Identify Words by Beginning Sound
Find the word that starts with the sound!
1st Grade - English Language Arts - Beginning, Middle and Ending Sounds
About This Skill
On Iqleel, first-grade students will practice finding words that start with a specific beginning sound. They will be given a target letter, like 'm', and then choose the picture or word from a group that starts with the /m/ sound, like 'moon'. This activity reinforces the letter-sound correspondence they have learned and applies it to word recognition. This is an important Phonics skill that directly helps with decoding and builds confidence in beginning readers.
Skills & Topics
- Phonics & Word Skills
- Alphabets
- Phonics
- Alphabetic Principle
- Sound-Symbol Correspondence
- Sound
- Reading Foundations
- Letter-Sound Correspondence
- Letter Sounds
- Letters
- Decoding
- Grapheme-Phoneme Correspondence
- Word Identification
Curriculum Alignment
- 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)