- Subject
- ELA, Language Development, Phonics
- Topic
- Letter S, Beginning Sounds
- Resource types
- Activities, Worksheets & Printables, Worksheets
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Standards
- CCSS.RF.K.3.a
Product description
From the author
These cut and paste worksheets for the letter S are great for letter recognition and beginning sounds. They are a quick and easy activity to give students who need practice with recognizing the letter S from amongst other letters or for those students who need extra practice distinguishing between the initial sounds in words. It is a great resource for students to practice recognizing the letter, or to evaluate students on their knowledge of the letter and its sound at the beginning of words.
These cut and paste worksheets are perfect for preschoolers and kindergartners who are working on identifying the most common initial /s/ sound in words as well as students who are learning to recognize the letter S in both capital and lowercase form.
There are 3 different worksheets for students to use to practice the letter S
Sorting letters that are the letter S from letters that are not the letter S
Cut and paste page where students will glue the pictures that begin with the letter S on the sun.
Sorting page where students will look through various forms of print and cut out examples of the letter and sort by capital letters and lowercase letters.
These alphabet worksheets can be used in the following ways
Literacy centers
Fine motor skills centers
Small group activities
Homework
Morning work
Emergency sub plans
Skills assessed with these letter S worksheets
Letter S Recognition
Initial Sound of the letter S
Cutting skills
Fine Motor Skills
Two of the worksheets are print and go. You only need to add scissors and glue. The other worksheet is low prep, as you need to gather printed materials for students to cut out examples of the letters in addition to scissors and glue. Students can work together or alone to complete the magazine cut and paste page.
In the classroom
Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Identify the capital and lowercase forms of the letter S among distractor letters.
Recognize pictures whose names begin with the /s/ sound.
Practice cutting and pasting to complete a picture or letter sort.
Teaching tips
Provide scissors and glue for all three activities.
Collect magazines, newspapers or other printed letter examples for the uppercase/lowercase sorting mat.
Name each picture before students decide whether it begins with /s/.
Skills covered
Letter recognition — students sort S from other letters on one worksheet and classify uppercase/lowercase examples from print clippings on another.
Beginning-sound identification — students select and glue pictures whose names start with the /s/ sound onto a sun outline.
Fine motor skills — cutting small picture and letter pieces and pasting them into a target sort.
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Curriculum
Standards, concepts & topics
Standards
- CCSS.RF.K.3.a — Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary sound or many of the most frequent sounds for each consonant.
Core concepts
Letter recognition
Beginning sounds
Uppercase/lowercase sorting
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