Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Find the Sound by Jack Hartmann is a phonemic awareness song that focuses on phoneme isolation. Have students do their best detective word work to isolate the sound. For the vowel sounds, they will determine if the phoneme is the beginning or medial sound in the word.
This version has UFLI vowel sounds for the short i sound.

Find the Sound, Letter I

Listen carefully with your ears right now
Listen carefully for the letter sound
Say the sound and the word right now
Then you try to find the sound
The sound for i is /i/
Find the /i/ in itch
The /i/ sound is here, the beginning
Itch
The sound for i is /i/
Find the /i/ in igloo
The /i/ sound is here, the beginning
Igloo
The sound for i is /i/
Find the /i/ in pig
The /i/ sound is here, the middle
pig
The sound for i is /i/
Find the /i/ in zip
The /i/ sound is here, the middle
Zip
You did so well, and you learned with me
Letters and sounds make the words we read
Always try to do your best
And you'll have reading success


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