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Phonic Knowledge
This lengthy presentation gives young readers a lot of chances to practice sounding out vowel and consonant blends. There are 122 slides full of vowels, consonants, and actual words. For example, one slide has ay, the next slide has pl,...
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School-Home Links: Say Sounds of Letters in a Word
In this letter sounds worksheet, students look at each word, point to each letter, and make that letter's sound. Kids repeat each word on the page. Students then sound out the letters in their name.
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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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School-Home Links: Sound Combining
In this letter sounds worksheet, students read several silly sentences and circle the two letters that make new sounds. Students write these two letters on the lines. Students then write the sound a train makes and the two letters that...
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Letter Recognition and Sound Review
Students practice the sounds of the letters A-L. In this literacy lesson, the teacher demonstrates the letter sounds, then the students practice and complete a worksheet to demonstrate understanding.
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The Sound of D
In this letter sounds worksheet, students practice learning the letter D by tracing the uppercase and lower case letter Dd. Students then say the names of the pictures in each box and color the pictures that start with the D sound.
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Short Sound of A Maze
In this short A learning exercise, students help the cat get through the maze by following the path of words that have the short A sound. Students also alphabetize the words from the maze that have the short A sound.
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The Sound of B
In this letter sounds worksheet, students study the various images in the picture of the mother and son at bedtime. Students circle ten things in the picture that begins with the sound of b.
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The Doctor Sound
Students complete a variety of activities related to the /o/ sound. As a class they recite a tongue twister, then trace and write the letter O. Students then listen to the teacher read "The Ox Book," identify the words in the story...
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School-Home Links: Alike and Different Sounds
In this letter sounds worksheet, students point to each letter and say the sound that it makes. Students then tell which sound is the row is different.
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Beginning Sounds
In this beginning sounds worksheet, students say the name of the pictures in each row. Students circle the letter that makes the same beginning sound as the picture names. Students recognize the beginning sounds for the letters h, c, t,...
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School-Home Links: Ending Sounds
In this ending sounds worksheet, students name each pictures and listen for the last sound. Students then write the letter for the last sound they hear.
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Beginning Sounds: T, F, K
For this beginning sounds worksheet, students study each picture and say its name. Students then circle the letter that matches the beginning sound for each word. Students learn words that begin with the sounds t, k, and f.
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The Icky Sticky Indian
Students study the /i/ sound in both written and spoken words. They examine how their mouths move as they make the /i/ sound, recite a tongue twister, and write the both the upper and lower case 'i'. Next, they listen to a story while...
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School-Home Links: Sounds in Short Words
In this word sounds activity, students point to each word and say it slowly. Family members repeat the word and then ask the children to name the sounds.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Fluency: Connected Text, Rereading Decodable Text
Using a familiar decodable text, pairs take turns reading sentences. The partner who isn't reading follows along silently, helping if needed. They alternate sentences until the entire book is finished and then reverse to read the other...
Texas Center for Learning Disabilities
Teacher Templates
Letter by letter, sound by sound, monitor the growth of your emergent readers with these assessment templates. Adaptable to the needs of individual students, these one-on-one assessments focus on children's ability to identify letters...
Curriculum Corner
Summer Build-a-Word Puzzles
Help beginning students build words from sounds right before summer with a set of build-a-word puzzles. The 17-page packet comes with 45 beach-themed word puzzles.
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Word Puzzle
Add some fun to rhyming using a word puzzle learning exercise. First, learners match up single-syllable rhyming words. Then, they find all the words in a word search. This beginning reading activity only has words spelled horizontally...
Innovative Mobile Apps
Phonics Genius
Readers at any level who are practicing phonics will benefit from a highly customizable set of features designed for instruction and practice. The extensive library of phonemes and exemplar words covers sounds from the a in cat to the zh...
Texas Center for Learning Disabilities
First-Grade Intervention
Learning how to read is a big challenge for young learners, but this series of lessons provides them with the extra support they need to succeed. With each lesson following the a clearly outlined format, children are introduced to new...
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Blends Concentration
Practice blending initial sounds with a St. Patrick's Day-themed word sort! Scholars read 20 word cards, organize them by initial blends, and write their findings on a corresponding activity.
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"Aaaaaa!!!!" It's Okay, Baby!!
Your kindergarten or first grade class works on recognizing the /a/ sound in spoken words. Use the fun tongue twister to help remember the target sound, and practice writing the letter a. Then have them write words that use this target...