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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonics: Letter-Sound Correspondence, Letter-Sound Place Mats

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Young scholars create personalized place mats as they learn about initial sounds. Using construction paper, they stamp their names using letter stamps. Scholars examine print resources and cut out pictures with the same initial sound as...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonics: Letter-Sound Correspondence, Medial Phoneme Spin

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A collaborative activity challenges young scholars to match medial graphemes and phonemes. Pairs take turns spinning the spinner, naming the letter, and saying its name. They choose from a stack of cards with the same medial sound.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Letter Recognition: Poetry Pen

For Teachers K - 1st
It's always nice to have a great idea and all the tools to make it happen. The class can use these nursery rhyme and alphabet cards to teach each other letter recognition and letter sound correspondence. There is a full set of alphabet...
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Freeology

Lowercase Letter a Coloring

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd Standards
Help young learners master their alphabet with this simple series of worksheets. Including a separate worksheet for each letter of the alphabet, children first trace the letters four times before writing them on their own and...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Letter Sound Fluency

For Teachers K - 1st
Students practice letter sounds. In this phonemic awareness lesson, students practice saying each letter sound by playing a game. Students use index cards that have letters printed on them and say the letter sound. Students go as fast as...
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Instructional Video1:20
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Romeo And Alphabet

For Teachers Pre-K - K
With a wonderful take on the play Romeo and Juliet, Sesame Street characters romanticize the alphabet. Telly calls out the letters of the alphabet as a banner slowly parades by. This could be a fun way to review the alphabet before a...
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Instructional Video4:10
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Melanie Giovannone

Letter-Sound Match Cut and Paste

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Develop beginning readers' understanding of letter-sound correspondence with this fun series of cut-and-paste worksheets. With each page focusing on four specific letters, children are able to practice isolating...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

ESL Lesson - Letters of the Alphabet

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students visually represent information by using magnetic letters of the alphabet and understand and use technical vocabulary. They are able to repeat the name of the letters and sing the "Alphabet Song". They show what they have learned...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Write the letters of the alphabet

For Students K - 2nd
Have your young writers practice forming all 26 letters in the alphabet. They'll practice uppercase and lowercase letters. Steps are provided for each letter!
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Language Arts: Scavenger Word Hunt

For Teachers K - 1st
Participate in a scavenger hunt to find objects beginning with a particular letter sound and take digital photos of them with your scholars. Using software, they find word pictures beginning with particular letters and locate picture...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Phonics Instruction: Writing Simple Words

For Teachers K - 1st
Sound it out, read it, then sound it out, and write it. Little ones work as a class to sound out simple words. After they have sounded out each word they will write that word on the white board. This is a great way to build a connection...
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Instructional Video1:59
Curated OER

ABC Phonics Chant

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Scan through the letters of the alphabet, their sounds, and a word that starts with that letter. The letter is flashed along with a picture of the word as a male voice says, "G, /guh/, grape." A quick, efficient resource that can be used...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Reintroduce /i/

For Teachers Pre-K - K
As your scholars begin learning letters of the alphabet, help them connect sound, pronunciation, word examples, and letter recognition using these strategies. Focusing on the letter i, begin by drawing it on the board. Can scholars...
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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonics: Letter-Sound Correspondence, Photo Chart

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Have fun with student photographs in this phonics activity! Learners sort their classmates' photos by initial sound on a large poster board with the alphabet written vertically down the left side. Also provided are various pictures...
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Instructional Video7:35
Curated OER

Jolly Phonics - A to Z - Part 2/3

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A little song goes with every letter in the alphabet. This video goes along with the Jolly Phonics vowels video as the songs for the vowels are repeated. Small actions are described for each letter as well to make this video interactive...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Introduce /p/

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Navigate the letter p without leaving anything out: combine pronunciation, recognition, letter sound, and word examples. Scholars examine the letter shape and listen to you pronounce the /p/ sound. As you explain how this sound is made,...
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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Matching, Sound Train

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Make a phonics train filled with matching initial phonemes. Early readers say the name of the objects on each of their cards, identify the initial letter sounds or phonemes, then paste them on a train. They make three trains, which means...
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Curated OER

Practicing Letters W and X

For Students Pre-K - K Standards
Match initial phonemes to practice recognizing the sounds made by the letters w and x. Early readers circle all of the objects that begin with either an x or a w, then trace each letter several times. Try a fun variation by having...
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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness: Onset and Rime, Sound Detective

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Play letter sound detective with your class, and snoop out sounds, onsets, blends, and rhyme. In pairs, children take turns choosing a card from the pile; as they sound out part of the word, their partner attempts to figure out which...
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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Isolating, Bag-of-Sounds

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
In pairs, pre-readers take turns holding up objects from a bag. As one child holds up an object, the other names it and says its initial letter sound. They work together to sort the objects into piles based on how they isolated and...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Missing Letters

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
As your youngsters begin learning to read, use visual worksheets like this to help them tie objects to words. Scholars examine six images labeled with a word. Each word is missing a first letter, and they must use one of the letters at...
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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Matching, Initial Phoneme Picture Sort

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
An activity focuses on phonemic awareness and initial letter sounds. Scholars sort picture cards by saying and matching the initial sounds each word makes.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Match the Rhymes

For Students Pre-K - K
Focus on the short u sound in this rhyme learning exercise for emergent readers. Learners examine images surrounding a jug, drawing lines to connect it to those that rhyme (bug, rug, mug). Then, they practice their printing by...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Odd One Out

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Letters q-z are the topic of the worksheet. Learners circle the picture in each row that does not make the initial letter sound indicated. They then fill in the letter that is missing from the beginning or ending of four words.