Rhyming, Beginning Sounds, and Syllables
Kindergarten phonemic awareness: match rhymes like sun and bun, write first sounds for pig, bat, and mop, and clap syllables in apple and butterfly.
Kindergarten Phonemic Awareness Worksheets
RF.K phonemic awareness practice, including recognizing and producing rhyming words and attending to the sounds in spoken words.
Kindergarten ELA6 worksheets
Phonemic Awareness worksheets to download
Rhyming Words Matching
Kindergarten rhyming words matching: draw lines between 8 picture pairs such as pig and wig, map and cap, and lip and zip. Answer key included.
Sound Substitution Practice
Kindergarten sound substitution: 12 picture-choice items swap first, ending, and middle sounds, from bat to cat and dog to dot to pin to pan.
Syllable Counting Sort
Kindergarten syllable sort: clap and sort 12 words, from dog and sun to dinosaur and butterfly, into 1, 2, and 3 clap bins. With answer key.
Blending Sounds Together
Kindergarten blending sounds: blend c + at and v + an into words, then find the missing chunk in bat, fan, mat, and man. Answer key included.
Beginning Sounds Practice
Give kindergartners focused practice naming the first sound in simple CVC words. Aligned to the Common Core (RF.K.2.d), covering objectives such as: isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds in CVC words. Free to download, edit, and print on Chalkie.ai.
Curriculum objectives covered
RF.K.2.a
“Recognize and produce rhyming words.”
RF.K.2.b
“Count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words.”
RF.K.2.d
“Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words.* (This does not include CVCs ending with /l/, /r/, or /x/.)”
RF.K.2.e
“Add or substitute individual sounds (phonemes) in simple, one-syllable words to make new words.”
RF.K.2.c
“Blend and segment onsets and rimes of single-syllable spoken words.”
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