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Printables
PreKinders

Letter Sounds Activity Cards

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Practice matching letters to pictures of items that match those letters with activity cards. Each card features the upper- and lower-case letter, as well as matching items for additional practice.
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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonics: Letter-Sound Correspondence, Letter-Sound Bingo

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Young scholars build a strong understanding of medial sounds, vowels, and letter sound correspondence while playing Bingo. Taking turns, peers choose a card and say its name and medial sound; all players look for the vowel on their card....
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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonics: High Frequency Words, Word Baseball

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Scholars play high-frequency word baseball, pretending to be a pitcher and a batter. Players take turns choosing baseballs with high-frequency words printed on them. If they read the word correctly, they move to the next base until they...
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Worksheet
Get Reading Right

Picture and Word Cards

For Students K - 2nd
Reading and recognizing words with the long /e/ sound is enjoyable and accessible for all emerging readers with these picture and word cards. Print, laminate, and play games in small groups or with additional classroom personnel. Two...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Phonics Monsters Rummy!

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd
Students play the game Phonics Rummy and practice making words from phonics monster cards. In this ESL lesson, students respond to icons. Students also respond to pictures and words while reading phrases that provide visual cues.
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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonics: Syllable Patterns, Picture It In Syllables

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Scholars practice blending syllables by playing a matching game. Pairs flip two cards and blend syllables; if they create a word, the player writes it on a worksheet; if not, the cards return to the collection.
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Worksheet
Get Reading Right

Phonic Noughts and Crosses: s, m, c, t, g, p, a, o

For Students K - 2nd
Noughts and Crosses, the classic English game called tic-tac-toe in America, has an educational twist in a fundamental phonics matching activity. Emerging readers will take great pleasure in recognizing and reading nine simple CVC words...
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PPT
Curated OER

Consonant Game

For Teachers 5th - 9th
With fun sound effects and bright animations, this interactive game will help your ESL class with their initial consonants. Each slide shows a picture of an item (snail, lion, car, etc) and prompts pupils to choose the correct consonant...
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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Isolating, Move and Tell

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Build phonological awareness with this fun game focused on isolating and identifying medial phonemes. This game board contains an image on each square; when the child lands on a square, they must say the medial sound of the word they...
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Alphabet Borders

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Help young scholars name the letters of the alphabet. They use the provided alphabet border and letter cards to take turns saying and finding various alphabet letters. This simple game can be extended by having learners focus on the...
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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Matching, Phoneme Go Fish

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Go fishing for initial sounds with this engaging phoneme game! Similar to the card game Go Fish, pairs use picture cards and try to match initial sounds. They set aside any pictures that are a match and ask their partner for specific...
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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Fluency: Letter-Sound Correspondence, Make a Match

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A memory activity engages young learners in letter-sound correspondence. Pairs take turns examining two sets of cards lying face down. They flip one image card and one letter card, then name the initial sound. If the sounds match, pupils...
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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Fluency: Words, Fast Match

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Here is an interesting take on the old timed-fluency activity. In pairs, learners work together to see how fast they can read two sets of high-frequency words. Peer one reads a word from his list; peer two works fast to find that word in...
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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Fluency: Letter-Sound Correspondence, Fluency Letter Wheel

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Young scholars spin their way to letter sound fluency. While tomes, pairs spin a spinner and make the sound of the letter on which it lands. They add a counter to their cup for each sound they make correctly. At the end of the game,...
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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Matching, Medial Phoneme Dominoes

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Matching medial phonemes can be as easy as playing a game of dominoes! These dominoes contain pictures of items children can say. As they say each word aloud, they work to match the medial sound to one on an adjacent card. Just like real...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Syllable Challenge Ball Game

For Teachers K - 2nd
Toss the ball! Help readers listen for the number of syllables in a word. They play an interactive ball game where they toss the ball to a peer and state a word using the number of syllables called out by the teacher. This is a great...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Train Phonics /ug/ words

For Students K - 6th
Ask your Autistic pupils what is riding on the train. When they answer, point out that they made the /ug/ sound in each of the three-letter words they say. This is a well scaffolded resource that works toward reading with independence....
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Letter-Sound Dominoes

For Teachers K - 1st
What do dominoes and phonemes have in common? Quite a bit in this engaging phonics game! Each domino has a letter on one side and an image on the other. Everything you need is here; partners place the starting domino on the table then...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Phonics Instruction: Long Vowel Sound, Silent E

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students 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. Students complete a...
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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonics: High Frequency Words, Word Bowling

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Go bowling for high-frequency words! Partners take turns drawing bowling ball cards and read the word printed on them. If the learner is successful, they record their score on a scorecard.
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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Sound Spin

For Teachers K - 1st
Here is a phoneme segmenting game which incorporates drawing for your more artistic learners. Assemble the spinner using a brad and lay out the picture cards face up. Partners take turns spinning to get either two, three, four, or five....
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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Phoneme Challenge

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
This phonemic awareness game is very similar to the classic card game war; partners divide picture cards, each taking half (included). They place one card face-up at a time and segment the phonemes aloud. Whoever has the most phonemes...
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Activity
University of Pennsylvania

The Reading Road

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd Standards
Practice r-controlled vowel sounds and words with a series of phonics activities. Ranging from straightforward instruction sheets to a fun rhyming story about video games, the exercises will interest all of your learners, regardless of...
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Activity
University of Texas

Essential Reading Strategies for the Struggling Reader

For Teachers K - 5th Standards
Beneficial for beginning readers, struggling readers, and those in need of review, a set of language arts activities is a great addition to any foundational reading unit. Focusing on phonological awareness, fluency, instructional...