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Vocabulary Spelling City

Vocabulary Spelling City: Sort It Out Vowels: Mixed Vowels List 1

For Students 2nd Standards
Label one-syllable words as having short or long vowel sounds in this sorting game.
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Interactive
Vocabulary Spelling City

Vocabulary Spelling City: Sort It Out Vowels: Mixed Vowels List 2

For Students 2nd Standards
Label one-syllable words as having short or long vowel sounds in this online sorting game.
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Interactive
Vocabulary Spelling City

Vocabulary Spelling City: Sort It Out Vowels: Mixed Vowels List 3

For Students 2nd Standards
Label one-syllable words as having short or long vowel sounds in this online sorting game.
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Interactive
Vocabulary Spelling City

Vocabulary Spelling City: Sort It Out Vowels: Mixed Vowels List 4

For Students 2nd Standards
Label one-syllable words as having short or long vowel sounds in this online sorting game.
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Unit Plan
International Reading Association

Lesson Plan: Making and Writing Words

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A detailed and thorough lesson/unit plan designed to lead students into a greater understanding of word building through intense study and activities. Students learn spelling structure, word recognition, and phonics. Great resource!
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Professional Doc
SEDL

Cognitive Framework: Instructional Resources Database: Instructional Activities

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This professional resource includes a database to find the answer relative to the best instructional practices related to alphabetic literacy. This site offers activities in English and Spanish to help teach literacy topics.
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Unit Plan
abcteach

Abcteach: Spelling

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Generate worksheets that help students practice spelling with tricky vowels and letters, as well as, homophones, compound words and more. Several activities include assessments at the end.
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Interactive
ICT Games

Ict Games: Phoneme Patterns

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Resource that provides lists of words that are grouped in families with similar spelling patterns.
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Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Matching More Vowels

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
You can be victorious with vowels. This interactive game matches long and short vowel words and pictures. Master all three levels.
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Professional Doc
Kidsource OnLine

Kid Source: Beginning Reading and Phonological Awareness

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Key to learning how to read is the ability to identify the different sounds that make words and to associate these sounds with written words. There are 44 phonemes in the English language, including letter combinations such as /th/,...
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Unit Plan
BBC

Bbc: Skillswise: Words to Watch Out For

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
A factsheet, a worksheet, a game, and a quiz are provided for teachers and students at this BBC spelling skills tutorial that shows you how to avoid confusing words.
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Morphemic Elements: Make It Meaningful

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
A lesson plan in which students sort words based on the meanings of their affixes: before, one who, state or qualify of, and wrongly. Materials are included.
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Morphemic Elements: Meaningful Affixes

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
A lesson plan in which students add affixes to alter the meaning of words. Materials are included.
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Morphemic Elements: Affix Concentration

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
A lesson plan in which students play a memory game by matching affixes with their meanings. Materials are included.
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Word Parts: Affix Wiz [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
A lesson plan in which students practice reading a list of affixes and then time each other to see how many affixes they can read in one minute. Students repeat to work towards increased speed and accuracy. Materials are included.
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Morpheme Structures: If the Clue Fits [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
A lesson plan in which students identify a word on a word pyramid based on clues about its syllables and phonemes. Materials are included.
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Morpheme Structures: Syllable Map It [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 7th Standards
A lesson plan in which students use phoneme-grapheme mapping with a list of words. Materials are included.
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Morpheme Structures: Syllable Swap [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
A lesson plan in which students build words with syllable cards. Materials are included.
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Variant Correspondences: Word O Matic [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
A lesson plan in which students draw phoneme cards and build as many words as possible in one minute. Materials are included.
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Starfall

Starfall: The Lone Vowels

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Grammar rules taught through song. A familiar tune helps to teach the E and O at the end of the word that make a long vowel sound. There are opportunities to demonstrate understanding by identifying words that that follow the rule.
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Unit Plan
Starfall

Starfall: Dune Buggy

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Learn the long U sound in English while paging through this read-aloud story about a day at the dunes. Great graphics, unlimited repetition, and learner controlled.
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Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Learn to Read

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
There are 15 easy-to-read stories, each focusing on a particular vowel sounds; it also provides quizzes using the same long and short vowel sounds. In addition there are alphabet videos.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Long and Short Vowel Sounds

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
During this lesson, students will learn the different sounds vowels make. They will view a slideshow presentation that teaches them the different sounds. Once they have learned the sounds, students will create a document of pictures...
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Other

Saint Ambrose Barlow: Background Color: Missing Sounds, Year 1 Term2

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Given a picture and word with missing letters, students determine what vowel sound is missing and type the word spelled correctly into the box provided.