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PBS

Pbs Kids: Super Why: Princess Presto Spectacular Sounds Bingo

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this bingo game, listen for the sounds of the letters and click on the correct letter; when you have completed all the letters, a picture is revealed.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Beginning Sound Spin Letter Sound Accuracy Activity

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Builds students' abilities to identify the sound of a letter and say if a word begins with that sound. The student spins a wheel and says what letter/sound it stops on. Then they find a picture that begins with that sound. This site...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Catch a Sound: Letter Sound Accuracy Activity

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A quick alphabet game for the whole class. Students stand in a circle and throw a beanbag to each other. When they catch it, they must say a word that begins with the letter given. Continue this in alphabetical order.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Sound Toss Game; Letter Sound Accuracy

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A letter sounds game that students will love! They toss a bean bag onto a poster board with pictures on it, and tell what the first letter and sound is of the picture that the bean bag lands on. This site includes a link to printable...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Sound Spaghetti; Letter Sound Accuracy Game

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A great game to teach students how to sound out words. Each student picks a piece of long paper out of the teacher's basket and pronounces the letters on it.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Musical Chairs Game; Letter Sound Accuracy

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A letter sound accuracy game based on Musical Chairs. But to keep the chair that they sit in the student must pick a letter from the teacher's bucket and give a word that starts with that letter. A link to Letter Cards is included on...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Long Vowel Choice Game; Letter Sound Accuracy

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
An entertaining, whole class game to build the accuracy of the students' abilities to identify the sounds of different vowels. This site includes a link to a Word List Generator.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Letter Ring Game: Letter Sound Accuracy Activity

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A fun, unique version of the game "Ring Around the Rosie" that builds the students' accuracy in identifying letters, sounds, and words that begin with that letter. A link to printable letter cards is provided on this site as well.
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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: Egg Carton Game; Letter Sound Accuracy Activity

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A small group game to build students' abilities to identify letters and their sounds. A student shakes an egg carton, opens it to see where a chip landed, and says the letter and its sound.
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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: Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down? Letter Sound Accuracy Game

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
An exciting activity for the whole class to practice listening for a specific letter sound. When they hear a word with the sound they are listening for they give it a thumbs up; if it doesn't have the sound, they give it a thumbs down....
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Tic Tac Toe; Letter Sound Accuracy Activity

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A letter sound version of Tic Tac Toe that students play with partners. Before they can take their turn, they must draw a letter and give three words that begin with that letter. Their partner must give them a thumbs up before they can...
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Activity
Free Reading

Free Reading: Holiday Relay: A Sounding Out Game

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A small group game to practice word and sound recognition and accuracy. Given a sound or word, each student on team runs to pile of holiday shapes, finds the letter, or picture that begins with the sound, or brings back all the letters...
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Activity
Free Reading

Free Reading: Beginning Sounds; Poem

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
An activity that can be adapted for the whole class, small group, or large group. The instructor first reviews a letter and its sound, then presents the group with a poem with that letter that the students will then identify.
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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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Free Reading

Free Reading: "You're a Liar!" a Letter Sound Accuracy Game

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A small group game using cards with letters of the alphabet on them. The object is to place cards face down in a pile in alphabetical order. Based on an old card game called "I doubt it." This site has a link to a Letter card site for...
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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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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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Free Reading

Free Reading: Bam! Game: Sounding Out Accuracy

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A small group game to practice word and sound recognition and accuracy. Students pull cards out of a hat and if they can sound it out accurately they keep the card.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Bingo! Sounding Out Accuracy Game.

For Teachers K - 1st
A game of Bingo! for the whole classroom where the teacher sounds out a word and the students try to find the word on their individual bingo cards.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Build a Word: Sounding Out Accuracy Game

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A small group game to practice word and sound recognition and accuracy. Students pull cards with word parts printed on them out of a hat and if they can put it together and sound it out accurately they keep the card.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Draw Two: A Sounding Out Accuracy Game

For Teachers K - 1st
A whole group game to practice word and sound recognition and accuracy. Students pull a card out of a hat and if they can sound it out accurately they keep the card. But Watch out! You may draw a card that says Draw Two! Then the student...