Hearing Ending Sounds Resources

Blending Sounds Hopper

Kids must hop on the word that matches the letter sounds they hear.

Kindergarten

Reading & writing

Game

Letter Sounds Quiz

Letter Sounds Quiz

Your early reader matches vowel and consonant sounds with objects.

1st grade

Reading & writing

Game

Ending Sounds Hopper

Ending Sounds Hopper

Kids help Cuz-Cuz get dirty and practice phonics by isolating ending sounds.

1st grade

Reading & writing

Game

Bumper Cars

Ending Sounds Cloud Catch

Bumper Cars

Kindergarten

Reading & writing

Game

Ending Sounds Cloud Catch

Catch clouds with the right picture in them! Practice identifying ending sounds with this fun game.

Preschool

Reading & writing

Game

Blending 1

Constant Consonants: Ending Letters

Blending 1

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.

Kindergarten

Reading & writing

Guided Lesson

Constant Consonants: Ending Letters

This worksheet will help your second grader practice his skills with phonics and reading by filling in the missing consonant at the end of the word.

2nd grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Ending Sounds Jump

Ending Sounds Jump

Kids learn how to isolate ending sounds in this bouncy segmenting game.

Kindergarten

Reading & writing

Game

Segmenting 2

Learn the Alphabet with Alphabet Card Games

Segmenting 2

Segmenting is a reading technique to help first graders break apart the sounds in new words. One example of this would be segmenting the sound units in the word black (b/l/a/k). This can help early readers tackle new words on their own, boosting reading confidence. This guided lesson teaches kids how to segment words in order to improve overall reading fluency.

1st grade

Guided Lesson

Mid-Year Assessment Phonemic Awareness: Ending Sounds

Learn the Alphabet with Alphabet Card Games

Make learning the alphabet fun with alphabet card games! With six games to choose from, kids are sure to stay occupied for hours.

Preschool

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Mid-Year Assessment Phonemic Awareness: Ending Sounds

Use this assessment to check your kindergarteners’ ability to isolate the ending sounds in words.

Kindergarten

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Segmenting 1

Listen for the Last Sound! #2

Segmenting 1

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.

Kindergarten

Guided Lesson

Listen for the Last Sound! #2

Ask your students to take a good look at the familiar pictures on this worksheet. Are they able to determine which sound is missing at the end of each word?

1st grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Segmenting Gum Stretch

Segmenting Gum Stretch

Kindergarten

Reading & writing

Game

Short I 1

Phonemic Awareness: Segmenting

Short I 1

Being able to recognize the short I sound, as in dig, fin and kid, is one of the foundations of kindergarten phonics. This guided lesson teaches kids all about the short I, and offers lots of practice to encourage retention. You can get even more practice with this phonics skill by checking out the printables that work in partership with this lesson.

Kindergarten

Guided Lesson

Phonological Awareness

Lesson plan

Phonological Awareness

Use this helpful phonological awareness lesson to introduce or review the beginning and ending sounds in CVC words with your ELs. This can be used as a stand alone or support lesson for the Color it Out lesson plan.

Kindergarten

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Beginning and Ending Sounds 1

Phonemic Awareness: Segmenting

Assess your students’ ability to segment beginning, middle, and ending sounds in this verbal phonemic awareness worksheet, perfect for helping beginning readers practice hearing and isolating distinct sounds.

1st grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Phonemic Awareness: Blending

Beginning and Ending Sounds 1

Spelling can be tough for preschoolers, so help out by making it a fun cut-and-paste project. Cut the letters out and paste them on to complete the words.

Preschool

Reading & writing

Worksheet

How Many Sounds Do You Hear?

Phonemic Awareness: Blending

Blending sounds together to make words is an essential skill for young learners. Give first graders the practice they need by reading sounds aloud to them, and asking them to identify the word they hear.

1st grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Vocabulary Cards: Hands on Reading

How Many Sounds Do You Hear?

This worksheet teaches kindergarteners early spelling skills by teaching them to stretch words so that each sound can be heard.

Kindergarten

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Vocabulary Cards: Hands on Reading

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Hands on Reading.

Kindergarten

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Tricky Y

End of Year Assessment: Blending Words

Tricky Y

Students sound out words and determine which long vowel sound Y makes in this phonics worksheet.

1st grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Reading and Writing with Our Hands

End of Year Assessment: Blending Words

It is almost the end of kindergarten! Use this assessment to check your students’ abilities to blend sounds into words.

Kindergarten

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Lesson plan

Reading and Writing with Our Hands

In this fun hands on lesson plan, your ELs will get to practice segmenting and blending words in a tactile way! This can be used as a stand alone lesson or as a support lesson plan for the **Sound Smoothies** lesson plan.

Preschool

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Phonemic Awareness: Beginning & Ending Sounds