Teaching letter sounds worksheets
Learning Letter Sounds
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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 |
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Letters can be a bit tricky; especially to children just learning about the alphabet. You can make the learning process easier for them with these free colorful worksheets teaching the connection between letters and sounds. The interactive tasks on letter-sound correspondence and simple problems will keep children captivated, and the simplicity will keep them motivated to learn more. Children can make quick work of the letter and sound matching tasks and learn new words while they are at it. These free letter sounds worksheets will help you understand in which areas your child may need extra help; and you will know which writing tasks best suit their needs.
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Letter X Sounds Worksheet
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Letter V and W Sounds Worksheet
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Letter U Sounds Worksheet
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Letter R and S Sounds Worksheet
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Letter Q Sounds Worksheet
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Letter N and O Sounds Worksheet
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Letter l and M Sounds Worksheet
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Letter K Sounds Worksheet
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Letter Sounds: J Printable Worksheet
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Letter H and I Sounds Worksheet
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Letter G Sounds Worksheet
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Letter D and E Sounds Worksheet
Children will use picture clues and visual discrimination to name these bright and cheery pictures …
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Letter B and C Sounds Worksheet
The bright and engaging pictures on this free downloadable worksheet will have children smiling, and …
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Letter A Sounds Worksheet
Help your new reader identify the short «ă» sound in familiar words with this adorable …
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Finding the Sounds Worksheet
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Hungry Dragon Worksheet
This fun and adorable dragon is hungry, and your child will strengthen phonological awareness abilities …
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Let's Count the Sounds Worksheet
This free traceable worksheet will engage children with bright and cheery colors and have them …
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What Do You Hear? Worksheet
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3 Sounds Worksheet
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Listen to the Sounds Worksheet
This bright and cheery worksheet will help emerging readers pull out individual sounds in words, …
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Let's Check for «i» Sounds Worksheet
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Learning the alphabet: methods, exercises and games for children
The alphabet is the foundation of reading.
Therefore, before you start reading and writing, teach your children the letters.
Children can start learning to read as early as preschool age. Parents and teachers need to teach their child how to pronounce sounds correctly in their native language. These are important prerequisites for learning letters and learning to read successfully. The educational process of preschool children is based on visual, acoustic and tactile exercises. The use of various channels of perception in the educational process increases its effectiveness and stimulates long-term memorization of letters.
Learning the alphabet: introducing the child to the alphabet.
To master reading, a child must learn and recognize not only the graphic form of letters, but also be able to compare them with their corresponding sounds. This means that the child must be able to write letters and pronounce them. When the child learns to correctly pronounce all the sounds in his native language and distinguish letters by visual form, go directly to reading.
As a rule, at the age of 5-6 years, most children no longer experience difficulties in this.
See also: Reading and bilingualism. Bilingualism in children
From the age of 5 to 6, children begin to understand that there is a lot of information encoded in language using letters. Thus, they are interested in learning to read by then, as they are naturally curious.
Of course, babies can learn and memorize individual letters quite early. However, their interest, mostly spontaneous, is directed to individual words and letters. Here it is important to gently motivate the child by encouraging him to learn through games and a comfortable environment. However, too much pressure can lead to stress, causing little ones to lose any motivation to learn letters.
Alphabet learning games
The first rule of learning the alphabet: learn the letters one by one!
Don't forget, each letter is made up of visually similar elements.
If you try to teach a child several letters at a time, he may become confused. Learn the letters one by one. One lesson - one letter.
Second rule of learning the alphabet: take your time!
Give your child enough time for each letter. Plan 1-2 lessons for each new letter. Organize the lesson in a form that is interesting for the child with the help of games.
Tactile method: from studying letters to reading
The child sees something abstract in a letter. Chains of associations will help in learning letters. Associating each letter with something specific or familiar helps the child fix it in his memory.
1. Make a letter out of plasticine
Let's memorize what a letter looks like and develop fine motor skills.
We will need: plasticine (should be elastic), modeling board and a disposable plastic knife.
Together with your child, roll out 8 approximately identical sausages from plasticine.
2 - divide in half, 2 - divide into 3 parts. From the remaining 4, make rings by blinding their edges and cut 2 of them in half, creating semicircles. Thus, you should get a set of elements to compose any letters of the alphabet. Show the child a couple of examples and ask them to repeat, collecting previously passed letters.
2. Magic wands
Let's memorize letters, learn how to make letters from sticks, learn how to transform letters.
We need: a set of counting sticks. If not, you can replace with matches or toothpicks.
The easiest way is to lay out letters from sticks according to a pattern or without a pattern (according to the idea). When the child learns to lay out all the letters, you can complicate the task by laying out objects familiar to the child from them, and then ask them to change them, for example, make a figure resembling a door out of sticks, and then ask the child to remove 2 sticks to make the letter P.
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Tactile letters Memorize letters and develop fine motor skills
We will need: sandpaper, velvet paper, scissors.
Cut out letters from sandpaper or velvet paper. The child will have to close his eyes to identify the letter by touch.
4. Draw a letter on the semolina
Memorize letters, develop fine motor skills
We will need: bright dish tray, semolina
Pour sand or semolina in a thin layer on the tray. Set an example for your child, show how to write letters on the croup with a finger or a stick. Ask him to write next to the letter, the same as you wrote, to write a letter more or less than yours, to add an unfinished letter, or to erase the extra detail of the "wrong" letter. Children will like this game, just shake the tray a little, and the mistake or inaccuracy made disappears!
5. Mirror letter
Memorize letters and train attention
We will need: cardboard, pencil and scissors
Prepare identical cards cards, 2 pieces for each letter.
Write 1 letter on each card. Write the letters in mirror image and correctly. Lay out cards with the same letter in front of the child and offer to choose the correct one.
6. Memory test game
Train memory
We will need: scissors, cardboard and a pencil
The game "Memory Test" will challenge even older children. Write each capital letter on one card and lowercase letter on the other card. Turn over all the cards and place them on the table. Ask your child to match uppercase and lowercase letters. You can complicate and add a dictionary element. Have the children match the letter of the alphabet with the picture that starts with that letter.
7. Bean bag
Memory training
We will need: a bag of beans or other bulk material, a tablecloth or a large piece of paper.
If you want to warm up a bit while you study the letters, play a game of Beanbag. Write the alphabet randomly on a large piece of paper.
Give the children a bean bag and ask them to put it on paper. The child must name a word that begins with the letter on which the bag fell. If a student is stuck, help him.
Ask the child to check the chosen letter with letters from the alphabet. Be sure to ask the name of the letter. The exercise will help children learn to distinguish visually similar letters and avoid mistakes when writing them in the future.
Drawing, coloring, cutting letters out of paper and gluing them together develop fine motor skills in children. Self-made flash cards with letters facilitate memory and associative thinking, creating the basis for tactile games. You can make postcards alone or with your child. Letters can be cut out of paper of various textures and pasted onto cards made of cardboard or paper. Then you can ask the child to pick up letters from 2-3 cards with their eyes closed.
Literacy begins with learning the letters of the alphabet. Combine different perceptual styles.
The alphabet learning games described above help children to learn letters at different levels. Moreover, fine motor skills play a crucial role in the formation of systematic connections in the mind of the child and create the basis for the development of reading and writing.
Synopsis of the Russian language lesson for grade 2 on the topic "Vowels and consonants and letters." | Outline of the lesson in Russian (Grade 2) on the topic:
Grade: 2
Topic: Vowels and consonants sounds and letters.
Lesson type:
Lesson of generalization and systematization of knowledge.
The main didactic goal of the lesson:
Generalize knowledge about vowels and consonants, bring them into a system
Objectives:
- Educational:
- generalize students' knowledge about the role of vowels and consonants in the language;
- to continue the formation of the ability to distinguish vowels and consonants sounds and letters and give them a description;
- update students' knowledge about the work of vowels and consonants;
- to ensure that students apply knowledge in practice.
- Educators:
- arouse interest in the study of the Russian language as a science;
- create conditions for interested work in the lesson;
3. Developing:
- to help broaden one's horizons;
- develop speech;
Equipment for the lesson: a notebook and other stationery, a computer, a tape of letters.
Course of the lesson:
1) Organizational stage: (checking readiness for the lesson, correct posture).
-Have you come to study with joy today?
- What does every student need to be a good student?
Remember, the one who works hard, he will achieve something. “Study and work will grind everything”
-How do you understand the meaning of this proverb? There is another proverb that will help us today in the lesson: “Repetition is the mother of learning”
2)) Presentation of the topic and objectives of the lesson &
Today we will go on an exciting journey through the Land of vowels and consonants, where you will remember vowels and consonants, what they are for and what functions they perform.
Finger gymnastics.
And now we must do a good warm-up in order to make beautiful and correct entries in the notebook
- start the engine of the car
(fist rotation)
- show how our heart works
(clenching and unclenching hands)
- go up the stairs and go down
(press the thumb pads in order with your thumb)
- one, two, three, four, five, (bent fingers in order into a fist)
and immediately:
all the fingers went to sleep. (cams tilt)
- suddenly woke up, stretched.
The warm-up was done just fine. Now our fingers and hands will be good helpers.
3) Knowledge update:
1) A minute of calligraphy.
- Open your notebooks and write down the number and “Classwork”
- What letter do you most want to write now?
- Describe this letter and its sound?
- Write in the notebook capital and lowercase side by side. Continue in this way until the end of the line.
Choose the most beautiful letters and underline.
- Well done!
4) Generalization and systematization of knowledge
a) - And now I open the tape of letters. Let's take a closer look at it.
- Why are some letters highlighted in red, others in blue? (Red for vowels, blue for consonants). Why did 2 letters remain gray with us? (This is b and b hnak. They do not have a sound)
- What do you know about vowel sounds? (vowels are sung)
- How many are there in Russian? (6) And how many vowels? (10)
- Let's remember how vowel sounds are pronounced (a, o, y, and, s, e)
- How are sounds written in writing? (in square brackets)
- Name the letters of the vowels that indicate the hardness of the consonant sound (a, o, y, s, e)
- What are the letters of the vowel sounds that indicate the softness of the consonant sound (i, e, e, and, u)
- Which of these letters can represent two sounds? (i, e, e, u) (I-ya, Yo-yo, E-ye, Yu-yu)
- When do they mean two sounds? (at the beginning of a word, after vowels, before b and b signs)
- Let's give examples of such words.
For example, clear, singing, pouring, entrance.
- Can a syllable consist of only one vowel? (yes)
- Can a syllable consist without vowels? (no)
- Let's conclude, are the vowels needed for this?
(Vowels are needed to form a syllable.)
-Try to make out the words that we gave earlier, by syllables. )
Remember how many vowels in a word, so many syllables!
b) Gymnastics for the eyes.
Without turning your head (head straight), with your eyes closed, look to the right for a count of 1-4, then to the left for a count of 1-4 and straight for a count of 1-6. Raise your eyes up to a count of 1-4, lower them down to a count of 1-4 and look directly at a count of 1-6. Repeat 4-5 times.
c) Sounds on the screen: [r], [p], [m], [v], [y], [f].
-What sound is superfluous? [y] Why? (vowel, and the rest are consonants)
-Do you know poems about consonant sounds?
Then I'll read to you now, and you repeat after me:
And the consonants agree
Rustle, whisper, creak,
Even snort and hiss,
But they don't want to sing.
Sss - a snake whistle is heard,
Shshsh - a fallen leaf rustles.
Zhzhzh - bumblebees buzz in the garden,
Prr - motors rumble.
d) How are consonants pronounced?
- What can you say about the consonant sound? (does it consist of voice and noise or just noise)
Which letters represent consonants? (b, c, d, e, g, h, d, k, l, m, n, p, r, s, t, f, x, c, h, w, w)
- What groups are divided into consonant sounds? (for soft and hard, for deaf and voiced, for paired and unpaired)
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- I'll give you such words for comparison - bow-hatch, chalk-stranded. Where are soft consonants, and where are hard ones, tell me?
- And now we will switch to paired consonants.
Name me the pairs! (b-p, v-f, g-k, d-t, f-sh, s-s - hard and equally soft)
- The rest of the consonants were left without a pair.
- Name the letters of unpaired voiced consonants (l, m, n, r, d)
- What can you say about the letters ha, tse, che, shcha? (letters of unpaired voiceless consonants)
- Name the letters of always soft consonants.
(y, h, u)
- Name the letters of always hard consonants. (w, w, c)
- And once again, how does it differ from all other letters b and b? (they do not represent a sound)
- And finally, can a consonant sound form a syllable without a vowel? (No, a syllable is formed only together with a vowel sound)
Well done! You have successfully passed the test for knowledge of vowel sounds!
e) Physical education minute.
One, two, three, four, five
The hare began to jump,
The hare jumped a lot,
He jumped ten times.
5) Applying knowledge and skills in a new situation
a) And now let's practice a little in applying our knowledge.
- There are letters on the screen: Z, K, A, B, E, N, M, I, Yu, B.
Divide these letters into 2 groups.
- On what basis did you separate the letters? (vowels and consonants)
Name the letters of each row. Complete each row with your examples of two letters.
