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Florida Center for Reading Research

Fluency: Letter-Sound Correspondence, Fluency Letter Wheel

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Young scholars spin their way to letter sound fluency. While tomes, pairs spin a spinner and make the sound of the letter on which it lands. They add a counter to their cup for each sound they make correctly. At the end of the game,...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Final Phoneme Pyramid

For Teachers K - 1st
Little learners identify final phonemes found in various words. They play a game where they pick a card, say the name of the object on the card, identify the final phoneme, then match it to an image with the same final phoneme. Whoever...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Fluency: Letter-Sound Correspondence, Make a Match

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A memory activity engages young learners in letter-sound correspondence. Pairs take turns examining two sets of cards lying face down. They flip one image card and one letter card, then name the initial sound. If the sounds match, pupils...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Fluency: Letter-Sound Correspondence, Letter-Sound Mix-Up

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
Scholars time each other as they work through a sheet of all 26 letters. They test each other to see how many letters sounds they can identify in one minute.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonics: Encoding and Decoding, Letter Cube Blending

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Emergent readers use a letter cube to identify, blend, and make words. They roll each of the three-letter cubes, mark down the letters they rolled, then blend the letter sounds together to make a word. They record each word on a...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Segmenting and Blending, Picture Slide

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A hands-on activity challenges young scholars to name a picture, segment its phonemes, then blend those sounds to make the word. 
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Kindergarteners and first graders alike are engaged as they learn the initial sounds of objects by taking turns flipping cards to form a long train. This complete and ready-to-print activity helps young ones build the basic foundations...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Treasure Chest

For Teachers K - 1st
Segmenting and blending phonemes helps budding readers understand words. Use this strategy in an engaging game where partners test each other's auditory processing using familiar words. Using picture cards and a chart (included),...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Syllable Hopscotch

For Teachers K - 1st
Let your little learners move while they practice breaking words into syllables or chunks. Place a hopscotch "board" on the floor (this can be done with tape). Your class takes turns choosing picture cards, and then they say the name of...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Rhyme Flip Book

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This rhyme book activity may look confusing at first, but it's really quite simple. Everything you'll need is right here and ready to use. Kids cut out and staple the pages of their own rhyme books. The only folds they will make are the...
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University of Texas

Essential Reading Strategies for the Struggling Reader

For Teachers K - 5th Standards
Beneficial for beginning readers, struggling readers, and those in need of review, a set of language arts activities is a great addition to any foundational reading unit. Focusing on phonological awareness, fluency, instructional...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Sound it-Bag it

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Scholars sort picture cards based on the initial phoneme they hear as they say the name of each image. They pick a card, say its name, then place it in one of five bags based on how its initial phoneme matches the initial phoneme...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Drop and Say

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This neat idea gets kids to use phonics and puzzle-solving skills. Pairs take turns picking picture cards from a pile, say the name of the object on the card, drop a letter to turn that word into a new word, then look for the new word on...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonics: Letter-Sound Correspondence, Letter-Sound Match

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Boost initial, medial, and final sound correspondence. Scholars practice decomposing word sounds using image cards and a worksheet. Learners cut out 10 three-letter images, sound them out, and glue them on the worksheet. Each word is...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonics: Letter-Sound Correspondence,

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
What a fun way to practice medial sound-letter correspondence! This alphabet activity has pupils flip cards, determine the medial sound, and place it on one of the train cars if it matches.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonics: Letter-Sound Correspondence, Letter-Sound Mobile

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Get creative with phonics by having kids create a letter-sound mobile! Learners practice matching medial sounds to their corresponding vowels using a hanger, hole punch, string, and the provided image and letter cards. Students attach...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonics: Letter-Sound Correspondence, Letter-Sound Bingo

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Young scholars build a strong understanding of medial sounds, vowels, and letter sound correspondence while playing Bingo. Taking turns, peers choose a card and say its name and medial sound; all players look for the vowel on their card....
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonics: Variant Correspondences, Say and Write Letters

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Scholars sound out and write twelve different words. Using Elkonin boxes, pupils say the name of each picture, then write the letters that make each sound.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonics: Letter-Sound Correspondence, Where's That Sound?

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
The phoneme train is leaving the station! Get your budding readers familiar with letter-sound correspondence using this fun phonics activity. Learners set up the initial and final sound train cards, placing letters between them. They...
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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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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonics: Onset and Rime, Change-A-Word

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Kids use their phonological know-how to identify and segment onset and rime blends. Double rime picture cards (cat and hat) are chosen, then matched to onset cards that make each word, such as the k sound for a cat and the h sound for a...
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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, Letter-Sound Folder Sort

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Practice letter-sound correspondence using an activity that challenges pupils to sort images based on their final sounds. Pairs choose four final sounds to place in an open file folder, take turns selecting image cards, pronouncing the...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Advanced Phonics: Variant Correspondences, Homophone Bingo!

For Teachers 4th - 5th Standards
Phonics doesn't just have to be a daily routine for class members. Spruce up their phonemic awareness with an exciting game of Bingo! Young grammarians select cards, locate their matching homophones, spell the pairs, and identify how...

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