Teaching Resource
Middle Sound Words - Sorting Task ('a' and 'o')
3 different sorting tasks to use with students when learning about the ‘a’ and ‘o’ middle sounds.
Print the worksheets and have your students cut out the pictures, word or pictures with words. They are then required to glue the ‘a’ and ‘o’ pictures or words in the correct column on the table provided.
Use the 3 different options in order to differentiate this activity in your classroom.
An answer sheet for each option is also provided.
NSW Curriculum alignment
- ENe-6B
Recognises that there are different kinds of spoken texts with specific language features and shows an emerging awareness of some purposes for spoken language
- ENe-8B
Demonstrates emerging skills and knowledge of texts to read and view, and shows developing awareness of purpose, audience and subject matter
- ENe-10C
Thinks imaginatively and creatively about familiar topics, simple ideas and the basic features of texts when responding to and composing texts
Victorian Curriculum alignment
- VCELA168
Identify rhyming words, alliteration patterns, syllables and some sounds (phonemes) in spoken words
Australian Curriculum alignment
- ACELA1439
Recognise and generate rhyming words, alliteration patterns, syllables and sounds (phonemes) in spoken wordsElaborationsrecognising and producing rhyming words when listening to rhyming stories or rhymes, for example âfunnyâ and âmoney...

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I love this resource though is it possible to change the font up the top so that it is all in QBeginners (or the chosen font) so that the a’s appear as the children learn to write them.
Sophie Jackson · Sep 11th, 2017
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Jill
Jill (Teach Starter) · Oct 4th, 2017