Phonics Activities

Explore these phonics activities, designed to help students build their knowledge of letters and letter sounds–from digraph blends, music with letters, and letter-sound recognition!

• Letter and Phoneme Recognition

• Elkonin Boxes — How Many Sounds Are In the Word?
• What's the Letter?
• What's the Letter? (b, l, r, u, w, j, x, k, y, q)
• What's the Letter? (m, a, t, d, o, k, g, i, c)
• What's the Letter? (n, h, s, f, v, z, p, e)
• What Consonant Sound Do You Hear?
• What Short Vowel Sound Do You Hear?
• What Digraph Starts the Word?

• Lyrics and Syllables

• Sing The Letter Sounds
• Rap The Digraphs
• Make Your Own Letter Rap: Consonants
• Make Your Own Letter Rap: Vowels
• Make Your Own Letter Rap: Commonly Confused Letters

• First, Middle, and Ending Sounds

• What's the First Sound?
• What's the Middle Sound?
• What Sound Ends the Word?
• What Digraph Ends the Word?
• Switching Beginning Consonant Sounds: Level 1 (CVC)
• Switching Beginning Consonant Sounds: Level 2 (CVCC)
• Switching Middle Vowel Sounds: Level 1 (CVC)
• Switching Middle Vowel Sounds: Level 2 (CVCC)
• Switching Ending Consonant Sounds: Level 1 (CVC)
• Switching Ending Consonant Sounds: Level 2 (CVCC)

• Reading

• Magic ‘e’
• What's the Word?