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Preschool Phonics / Sounds Teaching Materials (7 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

Letter Sounds DVD (RL946)

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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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

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.

Learning to Read! Words with Blends Game

Grade Level: Preschool, Kindergarten, First, Second, Third Grade
Price: $9.99
Product #: 3003117

Two games to play!

Encourage beginning readers to make the connection between sounds and letter combinations by assembling colorful puzzles. Only the right pieces will fit together as players build 14 words by matching the pictures and word sounds.

For word recognition practice, flip over the pieces, assemble the words, and then match them with pictures.

The set includes 14 puzzles, 42 durable puzzle pieces and an activity guide.

Beginning blends: bl, cl, cr, dr, fr, gl,sc, sk, sl, sn, sp,st, sw,tr.

Educational value: Strengthen visual discrimination and word recognition skills.

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