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Unit Plan
Can Teach

Can Teach: Alphabet Words

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this activity for grades K to 2, students use letter sounds to identify words that begin with each of the letters of the alphabet.
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Interactive
Soft Schools

Soft Schools: Phonics: Phonics and Spelling Quiz

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site is a phonics quiz in which students read the instructions, such as "find the word with a short "a" sound;" then they select the correct answer.
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Unit Plan
Vocabulary Spelling City

Vocabulary Spelling City

For Students K - 1st Standards
This interactive spelling and vocabulary site allows students and teachers to type in their own list of spelling and/or vocabulary words, or choose from featured vocabulary and a spelling list. Students master concepts through games,...
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Handwriting

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is designed for students to come up to the Activboard and practice their writing motor skills.
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Activity
School Express

Schoolexpress.com: Phonics Blends Worksheets

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Phonics Blends is a great way to demonstrate the use of letter and picture association. The student must identify the first two letters of the picture given and then write them on the line provided.
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Article
Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: Teaching Spelling in 1st Grade

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This article focuses on teaching spelling to first graders including Dolch sight words for 1st grade and strategies for teaching spelling such as syllabification, drawing symbols with words, matching words with pictures, and playing...
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Interactive
Other

Galactic Phonics: Ccvc Word Interactive Spelling

For Students K - 1st Standards
Spell each CCVC word in the picture using the buttons or by typing your answer. Use the 'Clue' button if you get really stuck.
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Interactive
ICT Games

Ict Games: Letter Lifter

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This game challenges students' knowledge and understanding of beginning consonant sounds.
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Lesson Plan
Auburn University

Auburn University: The Letterbox Lesson

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
The "letterbox lesson plan" is a phonics lesson plan in which young learners are led to analyze the phoneme sequence in a word, first by spelling the word and then by reading it.
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Activity
Education.com

Education.com: w.k.2 Worksheets

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Choose from a variety of worksheets to help students practice writing to compose informative/explanatory texts.
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Activity
Education.com

Education.com: l.k.2.d Worksheets

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Choose from a variety of worksheets to reinforce the common core standard of spelling simple words phonetically.
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Activity
Education.com

Education.com: Rf.1.3.g Worksheets

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Choose from a variety of worksheets to practice spelling irregularly spelled words.
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Activity
Big Learners

Biglearners.com: ccss.ela literacy.l.1.2.e : First Grade English Language Arts

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Here is a collection of our common core aligned worksheets for core standard L.1.2.E. A brief description of the worksheets is on each of the worksheet widgets. Click on the images to view, download, or print them. All worksheets are...
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Activity
Education.com

Education.com: L.1.2.e Worksheets

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] These worksheets can help students practice the Common Core State Standards skill of spelling words phonetically.
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Whiteboard
SMART Technologies

Smart: Spelling Patterns

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will write common letter strings in this SMART whiteboard activity. Pictures are used to help students visualize the meanings of words.