Auburn University
Auburn University: Teaching Letter Recognition
How can you teach your students letter recognition? This site offers insight into this necessary pre-reading skill set. Come and explore this informative resource.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Student of the Day: Create Sound/letter Understanding With Names
A recurring lesson plan focused on understanding letters and sounds. Each session lasts ten to twenty minutes with one session for each student in the class. Each student has a turn at being the Student of the Day and other students...
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.
Starfall
Starfall: Letters of the Alphabet
This site features activities for the letters of the alphabet. Students have an opportunity to click on a letter and hear a story about that letter.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Abby's Sandbox Search
Go on a word hunt in the sandbox with Abby Cadabby as you dig up words that start with a certain letter. This helps with letter recognition early reading, and letter sounds.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Word World: Dog's Letter Pit
Play a game with Dog by clicking on his to help him jump into a letter pit and then clicking on the letters that make up each sound of a spoken word.
Starfall
Starfall: How the Alphabet Got Its Order
A cleverly animated story about how the alphabet got its A-to-Z order. Helps beginning readers and English language learners learn to recognize and pronounce all the letters of the alphabet.
ICT Games
Ict Games: Letter Lifter
This game challenges students' knowledge and understanding of beginning consonant sounds.
TVOntario
Tvo Kids: Games: Animal Who? [Learn the Alphabet]
A simple activity that connects letters of the alphabet to simple words, specifically names of animals. Typing any letter on the keyboard reveals an illustration of a common animal, its name, and the sound that animal makes.
Auburn University
Auburn University: How Children Learn to Read Words
How do children really learn to read words? This resource offers insight into this complicated but exciting journey of putting sounds and words together to learn the joy of reading. Come and discover more.
Other
Saint Ambrose Barlow: Background Color: Missing Sounds, Year 1 Term2
Given a picture and word with missing letters, students determine what vowel sound is missing and type the word spelled correctly into the box provided.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Alphabet and Word Recognition With Phonics
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students are actively engaged with this interactive flipchart that prompts the students to use the eraser, pen, highlighter, and arrow tools along with a link to a website that continues to build on the...
ABCya
Ab Cya: Abc & 123 Magnets
Children can practice alphabet, number, and punctuation recognition by clicking and dragging magnets to the refrigerator. Children will hear the letter or number when they click on a magnet. Practice writing names, birthdays or short...
Phonics Guide
Papa Jan: What Is Phonics?
How can you define phonics? Take this opportunity to learn a little more about phonics and its relationship to letters and sounds.
Auburn University
Assessing Phoneme Awareness and Decoding
How do you assess phoneme awareness and decoding? Use this site to find the answer to this question on phoneme awareness and decoding.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Teacher Toolbox Decoding
What are the guidelines for decoding instruction? Explore this website from Readingrockets.org to find out the answer to this question.
Free Reading
Free Reading
This free reading intervention site is geared toward students grade K-3, with literacy activities and lessons/ideas links. The site includes teaching tools and activities. See the link at the bottom to "About FreeReading" for a list of...
Other
Lesson Plan: Decoding: Context Activity
What does it mean to decode words in a context activity? Explore this lesson plan to find the answer to this question and more.
Other
Lesson Plan: Decoding: Context Activity
What does it mean to decode words in a context activity? Explore this lesson plan to find the answer to this question and more.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Lovely Ll
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a Kindergarten flipchart introducing the letter Ll, its sound, Ll picture recognition, and Ll writing.
Other
Billy Beard4 Kids: Spelling Worksheet 5 C
This site provides a simple one-page exercise that lets students trace letters to spell words, such as zebra and the sun. Reinforces the connection between words and their sounds and how words are spelled. Corresponding pictures and...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: The Bubbly Bb
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is an introduction to the letter Bb and its sound. Students move Bb words to match the correct pictures, discriminate between Bb words, use the highlighter and pen tool to write, draw,...