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Vowel Sounds: /air/ and /er/
All the best readers started out the same way. Build the foundational skills needed to recognize vowel sounds like /air/ and /er/. Early readers write a word to label each of nine images. Each image focuses on a different spelling...
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-air Spelling Pattern
What do hair, chair, and fair all have in common? The -air spelling pattern! Each slide provides both an image and a word that contains the -air sound. Perfect for early readers or to boost spelling success.
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Sight Words and Letter Sounds
Is your elementary class learning letters and letter sounds? This take-home sheet provides a week's worth of practice for your learner at home. The repetitive nature helps learners remember!
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Multisensory Sight-word Strategies
Students engage in a lesson that uses sight word strategies in order to increase reading comprehension. The skills are applicable to rote skill, math facts, formulas, etc... The lesson includes sample exercises for the teacher to use for...
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Blending into Good Speech
Your class can increase their production of the target phoneme /sh/ through the use of video, the Internet, and hands-on activities listed here. Sound out the phoneme altogether, then model words that include /sh/ at the beginning....
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Sight Words: Printing Practice
In this early childhood sight words printing practice learning exercise, students read and trace the 10 sight words. The words are change, off, play, spell, air, away, animal, house, point, and page.
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Fry Lists
Keep track of your learners' mastered sight words with 11 sets of words. Four columns list the words, as well as three columns for you to mark the date of mastery.
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Letter and Word Recognition
First graders read an ABC pop-up book. They identify the sounds of each letter. students draw pictures of letters and words that begin with a specific letter. They write letters in upper case and lower case. They create their own...
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Segmenting and Blending Words
Students are introduced to the concept of segmentation and blending of words. As a class, they are shown various words and are asked to determine the amount of letters and sounds in each. To end the lesson, they participate in a...
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Sing Your Way Through Phonics Lesson Plan
Pupils recognize and spell sets of words with r-controlled vowels. They become familiar with r-controlled spelling patterns.
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Vowel Combination: air
In this vowel combination "air" activity, students trace words that have the vowel combination "air" in it. Students trace three words.
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Phonics Worksheet- Catchin' Air
In this phonics activity, learners analyze a picture of a basketball player in front of a shelf with 12 balls, each with a word. Students color the balls orange that have the "air" sound.
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B Sound in the Initial Position
Students listen for letter sounds. In this phonics instructional activity, students read A Basket Full of Surprises, brainstorm items that start with the B sound, and complete a comprehension activity where they identify words with and...
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Catchin' Air
In this identifying words with -air sound worksheet, learners observe rows of balls with words and color the balls with the same vowel sound as chair. Students color 5 balls.
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Phonics Test #8
For this sounds worksheet, students find words that have the same vowel sound as the underlined vowel sound in the first word in each row. Students complete 10 multiple choice questions.
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Phonics Test #9: Same Sounds
In this sounds worksheet, students find words that have the same vowel sound as the underlined sound in the first word. Students complete 10 multiple choice questions.
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Introduce /h/
Explore the letter h using these strategies combining pronunciation, recognition, letter sound, and word examples. Scholars examine the letter shape and listen to you pronounce the /h/ sound. As you explain how this sound is made, they...
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Understanding the Poem
Practice literary analysis with your poetry pupils using the mysterious narrative poem "The Listeners." They examine the archaic language and answer 12 comprehension and analysis prompts. Foster creativity with these referential...
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Phonics Blend
In this literacy learning exercise, students practice reading words with different phonics blends. Each word has a picture to help with vocabulary acquisition.
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Phonemic Awareness: Syllables
Count the syllables in your name, now count the syllables in your friend's name. Kids count syllables as they clap out and segment words. This activity is done as a whole class and has the potential of being highly engaging. The engaging...
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Shhh!
What sound do fish and ship have in common? Study the /sh/ sound with your young learners. They hear a common tongue twister, spell words in their letter boxes, and read The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Phister to hear the words in context.
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Shhhhh, She is Sleeping
The sheep on the ship was shocked by the Fish on the Shore! Can you guess which digraph we're studying? Take a look at the /sh/ sound with your young readers. Have them write words with the target sound in letter boxes, and then small...
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The "air" Phoneme
In this phoneme activity, students circle words in sentences that is written incorrectly, and correct the spelling in brackets at the end of each sentence, then write their own sentences that show the meaning of the word.
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Silly Sally Sings Upside Down!!!
Learners use phonics to recognize the /s/ sound. As a group, students recite tongue twisters to recognize the /s/ sound. Learners search through magazines to find objects that contain the /s/ phoneme.