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Free Reading

Free Reading: Treasure Box Game, Segmenting Syllables

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A classroom game designed to build accuracy skills in learners' abilities to identify syllables. The teacher prints picture cards (this site links to the site for pictures) of one-, two-, or three-syllable words. Students pull a picture...
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Lesson Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Catch a Sound: Final Sounds Game

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This site contains a flexible activity that teaches students how to "catch" or identify the final sound of a word.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Amplify Education, Inc.: Words Separated Into Phonemes

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This page contains audio clips of words separated into phonemes. The audios give the word and then the word separated. There is a link to the Phonological Awareness activities page that utilizes this sound page. The sounds are pronounced...
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Unit Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: "Aliens of Paz" Picture Activity: Oral Segmenting Accuracy

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
An exciting activity that helps pre-readers identify sounds and break down words into segments. The students pretend to be "Aliens of Paz" who pronouce words very slowly. This activity also incorporates movement as the student touches...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Listen for My Sound. A Phoneme Segmenting Activity

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A simple, yet effective activity to teach students to identify the same sounds in different words. The teacher says a word and the students give a thumbs up or thumbs down. This site also includes a Word Generator list link as a resource.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Syllable Slap! Segmenting Syllables

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A higher level activity that helps students develop fluency in identifying open and closed syllable words.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Word Split Stomp, Segmenting Syllables Activity

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A classroom activity that introduces and builds the accuracy of students' abilities of identifying syllables in a word. The instructor says a word, the student stomps once for each syllable in the word and then stomps one more time to...
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Unit Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Slate Races: A Phoneme Segmenting Game

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A classroom or small group game to build accuracy of students' abilities to blend phonemes. Students write the word that the teacher gives them on their own slate/dry erase board and then underneath the word, writes down each sound in...
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Lesson Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Finding Initial Sounds: A Pre Reading Game

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A teacher-led activity that helps students learn to isolate the initial sounds of words.
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Unit Plan
St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Ea and Ear Lesson

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "ea" and "ear" in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words,...
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Unit Plan
St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: The, Se, Etc. Lesson

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "the" or "se" in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words,...
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Unit Plan
St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Y and More Lesson

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "y" to form words with the long /e/. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Works from famous artists...
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St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: U E Quiz

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site is an interactive quiz to assess knowledge of long /u/ with silent e.The quiz is designed to follow the "Reading Bear: u_e" lesson.
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Unit Plan
St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: U E Lesson

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate the silent e to form the long /u/. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound...
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Unit Plan
St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: O E Lesson

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "o_e" pattern. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see words...
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Unit Plan
St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: I E Lesson

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "i_e" to form words with the long /i/. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to...
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St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Y, Ie, Ind, Ild Quiz

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site is an interactive quiz to assess knowledge of long /i/. Words with the letters "y", "ie", "ind", and "ild" are included on the assessment. The quiz is designed to follow the "Reading Bear: y, ie, ind, ild" lesson.
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Unit Plan
St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Lessons 7 12 Review

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate the "s" suffix. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see words...
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Unit Plan
St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Short Vowel Lessons Review

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this beginning reading module, the instructor reviews words that incorporate short vowels in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see words sounded...
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Unit Plan
St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Short U Lesson

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate short "u" in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see...
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Unknown Type
St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Short O Quiz

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site is an interactive quiz to assess knowledge of words that incorporate short /o/ in them. The quiz is designed to follow the "Reading Bear: short o" lesson.
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Unit Plan
St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Short O Lesson

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate short /o/. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see words...
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Unit Plan
St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Short I Lesson

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate short /i/. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see words...
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Unit Plan
St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Short E Lesson

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate short /e/ in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see...