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Summer Build-a-Word Puzzles
Help beginning students build words from sounds right before summer with a set of build-a-word puzzles. The 17-page packet comes with 45 beach-themed word puzzles.
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Picture Slide
Here is another fun and engaging way to help youngsters build phonological awareness. In pairs, they use the provided picture cards to sound out segments of words. As they slide the picture together they say a segment of the...
Texas Center for Learning Disabilities
First-Grade Intervention
Learning how to read is a big challenge for young learners, but this series of lessons provides them with the extra support they need to succeed. With each lesson following the a clearly outlined format, children are introduced...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Word Steps
Blending basic CVC letters to make words is one of the first steps to independent reading. Provided here are several images of stairs and several letters to cut and arrange. The learner rearranges the letters to form CVC patterns, sounds...
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Letters C A D O G L
In these letter sounds worksheets, students study the various pictures in the worksheets and label each picture with its beginning letter sound of A, D, C, O, G, or L.
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Word Recognition, initial sounds, Letter U, V Sound, letter V, U sound
In this letter H activity worksheet, students examine 12 pictures of various objects and identify the pictures of the items that begin with the letter H. A word bank is provided.
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The Y Sound
In this word recognition worksheet, students examine 3 pictures and identify the words that represent them that have the y sound. Students also think of a word with the y sound and draw their own picture of it.
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Letter O
In this printing learning exercise, students write 2 lines of lower and uppercase O's. Students also form the words orange, open and octopus and color in a related illustration.
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Letter L
In this printing worksheet, students write 2 lines of lower and uppercase L's. Students also form the words lamp, lamb, and letter and color in a related illustration.
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Letter Dd
In this printing worksheet, students write 2 lines of lower and uppercase A's. Students also form the words dog, draw, and desk and color in a related illustration.
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Letter Ff
In this printing activity, learners write 2 lines of lower and uppercase F's. Students also form the words fence, fox, and flowers and color in a related illustration.
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Letter R
In this printing worksheet, students write 2 lines of lower and uppercase R's. Students also form the words rain, raincoat, and rabbit and color in a related illustration.
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The "R" Sound
In this phonics instructional activity, 1st graders will copy 6 words that begin with the sound R. Then students will draw a picture of a ring and a rat.
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The "S" Sound
In this handwriting worksheet, student trace and write six key words with the "s" sound on the lines provided. Students then draw and illustrate a seal and a sandwich.
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Coarticulation with R Sound
In this coarticulation with R sound worksheet, students add a syllable to the word red to practice making the R sound.
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Same Sound Crossword Puzzle
In this language arts activity, students read 14 clues in which they must think of a homonym for the word provided. Students then put these words that sound the same into the crossword puzzle.
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Reading Group-Beginning Sounds
Kindergarteners study beginning letter sounds in this interactive plan. They will match picture cards to the letter sound that each image begins with. After working together as a whole group, pupils participate in a game in which they...
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Eehh?" is for Eleven Elephants
Learners complete a variety of activities related to the short /e/ sound. As a class they recite a tongue twister, then trace and write the letter E. Students then listen to word pairs and identify the word containing the short /e/...
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Silent "e"
Large font and colorful images allow your students to study words including the silent "e". There are a total of nine words on separate slides with the consonants and vowels typed in different colors. Tip: While reading the...
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Phonics on the Farm
In these eight recognizing the phonetic sounds in picture words worksheet, students observe pictures of farm animals and color the ones that have the specified /c/ , /d/, /p/, /h/, /m/, /g/, /sh/, or /ch/ sounds. There are five pictures...
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Icky Insect Is In Icky Sticky Ink
Practice the strategy of letter-sound correspondence when identifying the short vowel /i/ sound in written and spoken words. The teacher recites the tongue twister "Icky insect is in icky sticky ink," while listeners repeat. Letter boxes...
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Read and Spell
In reading learning exercise, students cut out different letters and sounds. Students arrange the letters and sounds to form a variety of words.
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Hurry Home, Henry!
Students practice letter recognition of /h/ in spoken and written words. They listen for the phoneme, repeat it and participate in meaningful hands-on activities to help master the letter H. Students encounter the book, "Hungry Harry,"...
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Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
Young readers write alphabet letters. They review the alphabet and examine the relationship between letters and sounds. A final activity has each child sequence the story together.