Letter S Phonics and Writing Centers with Real Photographs

This letter S beginning sounds and handwriting activity includes real photographs to practice learning to recognize, write and identify the sound of the letter S. Each picture has bold colors and includes easily recognized pictures. Each activity can be used in a literacy center for students to practice letter recognition.

What is Included:

• There is an instructional page with printing instructions.

• There are letter S posters with various letter S words.

• There are handwriting task cards that allow students to practice writing the letter S as well as words that begin with the letter S.

• There are beginning sound clip cards that allow students to practice clipping the images that begin with the letter S.

• There is a sorting activity where you sort pictures that begins with S from words that do not begin with S.

The letter S sorting cards that can also be used to play memory, matching, or concentration games. These cards can also be used during a lesson in a pocket chart as well as for a center display.

When to Use:

• All of the activities make great literacy centers, by placing each set of activities in the center and letting students complete activities alone or with a partner.

• These activities make great morning tub activities. Just place these activities in morning bins for students to complete as their classmates arrive to class.

Skills Assessed:

These activities assess letter recognition skills, beginning sounds, handwriting, and sorting skills.

Each activity in this set is low prep. Each activity just needs to be printed out, cut apart, and laminated if desired. When you laminate the writing cards, you can create a writing center activity that is reusable is you add dry erase markers. The handwriting cards and beginning sound clip cards can be turned into task box activities.