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Select from a wide range of activities to help students strengthen phonics skills. Geared toward students at two different levels, you will find versions of the activities for elementary students and older students. Click elementary or upper level for activities geared toward your student level. Click the activity number or title below for these downloadable activity sheets.

Note: These activities have been designed specifically to complement the IDEA Picture Dictionary and the IDEA ELD programs. However, you can use these activities in conjunction with other dictionaries and programs.

 Elementary Students
Skill Type Number Title
Identifying Sounds Ending Sound /g/ 1
How Does It End?
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Beginning Sound /m/ 3
How Does It Begin?
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Counting Sounds   5
How Many Sounds?
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Deleting Sounds   7
What’s Missing?
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Manipulating Sounds   9
What Can Change?
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Similar Sounds Beginning Sounds 11
How Are They the Same?
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Isolating Sounds   13
Can You Hear Each Sound?
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Rhyming Sounds   15
Rhyming Words
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17
More Rhymes
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Blending Sounds   19
Putting Sounds Together
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Connecting Sounds to Letters   21
Making Connections: Sounds & Letters
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Forming Words   23
Making Words
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Sequencing Sounds   25
Putting Sounds in Order
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Connecting Words and Meanings   27
Making Connections: Words & Meanings
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Older Students
Skill Type Number Title
Identifying Sounds Ending Sound /g/ 2
How Does It End?
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Beginning Sound /m/ 4
How Does It Begin?
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Counting Sounds   6
How Many Sounds?
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Deleting Sounds   8
What’s Missing?
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Manipulating Sounds   10
What Can Change?
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Similar Sounds Beginning Sounds 12
How Are They the Same?
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Isolating Sounds   14
Can You Hear Each Sound?
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Rhyming Sounds   16
Rhyming Words
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18
More Rhymes
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Blending Sounds   20
Putting Sounds Together
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Connecting Sounds to Letters   22
Making Connections: Sounds & Letters
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Forming Words   24
Making Words
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Sequencing Sounds   26
Putting Sounds in Order
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Connecting Words and Meanings   28
Making Connections: Words & Meanings
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