Letter sounds with pictures
Alphabet picture cards - The Measured Mom
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Today I’m sharing a giant set of free picture cards for developing vocabulary, promoting critical thinking, and learning alphabet sounds!
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Today I’m excited to share a project I’ve spent many hours on… alphabet picture cards. If you print the whole download, you get 192 bright photo cards for all kinds of early learning!
I printed the pages on cardstock, laminated them, and cut them apart. Now I have a beautiful set of cards that will last for years!
10 ways to use my alphabet picture cards
1. Talk about the pictures. My Two was very excited when he saw the cards and wanted to look at the pictures with me. He sat by the window with a small stack and named each picture, with my help. While your child may not want to use them this way, you can talk about the pictures as you sit together.
“What’s this called? What can you do with it? Is it something you would like to eat? Where would you find it?”
(Note: These are not designed to be flash cards. Please remember that young children have short attention spans and may lose interest after a handful of cards. No problem!)
2. Find the picture. Put the cards out in a grid and name the one you want your child to find. This is excellent vocabulary building for toddlers and young preschoolers, who may not know as many words as you think they do.
Case in point: Our Two (soon to be three) is a bright little boy, but often mixes up basic vocabulary. For the longest time whenever a fly came into our house, he would yell, “A bee! A bee!” One day he announced confidently, “Flies make honey!” 🙂
3. Sort the pictures. We started by sorting the pictures into things we can eat and those we can’t. For a sorting exercise, you’ll probably want to go through the cards and select a stack that will work well for the activity.
Try these sorts for toddlers and preschoolers:
animals / not animalsthings we wear / things we don’t wearthings in our house / things outsidefood I like / food I don’t likeThese are more challenging and are best for older preschoolers and up:
living / nonlivingneeds / wants4. Which one doesn’t belong? This will take a little bit of preparation on your part, but it’s worth it for a fun activity! Set up four cards, and have your child find the picture that doesn’t belong.
The possibilities are endless! You can make these simple or challenging. Here are just a few ideas. Can your child find the one that’s different?
3 foods and 1 animal3 healthy foods and 1 junk food3 real animals and 1 toy animal3 vegetables and 1 fruit3 toys and 1 food3 musical instruments and 1 household object5.
Find the rhyming picture. Set out a few cards and name a word that rhymes with one of the pictures. Have your child find its matching rhyme. You can use nonsense words too! Don’t be afraid to say, “Can you find the word that rhymes with bapple?”
6. Find the picture with 1, 2, or 3 syllables. For example, put out the carrot, bat, and ambulance cards. Tell your child to find the picture whose name has just one syllable. Help him clap the words so he can identify “bat” as the correct answer.
7. Sort by beginning sound. When you print the alphabet cards (available as a separate download), you can use them as headers for the columns. Give your child just two sets of cards, for two different letters. Help him identify the beginning sound and sort.
8. Sort by ending sound.
9. Can you find the mystery picture? Before children are ready to learn to read, they need to be able to hear how sounds come together.
You can practice this with these cards. Put out a set of cards and tell your child, “One of these is the mystery picture! Here’s my clue. I want you to point to the answer.”
Then say the sounds of a word, pausing in between each sound. For example: “/a/ /p/ /l/.” Eventually your child will be able to hear how the sounds come together to make a word, and he’ll choose the picture of the apple.
10. Which picture doesn’t belong?
This time, instead of focusing on what the pictures mean, focus on the words themselves. Help your child know what you’re looking for.
All of these pictures start with the same letter, except one. Which one doesn’t belong?All of these have 3 syllables, except one. Which one doesn’t belong?All of these end with the /t/ sound, except one. Which one doesn’t belong?What you’ll get in the download:
- 8 bright photo cards for each letter (but only 4 for letters q, x, y, and z)
- For each vowel, you’ll find 4 pictures for the short sound and 4 pictures for the long sound.
- For letters c and g, you’ll find 4 pictures for the hard sound and 4 pictures for the soft sound.
Want to save printer ink?
Print the smaller set. You’ll get just 4 pictures for each letter, but you’ll still get 8 total pictures for each vowel. You’ll also have 8 total pictures for letters c and g.
How to print
Print the pages front to back, starting on page 2. (Page 1 is my Terms of Use.) Be sure to set it up to flip on the short side. Do a practice page first! The backs of the cards are the names of each picture (see above). If you don’t want those, just print the even numbered pages. Be sure to print on cardstock to make these sturdy! If you laminate them, they should last for years.
How to store
This may be the coolest part! I designed the cards to fit in 3×5 index card boxes. Get a long box or two smaller ones to store the entire set (the smaller set will store in just one small box).
Be sure to get some A-Z dividers so you can find what you need in a hurry.
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Learning Letter Sounds
[Home] [Back] [Consonants Introduction] [Consonant Concepts] [Consonant - Order of Presentation] [General Consonant Activities] [Printable Activity Pages] [Itsy Bitsy Books] [Review Worksheets - Mixed Letters]
These worksheets include review sheets for Beginning Consonant
Sounds and Ending Consonant
Sounds.
They were developed with Preschool and Kindergarten children in
mind. They provide letter recognition, phonics and printing practice.
All children develop as individuals. Parents and caregivers should use the grade level ratings as a general guideline, taking the abilities, temperament and interests of their children into account
Beginning Consonants: Which letter does the picture start with?
| Farm Theme | Jungle Theme | Ocean Theme | Autumn Theme | Spring Theme |
Beginning Consonants: Print the letter the pictures start with the letter sound.
| Beginning Consonants Print the Letters 1 |
Beginning Consonants Print the Letters 2 |
Snack Time Print the Letters 3 |
Visit to the Zoo Print the Letters 4 |
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| nutrition/food Print the Letters 5 |
furniture Print the Letters 6 |
body parts Print the Letters 7 |
clothing Print the Letters 8 |
animals Print the Letters 9 |
Ending Consonants: Which letter does the picture end with?
| Farm Theme | Jungle Theme | Ocean Theme | Summer Theme | Winter Theme |
Ending Consonants: Print the letter the pictures start with the letter sound
| Ending Consonants Print the Letters 1 |
Ending Consonants Print the Letters 2 |
Snack Time Print the Letters 3 |
Visit to the Zoo Print the Letters 4 |
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| nutrition Print the Letters 5 |
ocean Print the Letters 6 |
animals Print the Letters 7 |
clothing Print the Letters 8 |
furniture Print the Letters 9 |
Visit DLTK's
Alphabuddies for printable crafts, coloring pages, felt board templates,
tracer pages and poems to supplement these letter recognition worksheets.
Live sounds and letters in pictures for children
Sounds and letters in pictures give the child the first ideas about sounds and their graphic images - letters. The manual is designed in such a way as to affect the emotional side of the child, which in turn contributes to better memorization.
For example, the letter O is a picture of a girl with a bad tooth. “Oh-oh-oh,” says the girl, her tooth hurts. Pay attention to the girl’s head is round, like the letter O, the head is tied with a handkerchief, which resembles the letter O in shape, the mouth shows the correct arrangement of the organs of articulation when pronouncing the sound [O]. And below is a description of the correct pronunciation of the sound.
Thus, living letters give the child a visual image, include an emotional color, evoke the necessary associations, include all channels of perception: visual, auditory (an adult speaks first), motor (we repeat the actions shown in the picture), tactile (we trace the outline of a letter with a finger or lay out from stones, beads, counting sticks).
This manual can be used as letters for kids who only teach them, speech therapists about parents. This is a good option for children with delayed speech development, children with impaired sound pronunciation.
The sound and the letter H is a picture of a horse to which the child says: "N-n-n-but-but." The sound and the letter M is a picture of a bear that growls: "Y-y-y-s." Please note: the child's teeth are closed, lips are in a smile, we pronounce the sound [s].Learn the letter Y, tasks with the letter Y for preschoolers and schoolchildren.
The sound and the letter E is a picture of a boy who shouts in the forest: "Uh-uh!". Living letter O picture of a girl with a toothache.
Tasks with the letter O for preschoolers and schoolchildren.
The sound and the letter X is a picture of a girl who blows on her palms, saying: "X-x-x." The sound and the letter Zh is a picture of a beetle that looks very similar to the letter Zh.
What the beetle does, of course: “Zhzh”. Tongue twisters with Zh sound
The living letter P is a picture of a balloon that burst, making the sound: “P-p-p”. Living letter and sound Sh is a picture of a snake that hisses: "Shhh."
Automation of the sound Ш in words
The letter T is a picture of a hammer that knocks and makes a sound: "T-t-t." The letter A is a picture of a girl who cries and makes the sound: "Aaaa."
Tasks with the letter A. Learn the letter and sound of A.
The sound and the letter G is a picture of a goose that cackles: "G-g-ha-ha." The sound and the letter B is a picture of the drum being beaten: "B-b-b."
Learning the letter G. Tasks with the letter G for children.
The letter U is a picture of a ball that is blown away with a sound: "U-u-u-u". The letter F is a picture of a candle that must be blown out, pronouncing the sound: "F-f-f.
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The letter C is a picture of a teapot that whistles when it boils and makes a sound: “Ssss”. The letter D is a picture of a machine gun that shoots with the sound: "D-d-d."
Sound Automation C
The letter H is a picture of a girl who raises her finger to her lips to pronounce the sound: "Ch-ch-ch." Sound Ts picture of a boy who asks for silence with the sound: “Ts-ts-ts”.
Sound and letter E picture spruce. Sound and letter Y picture iodine.
Learning the letter Y. Tasks with the letter Y
The sound and the letter R is a picture of a dog that growls: "Rrr". The sound and letter Yo is a picture of a hedgehog.
Learning the letter R, tasks with the letter and sound R
Patter with sound R
The sound and the letter M is a picture of a cow that mooes: “Mmmmmmm”. The letter K and a picture of a gun that shoots with the sound: "K-k-k.
" Learning the letter M, tasks with the letter M
Poems about the letter M
The letter B is a picture of a pipe in which the wind howls: "V-v-v." The sound and the letter And the picture of the needle.
Learning the letter I. Tasks with the letter I
The letter Z is a picture of a mosquito that makes a sound: "Z-z-z." The letter L is a picture of a ship that makes a sound: "L-l-l."
Audio Automation W
Sound and letter Yu picture of a spinning top. Sound and letter I picture of an apple
Letter b Letter b
Poems about the soft sign b
Learn b, b sign. Tasks with letters b, b
The sound and the letter Y is a picture of a train that is humming: "U-u-u."
Tasks with the letter U. Learning the letter U
Author: Kochugova N.P. "Sounds and letters: Picture material for mastering the syllabic structure of the word.
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All maze letters on one page.
Games that children and I play
58. SOUNDS AND LETTERS
The "Sounds and Letters" manual consists of several independent parts Sounds and letters - the beginning of a word
Manual in PDF format I will send to your email for 110 rubles.
4+
The manual has 10 pages, each page has 7 words, total 77 words
The task is available to children who know letters.
Task:
Say the name of the picture aloud. Name the first sound of this word. From the five letters, choose and circle the one that denotes the first sound of the word.
The required letters can simply be circled.
And you can color the box with the letter.
Pictures can be colored or not.
How to get my benefits - READ INSTRUCTIONS
58.02. Sounds and letters - the end of the word
4+
The task is available to children who know letters.
The manual has 10 pages, each page has 7 words, total 77 words
Task:
Say the name of the picture aloud. Say the first sound of this word. Of the five letters, choose and circle the one that indicates the last sound of the word.
Plus 7 words on a sample sheet (this page is not in the manual)
You can simply trace the letters you need, or you can color in the box with the letter.
How to get my benefits - READ INSTRUCTIONS
58.03. Sounds and letters - an extra letter
4+
(for children who know letters)
I will send a manual in PDF format to your email for 110 rubles.
Manual 10 pages, 7 words per page, total 77 words
Words do not repeat with words from previous parts.
Task:
Say the name of the picture aloud. Name in order the sounds that make up this word. There are five letters next to the picture, three of them indicate the sounds of this word, and two letters are EXTRA, find and cross out these extra letters.
Plus 7 words on sample sheet (this page is not in the manual)
How to get my benefits - READ INSTRUCTIONS
58.04. Sounds and letters - pick a picture
4+
(for children who know letters)
I will send a manual in PDF format to your email for 110 rubles.
In the manual 10 pages
The pictures are repeated with the pictures from the previous parts.
Task: Say the names of the pictures from one line aloud. Which of the four words begins with the given letter? Find and circle the correct picture.
Sample leaflet (this page is not in the manual)
How to get my benefits - READ INSTRUCTIONS
58.05. Sounds and letters - an extra picture
In the manual 10 pages
The pictures are repeated with the pictures from the previous parts.
Task: Say out loud the name of the pictures from one line.
