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Pictures For Sorts
In this literacy worksheet, students recognize the picture that coincides with each picture. A game could be made by mixing the words and pictures.
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Contraction Jeopardy
This word study PowerPoint addresses how to construct contractions. In this PowerPoint, students participate in a game of Jeopardy where they must click on a specific question and form the given contraction with a word.
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On a Roll With Digraphs
Students practice building and spelling words with digraphs. After discussing what digraphs are and how they change the spelling and produnciation of words, they create a dice game and play by spelling words containing common digraphs.
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Spinning Short Vowel Game
First graders, in pairs, use spinners to experiment with different combinations of letters. They combine letters and determine whether they have produced a word or not. They construct and record words choosing letters from designated tiles.
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Guess Which Word?
Students listen to clues to a mystery word. They use phonics and language skills to figure out a mystery word.
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The Alphabet Game
Learners participate in a game in which they spell words. They work together to help each other with sounds and letters. The group with the most points wins the game.
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Apple Picking
Students practice reading Dolch words using an apple theme. For this sight word lesson, students play an apple picking game that allows them to practice reading several Dolch words. Students play this game frequently to ensure encoding...
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Chance
Learners practice sight words using the Dolch vocabulary lists. For this sight word lesson, students are engaged in a whole class game that allows every student to practice reading Dolch words off index cards. Learners then use these...
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Word Order Scrambled Sentences
In this scrambled sentences worksheet, students make sentences using all words in a given set. Page has several links to additional activities and answers.
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Animal Word Scramble
In this word scramble activity, students unscramble a set of 5 words that name animals. A web site reference for additional activities is given.
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Our Camera Words
In this camera words worksheet, students in pairs pronounce each of the camera words and then together put them together to make coherent phrases and sentences.
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West Virginia Quarter Reverse: Over, Under, In, and Out
Students examine the images on the West Virginia quarter reverse. Using the quarter design as a model, the discover the meaning of directional terms. They play a game where they have to listen to and follow directions and complete a...
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Rhyming Cards
In these rhyming words worksheets, students create a matching card game by cutting out the various pictures and match the cards together by their rhyming patterns.
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Painting Sentences
Paint with the colors of reading! Learners in special education classes or mainstream classes practice decoding basic and advanced code with a series of sentences on paint blobs. Once they read the sentence, learners cover one spot on...
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Full Stops
This is an incredibly detailed and thorough plan. It is all about full stops - which is the British way of saying, "Periods." First-year learners practice the skill of knowing when to use a period, and understand what periods are meant...
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Sweet Tooth - Full Stops
Young writers engage in a activity which reinforces the concept of when to use periods, "full stops" as they're called, when writing. There is a terrific online activity built into the plan which gives the kids valuable practice, then a...
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Bright Mice
Kindergarten through second graders explore the long i sound. In this phonics lesson, they read The Mother's Day Mice, sing "Farmer in the Dell," and play I Spy with long i in order to explore the target sound. Additionally, there is a...
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Kindergarten/First Grade Phonics
Get involved with phonics by recognizing one particular letter. Learners name a letter, know it by sound, decode basic CVC words and use the letter in writing. A variety of options are given to the your learners: making a letter collage,...
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A Fantasy Story: Spooky!
This creepy fantasy story needs an ending! Learners use a spooky voice to read a short story ending at an ellipsis...what was in the dark, dark box? They illustrate what they think could have been in there and write a title for the...
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Sequencing The Mitten
Practice sequencing as a comprehension strategy. Have your class listen to The Mitten by Jan Brett and participate in guided practice with sequencing events. Then divide everyone into three groups based on understanding for independent...
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Fluency: Letter-Sound Correspondence, Make a Match
A memory activity engages young learners in letter-sound correspondence. Pairs take turns examining two sets of cards lying face down. They flip one image card and one letter card, then name the initial sound. If the sounds match, pupils...
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Five Spelling Games
Students follow directions to complete activities that help them learn their weekly spelling words.
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Rules For the Home Game
Students practice naming furniture in this Home Game. Students also use prepositions of place to describe where the furniture is.
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Memory Game with a Smile
Young scholars take it in turns to say two letters and then they turn the corresponding cards around to see if the pictures/words on them match. If they do, student who has found the pair wins 1 point.