Letter Yy Ideas

Are you ready for the letter Yy? There are so many times that we get to this letter and I am out of ideas to make it fun. Are you in the same boat? Well, let’s look at some fun ideas to bring the letter y to life.

Letter Yy Ideas

Check out these printable activities. We love to practice handwriting practice to review letter formation.
We also use the sheet on the right to identify the letter Yy. There is also a Uu and Yy sound sorting printable.

Letter Yy Chart

We also chart our letter Yy whole group. I project my chart onto my smart board and chart with the class. Notice how we are coding the bossy r sounds? This charting time is about more than the initial sound of y, but sounding out words, clapping out syllables, talking about multiple meanings, and all those applications of phonics skills.

Yogurt Themed Letter Yy Letter and Sound Sorts

We also practice reviewing all our initial sounds regularly. I use this weekly game and activity as an assessment as well. Students take the yogurt letter cups and find the initial sounds to put “in” them. 

I can use all the ABCs as a general review or I can pull out only the letters the students are still working on learning.

Letter Yy Printables

If my students sort this activity the correct way, I know they mastered the initial sounds. We also work on those tricky vowels all the time. This yolk game is SO MUCH FUN for sounding out words, creating real words, and recognizing nonsense words.

Here are the eggs and their vowel yolks.

Students take their eggs and place the yolks inside. They sound out their word to see if it makes sense.
They can change out their vowels as needed. 

Check out these fun words! And here is this game in action with the kiddos. There is also a printable version that matches the cards.

We work on these in small groups. Once they are completed we put them in our book boxes for us to read and reread. We send our books home from time to time as well.

Math Integration Ideas for the Letter Yy

Our letter fun carries over into math as well. We use these yarn themes ten frames all the time!

They are easy to differentiate with. Here is a ten-frame printable for those who are still making numbers using tens and ones or even who need to count one at a time. 

Other students can use the same printable to count, but also to write their numbers! Here is a student example using numbers 1-9. Here is a student example using numbers 11-20. 

You can find these ideas AND SO MUCH MORE here in this Letter Yy {Print & Play Pack} which was recently updated and expanded. Letter Yy is part of this bundle.