Identify Initial Sounds

On Iqleel, first-grade students will practice connecting the beginning sounds of words to the letters that make them. They will see a picture of a 'sun', hear the word, and learn to select the letter 's' because it makes the /s/ sound they hear at the start. This skill builds on their phonemic awareness by linking sounds directly to symbols. This is a very important Phonics skill that is a key step in learning to decode words and read independently.

• Phonics & Word Skills
• Alphabets
• Phonics
• Alphabetic Principle
• Beginning Sounds
• Sound-Symbol Correspondence
• Sound
• Reading Foundations
• Letter-Sound Correspondence
• Letter Sounds
• Letters
• Decoding
• Initial Sounds
• Grapheme-Phoneme Correspondence

• RF.1.2.c — Isolate and pronounce initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in spoken single-syllable words.
• ELA.1.2.A.ii
• ELA.1.F.1.2
• RF.1.2.c
• AC9E1LY09 — segment words into separate phonemes (sounds) including consonant blends or clusters at the beginnings and ends of words (phonological awareness)

• Identify Beginning Sounds

• Identify and Apply Digraphs (ch, sh, th, wh)
• Identify Words by Beginning Sound
• Choose 'a' or 'an' in Sentences