Learning Letter Sounds Activities

Here is how you can use i spy to teach letter sounds phonics.

Learning letter sounds activities. Super simple letter sounds match. After the direct teaching activity have your student choose one of the 5 letter sound games. Play the game i spy in the game i spy you pick something that you see and don t tell the child what it is. Teaching beginning sounds can be fun and engaging.

These printable alphabet puzzles will make learning letters a hands on experience. Not only will kids practice letter formation while using them but they will also practice identifying beginning sounds in words. The child has to guess what you see. An active way for the kids to learn their letters is simply with a ball and shouting out words that start with a letter.

Here are some ideas for relays. Egg on the spoon. The pleasantest thing gives us many variations of this alphabet game in her guest post. To make this activity write a letter with a black sharpie marker at the end of a large craft stick you ll need about 50 sticks.

Find activities such as letter sound boxes beginning sounds clip cards and alphabet task cards beginning sounds match up worksheets and electronic phonics games to keep learning fun. An alphabet pocket chart center is also a staple for prek and kindergarten learners. Slip them into write and wipe pockets and you can use dry erase markers on them too. Take it slow as children show interest and most importantly have fun with these ways to learn letter sounds.

These games help pre k children practice letter sound learning in a fun hands on way. A simple cut and paste activity that is perfect for learning to hear sounds made by each letter of the alphabet. Make an alphabet game to sort by beginning letter sounds. Students learn to hear letter sounds rather than say the letter name.

Don t forget to keep learning fun everyday with these. Think of any relay in the world that you could come up with at all and basically just incorporate the letter sounds every time one leg of the relay is complete. My all time favorite activity for practicing letters and sight words too is 7 fiddle sticks. Grocery store alphabet hunt.

Place the trinkets in a basket. Get them started reading on their own with reading rainbow skybrary. Combine play dough and learning letters with these engaging alphabet mats. Let s say you see a book in the room.

Just take any opportunity you can to integrate the sounds to make it fun and help your child remember and learn the alphabet. On one stick color the tip red or in this case i put a snowflake on the stick to match the cup. Every year i find different ways to incorporate this into teaching letters and sounds. Learn letter sounds with phonics activities phonetic awareness and couple it with letter recognition you can find 20 activities for kids just learning their letters here read to your child a lot.

Free printable letter sounds matching mat. Use 26 disposable clear punch cups and label each cup with a letter. Letter cup labels can be downloaded below. Unlock the letter sounds.

Directions for playing this game are on the pdf above. Children sort each trinket into a letter cup by its beginning sound. 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. Of course there are more steps to reading than this such as book awareness turning pages reading left to right.

They develop critical thinking skills and fine motor skills while teaching letters and sounds.