Curated OER
Kindergarten Exploration Tubs
Students identify their names as a symbol for themselves. They describe characteristics of organisms. They utilize tools to gather data and compare size.
Curated OER
Name Games
Students develop a sense of self. They complete several activities involving their name. They disuss what names are useful for safety purposes.
Curated OER
Teaching Language Arts with Sayings and Phrases
Students complete a unit to learn sayings and phrases that help them understand language art concepts. In this sayings and phrases lesson, students complete 11 lessons that use common sayings and phrases to teach language art concepts...
Los Angeles County Office of Education
Teams: Phonemic Awareness Activities
This site offers phonemic awareness activities that will extend the concepts and skills associated with this reading skill. Activities include rhyming words, segmenting syllables, substituting beginning sounds, isolating sounds, and...
US Department of Education
U.s. Department of Education: Teaching Approaches: Phonemic Awareness
What is phonemic awareness? Check out this site to learn more about phonemic awareness. Teachers can gain an overview of this topic when they visit this resource.
ESL4kids
The Efl Playhouse: Phonemic Awareness for Young Language Learners
A group of ten simple activities easily incorporated into the course of a day to reinforce phonemic awareness.
Other
Teacher.org: Beginning Sound Match
This lesson will allow students to practice both writing names and identifying beginning sounds for common item names.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Slate Races: A Phoneme Blending Game
A classroom or small group game to build accuracy of students' abilities to blend phonemes. Students write the sounds that the teacher gives them on their own slate/dry erase board and then blend the sounds together to form words.
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PBS
Pbs Kids: Super Why: Letter Sounds Worksheet [Pdf]
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.
Utah Education Network
Uen: K Act. 01: Kindergarten Exploration Tubs
Early childhood students will develop their understanding of language, letters, numbers, sequencing, print concepts, and phonics. Students will investigate assorted tubs that are filled with items and picture books associated with names,...
Kidsource OnLine
Kid Source: Beginning Reading and Phonological Awareness
Key to learning how to read is the ability to identify the different sounds that make words and to associate these sounds with written words. There are 44 phonemes in the English language, including letter combinations such as /th/,...
LD Online
Ld Online: Phonological Awareness: Instructional and Assessment Guidelines
This article explains phonological awareness. Instructions are provided for different methods to assess phonological awareness. Instructional strategies for addressing phonological awareness with students are also provided.
Rock ’N Learn
Rock 'N Learn: Flying High
This printable consonant letter worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will look at a picture with multiple items and then identify each item that start with /j/ or /k/. An...
Education.com
Education.com: l.k.2.c Worksheets
[Free Registration/Login Required] Choose from a variety of worksheets to reinforce the common core standard of writing letters for most consonant and short-vowel sounds.
Big Learners
Biglearners.com: ccss.ela literacy.l.k.2.c : Kindergarten English Language Arts
Here is a collection of our common core aligned worksheets for core standard L.K.2.C. A brief description of the worksheets is on each of the worksheet widgets. Click on the images to view, download, or print them. All worksheets are...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Draw My Sounds: Oral Blending Fluency Activity
A fun activity that has students draw each individual letter and then blend them together.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: What Do You Hear?
Celebration words can be used to help students review and practice beginning sounds. This lesson will help students recognize and produce the initial sound of a given word. Included are an assessment checklist, videos of the lesson in...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Match That Pie
Knowing the relationship between written letters and spoken sounds will help children recognize words accurately and automatically. In this lesson, children practice matching letters with initial sounds.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Finish My Sentence: Oral Blending Accuracy Activity
In this classroom activity, the instructor creates a list of simple sentences that include a three or four letter word that the students are asked to blend. The instructor says the sentence and asks the student to help blend the letters...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Lucky Dip Game: Oral Blending and Segmenting
Students pull an object from a bag, keep it hidden, stretch out its name by pronouncing each letter sound for at least a second, and everyone else has to guess the object.
Los Angeles County Office of Education
Teams: Distance Learning: Rhyming Words Activities
A K-1 lesson plan from TEAMS Distance Learning. "Students will practice rhyming words and also be able to identify words that rhyme. These lessons will have them active."
Los Angeles County Office of Education
Teams: Distance Learning: Recognizing Rhyme
This site from the TEAMS Distance Learning provides a K-1 activity: "Quick test you can give your students to see if they can tell when words rhyme and when they do not."
Free Reading
Free Reading: Riddle Game: Oral Blending
A fun classroom game! The teacher says a riddle, gives the sounds that make up the answer, and the students guess the answer by blending the sounds together.
Free Reading
Free Reading: The Take Away Game: Onset Rime Segmenting
A classroom activity led by the instructor. The student is given a spoken onset and rime, and learns to remove the onset and state the remaining rime.