Here are two tools to use in assessing student understanding of final sounds. One deals with phoneme isolation and one deals with phoneme matching.

This site contains a flexible activity that teaches learners how to "catch" or identify the final sound of a word.

In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "c" or "k" in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see...

This lesson plan involves having students listen to sounds and match sounds. Students will match rhyming sounds, beginning sounds, ending sounds or vowel sounds.

A version of the "20 Questions" game. The instructor tells the class he is thinking of something that starts with, for example, /b/. The students have to come up with what the teacher is thinking of.

A simple, yet effective activity to teach students to identify the same sounds in different words. The teacher says a word and the students give a thumbs up or thumbs down. This site also includes a Word Generator list link as a resource.

A teacher-led activity that helps students learn to isolate the initial sounds of words.

A fun activity that has students draw each individual letter and then blend them together.

An activity to build students' abilities to identify sounds, even in nonsense words. The teacher says a word and states that it is not a real word, but asks the students to just listen for the sounds.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Match beginning sound to the correct picture.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Choose from a variety of worksheets to help students practice pronouncing the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words.

This site focuses on beginning, medial, and ending sounds. It offers a collection of games, exercises, and activities to teach letter sounds including beginning letters, phonemes, and ending sounds to emergent readers. These sites...

This activity uses the students' favorite classroom book as a resource. The instructor says We are going on a Picture Hunt! and then asks the class where an object is in the picture, but leaves out the first letter sound when asking.

A fun classroom game! The teacher says a riddle, gives the sounds that make up the answer, and the students guess the answer by blending the sounds together.

A classroom or small group game to build accuracy of students' abilities to blend phonemes. Students write the sounds that the teacher gives them on their own slate/dry erase board and then blend the sounds together to form words.

This page contains audio clips of words separated into phonemes. The audios give the word and then the word separated. There is a link to the Phonological Awareness activities page that utilizes this sound page. The sounds are pronounced...

In this classroom activity, the instructor creates a list of simple sentences that include a three or four letter word that the students are asked to blend. The instructor says the sentence and asks the student to help blend the letters...

A classroom activity led by the instructor. The student is given a spoken onset and rime, and learns to remove the onset and state the remaining rime.

A higher level activity that helps students develop fluency in identifying open and closed syllable words.

A classroom game designed to build accuracy skills in students' abilities to identify syllables. The teacher prints picture cards (this site links to the site for pictures) of one-, two-, or three-syllable words. Students pull a picture...

There are three levels in this interactive word game. Match the initial and final sounds to create a word to name the picture. ER words: herd, fern; IR words: bird, girl; UR words: curl, surf.

Starfall's interactive word game uses picture cues to spell OR words such as fork, horn, corn, fort. You must place the appropriate initial and final sounds in the empty boxes to complete the spelling of the word.

In this activity, students are asked to type in the beginning letter sound of a word, based on a picture provided.

A kindergarten/first grade lesson plan for sounding out consonant vowel consonant words. Students and teachers will benefit from this hands-on activity.