Play this fun game about initial vowels with your ELD class. Each slide shows a picture of an item that starts with a vowel (igloo, elephant, apple, etc.) and English learners choose the correct initial vowel. The presentation includes...

Completing this PowerPoint should enable young readers to better-associate the sounds that go with each of the 26 letters of the alphabet. Each slide has the letter with a cartoon drawing to help with recognition of the beginning sound....

Preschoolers will love learning the song, " I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly" with this PowerPoint. Each slide contains an image of an old lady and the animal she swallowed. Note: Audio does not appear to be working, however this...

Elementary listeners learn about each section in the orchestra and the sounds they make. This would be a great introduction prior to a field trip or a visit from a real orchestra. Note: The audio does not appear to work. 

Practice your Spanish pronunciation by recognizing that certain syllables create certain sounds. Five syllable combinations are shown here: lla, lle, lli, llo, and llu. There are twenty words that require the...

Introduce your Spanish language learners to the sounds fa, fe, fi, fo, and fu. As you read the list of 20 words, your pupils will attempt to fill in the missing syllables for each word. Extend this activity by asking learners to list one...

Every beginning Spanish speaker needs to hone their speaking skills. This instructional activity focuses on four sounds: ge, gi, je, and ji. There are twenty questions that require the learner to complete the...

Finding dependent clauses separated from the rest of a sentence? Main clauses without verbs or subjects? Sounds like you are plagued by sentence fragments and that your writers need a quick review of this common grammatical error....

First graders compare the /a/ sound to that of a baby crying. They practice making the sound and then say the tongue twister as it is written on a sentence strip and then using the overhead and letters, name words with that sound in them.

Students review the 2 sounds of the letter c. In this phonics lesson, students choose the letter c each time it appears out of a set of 12 letter and say both its sounds. Students are quiet when another letter is pointed out. Students...

Students discover ways to make sounds louder to their ears.

Students comprehend how to produce these pronuciation features, recognize the various blends of two and three letter consonant sounds, hear the sounds, produce them correctly when thinking about it, and practice correct pronuciation to...

Students explore the sounds of the alphabet. They practice making the /s/ sound. Students repeat tongue twisters. They write words with the /s/ sound. Students read a book about sounds and their spellings.

Students review the sound for the "sh" and practice repeating it with teacher guidance. In this phonics instructional activity, students will say the sound each time "sh" is pointed out among a set of other letters and continue...

Students pronounce out the /ol/ sound.  In this lesson planet lesson, students search words with the /ol/ sound.  Students say the words that contain /ol/ or remain quiet if they don't.

Students discuss the sound of |ar|.  In this ar lesson, students locate the ar sound in a group of mixed letters. Students respond to only ar words.

First graders practice their language art capabilities by rhyming words.  In this vocabulary instructional activity, 1st graders examine words that rhyme with rice and create rhyming sentences using the same sound.  Students...

In this vowels instructional activity, students recognize the long vowel A. Students look at one word containing the long vowel A and then look at six other words with their pictures circle the ones that have the long vowel A.

Learners practice the letter A sound in its different foms. They study a tongue twister that encompasses the letter A sounds. They use letterboxes and bags of letters to sound out different words with the a sound. They listen to a...

First graders explore animals and initial sounds. They create a slideshow by clicking and dragging background pictures, letters, animal pictures and sounds to accompany each slide. Students search for animals whose name is the same sound...

In this alphabet awareness worksheet, students circle each picture that begins with the long or short /Ii/ sound and then make an x on each picture that does not begin with the /Ii/ sound.

Third graders practice identifying words with the short o vowel sound. They use the strategy will reading a page from The Hare and the Tortoise. They read the passage while focusing on increasing their reading fluency and practice...

First graders are introduced to the sounds the letter b makes. Using the document camera, they view the letter b and take a picture of something in the classroom that begins with the letter. They share the item they found with the class.

For this middle sounds in words worksheet, 1st graders circle the words that have the same middle sound as the first word in each row.