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Alphabet Sound Recognition With Motions
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.
Starfall
Starfall: Gus the Duck
Learn the short U vowel sound with this cleverly illustrated and animated read-along story about a duck named Gus. Students can click on the word and it will show them how to blend phonemes to pronounce the word.
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Saint Ambrose Barlow: Background Color: Missing Sounds, Year 1 Term2
Given a picture and word with missing letters, students determine what vowel sound is missing and type the word spelled correctly into the box provided.
Free Reading
Free Reading: "Aliens of Paz" Picture Activity: Oral Segmenting Accuracy
An exciting activity that helps pre-readers identify sounds and break down words into segments. The students pretend to be "Aliens of Paz" who pronouce words very slowly. This activity also incorporates movement as the student touches...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Word Race Game, Oral Segmentation Accuracy
Students are divided into two teams. The teacher calls one person from each team up at a time to look at a picture. The first player to yell out how many sounds are in the picture gets a point for the team. This site includes a link to a...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Finish My Sentence: Oral Blending Accuracy Activity
In this classroom activity, the instructor creates a list of simple sentences that include a three or four letter word that the students are asked to blend. The instructor says the sentence and asks the student to help blend the letters...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Picture Hunt Activity: Phoneme Manipulation
This activity uses the students' favorite classroom book as a resource. The instructor says We are going on a Picture Hunt! and then asks the class where an object is in the picture, but leaves out the first letter sound when asking.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Amplify Education, Inc.: Introduce Reading Connected Text
An exciting introduction to reading! The instructor writes a simple, one-line story on the board from literature, and the students learn to sound out the words.
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.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Reading Basics: Sounds of Speech
Sounds of speech are the sounds that make up our oral language. Children must understand how speech sounds work to be ready for instruction in reading and writing. To learn more about sounds of speech, browse the articles, parent tips,...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Consonant Blends and Digraphs
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this Lesson students will look at the pictures and use Activotes to choose the correct blend.
School Express
Schoolexpress.com: Phonics Blends Worksheets
Phonics Blends is a great way to demonstrate the use of letter and picture association. The student must identify the first two letters of the picture given and then write them on the line provided.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Word Swat a Word Sound Recognition Game
A classroom game to help students create new words from a particular word family. The class is divided into two teams; the first student in each line is given a flyswatter and must go to the board and "swat" the correct letter that...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Syllable Walk; A Syllable Identification Game
A fun, active game to learn all about syllables! Students line up on one side of the room and take one step for each syllable in the word that the instructor says.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Wacky Wipe Offs a Phenome Segmentation Activity
An activity incorporating Dr. Seuss's "Fox in Socks" book, and dry erase boards and markers. Reading the book, students identify CVC-pattern words. Writing a selected one down on their boards, they are able to substitute letters to make...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Segmenting and Blending Words
In this lesson, young scholars will learn how to segment words. Then students will play a segmentation game that utilizes Elkonin boxes and markers.
Rock ’N Learn
Rock 'N Learn: The Bell Has Rung: Ung
This printable consonant blends worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will add form -ung consonant blend words that will complete a paragraph. An answer key and lesson...
Starfall
Starfall: Zac the Rat
Beginning readers can listen as they read-along with this wonderfully animated story about Zac, a rat who gets into quite a jam. Students can click on a word and it will show them how to blend the phonemes to pronounce it. It is an...
Starfall
Starfall: Dune Buggy
Learn the long U sound in English while paging through this read-aloud story about a day at the dunes. Great graphics, unlimited repetition, and learner controlled.
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...
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Fonetiks: Phonics Practice
This English pronunciation guide is useful for young English speakers, as well as English language learners of all ages. It offers practice in reading, pronunciation, and writing of vowels and consonants and of vowel and consonant...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Treasure Box Game, Segmenting Syllables
A classroom game designed to build accuracy skills in students' abilities to identify syllables. The teacher prints picture cards (this site links to the site for pictures) of one-, two-, or three-syllable words. Students pull a picture...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Syllable Slap! Segmenting Syllables
A higher level activity that helps students develop fluency in identifying open and closed syllable words.
Starfall
Starfall: Word Machines: Short A
In this interactive, student learn to pronounce and produce rhyming words containing the short A sound. Using the word maching, students can change the beginning or the ending sounds to make new words which are then clearly pronounced.