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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Matching, Initial Phoneme Picture Sort

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
An activity focuses on phonemic awareness and initial letter sounds. Scholars sort picture cards by saying and matching the initial sounds each word makes.
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Have Fun Teaching

Brick Breaker: Initial Consonant Blends

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Practice initial consonant blends with a fun, interactive game! Choose the sounds you'd like to practice, and then have kids place the appropriate pictures for their brick breaker boards. Spin the spinner to select a blended sound, and...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonics: Letter-Sound Correspondence, Where's That Sound?

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
The phoneme train is leaving the station! Get your budding readers familiar with letter-sound correspondence using this fun phonics activity. Learners set up the initial and final sound train cards, placing letters between them. They...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Sound it-Bag it

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Scholars sort picture cards based on the initial phoneme they hear as they say the name of each image. They pick a card, say its name, then place it in one of five bags based on how its initial phoneme matches the initial phoneme...
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University of Florida

Phonological Awareness: A Sound Beginning

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Choose from a variety of phonological activities to complement a reading lesson. The guide goes through the basic components of good phonics instruction focusing on sound types, levels of phonological awareness, assessment methods,...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness: Rhyme, Rhyme Closed Sort

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
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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Spelling Words Well

Letter Lane

For Teachers K - 2nd
Dinosaur, fox, bone, mushroom. Emergent readers practice the beginning consonants sounds of b, d, f, and m with an activity that asks them to identify the images featured on a colorfully illustrated game board.
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Curated OER

Phonological Awareness, Phoneme Manipulating, Phoneme Position Sort

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Scholars make new words out of old ones by manipulating phonemes. Pupils mix and match initial, medial, and final phonemes to change words like cap into cup or head into bed.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Matching, Pack-a-Backpack

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Scholars sort words based on their initial phoneme or sound. Learners are given two backpacks, each with a picture card; they search and match picture cards with the same initial sound as the ones on each backpack.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Treasure Chest

For Teachers K - 1st
Segmenting and blending phonemes helps budding readers understand words. Use this strategy in an engaging game where partners test each other's auditory processing using familiar words. Using picture cards and a chart (included),...
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Literacy Connects

Activities to Build Phonological Awareness

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd Standards
Begin your reading program each day with a mini lesson on phonological awareness using these engaging activities listed in the resource. Young ones will enjoy word families, clapping and counting syllables, identifying single sounds...
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Curated OER

Inspire a Life of Reading

For Teachers Pre-K - 12th
Making letters out of goop, sight word bingo, tic-tac-toe vowels. Download this packet loaded with activities designed to engage beginning readers. Although designed for adults, many of the activities are appropriate for any...