Alphabet Match & Link Cards | Uppercase, Lowercase & Beginning Sounds

Alphabet Match & Link Cards | Uppercase, Lowercase & Beginning Sounds

Build letter recognition, beginning-sound knowledge and fine motor skills with these hands-on alphabet matching and linking puzzles!

Students match an uppercase letter to its corresponding lowercase letter and beginning-sound picture, then connect the cards using plastic links. A two-piece uppercase and lowercase matching option is also included for students who are not yet ready to work with beginning sounds.

With real-photo, colour clip-art and black-and-white options, this literacy centre can be easily differentiated for your students.

 

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Perfect for:

✔ Literacy centres
✔ Morning tubs
✔ Fine motor activities
✔ Small-group instruction
✔ Beginning-sound practice
✔ Beginning-of-the-year activities

 

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What’s Included:

✔ 26 uppercase, lowercase and beginning-sound puzzles with real photos
✔ 26 uppercase, lowercase and beginning-sound puzzles with colour clip art
✔ 26 uppercase, lowercase and beginning-sound puzzles with black-and-white clip art
✔ 26 uppercase and lowercase letter-matching puzzles without pictures
✔ Alternative picture options for Q and X

That’s 104 alphabet matching puzzles in four differentiated sets!

Alternative Picture Options:

The real-photo set includes two options for Q:

✔ Quail

✔ Canadian quarter

The real-photo and clip-art sets also include two options for X:

✔ A picture beginning with X, such as xylophone or X-ray
✔ A picture ending with the /ks/ sound, such as fox or box

Choose the pictures that best suit your students and the letter-sound instruction used in your classroom.

 

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Skills Practised:

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Easy to Prep and Use

Print, laminate and cut apart the cards. Punch holes over the small circles and provide plastic linking chains for students to connect the matching pieces.

 

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Students can:

1. Find the matching uppercase and lowercase letters.
2. Identify the corresponding beginning-sound picture.
3. Connect the two or three cards using plastic links.

Begin with the two-piece letter-matching puzzles, then introduce the three-piece beginning-sound puzzles when students are ready for an additional challenge.

 

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Please note

This resource is included in

• Alphabet Activities Bundle #1 and
• Kindergarten Alphabet Centres Mega Bundle

If you already own either of these bundle, you already have access to these mats.

 

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Looking for more alphabet centres? Check out these teacher favourites:

• Alphabet Match Mats: Printables To Use With Magnetic Letters
• Hands-On Alphabet Centre: Letter Roads
• Pattern Block Alphabet Letter Mats | Identification & Fine Motor

 

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Looking for more hands-on ways to teach the alphabet? Save by purchasing these mats as part of Kindergarten Alphabet Centres Mega Bundle!