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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...
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Kindergarten Phonics
With attractive graphics and easy-to-read letters, this resource could be used in kindergarten to review letters and sounds. Although just a presentation with letters and pictures, it could be used in a variety of ways. Teachers could...
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Odd One Out
Letters q-z are the topic of the worksheet. Learners circle the picture in each row that does not make the initial letter sound indicated. They then fill in the letter that is missing from the beginning or ending of four words.
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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...
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Connect the Rhymes
As your pre-readers begin to understand phonemes and rhyming, give them this practice worksheet which has them matching rhyming pictures. For each of six images, they identify the corresponding image which has the same vowel sound (or...
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The oa, oy, and ow Sounds
Focus on the vowel sounds /oa/, /oy/, and /ow/ in this spelling patterns activity. The sounds are split into three sections, with learners observing how each can be spelled differently in familiar words. They write words beneath...
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Kelly's Kindergarten: T Words
You can't spell alphabet without the letter T! Focus on this letter with an activity in which pupils determine which images are of items that begin with the letter T. They then cut out the pictures, paste them onto the worksheet, and...
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Kelly's Kindergarten: S Writing Page
Which images show things that start with the letter S? Let your pupils decide and then cut and paste those six images to this page. After that task is complete, individuals write the words sun and sad to practice even more words that...
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Poems
Thud! Squiff! Create sound effects with words. Introduce your youngsters to onomatopoeia with these fun, rainy-day poems. They write down sound words, discussing rhythm and rhyme. You can also incorporate the author's use of capital...
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Match the Rhymes
Focus on the short u sound in this rhyme worksheet for emergent readers. Learners examine images surrounding a jug, drawing lines to connect it to those that rhyme (bug, rug, mug). Then, they practice their printing by tracing the...
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Match the Rhymes
Which ones rhyme with swing? There are six images and scholars determine which ones rhyme. Two of the words are written out below to incorporate some printing practice as scholars trace the letters to form each single-syllable word....
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Silly Spoonerisms!
Looking for a fun activity for your vocabulary lesson? Bring a activity on "spoonerisms" to your fifth grade class. Kids decipher seven phrases that have mixed up the first letter sounds of each word. They then think of their own...
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Letter Sounds: oa
Review the oa sound with your class. Learners read a series of words containing the oa sound, such as moat and coat. This visually-appealing presentation could be used to provide a quick review before a reading or spelling lesson.
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Sounds and Letters: ou
Explore the sound of ou with your class. Learners read a series of sentences containing words with this sound. Then, they discuss a list of words spelled with an ou. This is a quick and easy way to review this concept.
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Letters and Sounds: ou
Review the ou sound with your second graders. Learners read a series of words containing the ou sound. It is a quick and easy way to delve into this topic. The resource could be used as a whole group or center activity.
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Letter Building "o"
In this letter building /o/ activity, students determine words that begin with "o". Students make a twenty-four "o" words list.
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Beginning Sounds of Letters
Big B little b what begins with B? That's a great question! Children read a string of words and circle the ones that have the same beginning letter sound. The page contains 15 word strings for learners to assess.
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Letter Recognition: Letter Z - Fill in the Blank
In this letter Z worksheet, 1st graders study the words and corresponding pictures that start with the letter Z. Students complete the words by filling the missing Z and coloring the pictures.
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Beginning Sounds Worksheet
In this letter sounds worksheet, learners look at each of the pictures on the page and circle that letter that each object begins with. There are 4 pictures on this page.
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Letter Pronunciation - I t I Sound
In this letter T worksheet, students circle the word that best describes the picture. They then use that word in a sentence. All of the words are letter T words. There are 7 questions on this page.
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Letter Pronunciation - I q I Sound
In this letter Q worksheet, students circle the word that best describes the picture. They then use that word in a sentence. All of the words have the letter Q in them. There are 7 questions on this page.
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Letter Pronunciation - I r I Sound
In this letter R learning exercise, students circle the word that best describes the picture. They then use that word in a sentence. All of the words have the letter R in them. There are 7 questions on this page.
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Letter Pronunciation - I i I Sound
In this letter pronunciation worksheet, students circle the word that best describes the picture. They then use that word in a sentence. There are 7 pictures on the page to describe.
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Letter Pronunciation - I e I Sound
In this letter e worksheet, students circle the word that best describes the picture. They then write a sentence using that word. There are 7 questions to do on this worksheet.