Florida Center for Reading Research
Phonological Awareness: Rhyme, Rhyme Closed Sort
A rhyming activity challenges scholars to sort picture cards according to their rhyme. Four picture cards line up across the top of a pocket chart. Learners take turns choosing from a face-down stack of picture cards and sort them...
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Introduce /D/
Learners identify the letter sound, "d." In this sound fluency lesson, students view the letter "d" and practice repeating the sound. Learners identify the sounds of 12 letters written on the board and are given hints on how to...
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Sound the Foghorn
Students complete a variety of activities related to the long /u/ sound. As a class they recite a tongue twister, then trace and write the letter U. Students then listen to pairs of words and identify which word contains the long /u/...
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Beginning Sounds H, C, T, A, and B
Can your class identify initial phonemes? They'll say the name for each of the pictures shown and read the letters in each row. They circle the letter that makes the same beginning sounds as the picture names. The letters focused on are...
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Beginning Sounds: Poem
Students practice identifying beginning sounds. In this phonics lesson, students review different beginning sounds and read a poem. Students then work together to identify the words in the poem with their particular beginning sound.
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On-Level Small Group Phonics Lesson: ea /e/
Students explore /e/. In this phonics lesson, students decode words with "ea" representing the short e sound. Students read sentences and a short book that includes "ea" word practice.
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Sorting Snowballs: Phonics
In this early childhood phonics worksheet, students practice the s and p sounds as they choose the correct letters to match the 8 pictures.
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Letter Hunt
Students search for and find certain letters, blends, or vowel combinations in words, sentences and paragraphs. They investigate how these letters, blends or combinations are used in "every day" writing.
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Taking a Cruise To U=/u/
Students complete a variety of activities related to the short /u/ sound. As a class they recite a tongue twister, then spell different words containing the short /u/ using letter manipulatives. Students then read the book "Bud the...
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Letter Sound Accuracy, Egg Carton Game
Students explore phonetics by participating in a word sound game. In this letter identification activity, students review the letters of the alphabet and discuss the sound each one makes. Students view a video tutorial of an egg carton...
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Word and Letter Practice #10
In this word and letter practice worksheet, students say letters and sounds of letters, practice reading simple sentences and sight words, then say names of pictures and say the beginning sound of each.
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Word and Letter Practice #5
In this word and letter practice learning exercise, students name given letters, say sounds, read simple sentences, and practice sight words and blending.
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Letter Concepts Worksheet 1 - 5
In this letter identification worksheet, students read 30 letters that begin a row of six letters then circle the letter in each row that matches the first letter in that row.
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Where is the Sound of H?
In this letter/sound worksheet, students look at pictures, circle the letter sound they hear at the beginning of the word, then print the word in the space provided.
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Beginning and Ending Consonants
Young readers explore consonant sounds. In this beginning phonics instructional activity, learners fill in a beginning/middle/end vertical column chart with the sounds they hear in the pictured object. Practice spelling CVC words.
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Yep, I'm Ready to Learn!
Tongue twisters give young learners an easy phrase to refer back to when learning letter sounds. Use the phrase "Eddy put red bells on everyone's bed" to identify the /e/ sound. Then read Red Gets Fed aloud, having learners nod...
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Slim Pig
Beginning readers study the short /i/ sound. First they determine how the mouth moves when they say the target words in a tongue twister. They complete letterbox activities by making words with the short /i/ before reading What Is It and...
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Beginning Sounds Worksheet
In this phonics worksheet, students match the 5 letters on the left of the worksheet to the 5 pictures on the right of the worksheet that begins with that sound. Students draw a line from one to the other.
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Beginning Sounds
In this beginning sounds instructional activity, students match the column of letters with the column of pictures to identify beginning sounds. Students match five pictures with their beginning sounds.
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Miss Millie the Moose
Students complete a variety of activities related to the letter M. As a class they recite a tongue twister with the assistance of a moose puppet, then trace and write the letter M. Students then listen to the book "If You Give a Moose...
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Phonics Instruction: Long Vowel Sound, Silent E
Students explore language arts by participating in a class word identification game. For this phonics lesson, students read several words in class and identify the different sounds between short and long vowel words. Students complete a...
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Beginning Sounds
In this beginning sounds worksheet, students write the letter that each picture begins with on the line. The students are provided a letter bank at the bottom of the page.
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Letter Aa Worksheet
In this alphabet letter A activity, students trace and write the uppercase and lowercase letter A ten times each. Students write an A next to seven pictures if they begin with the letter A and then draw their favorite A word.
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I Can Make New Words
A fun rhyming song written out on these slides help learners comprehend what word families consist of in order to make their own new words! For example, they first see tan, can, fan, and ran with the initial different letters in a...