Phonological Awareness Pack 1 - Beginners

$10.00

Build strong early literacy foundations with this bundle of hands-on phonological and phonemic awareness centers, designed to support Science of Reading (SOR)-aligned instruction! These engaging, hands-on activities help students develop essential pre-reading skills through multi-sensory learning and interactive play.

This bundle includes activities for:

✅ Syllables – Clap, sort, and count syllables in words.
✅ Letter Recognition – Identify, match, and practice letter names and sounds.
✅ Alliteration & Beginning Sounds – Recognize words that start with the same sound.
✅ Rhyming – Identify, match, and generate rhyming words.
✅ Fluency with Phonemes (Blending Phonemes) – Blend individual sounds to form words.

These centers provide structured, play-based learning experiences that strengthen phonological awareness skills—a critical predictor of reading success! With low-prep, engaging activities, this bundle is perfect for:

✔️ Literacy Centers
✔️ Small Group Instruction
✔️ Phonemic Awareness Intervention
✔️ Kindergarten & 1st Grade Classrooms

Make phonological and phonemic awareness practice fun, meaningful, and effective with this SOR-aligned literacy centers bundle! This Beginners Bundle is the perfect starter pack for the youngest of learners as it combine hands-on play with active learning—a must-have for early readers!

Here's what's included -

SYLLABLE SORTING MATS

These syllable sorting mats are perfect for building phonological awareness in the from preschool.

Use them both for intentionally teaching syllables to the whole class and also as a follow on literacy center for small groups.

These 1-5 syllable word mats provide ideal visual support for young children learning to break words into syllables. Combine with objects or word cards to sort.

PICK A PARTNER CARDS - RHYMING WORDS PACK

Designed to help you organize your class into working pairs, use this pack of rhyming word cards as a fun memory match game in your literacy centers or simply hand out a card to each child then they can search for the classmate with the matching one!

ALPHABET PLAY MATS

Use these to introduce your children to both lower case and upper case letters. These helpful mats encourage pre-writer to trace the lines that make the different letters while also introducing them to beginning sounds.

BEGINNING SOUNDS CLIP CARDS

These simple clip cards are ideal for young children learning to recognise and isolate the initial sounds in words. With only three words to choose between, these cards won't overwhelm early learners.

With multiple cards for every letter of the alphabet, just print these out to add to your literacy centers or morning work.

Ask your children to match the letter on the card to the matching beginning sound of one picture. You can make them self checking by placing a small sticker on the back of the card.

CVC WORD FAMILY MATS

These CVC Word Mats are a great early resource for young children learning word families and CVC words. Children can either use magnetic letters to directly build the word or laminate and use a dry eraser marker to trace and then write the word.

This download includes two types of word mats - just laminate and add magnetic letters and whiteboard markers to get started!

BEGINNING SOUNDS MATCH CARDS

One of our most popular downloads with good reason, these cards ask early learner to match the beginning sound to a letter. Children can use either magnetic letters to make the match or write on the card.

With 70 easy to prep cards ready to print, this pack will give your students the practice they need isolating sounds and master letter-sound correspondence.

RHYMING WORD BINGO GAME

Perfect for literacy centers and easy to prep! This fun game of Rhyming Word BINGO is the perfect way to practice producing rhyme – one of the more difficult phonological awareness skills young children need to master.

Focusing on short vowel words, use this game of rhyming word BINGO to help build your children’s understanding of rhyme. Play it with your whole class or as a literacy center activity.

LETTER SORTING MATS

These Letter Sorting Mats are ideal for young children still learning to recognize the upper-case and lower-case letters.

Ready to print, just add some letter tiles (like Scrabble or Bananagrams) or magnetic letters, and encourage your children to match them to the letter on the mats.

Helps build an understanding of alphabetical order while learning to identify and match upper-case letters and lower-case letters.

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