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School-Home Links: Alike and Different Sounds
In this letter sounds worksheet, students point to each letter and say the sound that it makes. Students then tell which sound is the row is different.
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Beginning Sounds
In this beginning sounds instructional activity, students say the name of the pictures in each row. Students circle the letter that makes the same beginning sound as the picture names. Students recognize the beginning sounds for the...
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Beginning Sounds: T, F, K
In this beginning sounds worksheet, students study each picture and say its name. Students then circle the letter that matches the beginning sound for each word. Students learn words that begin with the sounds t, k, and f.
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School-Home Links: Ending Sounds
In this ending sounds worksheet, students name each pictures and listen for the last sound. Students then write the letter for the last sound they hear.
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The Icky Sticky Indian
Students study the /i/ sound in both written and spoken words. They examine how their mouths move as they make the /i/ sound, recite a tongue twister, and write the both the upper and lower case 'i'. Next, they listen to a story while...
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School-Home Links: Sounds in Short Words
In this word sounds worksheet, students point to each word and say it slowly. Family members repeat the word and then ask the children to name the sounds.
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Fluency: Connected Text, Rereading Decodable Text
Using a familiar decodable text, pairs take turns reading sentences. The partner who isn't reading follows along silently, helping if needed. They alternate sentences until the entire book is finished and then reverse to read the other...
Texas Center for Learning Disabilities
Teacher Templates
Letter by letter, sound by sound, monitor the growth of your emergent readers with these assessment templates. Adaptable to the needs of individual students, these one-on-one assessments focus on children's ability to identify...
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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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Word Puzzle
Add some fun to rhyming using a word puzzle worksheet. 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 horizontally from left...
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Phonics Genius
Readers at any level who are practicing phonics will benefit from a highly customizable set of features designed for instruction and practice. The extensive library of phonemes and exemplar words covers sounds from the a in cat...
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...
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Blends Concentration
Practice blending initial sounds with a St. Patrick's Day-themed word sort! Scholars read 20 word cards, organize them by initial blends, and write their findings on a corresponding worksheet.
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"Aaaaaa!!!!" It's Okay, Baby!!
Your kindergarten or first grade class works on recognizing the /a/ sound in spoken words. Use the fun tongue twister to help remember the target sound, and practice writing the letter a. Then have them write words that use this target...
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The ABCs of Conservation
Students explore the components of convservation, letters, and the sounds of the alphabet. The letters of the alphabet and the corresponding sounds and words that begin with that letter are identified as ways of protecting the Earth are...
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Under the Umbrella
The unicorn uses Uncle's underwear! Practice saying this tongue twister with your young learners to illustrated the /u/ sound. After comparing pairs of similar words (like cut and cat) and their sounds, learners will read Fuzz and...
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Ehhhh?
Are your kindergarten learners working with the letter e and the sounds that is makes? They'll practice writing a capital e, hear the /e/ sound in a funny tongue twister, and then identify when the teacher is saying a word that uses...
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Faces Bingo
Students create a classroom letter-sound recognition bulletin board. They post each letter of the alphabet on the board, and place photos and written name cards of each student with the corresponding letter of their name.
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Icky Sticky Inchworm
Use the meaningful example "Icky Sticky Inchworm" to demonstrate the /i/ sound. Then have learners take out letter boxes and spell simple words like six, lip, him, pin, slim, grin, etc.
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Letter M: Initial Sounds
In this letter M activity worksheet, students examine 12 pictures of various objects and identify the pictures of the items that begin with the letter M. A word bank is provided.
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Letter S: Initial Sounds
In this letter S activity worksheet, students examine 12 pictures of various objects and identify the pictures of the items that begin with the letter S. A word bank is provided.
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The "M" Sound
In this phonics worksheet, students will copy 5 short vowel words that end with "M". Then students will draw a picture of a plum and some jam.
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The "S" Sound
In this phonics worksheet, students will copy 6 short vowel words that end with "S". Then students will draw a picture of a bus and a dress.