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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: High Frequency Words, Word Bowling

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Go bowling for high-frequency words! Partners take turns drawing bowling ball cards and read the word printed on them. If the learner is successful, they record their score on a scorecard.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonics: Letter Recognition, Alphabet Tiles Name Sort

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Beginning readers practice identifying alphabet letters using upper and lower case letter tiles. Each class member is given a T-chart, letter tiles, and a name card. They then separate the letter tiles in their name from those not in...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonics: Onset and Rime, Say It Now

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Pairs use onset and rime cards to make as many words as possible by blending the onsets with the rimes.
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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 Recognition, Venn Diagram Letter Name Sort

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
What’s in a name? Letters, of course! Partners place the letters of their names on a Venn diagram. Letters they have in common are named and placed in the overlapping area of the circles, while letters unique to just one of the names are...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonics, Letter-Sound Correspondence: Letter Bag

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
An activity focuses on final sounds sorting. Scholars pull objects out of a bag, identify what letter sound the object ends with, then draw the picture under the appropriate column.
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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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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonics: Letter Recognition, Hungry Letter Mouse

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Scholars take turns writing and identifying letters on a whiteboard. Learner one writes a letter; learner two finds it on the alphabet strip. If they are correct, Mr. Mouse gets to eat that letter, and if they are incorrect, Mr. Mouse...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonics: Letter Recognition, Alphabet Borders

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Reinforce early reading skills with an activity focusing on letter recognition. Class members work in pairs to match uppercase and lowercase letters of the alphabet.
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Kiz Club

Phonics Floor Game: Short Vowels

For Students K - 2nd Standards
Turn your phonics instruction into a game! First, hop on to word family foot prints to match the short vowel sound cards. Then, take the game to the next level; write a word on the foot print that has the same word family sound. 
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Isolating, Final Phoneme Find

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
This phonics activity engages listening skills and concentration. Young scholars listen to a teacher-made recording and use the provided worksheet to number the final phonemes they hear.
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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, Brown Bag It

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Sorting objects according to their initial sound get scholars thinking about letter-sound correspondence. With 26 brown bags labeled with a letter of the alphabet, learners browse magazines and cut out images that begin with the...
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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 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: Onset and Rime, Rime Closed Sort

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Practice onset and rime with this word sort activity. Beginning readers lay out the four picture cards along the top of the chart: fan, cap, tack, and lamp. Then, they flip word cards and sort them beneath the image with the same rime....
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonics: Letter-Sound Correspondence, Words Around Us Memory Game

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Scholars employ memory and letter-sound skills like the classic game Concentration to succeed at this literacy game. Partners choose from rows of upside-down cards, trying to match letters to images with the corresponding initial sound.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonics: Variant Correspondences, Fishing for Vowel Digraphs

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
After teaching vowel digraphs, reinforce the concept with an activity! Young scholars fish from a pile of 60 cards to match words with the same sound. Featured vowel digraphs include ea, au, aw, ow, oa, ai, ay, and ee.
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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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Mari

Word Herd

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Practice r-controlled vowels with a phonics game and worksheet. After rolling the dice, kids land on spaces on the game board and then find the matching r-controlled word in their stack of cards.
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International Reading Association

Literacy Survival Tips for New Teachers!

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Whether new to teaching or a seasoned pro, this 12-page phonics and phonemic awareness guide is a must for your curriculum library. Everything from a summary of research on the topic to exercises and activities is included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Letter-Sound Dominoes

For Teachers K - 1st
What do dominoes and phonemes have in common? Quite a bit in this engaging phonics game! Each domino has a letter on one side and an image on the other. Everything you need is here; partners place the starting domino on the table then...
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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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