AREA: Letter Names and Letter Sounds

Letter Name Activities

These activities help students learn letter names - upper and lower case letters. This supports the student's early reading and spelling skills.

The following activities are from the  Florida Center for Reading Research:

  1. Poetry Pen - Students find upper and lower case letters in children's poetry. NOTE: You can use any reading material (not just poetry) for this activity. (e.g., the books/readers from the A-Z program)
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  2. Alphabet Tiles Name Sort - Students match upper and lower case letters.
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The following activity is used online via  Starfall Education.

  1. Teach students the letters and the sounds of the letters using this interactive tool. You will need to enable adobe flash player. Click on Level 1 - ABCs
    Level 1 - ABCs

Letter Sound Activities

These activities help students match letter sounds with letter names. This supports the student's early reading and spelling skills.

The following activities are from the  Florida Center for Reading Research:

  1. Letter-Sound Bingo - Students identify individual short vowel sounds using pictures - students match the vowel sound with the letter.
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  2. Letter-Sound Match - Students match sounds of letters using pictures to letters, and students write the missing letter.
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The following activity is used online via  Starfall Education.

  1. Teach students the letters and the sounds of the letters using this interactive tool. You will need to enable adobe flash player. Click on Level 1 - ABCs
    Level 1 - ABCs