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Beginning, middle, and ending sound clip cards

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Try this activity to help your child identify the beginning, middle, and ending sound in a particular word.

These beginning, middle, and ending sounds clip cards are great for kids in preschool and kindergarten.

In January, when I celebrated my blog’s 3-year anniversary, I asked my readers what materials they’d like to see next.  One repeated request was activities that focus on beginning, middle, and ending sounds within words.

We already have quite a few beginning sound activities.  We even have some middle vowel clip cards. But I hadn’t created any ending sounds activities yet, nor did I have anything that combined all three.

Until now!

Introducing…

These beginning, middle, and ending sounds clip cards are great for kids in preschool and kindergarten.

“Where’s that sound?” clip cards

To play:

  • Have your child identify the sound of the featured letter in the gold circle.
  • Tell your child to say the name of the picture slowly, listening for the featured sound.
  • Your child can point to or clip the word “beginning,” “middle,” or end” to show where the sound occurs within the word.

I began this game with my Four, who knows his letter sounds well (except for those pesky short vowels) and was ready for the next step.

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These beginning, middle, and ending sounds clip cards are great for kids in preschool and kindergarten.

First, I showed my preschooler that he needed to listen for whether the sound was in the beginning, middle, or end of a word. Even though he can’t read those three words, he had no trouble remembering which was which as he did the activity.

These beginning, middle, and ending sounds clip cards are great for kids in preschool and kindergarten.

He identified the main sound and said the name of each picture.  “Hippo. Hhhhippo.  Beginning.”

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These beginning, middle, and ending sounds clip cards are great for kids in preschool and kindergarten.

Some of the cards made him think a little… like this one.  He’s still shaky with his vowel sounds, so I reminded him that short i says /i/.

These beginning, middle, and ending sounds clip cards are great for kids in preschool and kindergarten.

I was pleased when he could hear the middle consonant sounds, such as /m/ in hammer.

These beginning, middle, and ending sounds clip cards are great for kids in preschool and kindergarten.

I’ll be honest and tell you that after a few cards he became frustrated and wanted to quit.  (He got stuck on the word “olive.”) I’m used to this sort of thing from him, so when I feel like we should keep going, I insist on it.

I know it looks like I do learning activities like this with my kids all the time, but it’s truly only a handful of times a week.  And since he’d clearly demonstrated he could do this activity, I pushed him to do a few more cards.  “Just five more.”

Well, after he cheered up he chose to keep going for quite a few more than five.

These beginning, middle, and ending sounds clip cards are great for kids in preschool and kindergarten.

After my kindergartner came home, I pulled out the activity for him, too.  He had to think a minute for cards like this one.  He knew that knife ends with an e, but he also knew that since the e is silent, the /f/ sound is what comes at the end of the word.

He did about half of the set, but I don’t have more pictures to share because most of them were blurry.  I was holding our 2-month-old at the time, and my multitasking only goes so far!

We hope you enjoy this freebie! 

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44 Comments

  1. Anessa Feucht

    October 14, 2024 at 1:14 pm

    Hi,
    I am trying to download the freebie beginning, middle, end clips and it says an error when I try to download. Thank you so much for the freebies!

    Thanks,
    Anessa

    Reply to this comment
    • Heather Groth, Customer Support

      October 15, 2024 at 7:37 am

      Thank you for letting us know, Anessa! Can you reply back to the email with the download so that we can check out the link? Thank you!

      Reply to this comment
  2. Edward Pillay

    January 27, 2020 at 6:53 pm

    Thanks so much. I am a new teacher and I am having a hard time getting my class interested in learning. I was also looking for activities with onset and rime.

    Reply to this comment
  3. Shikha Jain

    November 24, 2019 at 10:10 am

    Lovely phonics mats , cards for my little toddler beginning sounds I just wished I came earlier on your site and i really like that you are providing the bundles for free for moms in need and that too of amazing quality and qty ….kudos …please provide someting on ending blends like you have so much for beginning blends

    Reply to this comment
  4. HS

    February 16, 2019 at 5:54 am

    Anna, you are a life saver 😛 i was looking for middle sounds practice, which i think my almost 5 year old daughter is ready to learn. Thanksss a bunch !!

    Reply to this comment
    • Anna G

      March 2, 2019 at 5:17 pm

      You’re very welcome!

      Reply to this comment
  5. Renee

    October 30, 2018 at 1:25 pm

    Wow! These are fantastic! Thank you for your generousity!

    Reply to this comment
    • Anna G

      October 30, 2018 at 5:34 pm

      You’re welcome, Renee!

      Reply to this comment
  6. Jo Anne

    October 20, 2018 at 2:23 pm

    Thank you so much for this activity. My students are struggling with beginning, middle, and ending sounds and this is great for a small group.

    Reply to this comment
    • Anna G

      October 24, 2018 at 4:48 pm

      You’re welcome!

      Reply to this comment
  7. Ratna Kassim

    October 15, 2018 at 9:57 pm

    Dear Anna,

    I am a teacher from Malaysia. I had received plenty of your free printables and this is the first time I am going to use them to my children in the childcare centre. I am going to start with the community helpers. I think they are great materials. I would like to buy more materials related to community helpers. Can you advise me if it is possible to ship to Malaysia. Thanking you in advance.

    Reply to this comment
    • Anna G

      October 16, 2018 at 5:33 am

      HI Ratna! All my materials are digital. So you would receive the files in your email so you could print and assemble. I don’t ship anything.

      Reply to this comment
  8. Paul

    May 10, 2018 at 3:35 am

    Hi,

    Can you tell me what the hairy animal with a y in it is? We’re not familiar with it in Ireland. We thought Bison or Buffalo but there is no y in those words.

    Reply to this comment
    • Anna G

      May 10, 2018 at 10:01 am

      Yak 🙂

      Reply to this comment
  9. Nilu

    February 21, 2018 at 5:11 pm

    Dear Anna
    Thank you soo….. much for theses valuable ideas and free printable . I will try out this with my grade 1 students. Now they love english than earlier. ????

    Reply to this comment
    • Anna G

      February 23, 2018 at 9:17 am

      Thank you so much for the kind words, Nilu!

      Reply to this comment
  10. kim

    October 15, 2017 at 4:10 pm

    Dear Anna,
    A million “thank yous” for the great printables and for sharing them. Now that I’ve “tuned in” I don’t know how I got along without them.
    Keep up the great work!

    Best regards,
    Kim ( from Barbados)

    Reply to this comment
  11. kim

    June 18, 2017 at 3:26 am

    Dear,Anna
    I’m so happy to meet this website. The contents of this website is so great and wonderful.
    And thank you so ~~much that opening free your great materials .

    from kim (south korea )

    Reply to this comment
    • Anna G

      July 2, 2017 at 8:41 am

      I’m so glad you can use them, Kim!

      Reply to this comment
  12. Eman

    October 31, 2016 at 3:51 pm

    I am searching for the ending sound flashcards for letter s only

    Reply to this comment
    • Anna Geiger

      November 4, 2016 at 9:41 am

      I don’t have a set of cards just for ending sounds.

      Reply to this comment
  13. Nikki Mullins

    September 19, 2016 at 8:23 pm

    Hello Anna,
    I would first like to thank you for all the wonderful free printable’s I use a lot of them so thanks so much. I was also wondering if you had anything to help a kindergartner with the sound th my son is having trouble with that sound thanks again.

    Reply to this comment
    • Anna Geiger

      September 19, 2016 at 8:30 pm

      Yes, try one of these:

      https://www.themeasuredmom.com/5-free-games-for-teaching-digraphs/

      https://www.themeasuredmom.com/free-activity-teach-sounds-consonant-digraphs/

      https://www.themeasuredmom.com/free-single-player-digraph-games/

      Reply to this comment
  14. Christine

    September 13, 2016 at 11:19 am

    Hi Anna,
    Your resources are all amazing! these stuff would be very beneficial to every child who’s having difficulty on reading and recognizing letter sounds. Their learning is worth your effort. Thank you so much for all the hard works. You are such a very kind and passionate teacher.

    Reply to this comment
    • Anna Geiger

      September 17, 2016 at 5:46 am

      Thank you so much for your thoughtful comment, Christine!

      Reply to this comment
  15. Brandi

    April 27, 2016 at 7:45 am

    Thank you for all your hard work making these clip cards! They are wonderful and such a time saver!

    Reply to this comment
    • Anna Geiger

      April 28, 2016 at 12:16 pm

      Yay – I’m so glad you can use them, Brandi!

      Reply to this comment
  16. Leida Diedrichs

    March 31, 2016 at 11:58 pm

    Anna,

    Thank you so very much for the great printables that you share. These make great centers, perfect for all the skills we are working on and the kids enjoy them so much. Thanks a million for your generous spirit!!!!

    Leida

    Reply to this comment
    • Anna Geiger

      April 8, 2016 at 11:08 am

      I’m so glad my materials are working for you and your students, Leida!

      Reply to this comment
  17. clara lauber

    March 1, 2016 at 11:40 am

    Anna,
    You are a genius and a life saver!
    “Me Too” times double and triple the above comments.
    Thank you so much for your wonderful printables. Thank
    you for providing your goodies free of charge.

    I do have a question. How can I print the above directions?
    I am absent-minded and have printed many of your games, but unless I have your directions
    in front of me I am lost when it comes time to work with students.

    Reply to this comment
    • Anna Geiger

      March 1, 2016 at 8:18 pm

      You’re very welcome, Clara! I just installed a “print” button. Scroll to the bottom of the post and click it. You can click the things that you don’t want to print, leaving just the directions.

      Reply to this comment
  18. Becky Spence

    February 29, 2016 at 4:30 am

    These are fantastic!!!

    Reply to this comment
    • Anna Geiger

      March 1, 2016 at 8:17 pm

      Thank you, Becky! I’m just trying (unsuccessfully!) to keep up with all the great stuff you’ve been creating lately!

      Reply to this comment
  19. Crystal

    February 26, 2016 at 9:37 pm

    Yes!! Thank You!! Complete genius you are!

    Reply to this comment
    • Anna Geiger

      March 1, 2016 at 8:17 pm

      🙂 Thank you, Crystal!

      Reply to this comment
  20. Camilla

    February 25, 2016 at 11:11 pm

    Dear Anna, thank you very much for your ideas. They are always adorable. And they always work great. Kids love them. Good luck!

    Reply to this comment
    • Anna Geiger

      February 26, 2016 at 5:13 pm

      You’re very welcome, Camilla! Thank you for your kind words. 🙂

      Reply to this comment
  21. Regina Du Plessis

    February 25, 2016 at 3:26 pm

    Dear Anna
    Thank you so much for all the lovely printables you share.
    The children and I have great fun with them.
    Kind regards Regina. (South Africa)

    Reply to this comment
    • Anna Geiger

      February 26, 2016 at 5:13 pm

      I’m so glad you can use them, Regina!

      Reply to this comment

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