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Core Knowledge Foundation

Kindergarten Skills Unit 5

For Teachers K Standards
A unit designed for kindergarteners builds letter-sound correspondence in preparation for reading. Over four weeks, young scholars build proficiency in recognizing and matching the sound of 9 letters. They take that knowledge to read a...
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Core Knowledge Foundation

Kindergarten Skills Unit 6

For Teachers K Standards
Throughout 15 lessons, scholars explore four and five-sound and rhyming words, closely examining initial and final consonant sounds, and begin reading the text independently. Each lesson follows a similar routine; an introduction to...
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Core Knowledge Foundation

Kindergarten Skills Unit 7

For Teachers K Standards
A unit consists of seventeen lessons that examine six new consonant digraphs. Lessons review past concepts, introduce sounds and spelling, and offer differentiated instruction in small groups. Learners begin reading a decodable story and...
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Core Knowledge Foundation

Kindergarten Skills Unit 9

For Teachers K Standards
This unit explores uppercase letters and tricky high-frequency words. Over 23 lessons, scholars review decodable and high-frequency words, examine and practice writing uppercase letters, and work with a new tricky high-frequency word....
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Unit Plan
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

We’re a Family: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 3)

For Teachers K Standards
Teach your English language learners how to talk about their families with three weeks of lessons. Over the course of the thematic unit, learners pick up new vocabulary so that they can talk about families and relationships, clothing,...
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Unit Plan
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

A World of Animals: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 10)

For Teachers K Standards
Provide extra support with this collection of animal-themed lessons. Early readers gain proficiency in high frequency words are and he, practice blending short vowel sounds, and substitute initial and final phonemes while creating...
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Unit Plan
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

A World of Animals: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 10)

For Teachers K Standards
Animals are the theme of this series of English language development lessons. Scholars take part in grand conversations about woodland, jungle, and grassland animals. They also go on picture walks, read poems and high frequency words,...
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Unit Plan
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Down on the Farm: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 8)

For Teachers K Standards
Down on the Farm is the theme of this series of ESL lessons designed to support reading, speaking, and listening skills. Over three weeks, your learners will have the opportunity to sing songs, play guessing games, create masks, role...
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Unit Plan
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Down on the Farm: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 8)

For Teachers K Standards
Chants, rhymes, practice pages, picture, word, and punctation cards provide extra support for reading high-frequency words, substituting, blending, segmenting, and identifying phonemes in this Down on the Farm themed unit. 
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Unit Plan
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Let’s Count!: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 5)

For Teachers K Standards
Counting is the theme of this compilation of ESL lessons. Through listening, speaking, and moving, your young learners take part in a variety of activities to enhance their English proficiency such as making menus and books,...
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Worksheet
Dorling Kindersley

Question Words

For Students K - 2nd Standards
Teaching your primary learners how to ask questions? Then look no further. This worksheet introduces the six essential question words: who, what, where, when, why, and how. Children begin by practicing how to write these words, before...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

The Big Full Stop Tidy Up

For Students Pre-K - K Standards
Young readers consider four illustrated sentences about a zebra and put a "full stop" (period) at the end of each. They write a sentence about the zebra, and read it to a partner. A simple, and sweet activity!
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School Express

Schoolexpress.com: Grammar Worksheets

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site provides a comprehensive index of printable grammar worksheets. Each topic has an extensive list of worksheets to choose from. Topics include abbreviations, alphabetizing, parts of speech, classifying, punctuation, prefixes,...
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Interactive
Arcademics

Arcademics: Coconut Vowels

For Students K - 1st Standards
This multi-level game asks students to match a correct vowel combination into a word to earn points.
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Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: Spelling Practice

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Select a Dolch word list and listen to the word the dragon speaks. Click and drag the letters to spell the word correctly. Press 'hint" to see how the word is spelled or press "skip" to go to another word.
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: K Act. 08: Language Arts Writing Experience

For Teachers K Standards
Teachers will model sentences about their favorite foods. Students will mimic these sentences about their own favorite foods and will illustrate pictures of them. All pages will be assembled into a class book.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Chunk Lesson Ain

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Use literature and the Whole-Part-Whole Method to teach individual word chunks. This flipchart focuses on the -ain word chunk.
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Hop 'Til You Drop

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This video segment from Between the Lions uses a cheer; "Hop 'Til You Drop" to build letter knowledge, and to demonstrate how movement and letter chanting can illustrate the words being spelled.
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Lesson Plan
Other

Teacher.org: Beginning Sound Match

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This lesson will allow students to practice both writing names and identifying beginning sounds for common item names.
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Punctuation Practice

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students have a tough time differentiating between punctuation marks when writing and especially when reading. It is important that we give students explicit instruction on punctuation to allow them to become more fluent in using them...
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Talk About Plural Nouns

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
It is imperative that our students in Kindergarten understand that words have different forms. Students will orally change nouns from singular to plural by adding /s/ and will be able to show understanding of this in their writing....
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Write the Room Punctuation

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Using a "Write the Room" activity to identify punctuation motivates students to practice this new skill. Students will place punctuation marks in the proper place using clues from signs around the room. Included is a video of the lesson...
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Word Detective

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this lesson, students will become word detectives to find spelling patterns in a story, and then sort the words they find according to the patterns. This "word detective" will become a favorite independent activity throughout the...
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Interactive
ICT Games

Ict Games: Dj Cows Spelling Patterns

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A library of word searches for practicing vocabulary and spelling. Each word search focuses on a family of words with a similar spelling pattern.