Learning silent E rules is one of the trickiest concepts for early readers. Words such as cube/cub, robe/rob and tube/tub are particularly confusing to decipher. How can one little letter make so much of a difference? This lesson can help smooth the way with guided exercises and examples that bolster your student's ability to recognize, understand and read the letter E.
Consonant-vowel-consonant or CVC words include examples such as paw, cow and pop. Identifying these words and understanding the sound that they make is crucial to building reading fluency. This guided lesson provides practice with CVC words by focusing on their intial, medial and ending sounds. You can boost learning with our supplemental worksheets that offer more practice with CVC words.
In this fun blending lesson, students will get a chance to read and spell grade level words. This can be used as a stand-alone lesson or support for the Cooking Up Blends lesson plan.
This lesson plan is a great way to introduce or review the concept of identifying letter sounds within CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words. You can use this as a stand-alone lesson or a as a support lesson for the Read with Beads lesson plan.
Week 3 of our Kindergarten Fall Review Packet offers five more days of learning activities for new kindergarteners in the subject areas of reading, writing, and math.
The first step to becoming a great reader and writer is to learn the sounds of all the letters! This workbook encourages your child to say the letters aloud and write them down.
Students will have fun identifying words that begin with the letter A. They will enjoy writing and illustrating the pages for a classroom alphabet book!
This guided lesson builds upon kindergarteners' understanding of consonant-vowel-consonant or CVC words. Exercises teach kids how to spell CVC words, in addition to understanding how to pronounce each segment of the word. As children learn to swap out individual letters within words, they will build important phonemic fluency. Don't forget to check out our CVC word printables for further practice.
In this game that teaches beginning sounds, Cuz-Cuz hops in some mud puddles. Find the puddle with the picture that matches the letter for a mucky good time!
Jumpstart your student's reading skills with these games, worksheets, and more that allow them to practice individually and as a group to make learning fun! Help your kids sound out the letters of the alphabet and recognize words that start with those sounds with coloring pages and interactive activities developed by teachers for your student. Strengthen other reading skills using our first grade spelling patterns resources!