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Beginning Sound Activity
In this beginning blend sound worksheet, students look at pictures, say their names and write the beginning sound beneath each picture.
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Syllable Activity 3
In this syllables worksheet, 1st graders say the name for the 9 pictures and listen for the sounds. Students write the syllable count in the box.
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Open Up and Say /o/
Pupils recognize the short vowel o in written and spoken language. Through matching and listening activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /o/ from other phonemes. Students identify the phoneme and letter in words and pictures.
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An Icky Sticky Mess!
Students complete a variety of activities related to the short /i/ sound. As a class they recite a tongue twister, and trace and write the letter I. Students then view flash cards and identify the pictures containing the short /i/...
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A-Okay
Students complete a variety of activities related to the long /a/ sound and the a_e vowel correspondence. As a class they recite a tongue twister, and spell words containing the /ae/ correspondence using letter manipulatives. Students...
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Baby Talk
Students complete a variety of activities related to the short /a/ sound. As a class they recite a tongue twister, and write the letter A. Students listen to a list of words and identify the words containing the short /a/ sound, and...
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Long Vowel Free-Writing Activity: Long A
In this long vowel writing worksheet, students say the name of pictures that have the long a sound, then write about the pictures. Worksheet has links to additional activities.
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Upper and Lower Case Zz- Printing Practice and Initial Sound Recognition
In this upper and lower case Zz printing practice and initial sound recognition activity, students write 1 row of each letter. They follow the directional arrows and dotted lines to form the letters. They print a z next to 7 pictures...
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Stone Passing Game with Calabash Song
Students discuss games and their use around the world in many different cultures and how music and games are related. They discuss the rules of West African game then play a game from West Africa and review and learn the "Calabash" song...
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Roll the Dice
Young scholars practice recognizing and blending letters together to create new and unique words in the process of decoding text. They play a game where they roll dice to help blend a variety of words together and create new ones to...
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Phonics Instruction: Long Vowel Sound, Silent E
Learners explore language arts by participating in a class word identification game. In this phonics lesson, students read several words in class and identify the different sounds between short and long vowel words. Learners complete a...
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Swat The Spot
Students practice beginning letter/sound association. In this beginning letter/sound lesson, students listen to a reading of Potluck by Anne Shelby while identifying the sounds that are associated with the beginning letters of words in...
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Name That Sound
First graders match different pictures to the correct beginning and ending sounds they go with. For this sound lesson plan, 1st graders will use the computer program Kid Pix to go through a variety of pictures. They then match the...
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Consonant Digraphs 'TH', 'QU', and "WH'
In this consonant digraphs instructional activity, students look at seven pictures, say what each picture is, write what the picture is three times a piece and then make a complete sentence for each word.
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Fun Fonix: Say it. Trace and Write in the A. Read it.
For this phonics worksheet, 1st graders respond to 9 questions by saying the word represented in the picture, tracing and writing an "a" in the space provided (middle of each word), and reading the newly formed word.
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What Begins With Bb?
First graders match letter sounds to pictures they represent. In this matching letter sound lesson plan, 1st graders use the computer program Kidspiration to match the letter sounds to the corresponding pictures. This can be used for 1...
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Lesson 6- Letter/Word Recognition
In this letter recognition worksheet, students name various letters and say the sounds. There are six sight words to memorize and seven short sentences to read.
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Word Family Jamboree
Students explore rhyming words, beginning and ending sounds. In this word family lesson, students identify beginning and ending sounds. Students draw pictures of words and use phonetic spellings to write stories. Students use Dr. Seuss...
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Down by the Bay
Students work with rhyming words to add verses to a song. In this rhyming words lesson, students use rhyming words to add verses to Raffi's song, "Down by the Bay." They look for patterns and rhymes in the original verses before adding...
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Let's Fly Our Kites
Students practice reading and writing using a short poem and information about kites. In this kite poem lesson plan, students read and write using a common poem. This lesson plan includes practice with reading, rhyming, handwriting,...
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Trees-- Rhyming Words
In this reading and writing instructional activity, students read a poem about different kinds of trees. Students practice writing the rhyming words on primary lines, color the pictures and staple these pages into a book.
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Vocabulary Words: ar words
In this recognizing words spelled with "ar" learning exercise, students write the words from dictation, unscramble letters, and create sentences using the words are, car, far, dark, and orange. Students write fifteen answer.
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Rhyming Words
In this English worksheet, pupils read a list of rhyming words. One list groups rhyming words with the long a sound. A second list groups words with the long o sound.
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Rhyming Words
In this rhyming worksheet, students read groups of rhyming words. The first list included words with the sound you hear in by. A second list has rhyming words with the sound you hear in cow.