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      • First Words
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First Sounds

Identify the first sounds in words. Users see and hear the word before attempting to pick the starting sound using the keyboard. Pressing the keyboard allows the user to hear the letters and diagraphs. Choose from 56 words, starting with vowels, consonants and the digraphs “ch”, “th” and “sh”.

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First Sounds is an activity that help young learners identify and learn the initial sounds of these 56 words. This activity was developed in Flash. It will be subsumed in a new activity called First Phonics.

Here are all the words that this activity contains:

bed, box
cat, cook
dog, door
egg, elephant
foot, fish,
gate, goal
hat, hen
igloo,ill
jam, jug
key, kite
ladder, leg
man, moon
nail, net
octopus, orange
pen, pig
queen, quad,
rat, red
sock, sun,
tap, tent
umbrella, up
violin, van,
web, wool
yellow, yoyo
zebra, zip
shell, ship
chick, chin
thistle, thumb

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