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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: Tic Tac Toe; Letter Sound Accuracy Activity

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A letter sound version of Tic Tac Toe that learners 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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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: 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 young scholars 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: Egg Carton Game; Letter Sound Accuracy Activity

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A small group game to build young scholars' 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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Professional Doc
Auburn University

Auburn University: Teaching Letter Recognition

For Teachers Pre-K - K Standards
How can you teach your students letter recognition? This site offers insight into this necessary pre-reading skill set. Come and explore this informative resource.
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Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Letters of the Alphabet

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This site features activities for the letters of the alphabet. Students have an opportunity to click on a letter and hear a story about that letter.
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Activity
Chateau Meddybemps

Chateau Meddybemps: Fun With Letters

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This interesting site has a variety of activities and games to use in the classroom or at home to teach letter recognition, phonics, and beginning writing skills. Learn about individual letters at the Alphabet Soup Cafe, create an...
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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 young scholars' abilities to identify the sounds of different vowels. This site includes a link to a Word List Generator.
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Super Why: Letters in Your Name Worksheet [Pdf]

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
An excellent resource for students learning to spell their names. The student must circle the letters in their name and then write their name in the space provided.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: The Letter F Kindergarten

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[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...
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Large Letters for the Little Ones by Hurd & Houghton

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Large Letters for the Little Ones by Hurd & Houghton (1865), a picture book with letters of the alphabet.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Letter K

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] Learning activities related to the letter /k/ are included such as word identification, initial letter recognition, blending with short vowels and /k/ck, and story structure with beginning, middle, and...
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Lesson Plan
Teachers.net

Teachers.net: Alphabet Fishing (Lesson Plan)

For Teachers Pre-K - K Standards
This site has a cute game young students will enjoy playing to review letter recognition. Students "go fishing" for letters. For each letter they "catch" they must tell what the letter is and a sound it makes.
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Professional Doc
Phonics Guide

Papa Jan: What Is Phonics?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
How can you define phonics? Take this opportunity to learn a little more about phonics and its relationship to letters and sounds.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: The Interesting Ii

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart introduces the letter Ii, both sounds, letter identification, writing I and i words. Students use the pen tool to practice writing and identifying the letter. A web link is included to...
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Ab Cs Easy as Can Be!

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[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...
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Activity
Other

Art With Mrs. Filmore: 1st Grade Art Lessons

For Teachers K - 1st
This site offers a variety of art lessons that use various media. Each project includes instructions and pictures of the students' completed artwork.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: B or D?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Multi-page flipchart designed to give primary students tools to use to distinguish between the letters b and d. Provides numerous opportunities for students to practice identification and automatic...
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Interactive
Roy the Zebra

Roy the Zebra: Reading Games: Words Within Words Game 2

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This reading game provides a word with a word inside. Young readers find the word within and drag the letters onto the lines provided to form that word. Then they choose a toy for Lucy the Elephant by dragging it into her gift box.

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