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PBS

Pbs Kids: Super Why: Letter Sounds Worksheet [Pdf]

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
An excellent resource for teaching beginning letter-sound correspondence. Student must identify the object in the picture and circle the letter that begins the word.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: "You're a Liar!" a Letter Sound Accuracy Game

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A small group game using cards with letters of the alphabet on them. The object is to place cards face down in a pile in alphabetical order. Based on an old card game called "I doubt it." This site has a link to a Letter card site for...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Beginning Sound Spin Letter Sound Accuracy Activity

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Builds students' abilities to identify the sound of a letter and say if a word begins with that sound. The student spins a wheel and says what letter/sound it stops on. Then they find a picture that begins with that sound. This site...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Tic Tac Toe; Letter Sound Accuracy Activity

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A letter sound version of Tic Tac Toe that students play with partners. Before they can take their turn, they must draw a letter and give three words that begin with that letter. Their partner must give them a thumbs up before they can...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down? Letter Sound Accuracy Game

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
An exciting activity for the whole class to practice listening for a specific letter sound. When they hear a word with the sound they are listening for they give it a thumbs up; if it doesn't have the sound, they give it a thumbs down....
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Letter Hunt Tally: A Letter Sound Accuracy Game

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students play detective and discover a given letter at the beginning of a word. They keep a "tally" sheet and compete with their classmates. This site includes links to Letter cards and a Letter Hunt Tally Sheet.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Word Race Game: Letter Sound Fluency

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
An exciting classroom word game based on the game "Boggle." The classroom is divided into groups. The teacher says a letter, and each students writes down as many words as they can that begin with that letter. Then they compare with the...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Most Common Sounds for Single Letters

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This page contains audios of sounds for single letters. The audios give the letter sound and then pronounce a word that uses that sound. It gives only the short vowel sounds. The sounds are pronounced in a North American accent.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Give Me Five; Letter Sound Accuracy Activity

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
An exciting game to build students' understanding and accuracy of producing words that begin with the same letter. Students sit in a circle and the teacher says the sound of the letter. One student must pass a bean bag around the circle...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Egg Carton Game; Letter Sound Accuracy Activity

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A small group game to build students' abilities to identify letters and their sounds. A student shakes an egg carton, opens it to see where a chip landed, and says the letter and its sound.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: "I Spy" Letter Sound Accuracy

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Use this game of "I Spy" to help students build their accuracy of letter identification! Can be student- or teacher-led.
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Other

Owl and Mouse Educational Software: Learn Letters

For Students 3rd - 5th
This site provides three Freeware programs to help students learn the letters of the alphabet and letter-sound correspondence. Students need to be able to use a mouse to manipulate the images on the site. Instructions for downloading the...
Interactive
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Abby's Sandbox Search

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Go on a word hunt in the sandbox with Abby Cadabby as you dig up words that start with a certain letter. This helps with letter recognition early reading, and letter sounds.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Student of the Day: Create Sound/letter Understanding With Names

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
A recurring lesson plan focused on understanding letters and sounds. Each session lasts ten to twenty minutes with one session for each student in the class. Each student has a turn at being the Student of the Day and other students...
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ABCya

Ab Cya: Monster Mansion Letter Match

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Monster Mansion Letter Match is a fun educational game for kids to practice matching capital and lowercase letters. Click on the windows of the Monster Mansion to reveal the friendly monsters inside and match the uppercase to lowercase...
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Other

Alphabet Sound Recognition With Motions

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A fun activity for kinesthetic learners! Students learn motions to go along with letter sounds. This site includes a link to a building fluency site.
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Auburn University

Auburn University: Teaching Letter Recognition

For Teachers Pre-K - K Standards
How can you teach your students letter recognition? This site offers insight into this necessary pre-reading skill set. Come and explore this informative resource.
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ABCya

Ab Cya: Letter Bubble Alphabetical Order

For Students Pre-K - K
Letter Bubble: Alphabetical Order is a fun educational game for kids to practice putting the letters of the alphabet in order. Children can play with letter names or letter sounds and must pop bubbles to release letters on the correct...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Beginning Sounds; Poem

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
An activity that can be adapted for the whole class, small group, or large group. The instructor first reviews a letter and its sound, then presents the group with a poem with that letter that the students will then identify.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Holiday Relay: A Sounding Out Game

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A small group game to practice word and sound recognition and accuracy. Given a sound or word, each student on team runs to pile of holiday shapes, finds the letter, or picture that begins with the sound, or brings back all the letters...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Free Reading: Sounding Out Activities

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A wonderful site full of tips for teaching the skills of sounding out words. This site has a plethora of links that provide an excellent way to practice and memorize the essential skills of sounding out words. The links using every...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Draw Two: A Sounding Out Accuracy Game

For Teachers K - 1st
A whole group game to practice word and sound recognition and accuracy. Learners pull a card out of a hat and if they can sound it out accurately they keep the card. But Watch out! You may draw a card that says Draw Two! Then the student...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Bingo! Sounding Out Accuracy Game.

For Teachers K - 1st
A game of Bingo! for the whole classroom where the teacher sounds out a word and the students try to find the word on their individual bingo cards.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Word Potato: A Sounding Out Accuracy Game

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A small group game to practice word and sound recognition and accuracy. A word version of "Hot Potato" in which the students pass around a basket of words. The last student to hold the basket must pick a word and sound it out. If they...

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