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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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Science Friday

Make a Model Eardrum to Detect Sound Waves

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Make sound waves visible with an experiment that asks middle schoolers to build a model ear drum using plastic bottles, rubber bands, plastic wrap, and sand-like substances.
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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

Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Isolating, The Last Sound Is...

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Partners work with real objects as they practice final phonemes. Here's how it works: Partner A silently chooses an object and sounds it out, determining the final phoneme and saying the sound aloud. Partner B examines the group of...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonics: Letter-Sound Correspondence, Letter Sound Match

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Scholars match initial, medial, and final phonemes to individual graphemes. They pick a card, say its name, then find the letter that makes that sound. If the card is a monkey, the learner finds the letter m, matching the grapheme to the...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Fluency: Letter-Sound Correspondence, Letter Flash

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Scholars work in pairs to drill and practice alphabet sounds, keeping track of their progress on a chart. Working one at a time, each partner flips letter cards, saying the sound and letter. If they get it correct, it goes in the YES...
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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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Phonics: Letter-Sound Correspondence, Letter-Sound Pyramid

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This fun game is a way to help your littlest learners build strong phonological awareness. Scholars equipped with letter triangles, a stack of picture cards, and counters choose a picture card, say the name of the image, and attempt to...
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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, 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, 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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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

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

Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Matching, Sound Pie

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Develop phonological awareness by challenging pupils to recognize final sounds in familiar words. Using magazines or other print resources, scholars search for pictures of words with the same final sound as a starter picture. Once they...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonemic Awareness: Phoneme Matching, Sound Pictures and Picture Puzzles

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Scholars use a T-chart and puzzle pieces to practice saying and recognizing the medial sound in a series of words. Peers take turns choosing a puzzle piece, saying its name and medial sound, then placing it on their side of the chart. 
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Matching, Final Phoneme Memory

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Try to match the final sounds in this memory game! Learners place all 24 cards upside down and take turns flipping them to see if the final phonemes match. If they do, remove them; if not, put them back. Partners play until all cards...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Isolating, Sound Quest

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Scholars cut, paste, and identify specific initial, medial, and final phonemes by placing them on a phoneme chart.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Matching, Sound Train

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
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...
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Exploratorium

Groovy Sounds

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Make music. Class members construct a simple record player using a paper cone and a pin. The resource provides a description of what is happening and why listeners can hear the sounds through the cone. 
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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

Phonological Awareness: Onset and Rime, Sound Detective

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
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...
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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

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, 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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