Help kids work on phonemic awareness as they practice listening for beginning sounds with this fun, hands-on Fish kindergarten phonics activities. This phonics activity is also perfect for preschool, pre k, and first grade students. Children will love the super cute fish theme and sorting the fish into alphabet fish bowls based on the beginning sound of the clipart image on the fish.
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This free printable phonics game is a great way for preschoolers, kindergarteners, and grade 1 students to practice listening for the sounds letters make. For this kindergarten phonics activity simply sort the super cute fish by the beginning sound of the picture on each of them into the correct aquarium bowls A-Z.
Whether you are a parents, teacher, or homeschooler – this hands-on phonics activity is a fun, engaging way for students to practice phonemic awareness! Use this in a fish them, f is for fish letter of the week program, as extra practice, summer learning, literacy center in your classroom, or a supplement to your homeschool language arts curriculum.
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I suggest printing this kindergarten phonics activities in color and on cardstock or laminating for durability. This super cute free printable fish activity is great to help children practice beginning sounds with a hands-on educational activity. 
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Next, carefully use scissors to cut out apart the fish bowls and fish. There are 4 bowls per page and a fish bowl for every alphabet letter from A to Z. There are two fish for students to place in each bowl.
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You can give kids all the bowls at one time, a couple at a time. Students will say the name of the clipart pictured on the fish. They will listen for the beginning sound (great phonemic awareness practice) and then place the fish in the bowl featuring the letter that makes the sound they heard. In the example above the blue fan fish and the brown football fish have been put in the letter f bowl. The student will now put the blue house fish in the letter h bowl.
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