Parent Tutorials Tools Available to Help Students Learn to Read Alphabet Strip and Beginning Alphabet Activities White Mat, Lowercase Letters Matching Blue Alphabet Mat, Working with Anchor Letters Yellow Mat, Uppercase and Lowercase Learning Vowels and Consonants, Using a Mirror Sounds, Initial, Medial, Final Manipulating Sounds, Replacing Sounds Sounds of Letters Beginning Rhyming Basics Rhyming, Abstract Playing with Sounds and Rhymes Rhyming, Odd Man Out, Rhyming with Pictures Beginning to Blend Letter Sounds Sight Words