Letter sounds for preschool
Learning Letter Sounds - PreKinders
By Karen Cox | Affiliate Disclosure | Filed Under: Phonological Awareness
These games help pre-K children practice Letter Sound learning in a fun, hands-on way.
Sound Cups
Use 26 disposable clear punch cups and label each cup with a letter. Letter cup labels can be downloaded below. Collect a set of small trinket objects (you can ask parents and friends to send things in), such as plastic lizard, small block, watch, plastic frog, bandaid, necklace, button, dice. Place the trinkets in a basket. Children sort each trinket into a letter cup by its beginning sound.
You can use all 26 cups at one time, or select 3-4 letter cups at a time for children to focus on. When searching for items to go in the cups, look for dollar store mini toys (especially packs of animals and bugs), look at doll house miniatures, browse craft stores for mini items.
Download: Letter Cup Labels
Erase the Sound
Draw a picture on a dry erase lap board. In the example below, I drew a snowman. Call children up one at the time to erase something that begins with something in the picture. In this picture, children can erase something that begins with H (hat), something that begins with B (buttons), something that begins with N (nose). Continue until everything is erased.
Mystery Bag
Place three objects beginning with the same letter in a bag (such as ball, bug, and button for B). Have a child pulls each item out of the bag and name each item. Have the class guess the “mystery letter”.
Guess Who?
Say three words and have the kids guess whose name begins with the same sound as those three words. For example, call out:
- lake
- lemon
- lamp
The class would guess Levi. If you have more than one child in your class (maybe Levi, Lucy, and Layton) who start with that letter sound, the class can name all of them.
I have prepared a list of words for each letter that you can use for your students.
Download the list below.
Download: Beginning Letter Sounds List
Monster Names
Have kids stand, stomp, and growl when you say their “Monster Name”. Replace the first letter of each child’s name with the letter M. For example, Braden’s name would become “Mad Monster Maden” and Ashlyn’s name would become “Mad Monster Mashlyn”.
Say Two Words
Say two words, and have kids stand up if the words begin with the same sound. Have them sit down if they do not. For example,
cat – cow (stand up)
hat – goat (sit down)
Letter Sounds Listening Games
Children listen for beginning sounds in words and use bingo markers to stamp a letter each time they hear the letter sound. Get the printable game here: Letter Sounds Listening Games.
Letter Sounds Activity Cards
Children look at the picture, say the word, and find the letter that matches the beginning sound. They mark the cards by clipping it or marking it with a chip. Get the printable game here: Letter Sounds Activity Cards.
Letter Tile Mats
Children match letter tiles to the pictures on the mats by identifying the beginning sound of the words. Get the printable game here: Letter Tile Mats.
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Letters and Sounds: Practical Ideas for Parents
[This is an archived article]
By: Texas Education Agency
Provide your child with the opportunity to learn that written words are made up of letters that match the sounds in spoken words.
Children can be taught to match the sounds with letters in an orderly and direct way. For example, the letter n matches the /n/ sound in nurse).
Here are some activities to try:
- Make letter-sounds and have your children write the letter or letters that match the sounds.
- Play word games that connect sounds with syllables and words (for example, if the letters "p-e-n" spell pen, how do you spell hen?).
- Write letters on cards. Hold up the cards one at a time and have your children say the sounds (for example, the /d/ sound for the letter d).
- Teach your children to match the letters in their names with the sounds in their names.
- Point out words that begin with the same letter as your children's names (for example, John and jump). Talk about how the beginning sounds of the words are alike.
- Use alphabet books and guessing games to give your children practice in matching letters and sounds. A good example is the game, "I am thinking of something that starts with /t/."
- Write letters on pieces of paper and put them in a paper bag. Let your children reach into the bag and take out letters. Have them say the sounds that match the letters.
- Take a letter and hide it in your hand. Let your children guess in which hand is the letter. Then show the letter and have your children say the letter name and make the sound (for example, the letter m matches the /m/ sound as in man).
- Make letter-sounds and ask your children to draw the matching letters in cornmeal or sand.
- Take egg cartons and put a paper letter in each slot until you have all the letters of the alphabet in order. Say letter-sounds and ask your children to pick out the letters that match those sounds.
Adapted from: Beginning Reading Instruction: Practical Ideas for Parents. (1996). Texas Education Agency.
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Sounds and letters | Educational and methodological material on speech therapy (preparatory group):
Posted on 06/09/2020 - 18:33 - Novokhatskaya Irina Vladimirovna
Sounds and letters.
Very often, speech therapists have to teach children to distinguish between the concepts of "sound" and "letter". And not only for children, but also for parents. Often I hear: "My child does not pronounce the letters." What is SOUND? What is a LETTER? Speech sounds are the minimum articulate elements of speech with their inherent physical features (special). Vowel sounds. consonant sounds. (Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language by S.I. Ozhegov). SOUND - everything that the ear hears, that comes to the ear (Explanatory Dictionary of V.I. Dahl). LETTER - a graphic sign included in the alphabet. Uppercase, lowercase. (Explanatory Dictionary of S.I. Ozhegov). In Russian, 42 speech sounds and 33 letters are distinguished! Sounds and letters are divided into vowels and consonants! We pronounce and hear sounds, denote them with chips. Vowel sounds - with a red chip, a hard consonant - blue, a soft consonant - green. Letters we see, read and write. For classes with preschool children, she developed reference tables that help children distinguish between sounds and letters.
The "City of Letters" table will help preschoolers find paired voiced and deaf consonants, find vowels that indicate hardness and softness of consonants. Preschool children need to know and distinguish between the concepts of "sound" and "letter"! GOOD LUCK!
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SOUNDS WE HEARD SOUNDS WE PRONOUNCE WE SIGN WITH CHIPS
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Frontal speech therapy. Theme "Live letters and sounds" (sound and letter "I")
Consolidation of the sound and letter "I".
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This material will help young specialists - speech therapists in their work on the development of phonemic hearing, analysis and synthesis, prevention of dysgraphia. .
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Sound [N], letter “N”, sound [I], letter “I”.
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presentation on the topic "Sound and the letter U", presentation on the topic "Sound and the letter O"
The presentation is addressed to speech therapists, defectologists, young professionals working with children preschool age ....
Material for consolidation on the topics: "The sound and the letter A", "The sound and the letter U", "The sound and the letter O"
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What are letters and sounds? - Kindergarten No. 220 JSC Russian Railways
Usually parents say that the child does not pronounce some letters! Unfortunately, parents do not always understand the difference between such concepts as “sound” and “letter”. These terms must not be mixed!
Sound is the smallest, indivisible unit of the speech stream perceived by the ear. There are 42 speech sounds in Russian.
The letters are graphic signs that represent speech sounds when writing. There are 33 letters in total.
We pronounce and hear sounds, we see and write letters .
For parents of children of primary and secondary preschool age, is enough if the baby remembers that the letter stands for the sound "P" and learns it like "P" and not "er", "L" and not "el" ”, “Sh”, not “sha”, etc.
Parents, older preschoolers and first graders need to know much more about sounds and letters.
Sounds are divided into vowels and consonants.
Vowels - when they are pronounced, the air in the mouth passes freely without encountering obstacles. There are 10 vowels in Russian ( a, y, o, e, s, e, e. i, yu, and). There are only 6 vowels - [a], [o], [y], [i], [s], [e]. The fact is that the vowels e, e. yu, i in some positions denote 2 sounds:
e - [y'o], e - [y'e], y - [y'y], i - [y'a].
Vowel sounds are indicated by a red circle. Vowel sounds are neither hard and soft, nor voiced and deaf. A vowel sound can be stressed or unstressed. Vowels form a syllable. There are as many syllables in a word as there are vowels.
Consonants sounds - when they are pronounced, the air in the mouth meets barriers formed by the tongue, teeth or lips.
Consonants are :
- hard - are pronounced hard. Marked with a blue circle. For example: [p], [k], [d], etc.;
- soft - soft. Marked with a green circle.
For example: [p']= (p), [k']= (k), [d']= (d).
Most consonants have a pair of hardness-softness. For example: [b] - [b '], [t] - [t '], [l] - [l '], etc.
But there are consonants that do not have a pair of hardness-softness. They are either always hard or always soft:
- always hard consonants - [w], [g], [c];
- always soft consonants - [h'], [u'], [y'];
- voiced consonants - pronounced with voice.
For example: [l], [p],. [d], [m], etc. To determine the voicedness, you need to put your hand to the "neck" and listen if there is a "bell".
- voiceless consonants - pronounced without voice.
