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Roll dice/cube templates showing onset letters and the '-ap' ending, combine them to build ap-family words, and record the words built (or write the word for a pictured item rolled) on recording sheets.
Use character retelling cards (attached to popsicle sticks or worn as a necklace) to retell the story in sequence during circle time or at a reading center; a student worksheet version has characters to color, cut out, and sequence.
Beginning-sounds and handwriting literacy-center resource using photographs of P-words for letter recognition, tracing, sound sorting, and matching.
Assemble paper cube dice from templates (one die with the 'an' rime repeated, another with initial consonants c/f/r/m/p/t/v); roll the dice to generate an -an word; then use the rolled word/image with one of several recording mats to color, trace, cover, graph, or write the word.
Roll a word die and a letter/blend die (built from printable cube templates), then depending on the recording mat, color, cover, trace, or write the resulting ACE-family word (e.g., face, race, space, trace, place, lace).
Use full-page alphabet posters/cards as reference; trace/write on laminated tracing cards; complete beginning-sounds clip-card activities; match or sort small picture cards by short vs. long E sound and by whether a word starts with E.
Students sort train-car picture cards by whether their name begins with the letter Q, sort uppercase/lowercase Q cars onto matching engines, trace and write the letter Q, and build a 'letter Q train' from selected cards/letters.
Sort picture cards by whether they begin with the letter P sound onto a train engine mat; sort capital vs. lowercase P train cars onto matching engines; trace and write the letter P; build a paper 'letter train.'
Roll two custom dice (one with the 'ag' rime, one with onset letters b/r/w/l/t/g) to build AG words, then record the words rolled on recording sheets using provided game boards/grids.
Use full-page posters/cards for letter recognition; trace the letter and words on tracing cards; use beginning-sounds clip cards to identify words that start with H; sort picture cards into 'begins with H' vs. 'does not begin with H'; use small picture cards for matching or a concentration/memory game.
Use alphabet posters/cards for reference, trace letter and word cards at a writing center, complete beginning-sound clip cards, and sort by short/long I and by whether a picture starts with I.
identify the beginning sound of pictured items and write the matching letter for each of 20 numbered sets
Cut out picture cards and match them to a 'Begins with BL' word mat (word-picture matching); cut out picture cards and match them to a sentence mat containing bl-words in context.
Use full-page alphabet posters/cards for recognition; trace on laminated tracing cards; clip cards for beginning sounds; match/sort small picture cards; sort words that start with W versus those that do not (per the file's table of contents).
Use posters/cards to practice letter recognition and vocabulary (oak, oats, ocean, octagon, octopus, office, okapi, okra, olives, opal, open, osprey, ostrich, otter, oval, ox); trace letters/words on tracing cards; use beginning-sounds clip cards; match/sort small picture cards; sort by long O vs. short O; sort words that start with O…
Use alphabet posters/cards to learn N-vocabulary words, trace letters/words on tracing cards, clip the correct beginning-sound picture on clip cards, match/sort small picture cards, and sort pictures that do/do not start with N.
Cut out word cards (net, jet, pet, set, vet, wet, get, met) and sentence cards, then match them to the corresponding word mat or sentence mat containing the same -et words/sentences.
Sort picture cards by whether they begin with the letter N sound onto a train engine mat; sort capital vs. lowercase N train cars onto matching engines; trace and write the letter N; build a paper 'letter train.'
Cut out word cards (dip, hip, lip, sip, rip, ship, tip, zip) and match them to a word mat; cut out sentence cards using the same -ip words in context and match them to a sentence mat.
Use full-page posters/cards to learn F vocabulary (fall, family, fan, feather, fed, feet, fence, fig, film, fire, fish, five, fog, football, forest, fork, fountain, four, fox); trace letters and words at a writing center; sort beginning-sound clip cards; match/sort small picture cards; sort pictures into 'starts with F' vs 'does not…
Use full-page word-family posters/cards for display, trace ACK words on tracing cards, fill in beginning sounds on beginning-sound cards, spell words shown on spelling cards, use clip cards, sort pictures into ACK-family vs. not-ACK-family, and complete word-family puzzles pairing photographs with words (e.g. back, black, crack, Jack,…
Sort word or picture cards into AGE-family vs. not-AGE-family columns, and into real-word vs. nonsense-word columns.
Trace letter K on laminated cards in a writing center; sort pictures into 'Starts with K' vs 'Does not start with K'; match/play concentration with small picture cards; complete beginning-sounds clip cards.
Sort word/picture cards into 'AG Words' vs 'Not AG Words' columns, and separately sort real AG words (bag, wag, lag, rag, sag) from nonsense AG words (kag, pag, vag, yag, cag, qag) into 'Real Words' vs 'Nonsense Words' columns.