Beginning and Ending Sounds: Choose the Word
Choose between similar words to complete ten sentences. Check both the first and last sounds and the meaning of each sentence.

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- Phonics, Language Development, ELA
- Resource types
- Worksheets, Worksheets & Printables
- Ontario expectations
- B2.4
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Students compare two possible words and select the one that best completes each sentence. Similar-looking options direct attention to word beginnings and endings, while sentence meaning helps resolve the choice.
Curriculum reference — Ontario: Attending to complete phoneme sequences while reading regular words supports early decoding. Selected skills only; reference stage is not an overall reading age, complete curriculum coverage, or an automatic recommendation for every learner.
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Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
- Use initial and final sounds to distinguish similar words
- Apply sentence context when choosing between word options
- Read the complete selected sentence for meaning
Teaching tips
- Have students read both possible sentences aloud before marking a choice.
- Underline the letters that differ in each pair to connect sound and spelling.
Skills covered
- Word discrimination — compare the initial and final letters, then test each option in its sentence.
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Ontario curriculum
Ontario curriculum expectations
Ontario expectations
- B2.4 — use phonics knowledge and phonemic blending to read words, and phonemic segmentation to spell phonetically regular words, in isolation and various text contexts
Core concepts
- Initial sounds
- Final sounds
- Sentence context
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