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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.3.A Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary sound or many of the most frequent sounds for each consonant.

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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.3.A Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary sound or many of the most frequent sounds for each consonant.

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Students will learn to recognize the letters in the alphabet and will learn their most common sound and their name.

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This sheet can be used at the beginning of the year and periodically to assess student knowledge of which letter names and sounds they know. The teacher will ask the student what the name and sound of each letter is and circle the letters that the student correctly identified the sound of and underline the letters that the student correctly identified the name of. The teacher can use the same sheet, but use different colored highlighters each time they test the student to see their progress.

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Identification of Letters and Sounds Assessment

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Students can use imagine learning to be assessed, do activities, receive direct instruction, receive individualized learning plans and to reteach activities.

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Imagine Learning - Your language and literacy software solution

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Students will review the letters and sounds on a daily basis using this song which includes images, the entire alphabet song and practice with each individual letter name, sound and word that begins with it.

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ABC Song | Learn ABC Alphabet for Children | Education ABC Nursery Rhymes

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This game can be used as an initial activity or reteaching activity and helps students learn their letters and sounds and how to read via a fun game.

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Teach Your Monster to Read Trailer - Full app version

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These fun videos can be used to introduce students to the letter of the week. Students will listen and then sing along repeating the letter name, sounds and words that begin with that letter. The teacher can then use flashcards to test students on what they learned in which they show pictures of things that begin with "a" as well as pictures of other things that begin with other letters. Students have to choose the pictures that start with the /a/ sound and put them on the pocket chart. This can also be done with objects in lieu of pictures. Students can also do this as a whole class activity in which students perform an action when they hear a word that beings with the letter sound of the week (they can jump, hop, stand up, wave, etc.)

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Phonics Letter | Learning Alphabet A | Nursery Rhymes For Toddlers By Kids Tv

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Listening For Sounds in a Story/Finding Letters in a Story

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Listening For Sounds in a Story/Finding Letters in a Story

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The teacher can read a book to students that focusses on the letter of the week. Students can identify which words begin with the letter by circling the words they see and they can also identify which words begin with the sound of letter of the week by listening to the story and making a motion when they hear the word. For example, the teacher might teach "f" and put her hands together and move them like a fish and then later have students make this motion when they hear sounds in the story that begin with the /f/ sound.

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Early Childhood Activity Bank

Read to children F Is for Flag by Wendy Cheyette Lewison. Ask children to make the /f/ sound. Next let children think of other words that begin with /f/ and create a list. Give each child a piece of writing paper. Let children copy the book title "F Is for Flag" onto their papers. Then have them copy this sentence onto their papers and complete it by choosing an /F/ word:

F is for _____________too!

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Read to children F Is for Flag by Wendy Cheyette Lewison. Ask children to make the /f/ sound. Next let children think of other words that begin with /f/ and create a list. Give each child a piece of writing paper. Let children copy the book title "F Is for Flag" onto their papers.

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These videos are helpful, because they show uppercase and lowercase letters, practice the sounds of the letters and have a lot of repetition. They also have you airwrite words which is helpful in getting students to visualize the letters in order to remember them. Additionally, these songs were very popular in the kindergarten class that I was an aide in.

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Starfall can be used to teach letters and sounds. The activities show pictures, uppercase and lowercase letters and repeat the sounds and words may times. This can also be used as an initial activity.

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One of the ways that we can help our students is to make sure that the information is culturally relevant. We can do this by reading words that students should know. For example, we can use words for family members since all students have a family or words for common pets that all students may have heard of. Additionally, we can relate the sounds to words in the student's home languages. For example, we can relate /b/ to the /b/ sound in the word bailar, since it is the same sound in Spanish when pronounced at the beginning of a word. I can also use bilingual flashcards that contain words that have the same beginning sound. For example: map and mapa have the same beginning sound.

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Spanish English Initial Consonant Flashcards - Emergent Bilingual Literacy

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Emergent literacy support for students learning to read in English and/or Spanish. Flashcards for each letter of the alphabet, with words that have the same initial consonant in both languages (dice/dados, elephant/elefante, etc). Each letter has four

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Reading stories aloud is another way to accommodate ELLs. I could find a story that has a lot of alliteration or specific fun books about the entire alphabet. The teachers at the school where I worked had a song and a poster for each letter that included many words that began with the letter of the week. Hearing the song, seeing the poster and having a story read to ELL students is very helpful and is a part of UDL.

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Children's literature for teaching the alphabet. Teachers can read the alphabet books to teach letters and sounds or add them to a classroom bookshelf!

As I've taught primary grades for years now, I've consistently leaned on several good alphabet books to help teach my students the alphabet. Teaching letters and sounds can be a monotonous task, but with these alphabet books, I've been able to make learning letters and sounds fun! These are, in my opinion, the best children's books to read when teaching the basic skills of alphabet recognition and recall. Read these popular books aloud, share them in your small groups, or add them to your bookshelf!

Alphabet Books: Top 16 Books to Teach Letters and Sounds

1. A is for Apple (Trace and Flip Fun!) by Georgie Birkett is a board book with lift-a-flap pages bright pictures, and large letters kids can trace with their fingers.

2. Alphabet City by Stephen Johnson is kind-of like a real-life, "search and find" alphabet book. With no words on the page, kids can look through and find letters in photos of everyday city objects.

6. So the letter Z wants to be treated equally, and pretty soon, all the letters decide they want to go first, too! AlphaOops!: The Day Z Went First by Alethea Kontis shows the hilarious chaos that ensues.

7. Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr. has long been a classroom favorite, with its rhythmic sentences and colorful illustrations. Try it and see!

16. How did the alphabet get its name? You'll find out in Al Pha's Bet by Amy Krouse Rosenthal.

If you teach primary grades and are looking for books to read to your class about the alphabet, then you've come to the right place. Any one of these 16 favorite books to teach letters will keep your kids engaged and entertained. They'll recognize all their letters in no time! Do YOU have any favorites to add to this list?

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Alphabet Books to Teacher Letters and Sounds

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This post contains affiliate links for your convenience. View disclosure policy HERE. Children's literature for teaching the alphabet. Teachers can read the alphabet books to teach letters and sounds or add them to a classroom bookshelf! As I've taught primary grades for years now, I've consistently leaned on several good alphabet books to help teach my students the alphabet.

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Preteaching vocabulary and and stimulating students' content knowledge before reading can also help. For example, if a story has a lot of new words, we can first talk about things that relate to the story. We can ask "Have you ever been to the zoo? What animals did you see?" before reading about a story that has many animals. We can then preteach the vocabulary and also make sure to show lots of visuals to make sure that the ELL students understand.

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Zoopa: An Animal Alphabet - Gianna Marino Books

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Gianna Marino Paintings Prints and Books

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This assessment allows students to listen to what their teacher says and then circle their answer, so it would be easier than the first assessment listed.

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Zoo-Phonics would be great to use with special needs students since it includes mnemonics, has a kinesthetic aspect, is multimodal and concrete. For example, special education students with audio processing issues will be able to access this content via the body movements and animal pictures. Students with visual processing problems, will be able to access the content via hearing the sounds and doing the kinesthetic movements. The program itself is designed to reach students of all different learning types, so doesn't need to be modified, however it can be. For example, this can be done in small groups or one-on-one depending on the student's IEP requirements. Additionally, students can be given extra time for Zoo-Phonics or it can be used as a supplement to the regular phonics curriculum. Finally, students can use the mnemonics or be reminded of them to finish assignments or do other work involving phonics or writing. All of this, would benefit general education students, as well.

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Zoo-phonics® and children with special needs

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The colorful Animal Letters and Body Movements (Signals) engage the child and hold his or her attention. Because the curriculum is so playful, children not only want to learn, their behavior improves because the children are on task and happy while learning through Zoo-phonics®.

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Working in small groups is essential for special education students. Activities like Hopscotch Letter-Sound and making an alphabet book can help to make sense of the letters and sounds by providing a reference and making things fun

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One-on-one activities are great for special education students and these activities in particular are very useful since they include pictures, kinesthetic movements of the letter puzzle pieces and matching letters to the books. Kindergarten students could also do the cloze sentence activity if you have picture cards instead of words cards that all begin with different sounds. In that way, they can pick the card with the correct sound and you could use the word cards and ask for words beginning with letters, as well.

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Phonics Activities for This Week (PreK, Kinder, Grade 1)