Beginning Consonants

Links verified on 7/31/09

An adult might need to explain some instructions to 1st Grade students for the activities below

1. Beginning Consonant Digraphs - Select the correct digraph
2. Beginning Sound - Listen to the word and type the letter of the beginning sound. Click the levers to control the pictures.
3. Blending words together - Blender says word and student must choose the beginning sounds and ending sounds separately to be blended together. This site is from BBC and makes it a bit difficult for some children to understand the words.
4. Blending words together- Blending Bowl - blend beginning sounds and ending sounds together to produce the word. See if your student can figure out the word before the two collide!
5. Chicken Coop - beginning phoneme matching
6. Consonant Blends - Find the blend that matches the picture.
7. Fishing for Phonics - select beginning consonants and help Garfield catch objects by matching the missing letter for each word [two levels]
8. Fun Fonix - select one of three games and then play
9. Gus and Inky's Underwater Adventure Chapter 1 - Story about Gus and Inkey - Help Gus with beginning sounds.
10. Have More Fun - Many games to select from in various formats.
11. Hung up on H - H sound song [not a game]
12. Online Interactive Practice - click on one of the red buttons, there are fifteen practice activities on this page
13. Paw Park: Sassy Seals - Match beginning sounds
14. Phonics Fun For Early Readers - Clifford the Big Red Dog has some pictures for you to look at. Find the words that begin with the same sound as the large picture. Caution: You must drag the words to the word box, not to the open space of the box.
15. Phonics-Word Builder - Three dozen different combining sound activities are available in the following categories; abc’s, short vowels, long vowels, other vowels, beginning consonants and final consonants. Word parts are read individually, blended, and then followed by a sentence accompanied by an illustration. Ignore the registration screen that pops up, select Maybe Later to go directly to the activity.
16. Picture Match - [don't enter your whole name] choose beginning letter sounds and match pictures to their beginning letter sounds by sorting them into boxes, you enter five letters or let the game select them randomly
17. Sound Match - find words that begin with same letter sound.
18. Sounds Sea - beginning letter actually, not just consonants - select the letter, click on mouth sound to hear the sound and then click on the matching letters as they appear
19. W Trouble - W sound song [not a game]