Alphabet Teacher Resources

As your youngsters begin to recognize the letters of the alphabet and their correponsding sounds, there are some they will be more familiar with than others. Cement their letter associations using this quick strategy, shown here with the...

An object pops up on the screen for each letter of the alphabet, accompanied by the letter itself and the name of the object. The objects are drawn in black and white and the letters pop up in red.

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...

Young learners use the provided worksheet to locate and record the names of 26 items that begin with letters of the alphabet. As an extra challenge, scavengers hunt the objects in alphabetical order.

In this alphabetical order worksheet, students write the name of cities for each letter of the alphabet. 

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...

In this printing practice worksheet, students trace the lowercase letters of the alphabet and then write them independently.

In this alphabet template worksheet, students are given each letter of the alphabet accompanied by a picture that starts with each. Page is a template only, letters and pictures can be colored.

For this printing practice worksheet, students trace the lowercase letters of the alphabet and then write them independently on the provided lines.

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...

In this handwriting skills activity, students trace and write, five to six times a piece, the uppercase and lowercase letters of the alphabet.

Hop from one letter to the next with this alphabet practice game! Each foot-shaped piece includes one letter of the alphabet inside of it. Kids can step along the alphabet or use their feet to spell simple words.

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

An activity focuses on phonemic awareness and initial letter sounds. Scholars sort picture cards by saying and matching the initial sounds each word makes.

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...

Focus on the short u sound in this rhyme worksheet 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 tracing the...

Letters q-z are the topic of the activity. 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. 

Looking for a fun activity for your vocabulary lesson? Bring a activity on "spoonerisms" to your fifth grade class. Kids decipher seven phrases that have mixed up the first letter sounds of each word. They then think of their own...

Once your scholars know their letter sounds and recognize them in words, have them try making new words by manipulating phonemes. Pupils are given a word change picture board and a stack of word pictures. They pick a card and place it...

Consonant blends at the end of words are shown in this video. The ending is shown first, then other letters jump onto the screen to form a word. A female voice reads all the letters, sounds, and words.