United States · 5–6 yearsHow print worksFollow words, find spaces, and recognize letter forms together.One screen. The whole class.
Print, sounds and letters
Print, sounds and letters: How print works → Sounds we hear → Letters represent sounds → Read familiar words.
Learning goals
- Recognize direction, word spaces and upper/lowercase letter forms in teacher-mediated examples.
- With teacher voicing, identify rhymes, syllables and beginning/ending sounds in familiar words.
- Match taught consonant and common vowel graphemes with teacher-supplied sounds.
- Recognize a declared set of high-frequency words and simple taught decodable words.
A suggested order, with freedom to open or replay any available activity. Played activities help teachers continue a sequence; they do not measure mastery.
Open this path in the classroomBefore you begin
- Everyday oral language, listening and experience with books.
One computer and a whiteboard or shared display. Pupils participate without accounts. The teacher sets the pace and can repeat or skip each activity.
How print works · Free
Recognize direction, word spaces and upper/lowercase letter forms in teacher-mediated examples.
Sounds we hear · Free
With teacher voicing, identify rhymes, syllables and beginning/ending sounds in familiar words.
Letters represent sounds · Free
Match taught consonant and common vowel graphemes with teacher-supplied sounds.
Read familiar words · Free
Recognize a declared set of high-frequency words and simple taught decodable words.
United States · 5–6 yearsHow print worksFollow words, find spaces, and recognize letter forms together.
United States · 5–6 yearsSounds we hearListen for rhymes, word parts, and sounds at the beginning and end.
United States · 5–6 yearsLetters represent soundsConnect teacher-voiced consonant and short-vowel sounds to familiar letters.
United States · 5–6 yearsRead familiar wordsRecognize taught everyday words and carefully read a small set of decodable words.