Letter A Beginning Sound Puzzles
Practice letter A recognition and beginning-sound discrimination through two-piece self-checking puzzles.
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Practice letter A recognition and beginning-sound discrimination through two-piece self-checking puzzles.
For each word list in the bundle, the student builds each target word on a 'Place Velcro here' word-building page, then finds and marks (stars) the correct target word on a page mixing it among distractor words.
Includes: 8 per-list adapted workbook PDFs, each following the same 'Build the word.' / 'Put the stars on the word' pattern as the single-list…
An emergent reader booklet giving beginning readers repeated practice recognizing and reading the sight word "with" in context, built around the five senses.
Includes: title/sight-word page with name line · 5 illustrated sentence pages (sight/eyes, hearing/ears, smell/nose, taste/tongue, touch/hand)
Trace printed lines on each worksheet page.
Addition fact practice combined with a color-by-code/color-by-number coloring activity.
Blend sounds to read short-e words on flash cards; use printed word lists at home or for formative assessment.
Includes: 36 short-e word/flash cards (color and blackline, 6 per page, 6 pages) · 10 word lists (each with 8-11 words), duplicated 4x per page to save paper
An emergent reader booklet giving beginning readers repeated practice recognizing and reading the sight word "they" in context, built around a pirates theme.
Includes: title/sight-word page with name line · 5 illustrated sentence pages (pirate ship, pet parrots, treasure, hide treasure, 'Aarrghh!')
Glue pictures to complete a patterning worksheet and continue pattern strips.
Includes: 1 'complete the pattern' worksheet with glue-in pictures
Teach Spanish animal-name vocabulary and letter-tracing practice by having students trace the printed Spanish name of each animal.
Includes: 10 tracing cards, each showing one Spanish animal word twice (conejo, pulpo, elefante, abeja, sapo, mono, jirafa, oveja, vaca, ratón)
Blend sounds to read short-u words on flash cards; use printed word lists at home or for formative assessment.
Includes: 42 short-u word/flash cards (color and blackline, 6 per page, 7 pages) · 10 word lists (each with 9-10 words), duplicated 4x per page to save paper
An emergent reader booklet that gives beginning readers repeated practice reading and recognizing the sight word "go" in a short, patterned, illustrated story about modes of travel/transportation.
Help students practice subtracting multiples of 10 (numbers 11-19 range, using multiples of 10) using a number line as a visual model.
Includes: set of number-line subtraction activity cards (each showing a 10-100 number line and one subtraction problem, e.g. '20-10=___') · final worksheet listing 15 subtraction problems (multiples of 10) without number-line supports
Practice identifying and counting the value of US quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies through matching, addition, and hands-on coin-counting activities.
Includes: Money Poem (penny/nickel/dime/quarter) · quarter-matching worksheets
Cut out IT-family word and sentence cards and match them to a word mat and a sentence mat, reading each word/sentence in the process.
Includes: IT Family word mat with 8 words (bit, fit, hit, kit, lit, pit, sit, knit) · IT Family sentence mat with matching sentences for each word · cut-out matching cards for words/sentences
An emergent reader booklet giving beginning readers repeated practice recognizing and reading the sight word "will" in context, built around washing a pet dog.
Includes: title/sight-word page with name line · 5 illustrated sentence pages (fill tub, wash dog, dry dog, brush dog, play with dog)
Combine letter-recognition practice across the alphabet with vowel-focused activities and 'physical skills' pages (mazes/dot-to-dot puzzles built around a letter or word theme).
Includes: one worksheet per letter (circle-the-letter, picture-sound matching) · vowel-specific activity pages · physical-skills maze/dot-to-dot pages
Read 'F is for ___' sentence cards assembled as reading rings (fish, fire, feather, foot, football, fork, fan, fairy, fox, frog, flower).
Includes: two reading-ring card sets, each with 10 'F is for ___' sentence cards (fish, fire, feather, foot, football, fork, fan, fairy, fox, frog, flower)
Students count dogs and write the correct number in a box, draw lines to match numbers of dogs to numbers of bones, circle the biggest dog in a group, count dogs and circle the correct number from two choices, and circle the smallest dog in a group.
Includes: count-and-write-the-number worksheet · match-dogs-to-bones worksheet · circle-the-biggest-dog worksheet
Use dot markers to color every occurrence of the letter F (or f) hidden among distractor letters on a grid.
Includes: Worksheet 1: dot-mark each capital F among distractor letters · Worksheet 2: dot-mark each lowercase f among distractor letters
An emergent reader booklet that gives beginning readers repeated practice reading and recognizing the sight word "for" in a short, patterned, illustrated story about taking care of different pets.
Sort picture cards into 'BEGINS WITH F' and 'DOES NOT BEGIN WITH F' columns.
Look at a picture word with the ending letter blank (e.g. 'moo___') and write in the correct final consonant sound/letter to complete the word, grouped by target ending sound (n, p, t, etc.).
Includes: Ending Sounds worksheet set (US spellings variant) · Ending Sounds worksheet set (alternate/non-US spellings variant)
Blend sounds to read short-o words on flash cards; use printed word lists at home or for formative assessment.
Includes: 45 short-o word/flash cards (color and blackline, 6 per page, 8 pages) · 10 word lists (each with 9-10 words), duplicated 4x per page to save paper
Read short mini-book stories about characters named for each blend, trace/write blend words, build words by adding the blend to given word endings, cut-and-paste sort pictures by single-consonant vs. blend sound, and write blend word lists.
Includes: mini-book stories for sl/cl/gl/bl/fl blend characters · 'Build It' word-building worksheets