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Phonics / Sounds Teaching Materials (10 products)

Beginning & 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

Big Book of Beginning Sounds

Grade Level: Preschool - 1st Grade
Price: $16.95
Product #: 2000874
Sample Pages

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

Full-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.

Literacy for Little Learners: Letters and Sounds

Grade Level: Preschool / Kindergarten
Price: $12.95
Product #: 2060886
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Letters and Sounds is brimming with developmentally appropriate centers, activities, games, and songs that are perfect for helping young children learn to name alphabet letters, separate sounds in spoken words, and associate sounds with letters.

With these kid-pleasing suggestions, not only is it easy to nurture early literacy growth--it's tons of fun too!

Strengthen students' letter naming, letter matching, and letter formation skills by having them hang laundry on a clothesline, make edible cinnamon-sugar letters, strike letter-shaped poses, scour the newspaper, or start a new fashion trend with eye-catching letter necklaces.

Spark children's interest in beginning sounds by taking them on safari, puffing down houses, or bravely reaching into an alligator's mouth. Phonemic awareness has never before been this much fun!

Inspire your children to shop, putt, plant and otherwise play their way into deeper understandings of letter-sounds associations.

Jazz up your lessons with songs and rhymes that are just perfect for familiarizing children with alphabet letters, their sounds, and related words.

This book is rich with the inspiration you need to speed your planning time and strengthen your little ones' literacy skills.

Pages: 80

Phonics Book 1

Grade Level: Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, 3rd grade
Price: $16.99
Product #: 1003015
Sample Pages

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

Phonics 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

Phonics 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

Word Skills Fun

Grade Level: Kindergarten - First Grade
Price: $16.95
Product #: 2061115
Sample Pages
Table of Contents

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.

Word Skills Fun

Grade Level: Second - Third Grade
Price: $16.95
Product #: 2061116
Sample Pages
Table of Contents

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:

• word families
• vowel patterns
• synonyms and antonyms
• homophones
• prefixes and suffixes
• inflectional endings
• multiple-meaning words
• 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.

Read and Rhyme: Short Vowels Game

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

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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