Word Wall Words Part II: F-J

Teaching the Alphabet, Letters F-J

I hope you caught the first installment of the series this week.  I found it was actually super hard to come up with lots and lots and LOTS of words that my kids knew and could be used on a word wall or for a word game.  While most of mine cannot read, they can identify pictures, so I picked words for this post that most of the 3+ could name by sight.  

You won't find many verbs or abstract ideas or proper nouns.  A heart is a shape, not a symbol for love.  I even shied away from diagraphs, so that they could really relate a picture of a letter to the beginning sound of a known concept (Ex. S makes a sound like "snake," not like "shoe."  For now, anyway.)

fairy

fan

farm

farmer

feather

fence

fire

fire fighter

firefly

fireworks

fish

flag

flamingo

flashlight

flower

fly

foot

football

fork

fox

french fries

frog

 garage

garbage

garden

girl

glasses

glue

goat

goldfish

goose

gorilla

grandma

grandpa

grapes

grass

grasshopper

green

groundhog

guitar

gumball

hair

hamburger

hammer

hamster

hands

harmonica

harp

hat

hay

heart

helicopter

honey

horn

horse

hot dog

house

hula

hula hoop

hundred

Short I sounds:

igloo

iguana

inchworm

ink

insects

Long I sounds:

ice

ice cream

ice skates

jacket

jack-in-the-box

jack-o-lantern

jacks

jaguar

jar

jeans

jell-o

jelly

jellybeans

jellyfish

juggle

jump rope

Find letters A-E here.

If you have additional words that work well in your classroom/home, please comment!  If you are interested in other ideas for teaching the alphabet, feel free to follow my Pinterest board.