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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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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, 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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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, 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

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

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

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

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, 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

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: 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

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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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonics: Letter-Sound Correspondence, Medial Phoneme Spin

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A collaborative activity challenges young scholars to match medial graphemes and phonemes. Pairs take turns spinning the spinner, naming the letter, and saying its name. They choose from a stack of cards with the same medial sound.
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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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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

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: 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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Curated OER

Sight Words and Letter Sounds

For Students K - 2nd
Is your elementary class learning letters and letter sounds? This take-home sheet provides a week's worth of practice for your learner at home. The repetitive nature helps learners remember! 
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Curated OER

Letter Sound Fluency

For Teachers Pre-K - K
How fast can you go? Test scholars' letter sound recognition with a timed game. Using letter cards of all the letters you've learned so far, learners take turns flipping cards and correctly saying the letter sound. Model this first,...
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Letter-Sound Match Cut and Paste

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Develop beginning readers' understanding of letter-sound correspondence with this fun series of cut-and-paste worksheets. With each page focusing on four specific letters, children are able to practice isolating initial sounds as they...
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Curated OER

Phoneme Substitution, Harder (With Letters)

For Teachers K
Emergent readers create new words by changing a phoneme, using sets of letter cards to spell out each CVC word. They begin by substituting initial sounds, then final sounds, and lastly the middle vowel. Help them sound out each word,...
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Curated OER

Practicing Letters W and X

For Students Pre-K - K Standards
Match initial phonemes to practice recognizing the sounds made by the letters w and x. Early readers circle all of the objects that begin with either an x or a w, then trace each letter several times. Try a fun variation by having...