How to teach beginning sounds

Learn the best order to teach sounds when creating a phonics scope and sequence for your classroom and your school.

This There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Beginning Sound Activity is a hands-on way for pre-readers to work on identifying initial sounds.

Letter sound songs that teach the accurate way to say the letters of the alphabet! They're perfect for learning how to say letter sounds.

Rianna Le | Australian Primary School Teacher on Instagram: "Blending is easiest when... Words contain or begin with continuant consonants (sounds that can be indefinitely extended) 🗣 These are: f, l, m, n, r, s, v and z. Other consonants (nasal stops or non-continuants🚫) can be a little more tricky for emergent readers to blend as they have an obstruction of the airway which means they essentially ‘stop’ as they’re making the sound 👄 Try it out yourself! Make the /m/ sound vs. the /b…

Kaley Sara on Instagram: "Say “blending” to get the 🔗 to the PERFECT resource to help kids blend sounds together. This is called successive blending - you blend the first two sounds and then add on more sounds as you go. This helps kids: 🩷 blend sounds into words ❤️ not lose their place when they’re reading words 🧡 not make up sounds as they go (“c-a-t” - chips 🤨) 💛 they won’t sound like a robot 🤖 The first method I showed is one that I’ve used for years. However, I’ve found that…

Discover effective strategies for teaching ending sound isolation in kindergarten with our latest blog post! Perfect for early educators, this post offers practical tips and engaging activities to help students master this important phonics skill. From interactive games to hands-on practice, you'll find resources that make learning ending sounds fun and accessible. Visit the blog to enhance your literacy lessons and support your students' phonics development today!

Discover fun and FREE printable letters and sounds games to help preschool, pre-k, and kindergarte students master the alphabet and improve phonetic skills!

Isolating and identifying beginning sounds is an important step in phonological awareness for kindergarten students. In this post, I'm sharing some engaging activities for beginning sounds practice in kindergarten. Click here to take a closer look at these initial sound activities for kindergarten.

Play and learn the letter sounds with this free ice cream letter sounds printable for preschool or kindergarten class.

Kaley|Phonics + Early Literacy on Instagram: "Follow @leapingintolearning for easy literacy tips that will help your child read! ⭐️ Want to read the blog on successive blending + an awesome freebie?! ⤵️ 🌟 🤯 THIS IS A GAME CHANGER! 🙌🏼 Does this sound familiar: ❤️ A child sounds out: c-a-t -> 🧡 Okay, let’s put it together! “Flower”! 😬 UMMM, that wasn’t it! Or…. Does your reader(s) struggle with blending the sounds together? 🙌🏼 THIS will help them! Have you heard of successive blend

I think I finished up my biggest product yet! It's over 300 pages of goodies to use help your little ones mastering beginning sounds. Fortunately, this year, all of my little ones know their beginning sounds. BUT...our grade level RTI 3 group has several that still need more practice. I made this packet to work

This free Alphabet Magnet Beginning Sounds Activity is great for Pre-K, Kindergarten, or early 1st graders who are working on letter sounds!

This fun, hands-on phonics printables helps kindergartners learn to listen for the final sounds of simple words. Print Ending Sound Clip Cards Activity!

Teaching beginning letter sounds is the first step in teaching your student to read. Beginning sound puzzle game

So it’s late November and we have just a few first graders who have not yet mastered their letters and sounds. For these little firsties, we needed to readjust their intervention plan and bump it up a knotch in terms of intensity. It’s always difficult to find time in a jam-packed school day, but mastering letters […]

Beginning Sound Worksheet

These hands-on beginning sounds activities are awesome for helping kids to learn about letter sounds! Highlight and Hole Punch This a fun activity