This Overview of Letter Sounds resource has two sections: Introduction to Letter Sounds and Video Demonstrations. It provides downloads of the following: lesson plan, lesson materials, glossary, and video transcript. This section is...

In this bingo game, listen for the sounds of the letters and click on the correct letter; when you have completed all the letters, a picture is revealed.

During this lesson young scholars will develop phonological awareness through activities that focus on beginning sounds. Students will go on a scavenger hunt, make a picture book, and play games on the Internet in order to help them...

Help Princess Presto put on a spelling play! After she makes the letter sound, choose the correct letter with your wand to make a simple word. The word you spell will become part of the play!

This lesson will allow students to practice both writing names and identifying beginning sounds for common item names.

This lesson allows students to use the Internet to manipulate words by changing initial sounds. Students will use computer skills while learning how to change words by changing the initial sound.

This site focuses on beginning, medial, and ending sounds. It offers a collection of games, exercises, and activities to teach letter sounds including beginning letters, phonemes, and ending sounds to emergent readers. These sites...

ABCya! presents its sixth children's storybook for the classroom. The Weird and Watery Alphabet is an original work by Michelle Tocci. The story takes children on a unique underwater adventure introducing them to amazing creatures while...

Knowing the relationship between written letters and spoken sounds will help children recognize words accurately and automatically. For this lesson, children practice matching letters with initial sounds.

This lesson plan walks teachers through a strategy for teaching word building skills to early elementary students. The site includes links to a page on preparing the materials needed for word building lessons, and to a page which...

This site features tips for parents from top researchers about developing your child's reading skills.

In this game children pick a letter of the alphabet and then click on the animal that begins with that letter.

The ability to identify letters, sounds, words, sentences, and punctuation can help young scholars become better readers. This lesson plan utilizes the book "Who Stole the Cookies" for a variety of activities. Included are printable...

Choose from variety of free printable phonics worksheets, coloring pages, and games to use for English language learners.

Celebration words can be used to help students review and practice beginning sounds. This lesson plan will help students recognize and produce the initial sound of a given word. Included are an assessment checklist, videos of the lesson...

This video segment from Between the Lions focuses on letter knowledge, showing several words that begin with the letter "c" and, in these examples, the /s/ sound that it makes.

This site discusses exceptions to spelling rule, words that don't fit the typical letter-sound correspondence rules. It provides links to lists of frequently used words such as the Dolch list and 1,000 Most Frequent Words in Middle and...

This printable consonant letter worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will look at pictures with many individual words and then identify each word that start with /t/ to...

This phonics lesson will introduce the ir, er, and ur girls, but will focus on the /er/ sound. Young scholars will learn that when found together the letters e and r make the /er/ sound instead of two separate sounds. Students will have...

Don't let long words intimidate. Here students learn to break up long words into syllables.