Start Sound Pictures – Immediate Download

Say Them! Sort Them! Find the Odd-One-Out!

This is a must-have resource for all teachers of early literacy – and it’s perfect for articulation and phonology sessions too!

It’s colourful – and each word is carefully selected so children relate to them.

Included in the resource are 12 Tips for Teaching First Sound Awareness.

Each page targets one letter of the alphabet. The sound-link studied for each letter is the sound most commonly used in early phonics teaching.

Twelve pictures for each letter/sound are provided in three columns. Each column also contains an “odd-one out”. This is useful in some of the activities described in the Teaching Tips.

Pages targeting the digraphs SH, TH (the soft /th/ sound) and CH are also included.

At the end of the document, a single page is dedicated to the vowels A, E, I, O and U (linked to the short vowel sounds). Two pictures are provided for each sound.

The letter Q is a little different in that it is always accompanied by the letter U in English words. For this reason, QU appears at the top of this page. Note that QU actually makes two sounds (/k/ /w/). There are a limited number of picturable words beginning with QU so only three are provided. On the same page as QU, you will also see the pictures for the letter X. Also note that in early phonics teaching, students learn that X makes the sounds /k/ /s/. This does not occur at the start of words. For this reason, words with X at the end have been included.