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Kindergarten Phonics / Sounds Teaching Materials

teaching book - letter soundsBeginning & Ending Sounds

Grade Level: Preschool - 1st Grade
Price: $7.99
Product #: 1003391
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Getting children ready for academic success should begin early. It is important, during these early years, to shape children's attitudes toward school and learning in a positive manner. Young children need frequent repetition and simplified directions. The activities should be engaging and visually stimulating.

The purpose of this workbook is to promote children's development and learning in an enjoyable way. The book is designed to introduce young learners to new concepts and reinforce ones already learned. The skill pages are perfect for enrichment, classroom practice, tutoring, home schooling, or just for fun.

In this book, student will focus on the following concepts:

  • Beginning Sounds - children practice recognizing consonant sounds at the beginning of simple words. Using a combination of visual, aural, and tactile senses supports the development of phonemic awareness. When children see, hear, and touch the initial sound of a word, they become familiar with the concepts related to beginning sounds.
  • Ending Sounds - By building on skills learned in the first section, children learn the more difficult task of discerning consonant sounds in word endings. To aid in this task, this book uses everyday words common to children's environments. These words activate the children's prior knowledge, enabling them to focus on the word itself.
  • Beginning and Ending Sounds - Children review consonant sounds at the beginning and ending of a word using acquired skills. Children must synthesize prior knowledge to complete the complex task.


Pages: 48
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Letters of the Alphabet Education Resource BookFor Every Learner: Sounds & Letters (Grade K)

Grade Level: Kindergarten
Price: $16.95
Product #: 2061184
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  • Exactly what you need to tailor instruction to students' varying abilities
  • 3 differentiated, reproducible activities for every skill (Extra Support, On Level, Challenge)-just choose the right page for each learner!
  • Practice for different ability levels
  • Simple preparation for differentiated instruction
  • Fun formats and friendly characters
  • Covers 19 skills, including beginning and ending sounds, rhyming, word families, and more
  • Flexible and easy to manage

Finally...a resource that gives you exactly what you need for differentiation! Grade-specific reproducible activities address a variety of learning styles and abilities. The activities are flexible and easy to manage—just choose the right page for every learner.

80 pages.
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beginning sounds teacher resourceBig Book of Beginning Sounds

Grade Level: Preschool - 1st Grade
Price: $16.95
Product #: 2000874
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Creative, hands-on activities to help children master initial consonant sounds. Includes letter-sound-picture cards, awards, and center ideas. Supports the Reading First Phonemic Awareness and Phonics Initiatives!

Teach your students letters and their sounds with this collection of ready-to-use activities. Each section of the book includes guidelines and suggestions for implementation. All the activities are designed to challenge and delight students as they learn the initial consonant sounds.

The many activities and review sheets provided will facilitate different teaching and learning styles. Guidelines and suggestions for use of these activities appear at the beginning of each section.

The activities will provide stimulating hands-on experiences and allow children to discover and interact with the letters' sounds to promote internalization.

This book includes:

  • Cut and Place Skill Sheets
  • Lotto Games
  • Recipes
  • Sound Bracelets
  • Learning Centers
  • Student Evaluations and Awards
  • Letter-Sound-Picture Cards

You will find this book's activities to be valuable, positive learning experiences as your student discover the wonderful world of letters and their sounds!

192 pages
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Letter Sounds DVDLetter Sounds DVD

Age Level: 4-7
Price: $19.99
Product #: RL00946
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Cool music and fun games build excitement about learning to read. Letter Sounds covers the most common sound that each letter makes. Letter Sounds DVD with its “on-screen mouth” shows how to form each sound. By the end of these programs, students are combining letters to read words and even simple sentences.

What makes Letter Sounds one of the most successful products ever? Attention-grabbing music, energetic characters, and action-packed games get kids excited about sounding out letters and learning to read.

After a quick review of the alphabet, young learners discover the most common sound that each letter makes. Now, the phonics games really begin! Kids race the clock to say letter sounds before hearing the answers. They’ll giggle along as they name the letters heard in silly sentences. Combining letters to make words comes next. And at last, after practicing with common sight words, it’s time to read stories composed of simple sentences!

Letter Sounds has been used for preschool alphabet activities, teaching basic phonics rules, teaching phonics to preschoolers, phonological awareness activities for preschool children, and phonics for beginners.

We also hear success stories about older students in secondary grades who have used Letter Sounds in a remedial way to boost reading and spelling skills. Phonics instruction is effective for learning important rules about the structure of words.

Students with learning disabilities in written expression have benefited from beginning phonics instruction using Letter Sounds.

Letter Sounds has helped individuals of all ages learn to speak English. Letter Sounds is often recommended by teachers who teach English as a second language (ESL).

Plus, the “on-screen mouth” in Letter Sounds DVD has been a huge hit with speech therapists and speech and language pathologists. The development team included several professionals in speech and language to make certain that each common sound of the alphabet was correctly presented.

Regardless of how you use Letter Sounds, you will love the results!

Contents

• The New Alphabet Song
• Learn the Sounds
• Letter Sounds Quiz
• Name That Letter!
• Reading Words
• Words With Consonant Combinations
• Memory Words
• Reading Sentences
• New Alphabet Song Review

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teaching materials - sounds, lettersFull-Color Literacy Activities: Sounds & Letters

Grade Level: Preschool - 1st Grade
Price: $21.99
Product #: 1003235
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Wow! Full-color, ready-to-use art PLUS activities that are based on the latest research on literacy.

This book has ready-to-use pieces needed to implement great sound and letter activities. From alphabet game boards to letter-sound dominoes, students are sure to learn while having a lot of fun.

Just cut out the pieces needed to create great-looking learning centers or fun-filled games. Follow the step-by-step directions, and watch the learning take place!

176 full-color pages.
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Phonics Teaching Materials for KindergartenAdvantage Phonics: Grade K

Grade Level: Kindergarten
Price: $9.99
Product #: 4008107
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Perfect for motivating struggling students, keeping grade-level students on target, and challenging high achievers:

  • Meets national and state standards
  • Clear instruction for independent progress
  • Includes student-motivating features
  • Developed for both home and classroom use
  • Also great for summer review

The Advantage Phonics Series helps prepare children for reading instruction. It offers strong skill instruction along with motivational features in an easy-to-use format.

It most clearly focuses on phonics instruction –helping children connect the sounds of language to the written symbols that represent them.

Skill Review and Reinforcement
If you choose a grade-level book equal to the grade your child is currently in or has just finished, use the book to:

  • reinforce skills being taught in the classroom throughout the year
  • keep your child's skills fresh over the summer


Extra Challenge and Enrichment
If you choose a grade level book beyond the grade your child is currently in or has just finished, use the book to:

  • provide enrichment and an extra challenge during the school year
  • give your child a summer preview of what's to come in school next year


Whether you use this resource for your child to practice familiar skills or to learn new ones, the extra advantage will make a difference!

Pages: 112
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phonics teaching resourcePhonics Book 1

Grade Level: Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, 3rd grade
Price: $16.99
Product #: 1003015
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Give students opportunities to review and practice phonemic awareness and alphabet recognition skills while introducing them to phonics concepts. This workbook provides practice in phonics skills for beginning readers. Suitable for ESL and intervention programs.

This book is part of a three-book series. As the first workbook in this companion series, Phonics: Book 1 provides practice and review for both phonemic awareness and alphabet skills. It extends this review into an introduction of phonics as it reinforces the sound-symbol relationships within the alphabet.

This workbook has been designed as a tool for additional practice for students moving into reading. Phonemic awareness and alphabet recognition skills are reinforced as students identify pictures beginning with featured sounds. After reviewing consonant sounds, students will work with both short and long vowel sounds. Blends and digraphs will also be explored. With the support of picture clues, students will use phonics to begin reading.

The ability to read is critical to an effective education. The activities in this workbook support the learning process by reviewing important reading skills and by providing an opportunity for independent practice of these reading skills. When used in conjunction with a phonics-based reading program, this workbook will strengthen the learner's ability to read.

Pages: 176
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phonics teaching materialsPhonics Book 2

Grade Level: Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, 3rd grade
Price: $16.99
Product #: 1003016
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Give students additional practice in more advanced phonics concepts such as consonants, vowels, blends, and digraphs as well as an introduction to diphthongs, prefixes, synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms. This book provides practice in phonics skills for developing readers. Suitable for ESL and intervention programs.

Part of a three-book series, this book provides a practice and review of letters and sounds. Although alphabet recognition and phonemic awareness skills are reinforced, the emphasis is on phonics. A phonics rule is presented as the related skill is introduced. Students have multiple opportunities to apply each rule.

This workbook has been designed as a tool for additional practice for students developing more advanced reading skills. Consonants, vowels, blends, and digraphs are reviewed. Diphthongs, prefixes, synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms are introduced. Practice in all of these areas helps students move to a higher level on the reading continuum.

As students begin to read, it is important that skills and strategies be developed to ensure fluency and independence. The activities in this workbook present and review important reading skills and provide an opportunity for independent practice of these reading skills. When used in conjunction with a phonics-based reading program, this workbook will strengthen the learner's ability to read.

Pages:176
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phonics teaching suppliesPhonics Book 3

Grade Level: Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, 3rd grade
Price: $16.99
Product #: 1003017
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Reinforce previously learned phonics skills while exploring base words, suffixes, synonyms, and antonyms. Dictionary skills are also introduced. This workbook provides practice in phonics skills for readers who are becoming more proficient. Suitable for ESL and intervention programs.

Part of a three-book series, this workbook provides practice and review of all phonics introduced in the first two workbooks. A review of each phonics rule is also provided as the related skill is practiced.

This workbook has been designed as a tool for additional practice for students moving into greater proficiency and independence in reading. Consonants, vowels, blends, digraphs, and diphthongs are reviewed. Base words, suffixes, synonyms, and antonyms will be explored. Dictionary skills will be developed, helping students become even more independent.

Reading is a life-long skill that impacts every area of learning. Through research, we know that certain elements must be accounted for as children become readers. The activities in this workbook address and review important reading skills and provide an opportunity for independent practice of these reading skills. When used in conjunction with a phonics-based reading program, this workbook will strengthen the learner's ability to read.

Pages: 176
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Word Skills Phonics Teaching Supplies BookWord Skills Fun

Grade Level: Kindergarten - First Grade
Price: $16.95
Product #: 2061115
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Designed for today's busy teacher, this teaching book is a practical, ready-to-use-now resource for teaching phonics, vocabulary, spelling, word analysis, and more. Simple activities, reproducible practice pages, and tear-out-and-use games and centers (in color) combine to give you everything you need to build your students' word skills, including:

  • high-frequency words
  • initial consonants
  • word families
  • short vowels
  • long vowels
  • consonant digraphs
  • consonant blends
  • compound words
  • contractions
  • plurals

This resource includes:

  • Skill-building practice pages and patterns
  • Activities you can use with the whole class or small groups
  • Full-color pull-out games
  • Full-color pull-out center activities with reproducible practice pages

Use this teacher resource book in your classroom to:

  • Differentiate assignments in phonics, vocabulary, and spelling
  • Provide independent practice for individuals, partners, and small groups
  • Add a hands-on element with tear-out games and centers
  • Save time with ready-to-use activities

96 pages.
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short vowels and rhyme game
Read and Rhyme: Short Vowels Game

Grade Level: Preschool, Kindergarten, First, Second, Third Grade
Price: $9.99
Product #: 3003118

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Two games to play!

Only the right pieces fit together as young learners match pictures and fun rhymes for 12 different word families. Children play with pieces two ways to build beginning reading skills. Players connect the pictures that rhyme. Then, they find those animals or objects in a two-piece scene and read the sentence to show what they have learned.

For even more fun, players can flip over the pieces to practice reading the words and matching them with pictures.

The set includes 12 word families, 48 durable pieces, and an activity guide.

Word families: -ab, -at, -ed, -et, -ick, -ig, -ish, -og, -op, -ox, -ub, -ug.

Educational value: Strengthen visual discrimination, phonemic awareness, and word recognition skills.
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Long Vowels Learning Game

Read and Rhyme: Long Vowels Game

Grade Level: Preschool, Kindergarten, First, Second, Third Grade
Price: $9.99
Product #: 3003119

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2 Games to Play!

Boost phonic skills with fun reading games!

Introduce 12 word families by matching rhyming sounds and then reading the silly sentences. Set includes 48 durable pieces and an activity guide.

First, connect the pictures that rhyme. Then, find those animals or objects in a two-piece scene. When you are finished, read the sentence to show what you have learned!

For even more fun, flip over the pieces to practice reading the words and matching them with pictures. Only the right pieces will fit together to complete the 12 word-family sets.

Word families: -ail, -ape, -ay, -ee, -eel, -eep, -ice, -ike, -oad, -oat, -ow, -y

Educational value: Strengthen visual discrimination, phonemic awareness, and word recognition skills.

48 puzzle pieces
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