Sound Out Words with Frankie

Sound Out Words with Frankie is an activity in JumpStart Advanced Kindergarten: Fundamentals. It is intended to teach spelling, phonics, and word/letter recognition at a kindergarten level.

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Game Play Instructions

Help Frankie sort through his alphabet tires to spell words. This activity uses letter recognition and phonics to encourage children to sound out words. Can you help Frankie find the missing letters? Click any letter to hear the sound it makes. When you know which letter completes the word, click on it and move it into place. Frankie awards flags for each correctly spelled word.

Level 1: Letter Recognition  Match letters to spell three and four letter words. Select letters and place them in proper sequence to match spelling of simple word & picture pairs.

Level 2a: Supply the Missing Letter - consonants Supply the missing letter to spell words. Start by finding the beginning sound (initial consonants of word families).

Level 2b: Supply the Missing Letter - vowels Take turns with each of the 5 vowels (a,e,i,o,u) and a host of consonants to create words practiced in previous levels of this activity (English word list contains short vowels only).

Level 3: Makin' Words / Short Vowels  Combine sounds to create your own consonant/vowel/consonant words. How many words can you spell?

Educational Skills
 * phonics
 * letter recognition
 * word recognition
 * word families
 * spelling