TVOntario
Tvo Kids: Alphabet Goop
A colorful game to help young readers or beginning English language learners practice the beginning sounds of words.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: The Letter F Kindergarten
[Free Registration/Login Required] A Christmas themed activity for studying the letter /f/. Includes a graphic organizer, identification of upper and lowercase /f/, identification of the initial sound in Christmas vocabulary words, and...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Name Game, a Phoneme Substitution
A quick activity to reinforce the students' ability to recognize different sounds. When calling children to line up or go to lunch, substitute the letter or sound of the day for the first letter of the child's name. Till, Tuzy, Tob, and...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: A Z: Learning About the Alphabet Book Genre
Contains plans for at least seven 20- to 30-minute sessions about alphabet books. In addition to student objectives and standards, these instructional plans contains links to PDF handouts and links to sites used in the lessons as well as...
Los Angeles County Office of Education
Teams: Phonemic Awareness Activities
This site offers phonemic awareness activities that will extend the concepts and skills associated with this reading skill. Activities include rhyming words, segmenting syllables, substituting beginning sounds, isolating sounds, and...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: We Saw Him at the Zoo
In this lesson plan, the mentor text utilized is Deborah Guarino's book, Is Your Mama a Llama?, with the focus of sentence fluency. Each student will think of an animal that that has the same initial sound as his/her name. Using the...
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Laus Dnet: Kinder. Word Lesson Alphabet Potluck Feast [Pdf]
Students will create a class book (PDF) modeled after the book Potluck, by Anne Shelby, to identify the beginning sounds of words and the letter of the alphabet representing that sound (phonemic awareness). Contains links to step sheets...
Starfall
Starfall: Garden Shop
Interactive games identifying letter sounds using picture cues. Sequencing and word families are emphasized. Other links include audio books and short videos.
Quia
Quia: Online Stories
This site focuses on beginning, medial, and ending sounds. It offers a collection of games, exercises, and activities to teach letter sounds including beginning letters, phonemes, and ending sounds to emergent readers. These sites...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: What Do You Hear?
Celebration words can be used to help students review and practice beginning sounds. This lesson will help students recognize and produce the initial sound of a given word. Included are an assessment checklist, videos of the lesson in...
Utah Education Network
Uen: 1st Grade Act. 07: Seven Fat Cats
With the aid of Joy Cowley's Seven Fat Cats as a shared text, 1st graders will listen and match the sounds (rhyming, beginning, ending, and vowel.)
ClassFlow
Class Flow: First Letters
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart will assist students in recognizing all initial consonant and short vowel sounds (a-z, ch, sh, th) in speech and writing; to identify and write correct initial letters in response to the...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Ab Cs Easy as Can Be!
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart students will match upper and lowercase letters to pictures that begin with the corresponding letters by dragging to create the match. Students will hear audio recordings of each...
Other
Missing Letter Alphabet Game With Billy Bear
Type in the right letter to begin each word, then see your score.
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: C and K Lesson
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "c" or "k" in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see...
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...
Can Teach
Can Teach: Alphabet Words
In this activity for grades K to 2, students use letter sounds to identify words that begin with each of the letters of the alphabet.
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.
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center
Wisconsin Rt I Center: Blending [Pdf]
Classroom teachers will learn how to blend words as a classroom modeling strategy. Teachers will learn direct instructional techniques for blending; games and activities are also provided to reinforcement the concept of blending.
Other
Free Phonics Lessons: Breath Sound Consonants: Beginning Consonant Sounds
Ready-to-print phonics chart on beginning consonant breath-sounds. Students can click on the letters, pictures, or words to hear the sounds independently or as a part of the words.
Starfall
Starfall: Make a Word: Et
Interactive word game that matches pictures to short vowel ET words. Build short vowel words using picture cues. Word list: jet, pet, wet, net.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Abc Test
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will practice beginning sounds.