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Letter sound clip cards

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Looking for an activity to help your child master letter sounds?  Try this one!

These alphabet cards are a great letter sounds activity for preschool. Plus, they come in an easy and more challenging set for a total of 52 free cards!

Today I’m sharing another set of clip cards – this time, your child looks at the featured picture and clips the letter that begins its name.

These alphabet cards are a great letter sounds activity for preschool. Plus, they come in an easy and more challenging set for a total of 52 free cards!

This 52-card set comes with two cards for each letter.  The green set is the simpler set.  That’s because the letter sound choices are quite different from each other.  Check out the sample above.  The /p/ sound is made with the lips, the /m/ sound is made by keeping the lips together, and the /k/ sound is made at the back of the throat.

These alphabet cards are a great letter sounds activity for preschool. Plus, they come in an easy and more challenging set for a total of 52 free cards!

This card is part of the more challenging set.  Whenever possible, I included two letters whose sounds are made in the same part of the mouth.  In this case, /k/ and /g/ are both made in the back of the throat.

These alphabet cards are a great letter sounds activity for preschool. Plus, they come in an easy and more challenging set for a total of 52 free cards!

I used these clip cards with my Three, who is learning the alphabet and letter sounds through daily hands-on activities.  While my older children would have had zero trouble with this at 3 1/2, my little guy is still working to identify the beginning sound of a word.  Because of that, I gave him a lot of support for each card.

Before we started, we divided the cards into red and green and did just the simpler set.  I also kept the vowels out, as he doesn’t know their sounds yet.

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Note: Whenever you see a letter in brackets (such as /k/), I am saying the letter’s sound and not its name.

“What’s this picture?”

“A penguin!”

“That’s right.  Let’s look at the sounds.  What does a “c” represent?”

“I don’t know.”  (Often he remembered, but for the sake of this example we’ll pretend he didn’t.)

“/k/!  Does penguin start with /k/?”

“/k/, /k/, penguin.  No!”

“That’s right.  How about the letter g?  Let’s try it.  /g/, /g/, genguin.  Does that sound right?”

“(laughing) No!”

“What sound does p represent?”

“/p/.  /p/, /p/, penguin.  Yeah!”

He didn’t always have the correct answers, but by doing this activity together he’s learning how to hear the phonemes (individual sounds) in words.  Such an important pre-reading skill!

We hope you can use these!

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31 Comments

  1. Maria Monroy

    January 7, 2020 at 2:57 am

    Hi my name is Maria and I’m trying to download some flash cards but they’re not able to download so I don’t know how you want me to try to print them out
    Thanks you
    Maria Monroy

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    • Kate Dowling

      January 7, 2020 at 1:29 pm

      Hi Maria!

      This is Kate, Anna’s assistant. Here are some tips for downloading files: https://www.themeasuredmom.com/how-to-download-free-files/
      Please try all these steps until you have success. 🙂

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  2. Afnie Atma

    November 4, 2019 at 7:06 am

    Your website is so amazing. Thank you for letting us get it for free. Cannot wait to show them and learn them together with my own daughter and students.
    Thank you so much.

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    • Adilakshmi Chundi

      August 14, 2020 at 6:50 am

      Your website is awesome,thank y ou so much,l am the beginer to learn

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  3. Anne

    April 23, 2018 at 1:28 am

    Hi,

    Many thanks for your ideas.
    I used your begin words clip cards.

    it was very useful and great way to keep her occupied during travelling.

    Regards,
    Anne

    Reply to this comment
    • Anna G

      April 23, 2018 at 7:23 am

      I’m so glad these worked for you, Anne!

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  4. Rachael

    March 13, 2018 at 4:23 am

    Thank you!
    Do you have the intention to make ending sounds clip cards?

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    • Anna G

      March 14, 2018 at 8:40 am

      Not currently, but maybe down the line. Here’s one from another blogger: https://www.lizs-early-learning-spot.com/ending-sounds-transportation-clip-cards/

      Reply to this comment
  5. lily

    December 30, 2016 at 6:56 am

    thank you~~

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    • Anna Geiger

      January 3, 2017 at 1:38 pm

      You’re very welcome, Lily!

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  6. Lorie Raschke

    June 28, 2016 at 2:16 pm

    Anna,
    A group of ladies at my church wanted to offer free summer tutoring. I have been scouring the internet for free resources that would be fun for our kiddos. I was so excited when I came across your site! What a blessing these games will be to our struggling learners and what a blessing your resources are to me, as I’m trying to collect resources for a non funded outreach. Thank you for your generosity.

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    • Anna Geiger

      July 7, 2016 at 1:23 pm

      Hi, Lorie! Thank you so much for taking the time to comment. I’m thrilled you found my site and hope you find many things to help your summer learners! Feel free to send me an email if you’re wondering if I have a particular resource. It’s anna@themeasuredmom.com.

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  7. yunjung

    April 27, 2016 at 7:46 pm

    Thank you very much.

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  8. Jhelly

    April 5, 2016 at 4:00 am

    Thanks for these free materials,, it’s so helpful…

    Reply to this comment
    • Anna Geiger

      April 7, 2016 at 5:42 pm

      You’re very welcome!

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  9. Елена

    January 13, 2016 at 11:11 am

    Great

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  10. Novreng

    December 15, 2015 at 12:51 am

    hi anna..thanks for the free printables..i love all of them and they are so useful for my teaching and playing with my kids. For the 52 beginning sound clip card, sorry i have no idea for the picture of J and G. i only know Jellyfish and octopus what is the other. Thank you

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    • Anna Geiger

      December 19, 2015 at 4:49 pm

      One of the j pictures is jellybeans. The g pictures are glove and gumballs. Does that help?

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  11. Lisa

    December 8, 2015 at 9:25 pm

    Anna, I have been using your materials in my Kindergarten class for the past 2 years. I absolutely love all of your products and they have helped me kiddos in so many ways. Thank you for offering so many of your ideas for free!

    Reply to this comment
    • Anna Geiger

      December 19, 2015 at 4:47 pm

      Yay – so glad to hear that, Lisa! Thank you for being a long time reader! 🙂

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  12. Kristen

    September 2, 2015 at 7:30 am

    All of your stuff is amazing and what is even more amazing is the fact that it is FREE! My students have loved everything so far 🙂

    Thank you for all of your hard work!

    Reply to this comment
    • Anna Geiger

      September 11, 2015 at 7:49 pm

      I’m so glad to hear your students enjoy what you’re finding here, Kristen! Thank you so much for taking the time to comment! 🙂

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  13. lynnwang

    July 18, 2015 at 11:51 am

    THANK YOU SO MUCH! YOU GOT GREAT IDEAS! I JUST START TEACHING CHILDREN FOR AGE 2,3, OR 4 ! I NEED LOTS OF INFORMATIONS FOR MY TEACHING! YOU ARE GREAT HELPER
    lynn wang

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    • Anna Geiger

      July 20, 2015 at 6:04 pm

      You’re very welcome, Lynn!

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  14. Karen

    June 23, 2015 at 9:21 am

    I have been trying to download these, they are amazing, but the download stops and then locks up my pc, I have tried on a couple of different computers, it seems to be a problem on your end either adobe or something else. I was hoping you could look at it or maybe send them to me through my email. You are very talented and I really enjoy using your activities with my intervention groups Thank you.

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    • Anna Geiger

      June 23, 2015 at 9:25 am

      I’m sorry you’re having trouble, Karen – how frustrating! I’m sorry, but it against my Terms of Use to e-mail files. The file pops right up for me. Have you checked my troubleshooting tips post? When people switch browsers (Chrome works best) or right click on the word HERE and save to their computer and THEN open, it usually works. There are other suggestions in the troubleshooting post: https://www.themeasuredmom.com/how-to-download-free-files/

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      • Karen

        June 23, 2015 at 9:34 am

        I got it, I understand the issue now and the file worked. Thank you so much. I appreciate your hard work and my students love the activities. Wow your reply was so fast. Amazing.

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        • Anna Geiger

          June 24, 2015 at 8:10 pm

          So glad you got it to work, Karen!

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