Provide students with worksheets that focus on matching letter sounds and letter combination sounds with objects. Use this activity later in the school year or after teaching individual lessons for reinforcement. For example; "CH" would match to the picture of a child, A would match to and apple and "STR" would match to a picture of a street. Combining pictures and letters will help the students to form a mental picture to refer to when attempting to reform the sound that the letter or letter combination makes.
This is a great end of the year activity that brings together all of the lessons on phonetics taught prior. Each page of the book will have a letter representing it with a picture that correlates. You can further enhance this book by adding letter combinations to it such as "CH", "SH", "TR", and "STR".
In this interactive lesson, teachers will work with small groups or the class as a whole. You will need to have students make a set of phonetics cards on note card sized piece of paper. Each card will contain a single letter or letter combination that will identify beginning, middle or ending sounds of words. You will hold up an object or picture of an object and ask students to identify the phonetic sound. For example, hold up a picture of cheese and ask students to identify the beginning sound of "CH", middle sound of "E" and ending phonetic sound of "S".
A scavenger hunt is a fun way to reinforce phonetic sounds. It requires you to make out a list of possible objects that can be connected to the assigned sounds and create a list a sounds that you would like students to find objects connected to. Pass out the list of sounds and pair students up or let them work individually. Instruct the students to go throughout the room and find objects that begin with the sound listed on their paper. You can also provide them with an example at this point such as "D" stands for desk. Depending on the age and skill level of the students, you can personalize the difficulty level by asking for beginning, middle of ending phonetic sounds.