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If you’re wondering how to teach letter sounds, you’ll love this free printable and video tutorial!

Today I’m sharing a printable that I’m using with my four-year-old to help him master letter sounds.

And it’s working!

Here’s how it works.

  • Print the letter sounds book.
  • Cut apart the pages and staple together on the far left.
  • Print the pictures and cut them apart. Save them in a zip-top baggie with a glue stick.

  • Sit down with your learner one-on-one.
  • If your learner knows any letter sounds, glue down the pictures for those letters.

  • Each time you sit down with the book (ideally every day, but at least 3-4 times a week), have your learner name the letter, sound, and picture for each page that has the image glued down.
  • If your learner is confident with all (or most) of the sounds you’ve introduced, teach a couple more and glue down the pictures.
  • Keep practicing until your learner knows all the sounds.

Check out this video to see how it works!

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82 Comments

  1. Jaime

    Hello – I would love to use this in my classroom, but when I click on the download button it takes me to a bunch of tech looking code. Is there any chance you could email me the printable? Thank you so much!

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  2. Colleen

    Hi, I love the booklet and downloaded it awhile ago. I needed to print more of the pictures in color, but couldn’t find the document on my computer. I requested another copy, but it has “egg” for “e.” My original copy has “edge.” Do you know where I can find that version? Thanks so much.

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  5. Mattie Frazier

    When I click the download button, it takes me to a new page with all kinds of tech jumble.. any help?! My son’s teacher sent this home yesterday and I love it so much and wanted to use it with my class as well!! Thank you for your help 🙂

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    • Heather Groth, Customer Support

      Hello Maria! To accurately hear the /x/ sound, we chose a picture with /x/ at the end, so you are correct that the fox is the match for that one! The gumball machine picture goes with /g/ for gum. 😃

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    • Heather Groth, Customer Support

      Hello Sara! Our system shows that the letter sounds book was emailed out to you last night. You may need to check to see if it ended up in your spam folder by mistake!

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  8. Jaime

    Thank you so much for sharing this resource! I think there is some value to having the keyword before the sound and wonder if you would consider modifying or making another version that does this. Your little boy’s model of the “c” page is a perfect example of why this scaffold is important for beginning learners. Thanks again for sharing.

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    • Heather Groth, Customer Support

      Hi Anna! When Anna created it she used a regular stapler with regular copy paper. It was a tight fit, but it did work with those! If you’re having trouble with the stapling, you could instead turn it into two books, with half of the alphabet in each.

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  12. Carol

    Thank you so much for this amazing little book! I am using it with one of my students, who is struggling to remember letter names and sounds, everyday and it is really helping to make a difference. She loves it and is growing in confidence. She now has 11 letters and sounds and asked to read her book to the rest of the class. Thank you!

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  14. SENTHILKUMAR

    hi mam,
    such a wonderful person u are. all ur resources are very useful and usable by my children. i refer your website to many other teachers. because of you my primary school children could read and write.
    u reply to all the comments in midst of ur blog work also. so nice of you.
    thankyou so much.

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  17. nicole

    Thank you for this wonderful Letter Sound book. This is a perfect partner to go along with Sounds In Motion! I will definitely recommend it to my families.
    Thanks for all you do,
    Nicole

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  18. Deirdre O'Brien

    Hi Anna, Your website has been a lifesaver for me during online learning. Thank you so much for your beautifully designed materials. I noticed in your ‘How to Teach Letter Sounds” printable that the mouth picture for /r/ was incorrect. I really love this resource, but /r/ is a really difficult sound for many students and it would help to have an image to go with the letter to work on this sound.
    thank you for all your support!

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  20. Julie Francis

    Hi Anna,
    Thank you so much for your willingness to share. I truly appreciate that. I agree that the mouths getting ready to make the sounds are genius. I was wondering what you thought about the idea of teaching sounds before teaching letter ID? I have been hearing some buzz around this sequence of letter learning.

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    • Anna G

      I don’t think it’s necessary, but I don’t think it’s harmful, either. 🙂 If you’re a member of our online course Teaching Every Reader, we get very specific on why we prefer to teach letter names first.

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    • Kate Dowling

      Hi Rasha!

      This is Kate, Anna’s assistant. We’re sorry you had trouble! There was a problem with the link, and Anna fixed it. Please try again and let us know if you still have trouble!

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  22. Trina

    Thank you for all the wonderful learning material you produce. I watched the video with my daughter she is a struggling learner and I found that she was very engaged listening to you and your son interact with the letters and sounds. Will you make more videos with your son?

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    • Anna G

      I’m so glad this was helpful! If he were my only child I’m sure I’d make more, but it’s a lot to get a quiet house and a cooperative boy at the same time. 🙂 It also takes quite a bit of time to edit them. But I appreciate the feedback!

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  23. Sister Ronnie

    Thank you so much for including the visual and having a student (smile) your son who was willing to help out. My mind is already working on where and how I will definitely use the booklet.

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  24. Sally D Clark

    I love this resource. I have an idea for a future version of this where you would trace the letters as you say them. So have arrows showing the direction we make the letters. Is this something you might do later?

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  28. Pam Wells

    Thank you so much for the video. It was very useful to go along with the book. I appreciate all the many things you provide especially the freebies.

    thank you for your kindness

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  29. Marcella Duenas

    I love this resource. I was wondering where you get the mouth pictures because I think it would be a great idea to have that just as a resource for my ESL students who may need the extra visual apart from the letters.

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  30. Cathy

    Anna,

    This is fantastic! Thank you very much! I use mirrors a lot with my intervention students to help them learn sounds. We spend time talking about what their mouths look like and feel like and what their mouth parts are doing and where. These mouth illustrations are the best! 🙂

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  31. Sharon Aragon

    Hello,
    I enjoyed watching the How-to video and thought of applying it to my students with special needs. However, I can’t download the material, it’s asking for a password. I hope you can help me.
    Thank you,
    Sharon

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    • Anna G

      First you put in the ones your learner already knows (if any). The I would just do a few at a time – 2-3 new ones each time. If your learner knows all sounds really well, you can add more sounds the same week – maybe even multiple sounds a week. You just need to follow his/her lead. 🙂

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  33. Lisa

    HI there Anna!

    I teach grade one in Edmonton, AB. Canada!

    I tried to print out the Alphabet freebie you posted using the password MEASUREDMOMFALL, but it doesn’t work. Is there a different password that I am unaware of?

    Thank you for all of the wonderful teaching resources!
    Lisa Romo

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  35. Corrina James-Ingle

    This is awesome!!!!!!!!!
    Just wondering if you have it for digraphs and other sounds?????
    Specially the ‘th’ sound.
    Thank you so much, i love you products and have so many of them. Just wish I could do something like it.
    Thanks
    Corrina

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  38. Jennifer J Martin

    I was wondering how to access this freebie. When I click the link, it asks for a password. I have been looking for the password in this page and can’t find one. I watched the video 2 times, thinking it was there. Please advise. What have I missed?

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  39. Nanz

    Thank you Anna! I think this would come in handy. I’m gonna try this with my daughter. By the way, may I know how many minutes or hours do you spend each day for this activity?

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  41. Jennie

    This is amazing! I’m always looking for reuse in my classroom materials, so I was thinking that with this type of resource you could laminate and then put velcro (one side on the picture box and the other on the picture. It might make the book a little more bulky, perhaps put it on a binder ring, then.

    Thank you for the resource! I teach 2nd, but I was told by 1st grade (even before the school closures) that I was going to be getting some Level A readers next year…and who knows where they might be after all this time.

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  42. PAMELA J CLARK TURNER

    Dear Anna, First I want to say thank you for all your effort in making wonderful teaching tools for teaching kids how to read. I used a lot this year. Love the Freebies!!!! So I just downloaded “How to teach the letter sounds with the mouth shapes” What a great idea! My concern is the way that many educators teach the sound of Rr, making it sound like “er” instead of the Rr sound you hear when you say “rat or “rainbow”. The picture of the mouth that you have for Rr is so similar to how you hold your lips to make an Ll sound, but if you look at your lips when you are saying rat your mouth actually looks more like the way you hold your lips for the Ww sound. Check it out!!! I’d love your feedback because I am confused at some educators videos teaching the Rr sound that I have watched. “er” instead of “rrr”. Thanks, Pam

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  43. Julie H

    Thank you for sharing this resource! I love this book and the pictures of the mouths are such a genius idea! This will be perfect for my interventions or even beginning of the year review with my kindergartners. I love your site and really appreciate the time you spend making and sharing your materials and ideas!

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  44. Deborah

    Thank you so much for your wonderful website that you have. You are a blessing to all the hard working teachers out there. I have been a subscriber since forever. All the information that you impart helps us all. I do not know how you do it with your family and all the other things you get done. Thank you from all of us that appreciate your hard work.

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  45. Nan Rzasa

    Hi! Have been enjoying your site for awhile. I have a question that I thought maybe you could help me with. I teach kindergarten and we were all about the worksheets and in the classroom. We put together a website in short order in March to teach distance learning. Could you share any sites that you use that are, of course, good and are paying or not paying. My eyes are tired, so tired of searching. Looks like we might be distance learning at least a couple of days in the week come fall 2020. Thanks in advance and keep up the good job!!!

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