Rhyme your way through each maze!

Included is a set of 5 mazes, each with their own answer key. In each maze, learners will follow the words that rhyme with the main word on top of the page, thus winning the maze.

Enjoy!

Remember to print in landscape!

Use this for: when students finish assignments early, for fun activities at home, for reinforcing letter sounds and pronunciation, even fine motor skills.

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• Matching Rhyming Picture Pairs
• This or That: 5 Senses Verbal/Visual Activity (Editable)
• Find the Matching Pair! (print + digital)

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RATING/REVIEW:

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐"My students loved using this resource in whole group on a pocket chart and then individually with their partner. Pictures are bright and age appropriate. Thank you so much!"

Keep in mind:

• Some images may have various possible words (tower vs. building)
• Children learning English or who come from a different state or country may call an item by something else
• Some images have a focused section with a red square (the pants have the pocket circled, so pocket is the word)

The answer key reveals the "correct" matches based on the words I intended, but if students can call an item something else and provide a matching word or image some other way, great!

But this is meant more for fun than for assessing.

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RATINGS/REVIEWS:

⭐⭐⭐⭐"Fantastic resource for my students who learn visually and needed help seeing the sounds in the words versus hearing them."

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐"WoW! Great pictures for each letter, providing rich discussion. I had not used the Easel component before but it was fun to try with my class. THANK YOU for all your hard work and for sharing with us!"

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐"My students love using these mats for center work. The use them with playdough to help form letters They love it."

WHAT'S INCLUDED 

• For learners who need extra help learning the alphabet sounds, especially who learn best visually, this will be a helpful reference. Maybe your youngest student (or own child) isn't reading yet, but they can label a picture! This is a huge stepping stone! Simply open on a screen, or print and point! You can laminate or sheet protect for longer use.

Some notes:

• Vowels are represented with images using the short sound (with a few exceptions, e.g. E as in earth and eagle have different sounds).
• For /c/ and /g/ I used only the hard glottal sounds (so I didn't use ginger, since that sound is softer).
• Fair warning that some images might be unliked by our more sensitive students/children (e.g. zombies for Z; at the same time, some may love it!).
• When printing on standard printer paper, you might get a white border outside the violet-ish one.

OTHER RESOURCES YOU MIGHT LIKE

• Letter sounds and parts of speech BUNDLE
• No-prep coloring with letter sound practice
• FREE: Matching Rhyming Picture Pairs

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There are 26 separate iterations across 13 activity pages. Not all starting letters are included, but many of the common ones.

Presuming most kids who use this are learning letter sounds, no directions are on the activity pages since they may not be reading yet. Instead, it’s designed to have verbal guidance from a teacher or parent. You could even model one of them!

The idea is they will shade in the letter that would correctly start the image they see next to each letter chart. It should be easy to identify for the most part since they’re commonly seen or known things. This can be done also by having children point to the correct letter.

Feel free to say aloud what each picture is so learners can more easily hear and identify the letter. Print or use digitally in color, or print B&W is fine.

Answer key included. Enjoy!

OTHER RESOURCES YOU MIGHT LIKE:

• ABC Letter Mats (Practice Sounds with Pictures)
• NO PREP Letter Sounds Activity- COLOR the Correct Sound Images!
• BUNDLE: Ballpoint People Teach the Alphabet & Parts of Speech
• Matching Rhyming Picture Pairs

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For early-finishers in class or bored kids at home!

Inside you'll see 10 "snack size" stories, which are simple one-page stories. The purpose is mainly entertainment for kids who finish activities early or are bored. But you can extract lots of teaching moments: reading, colors, informational text or parts of a story, sentence structure, etc.

I'd recommend printing, laminating OR possibly even folding each story like a book. Maybe every child has one copy of each and they can read through them.

I've included a bonus page. You can have kids draw their own picture and make their own silly snack-size story.

Other products you might like:

• Spot the Difference (between pairs of images)
• Social Stories (for behavior and teaching)

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This is a 76-page activity of coloring pages designed to reinforce letter sounds. This has 4 info pages, 26 activity pages, 26 answer key pages, and 20 full coloring pages.

The idea is to have the learner color the images on each page that relate to the letter displayed. The answer key is included for stress-free use! If you don't want the answer key to be shown, I'd recommend scanning and printing just the activity pages.

These pages require no prep - just print and explain directions if necessary (not editable)! Great for literacy centers, assessments, or extra help for those kiddos struggling to read!

There's at least 1-2 images to color on each letter page, but no more than 3, and 1-2 incorrect images for most. Answer key included.

For vowels, I only use short sounds.

Also, for /C/ and /G/, hard glottal sounds are used.

Tip: if any child wants to color ALL images, even ones that don't match the letter (sound) start, I'd suggest giving them the option to color the rest after you've assessed their answers. (I've provided full coloring pages though!)

If English Language Learners (ELLs) use this, they might need extra guidance. I did my best to put images that have generally one label, but if they can justify a name that isn't as common but starts with the correct letter sound, then I encourage you to accept it, unless it's essential that they learn the specific label for each item.

Here are my bundles on letters with comprehension and parts of speech activities:

• All letters
• Consonants
• Vowels

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