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Beginning Consonants

For Teachers 1st
First graders practice with beginning consonant sounds, including identifying initial consonants and matching letter sounds to their corresponding letters. They recognize beginning consonant sounds by reading and listening to a story...
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Phonics Test Practice: Beginning Sounds

For Students K - 1st
In this phonics worksheet, students complete a 5 question test practice for beginning sounds. Students listen for the dictated instruction to mark the picture with the given consonant sound. Students choose from 3 pictures and mark the...
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Reintroduce /S/

For Teachers K
Students explore the alphabet by participating in a phonics activity. In this letter "S" lesson, students identify the different sounds made by the letter "S" and discuss words that start with the letter. Students view a letter card to...
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Beginning Sounds

For Students Pre-K - 1st
For this early childhood beginning sounds worksheet, students learn to recognize beginning letters of words as they look at the pictures of the ball, goat, money, octopus and zebra on the page and then draw a line to the letter each item...
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Beginning Sounds Worksheet

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this early childhood beginning sounds phonics instructional activity, students draw a line from pictures of the umbrella, tire, lion, apple, and fan on the page to the letter it begins with on the other side of the page.
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Beginning Sounds Worksheet

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this beginning sounds worksheet, students draw a line from each letter on the left to the picture on the right that begins with that sounds. The students are given 5 letters and pictures to practice the skill.
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Beginning Sounds Worksheet: Part 2

For Students K
In this matching sounds worksheet, students study the pictures and then write the letter that each picture begins with on the line. Students may reference a letter bank to help them with the pictures.
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Splendid Sounds

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this short vowel sounds learning exercise, students match pictures that have short vowel sounds in them to the letters they contain. Students match 5 pictures to 5 short vowels.
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Short Vowel Review

For Teachers 1st
First graders practice short vowel sounds. In this literacy lesson, the teacher demonstrates the short vowel sounds, then guides students through practicing the sounds and making words. Students complete a worksheet for independent...
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Final Sounds: p

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this final sound worksheet, students trace the letter p, and insert a p into the final sound of words. Students trace 5 letters and insert the p into 6 words.
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Final Sounds: m

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this final sound worksheet, students trace the letter m, and insert a m into the final sound of words. Students trace 5 letters and insert the m into 6 words.
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The Fly Swatter Game

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students are placed in small groups to participate in the "Fly Swatter Game" to reinforce phonetic sounds of letters.
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Eehh?" is for Eleven Elephants

For Teachers K - 1st
Students 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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Initial Sounds

For Students 2nd - Higher Ed
In this consonant sound learning exercise, students focus on the initial sounds. Students say the names of eight pictures and draw a line from the picture to the initial sound and word for each.
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Phonics and Decoding Strategies for Struggling Readers Using Core Knowledge Poem

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students complete multiple activities to help them hear sounds, syllables, and spell words with vowel patterns, digraphs, or blends. In this word sounds lesson, students use letter tiles, sort words cards, analyze poems, and play a bingo...
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Hello Year 1 - Do You Know These Phonemes?

For Teachers K - 1st
Here is a very basic presentation which introduces young readers to the letters, s, p, i, t, n, and a. After each letter sound is practiced, the remaining slides make simple words for pupils to read that use different combinations of the...
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Ch Ch Ch Ch ....Here Comes the Train!

For Teachers K - 1st
Students complete a variety of activities related to the digraph /ch/. As a class they recite a tongue twister, then listen to different words and identify the words containing /ch/. Students then listen to the book "Chicka Chicka Boom...
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Sand Paper Rubbings

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students discover the alphabet and the sounds the letters make. In this alphabet lesson, letters are cut out of sandpaper and the sound the letter makes is discussed. Students then color over the letter with crayons.
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Phonics Test #24: (Watching In the Wild)

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this phonics worksheet, students analyze the underlined letters in a word at the beginning of each row. From three choices, students find another word that has the same sound. Students circle the word. There are ten questions on the...
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The "T" Sound

For Students 1st
In this phonics worksheet, 1st graders will copy 6 words that begin with the letter T. Then students will draw ten tomatoes and a table.
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Baseball B: The Letter B

For Students K - 1st
In this letter b worksheet, students color in designated colors the b's found on a picture in various places, then circle yes or no to tell whether things begin with the b sound.
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Jolly Jet: The Letter J

For Students K - 1st
In this letter j worksheet, students color in designated colors the j's found in a picture, then circle yes or no to tell whether pictures begin with the j sound.
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Beginning and Ending Sounds

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this word sounds worksheet, students fill in the blank with the word that best completes each sentence. The objective is to enhance students' understanding of word sounds.
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Dancing Dinosaur: The Letter D

For Students K - 1st
In this letter d worksheet, students color in designated colors - the d's found on a picture in various places - then circle yes or no to tell whether things begin with the d sound.