Matching Letters to Consonant & Vowel Sounds— Let's Practise!

Matching Letters to Consonant & Vowel Sounds— Let's Practise! exercise

• Find the letter.

  Hints

  A word that uses the /s/ sound is sat.

  A word that uses the /h/ sound is him.

  A word that uses the /f/ sound is fix.

  A word that uses the /a/ sound is am.

  Solution

  • S makes the /s/ sound.
  • A makes the /a/ sound.
  • F makes the /f/ sound.
  • H makes the /h/ sound.

• Which word has the /i/ sound?

  Hints

  Sound out the word: pig. What sound does /i/ make?

  The pig is pink.

  There are two words in this sentence that have the i sound. Can you find another word to place in the gap?

  Solution

  The correct answer is big.

  • /i/ makes the short i sound in pig and in big.

• Can you find the missing sound?

  Hints

  Sound out each word, which letter is missing?

  For example, if we were solving this question p _ n. We would sound out the word.

  p..e..n

  We can see that it is the e that is missing so we can fill in e: pen.

  Solution

  • dog. The o was missing.
  • frog. The r was missing.
  • cat. The c was missing.
  • hen. The n was missing.

• Can you complete the captions?

  Hints

  Here is an example:

  • (u or a) C_n we go to the park?
  • The answer is a.
  • Can we go to the park?

  Here is another example:

  • (m or x) I am si_.
  • The answer is x.
  • I am six.

  Solution

  • A hot dog. The missing sound was /h/.
  • A pig in the mud. The missing sound was /m/.
  • The cat sat. The missing sounds were both /t/.

• Can you find the initial sound for each of these words?

  Hints

  Which sound do you hear at the beginning of the word?

  Here is an example:

  Pet starts with /p/.

  Solution

  • The word tree starts with /t/.
  • The word elephant starts with /e/.
  • The word pizza starts with /p/.

• Can you spell the words?

  Hints

  Sound out each word:

  • which sound comes first?
  • which sound comes in the middle?
  • which sound comes at the end?

  Each word has 3 letters.

  1. Something you wear on your head.
  2. Something you cook food in.
  3. A part of your body used for walking.
  4. You can turn it on and water comes out.

  Solution

  1. hat
  2. pan
  3. leg
  4. tap