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.

Classroom teachers will learn how to use phoneme isolation as an instructional strategy. Teachers will learn direct instructional techniques for phoneme isolation. Word picture cards are included to be used with phoneme isolation tasks...

Classroom teachers will learn how to use phoneme substitution as an instructional strategy. Teachers will learn direct instructional techniques for phoneme substitution. Word picture cards are included to be used with phoneme...

Contains plans for three lessons designed for first grade that teach phoneme isolation in order to build phonemic awareness. In addition to objectives and standards, these instructional plans contain links to sites used in the lessons as...

Superb explanation of phoneme awareness. Content addresses how to focus on individual phonemes, how to make the phoneme memorable, and how to find phoneme in word contexts.

Come and learn some hand gestures for phonemes designed by the faculty and students at Auburn University. Students and teachers will find these gestures beneficial in the learning process.

This printable vowels worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will view pictures and identify the words that contain the consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) spelling pattern. An...

Suggestions of ways to help students learn to blend phonemes to make real or nonsense words. Dr. Murray explains both onset-rime and body-coda methods of blending.

Classroom teachers will learn how to use phoneme deletion as an instructional strategy. Teachers will learn direct instructional techniques for phoneme deletion. Word picture cards are included to be used with phoneme deletion tasks and...

In this interactive, student learn to pronounce and produce rhyming words containing the short A sound. Using the word maching, students can change the beginning or the ending sounds to make new words which are then clearly pronounced.

With the aid of Joy Cowley's Seven Fat Cats as a shared text, 1st graders will listen and match the sounds (rhyming, beginning, ending, and vowel.)

This site has simple lessons that use images and everyday words to demonstrate the usage of diphthongs, regular vowels, and irregular vowels. Click on on one of the "Phonics Lessons," to prepare for one of the corresponding tests.

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In this activity for grades K to 2, students use letter sounds to identify words that begin with each of the letters of the alphabet.

Classroom teachers will learn how to blend words as a classroom modeling strategy. Teachers will learn direct instructional techniques for blending; games and activities are also provided to reinforcement the concept of blending.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Choose from a variety of worksheets to practice the common core standard of isolating and pronouncing initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in spoken single-syllable words.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains reading lessons on Ann's First Day by Constance Andrea Keremes. Phonics lessons on initial, medial, and final consonant sounds. Language lessons on statements and questions and...

A group of ten simple activities easily incorporated into the course of a day to reinforce phonemic awareness.