound the object ends with, then draw the picture under the appropriate column.
Kiz Club
"K" Sound
Kids will enjoy cutting out and pasting these paper kites! They'll have to be careful though, since they are only meant to cut and paste the kites that have images on them that begin with the letter K. Some tracing practice is also...
Kiz Club
"C" Sound
Crayon, cat, cow... What do these words have in common? They all start with C! Have your kids practice the initial hard /c/ sound and practice the letter C by identifying the images that start with this letter.
Curated OER
Phonics: Segmenting Sounds in Short Words
F-u-n spells fun. It is a simple word that little learners can sound out as they build phonemic awareness and those early reading skills. This short scripted lesson provides teachers with the basics for teaching how to sound out words.
Curated OER
Sounding out accuracy, Mix, Mix, Match
Students explore English by identifying segments of words in class. In this phonetics lesson, students utilize flash cards which contain letters and mix them in order to create a "match" word. Students sound out the words they...
Kiz Club
"A" Sound
Can your pupils tell the difference between the long /a/ and short /a/ sounds? Practice with the eight words here. After determining whether the initial sounds in the words are long or short, learners cut out each image and paste it in...
Kiz Club
"S" Sound
Kids get the chance to match nine words to their images with this cut-and-paste exercise. All of the words included begin with the letter S. Kids find the correct words, cut them out, and glue them inside of the dotted lines.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Matching, Sound Pie
Develop phonological awareness by challenging pupils to recognize final sounds in familiar words. Using magazines or other print resources, scholars search for pictures of words with the same final sound as a starter picture. Once they...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Isolating, See It-Sound It
Working pairs, early readers put their hands into a mystery box, pull out an item, then name and identify its initial phoneme.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Isolating, Sound Quest
Scholars cut, paste, and identify specific initial, medial, and final phonemes by placing them on a phoneme chart.
Curated OER
Using the Sounds of Words Reading Task
Young readers demonstrate phonemic awareness in words and blends, and recognize 100 high-frequency words. Use a nursery rhyme to point out rhyming words, and change the words by putting a new letter at the beginning. Each learner will...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Matching, Final Phoneme Pie
Words are interesting things—you can change them by adding or subtracting phonemes. Here, emergent readers change the pictures on their phoneme pie by removing or adding various final phonemes. A fun way to build phonetic competency!
Florida Center for Reading Research
Phonics: Letter-Sound Correspondence, Letter-Sound Place Mats
Young scholars create personalized place mats as they learn about initial sounds. Using construction paper, they stamp their names using letter stamps. Scholars examine print resources and cut out pictures with the same initial sound as...
Curated OER
Phoneme Substitution, Harder (With Letters)
Emergent readers create new words by changing a phoneme, using sets of letter cards to spell out each CVC word. They begin by substituting initial sounds, then final sounds, and lastly the middle vowel. Help them sound out each word,...
Kiz Club
"G" Sound
Watch out! There's a ghost on this page, along with several images of other thing that start with the letter G. Kids practice /g/ sounds by pointing out each thing that starts with the letter g that in one page. They then trace the...
Kiz Club
"X" Sound
X marks the spot, and the end of several of the words on this page. Given matching images and the first two letters of each word, learners write in the final sound of each word. They circle the words than end in X.
Curated OER
Sounding out fluency, Relay Race
Learners practice reading. In this fluency building lesson plan, students participate in a relay race to quickly sound and read word cards. They work in small groups to accurately sound out and say three word cards before it is another...
Curated OER
Sounding out accuracy, Tic Tac Toe
Students practice word patterns while playing the game of tic tac toe. In this sounding out accuracy lesson, students work with a partner to pick a word from a pile of words. Students then sound out the word from the pile of words and...
Kiz Club
-K/-N Sound
Practice finishing words with this worksheet that focuses on the -k and -n final sounds. Learners look at each image and write in the final sound to complete the word below the picture. All of the words end with either -k or -n.