Is your child or student working on beginning letter sounds? Then these turkey feather beginning letter sound sorts from my Build a Turkey Phonics Pack are the perfect fit for this time of year!
My 3.5 year old has been working on letters and letter sounds with Learning the Alphabet for the last year. And while she has almost every letter down, the letter sounds are coming a little slower for her. Most of the time, she says every letter sounds like /t/.
So we spent some time doing a few of these beginning letter sound sorts and I was absolutely shocked at how well she responded!
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Turkey Beginning Letter Sound Sorts
There are three keys to making this activity a success:
- Pick two letters that are visually different and that have sounds that are made differently in the mouth. This is KEY. I talk in more detail about why this is so important in my post, Tips for Learning Letters and Letter Sounds. {The free download, found at the END of this post, has some letter pairing suggestions, too!}
- Make sure your child knows the letter and its sound before you begin. If she doesn’t, go over it with her.
- Before you begin, also identify each image on the turkey feathers.
Copy each turkey you want onto cardstock. Laminating also makes the activity more durable. I like to use marker and label the back of each turkey feather with the letter that corresponds with the image on the front to make it self-checking for the child.
Lay out each letter turkey. One-by-one, identify each image on the turkey feather and its beginning sound. If this is new for a child, I like to say the word like, “/t/-/t/-toothbrush,” saying the beginning sound a few times for emphasis.
If your child isn’t ready for two letters, just work on one letter turkey! It’s still a fun way to play with letter sounds.
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- Learning the Alphabet – hands-on ways to engage with each letter of the alphabet
- Alphabet Sounds Learning App– more fun activities that get kids sorting letter sounds!
- Letter Sounds with Ice Cream Scoops
- Letter Sound Alphabet Puzzles
- Alphabet Activity Pages
Enjoy!
~Becky
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These are great! Thank you so much.
You are very welcome! 🙂
Hi Becky!
I follow your blog from el Salvador and I love it. My kids are 7 and 6 and at school they have classes in English (science, social studies, among others) and I noticed that while reading they are having trouble with letter sounds so I would like to reinforce it at home. I read all your posts on letter sounds but I don’t know where or how to start because I think (correct me if I’m wrong) that the Learning the Alphabet bundle focuses more on learning the letters than their sounds. Please let me know if you hace any ideas for me to start.
Thanks!
Learning the Alphabet teaches letters AND their sounds and is a great place to start to teach both. 🙂 Hope that helps.