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Find the Words
Before kids become readers, they can build foundational pre-reading skills using visual worksheets like this one. Learners examine six words with corresponding pictures, circling the words and guessing what they say. They use the images...
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The Big Hit
Students are introduced to the phonetic sound associated with the short letter "i" and listen to a story which includes words with this sound. For this the big hit starfall lesson, students build sound letter accuracy. Students also...
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Discriminating Phonemes
Develop the fluency of beginning readers one sound at a time with this phonemic awareness lesson. Through a series of whole-class instruction, independent practice, and collaborative learning activities, children practice identifying the...
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Alphatech
Students explore letters and their sounds. In this beginning phonics literacy instructional activity, students bring objects from home that begin with an assigned letter. Students show their object/s and the teacher takes a picture. ...
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Letter Pronunciation - "b" sound
In this letter pronunciation /b/ sound worksheet, students use pictures to identify b words and create sentences. Students complete seven activities.
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Letter Pronunciation- Letter V Sound
In this letter V worksheet, students examine a picture and four words. Students circle the word that best describes the picture and use the word in a sentence.
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Letter Pronunciation- Y Sound
In this letter Y worksheet, students analyze a picture and four word choices. Students circle the word that best describes the picture and use it in a sentence.
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Letter Pronunciation- Z Sound
In this letter Z worksheet, students analyze 7 pictures and the four words for each. Students circle the word that best describes the picture and use that word in a sentence.
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Letter Pronunciation- The Letter W
In this letter W worksheet, students analyze 7 pictures and four words that begin with W. Students circle the word that best describes each picture and use that word in a sentence.
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Letter W Worksheet
In this alphabet letter W activity, students trace and write the uppercase and lowercase letter W seven times each, write the letter W on the lines provided with seven pictures associated with the letter W and draw their favorite W word.
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Letter Y Worksheet
In this alphabet letter Y activity, students trace and write the uppercase and lowercase alphabet letter Y ten times each. Students write the letter Y on the lines provided associated with pictures dealing with the letter Y and draw...
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Super Susie Slithered Slowly
Students complete a variety of activities related to the letter /s/ sound. As a class they recite an S tongue twister, then trace and write the letter S. Students then listen to the book "Slowly, Slowly, Said the Sloth" by Eric Carle,...
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Ribbit, Ribbit
Pupils complete a variety of activities related to the /r/ sound. As a class they recite a tongue twister, then trace and write the letter "R." Students then look at a stack of flash cards and identify the words beginning with the /r/...
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Sid the Silly Slow Sloth
Students complete a variety of activities related to the /s/ sound. They write the letter S, and listen to word pairs, identifying the word in each pair that contains the /s/ sound. Students then listen to the book "Slowly, Slowly,...
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Letter Recognition: The Letter K
In this letter K worksheet, students identify and circle k words from a word bank. Students then associate the pictures that start with the letter k and color the pictures.
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Loving Letter "L"
Students identify the grapheme and phoneme for L. They practice writing the letter L and through listening activities, discriminate the phoneme /l/. They associate the phoneme /l/ with its letter representation and identify it in various...
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What Letter Do These Begin With?
In this initial consonant activity, learners complete 9 pages with 9 questions on each page pertaining to initial consonant sounds. Students say the name of the picture and write the letter that starts each word.
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An Alphabet Book
Students demonstrate beginning reading strategies. In this letter recognition lesson plan, students produce sounds associated with given letters and identify pictures that begin with given letters using "Kid's Pix Deluxe 3".
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See It, Say It, Move It, Do It!
Learn two new letters a week with this activity! After learning the two target letters, the class will make an alphabet video "performing" each letter. The letter's name, sound, and a motion associated with it will be included in the...
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Learn-to-Read Pumpkin Patch
Learners practice identifying and pronouncing the short letter "u" sound. For this phonetic awareness lesson, students access the Starfall.com website and follow the directions on the screen to reinforce the short "u" sound. Learners can...
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Phonics lesson for -ew and -oo
First graders identify letters and sounds associated with -ew and -oo sounds. Each learner receives a stack of cards containing these sounds, and they must determine whether the word uses the -ew or the -oo sound. This could easily...
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Picture the Word
This is an excellent way to make onset and rime visual for beginning readers. They examine CVC-word picture cards that are all missing the first letter. Using plastic letters (or whatever you have), they complete each word and record it...
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School-Home Links: Beginning Sounds
In this letters and sounds worksheet, students name each picture and listen to the beginning sound in the word. Students circle the letter with the same sound.
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Beginning Sounds Worksheet
In this early childhood beginning sounds worksheet, students learn to recognize beginning letters of words as they look at the pictures of the duck, giraffe, fan and whale on the page and choose from the letters in a box associating the...