Ever seen alphabet puzzles that are designed to teach formulation of letters? This fun and interactive phonemic awareness activity is sure to help you little ones to understand how letters are created piece by piece. As each letter part is clicked and dragged on to the correct spot, students should also identify the pictures that matches with the letters depending on their initial sound.

What is it? This is a alphabet puzzle game that contains broken pieces of letters that must be placed in the right spot to form the letters. It is also a picture initial sound matching game.

Who is it for? This is primarily for early readers who are just beginning to recognize letters. Students need to acquire the skills of letter recognition in the sounds that each letter makes.

How to play it? Students will identify the upper case and lower case letter. Recognize that each letter consist of parts that must be put together to form the letter. For example, the upper case A consist of three parts that makes up the letter. Each colored part must be dragged to the correct letter in white. Next is click on the pictures that start with letter above. For example, click on the apple, Anker, alligator, airplane, avocado, and axe.

How to set it up?

No Prep – The wonderful thing about using Boom Cards is that you don’t have to worry about setting it up. You are good to go if you have Internet service on your technology device. No need to cut, paste, or laminate countless number of papers. No need to print; even though Boom provides that option.

Immediate Feedback – This is one of the best features of Boom Learning. Once answers are picked, Boom provides quick responses with red circles indicating incorrect answers and green circles for correct answers. Drop zones are indicated by blue boxes to make it easy for students to see where things should be placed.

Self-Grading - Tracking progress on Boom is self-explanatory. Records are stored into the system automatically to make grading a breeze. Everything from the time they started the activity to the incorrect answers; are all in display screen for teachers to view.

How to use it? These digital task cards can be used in the language and reading Center. It promotes phonemic awareness, letter recognition, and picture association. 

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What is included? 26 Interactive digital task cards

Why is it a great activity? It was truly a pleasure creating this activity for kids in need of some assistance in forming letters. Letters are presented in pieces which makes it easy to see how each letter is designed to be written. This activity can be used in language center to learn the alphabet and sounds they make. Kids will have a blast dragging the pieces around and discovering the essential elements of letter formation.