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 sort image cards beneath the train cars to indicate words that begin or end with that sound.

Concepts

final sounds, phonemes, phonemic awareness, phonics, initial sounds, letter-sound correspondence, graphemes

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Additional Tags

phonics, graphemes, initial sounds, letter-sound correspondence, final phonemes, english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Choose the letter based on the letter of the week, a child's name, one that needs additional support, or at random
• Assign the activity as one of the day's ELA center rotations

Classroom Considerations

• Requires copies—add lamination to prep time to keep cards looking new 

Pros

• A diagram shows you what the setup looks like
• It comes with train, letter, and image cards

Cons

• None

Common Core

RF.K.2.d RF.1.2.c