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"The Scary Letter...aaaaaaaaaa!!!"
Students study the /a/ using the hand gesture and 'aaa' sound as if they were seeing a ghost. Next, they recite a tongue twister and make words using letter boxes using different numbers of phonemes. Next, they read "Pat's Jam" out loud...
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Red Fish-Blue Fish Make a Wish
Students to read and pronounce words correctly. They investigate the letters that stand for phonemes so that spellings map out the phoneme sequence in spoken words. Students attach sounds to appropriate letters. They have some sounds...
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Can You Slither Like a Snake?
Students explore letter-sound correspondences. They explore the letter s and the sound produced by the letter. Students explore how to write both the upper and lower case forms of the letter s. Students identify s in both written and...
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Eeeee -- It's a Mouse!
Students recognize the long "e" sound, and identify it in spoken words by learning letter symbols. Students participate in role playing and tongue twisters to learn the long "e" sound. By learning phenomes, students are taking the...
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Language Arts: Understanding Phonemes
Students discover the relationship between letters and phonemes. The teacher leads an oral demonstration of pronunciation and focus on the /a/ sound. Next, students examine a series of pictures, circling the ones where they hear the...
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Beginning Reading Design: A and I are Team Players
Students complete a variety of activities related to the long /a/ sound and the /ai/ correspondence. As a class they recite a tongue twister, and spell words containing the /ai/ correspondence using letter manipulatives. Students then...
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Beginning Sounds
In this beginning sounds instructional activity, 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...
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Farm Animals and the Last Letter
In these last letter worksheets, 1st graders look at the pictures of the farm animals, tools, and foods. Students say the name for each picture and listen to the ending sounds. Students choose the correct letter to complete each word and...
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Halloween Letter Match
In this Halloween activity worksheet, students draw a line from each Halloween picture to the letter that begins with the same sound. Students match five images to the letters w, m, s, g, and b.
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Ocean Letter Match
In this beginning sounds worksheet, students study the pictures of the ocean animals and the letters. Students then draw a line from each picture to the letter with the same beginning sound.
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's' and 'a' sounds
In this 's' and 'a' phonemes learning exercise, 1st graders observe 6 pictures and label each as an 's' or 'a' beginning sound. Spaces are included by each picture for students to label. Students must also write the word that each...
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Beginning Sounds
Students sit in a circle and repeat the names and sounds of the first letter of their first names. Next, they trace their name once on the practice paper and then practice writing their name on the other lines. Then they observe the...
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Letter Sounds
Young scholars orally say the sounds of the letters A, G, H, L, N, R, W, and J at the beginning of words when given a list of words that start with these letters. They use at least two of these words effectively in a sentence. Students...
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School-Home Links: Say Sounds of Letters in a Word
In this letter sounds activity, students look at each word, point to each letter, and make that letter's sound. Students repeat each word on the page. Students then sound out the letters in their name.
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School-Home Links: Sounds Letters Make
In this letter sounds worksheet, learners have a family member read each line to their child. The students then tell the letter for the sound he or she hears at the beginning of the word.
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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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Beginning Letters-Online Interactive
In this phonics activity, students answer 10 questions in which the initial consonant sound that matches a picture is marked. From four letter choices, students choose the beginning letter to match the picture.
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Beginning Sounds Worksheet: Part 5
In this matching sounds worksheet, students draw a line from each letter that represents a specific beginning sound to the picture that illustrates it.
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CVC Words - Initial Sounds (2)
In this phonics worksheet, students study each picture and then fill in the missing initial sound to complete the word. Students follow the consonant-vowel-consonant pattern.
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Catch the Sneezing /a/
Students study the /a/ in both written and spoken words. They find the sneezing /a/ while saying words and reciting a tongue twister before they practice writing the letter 'a.' As they listen to a read aloud of 'Pat's Jam," they sneeze...
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Short Sound of A Maze
In this short A activity, 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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Identifying Phonemes
In this phonemes worksheet, students break apart 20 words into their phonetic sounds. Students categorize the words into two groups: words with the sound in "fool" or words with the sound in "play".
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I've Got a Bad Taste in my Mouth! Aaa!
Students complete a variety of activities related to the short /a/ sound. As a class they recite a tongue twister, and trace and write the letter A. Students then listen to pairs of words and identify which word in each pair contains the...
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CVC Words - Initial Sounds
In this phonics worksheet, students study each picture and then fill in the missing sound for each word. Students follow a consonant-vowel-consonant pattern.