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Testing Initial Sounds of F-C-D-P-J
In this initial sounds learning exercise, 1st graders use the pictures to find the initial consonant sound for each pictured word. Students circle the sounds and write the word on the lines.
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Beginning Consonants: Say the Sound
For this beginning consonants worksheet, students say the sound of 5 letters. Students name the two pictures in each row and circle the one that begins with the given letter.
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Learn-to-Read Pumpkin Patch
Students practice identifying and pronouncing the short letter "u" sound. In this phonetic awareness lesson plan, students access the Starfall.com website and follow the directions on the screen to reinforce the short "u" sound. Students...
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Picture the Word
This is an excellent way to make onset and rime visual for beginning readers. They examine CVC-word picture cards that are all missing the first letter. Using plastic letters (or whatever you have), they complete each word and record it...
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Chompin' on Chewing Gum
Students complete a variety of activities related to the /ch/ consonant digraph. As a class they recite a Ch tongue twister, then trace and write the letters ch. Students then listen to word pairs and identify the words containing the...
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Final /-s/ and /-es/ Pronunciation
Practice the pronunciation of the final /-s/ and /-es/ sound with this worksheet. After reading information about and looking at charts of voiced and voiceless sounds, learners determine what the final sounds of plural words sound like....
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CVC Words - Medial Sounds
In this phonics activity, students fill in the missing sound for each picture. Students follow a consonant-vowel-consonant pattern to complete each word.
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CVC Words - Medial Sounds (3)
In this phonics instructional activity, students study the pictures and then fill in the missing medial sounds for each word. Students also find the medial sounds for the nine words.
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CVC Words - Medial Sounds (1)
In this phonic worksheet, students study the pictures and fill in the missing medial sound for each word. Students choose a middle sound to make the nine other words too.
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Phonics Assessment
In this phonics worksheet, students identify each alphabet letter and say the sound of the letters. Students complete 26 letters and sounds.
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Ending Consonant Sounds Worksheet
In this consonant words learning exercise, students study the pictures and circle the letter that makes the ending sound for each of the 4 pictures.
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Ending Consonant Sounds Worksheet
In this consonant sounds worksheet, students study the 4 pictures and circle the letter that makes the ending consonant sound for each picture.
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Learning Phonics Worksheet: Consonants and Vowels 2b
In this alphabet sounds instructional activity, 1st graders color all the squares that contain consonants yellow and color all the squares with vowels blue. Once colored, a specific letter can be seen from the color pattern and students...
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Vowel Sounds - Short Uu Words
In this short u words worksheet, 1st graders use the alphabet and number code to find the words that contain short u sounds. Students write the 20 words on the lines and may use the word bank for help.
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Making Sense of Decoding and Spelling
Go over digraphs, vowel sounds, and affixes with a series of decoding and spelling lessons. Each lesson guides learners through a different reading and phonics skill, building on the lesson before, and challenging them with each step.
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Letter Sounds
For this sounds worksheet, students circle the pictures that begin with the given letters. Letters include h, v, x, j, y, and g.
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Vowel Sounds -- Short Aa Words
In this short a word search worksheet, students locate and circle the 20 word that have short a in them in the word search puzzle.
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Beginning Sounds: D, J, K, M, W
In this initial sounds worksheet, students examine each of 5 rows of pictures and identify the letter that makes the same beginning sound as the picture names.
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Spelling Practice (Consonant Sounds k & s)
In this spelling worksheet, students explore words with the consonants k and s. Students practice their spelling by writing each of the twenty words and playing a game with the syllables of each of the words.
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Vowel Sounds - Short Uu Words
In this vowel sounds learning exercise, 1st graders find all the short vowel u sound words in the word puzzle. Students find 20 short u words.
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Letter Sounds
Students orally say the sounds of the letters A, G, H, L, N, R, W, and J at the beginning of words when given a list of words that start with these letters. They use at least two of these words effectively in a sentence. Students...
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Word Puzzle
Add some fun to rhyming using a word puzzle instructional activity. First, learners match up single-syllable rhyming words. Then, they find all the words in a word search. This beginning reading activity only has words spelled...
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'Ow' (long o) Decoder
In this phonics word decoder worksheet, students use their problem solving skills and the decoder key to decode 20 sets of letters in order to form 20 long o words.
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'O / Magic e' Decoder
In this phonics word decoder worksheet, students use their problem solving skills and the decoder key to decode 20 sets of letters in order to form 20 long o words.