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Volunteering as Good Work

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students discuss the various jobs at a school. In this school jobs lesson, students recognize the way people in the school are helped by others. Students are assigned a job and write about the help of others. Students pages are put...
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Phonics and Decoding Strategies for Struggling Readers Using Core Knowledge Poem

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students complete multiple activities to help them hear sounds, syllables, and spell words with vowel patterns, digraphs, or blends. In this word sounds lesson, students use letter tiles, sort words cards, analyze poems, and play a bingo...
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Imagination

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students participate in a computer game which helps them develop their hand-eye coordination and imagination. They can use this activity before doing writing activities or show and tell.
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Places in our School Yard - An "I Spy" Book

For Teachers K - 1st
Students create a class big book using the "I Spy" game format and adding 3 clues to help readers guess the areas of a naturalization project.
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Clapping Syllables

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explain that words are made up of parts called syllables. They associate spoken language with written words
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Express Yourself!

For Teachers 1st
First graders work as a group to generate and play a game that displays an understanding of developmental level reading vocabulary based on a grade level checklist. This lesson really engages the creative side of your students!
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Living Sentences

For Teachers 1st
First graders practice writing full sentences. In groups, 1st graders play a game in which they build sentences using nouns, verbs and adjectives. They investigate how to put a sentence into a meaningful order.
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Apple Picking

For Teachers K - 1st
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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Sounding out accuracy, Bam!

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars play a game with index cards to build reading  and speaking accuracy.  In this sounding out game, students look at cards and pronounce the word on them.  They keep the card if they are correct. the person with the most...
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Go Fish

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore rhyming words. They listen to the book One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish and discuss the rhyming words. After being placed into groups, they play the game, "Go Fish" and find matching rhyming words. They...
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Give Us A Clue

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students practice the vowel phonemes ow/ou, oy/oi, ar/a/al, oo/u, air/are/ear, or/ore/oar/war, aw/au/augh/al, ir/ur/er, ear/eer/ere in a game with two to four players. They extend their practice over and over to identify the phonemes in...
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Chance

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
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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ABC Bingo

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners practice recognizing letters and phonemes. After the instructor reads a book emphasizing the sound each letter makes, students play letter recognition games. Through matching and listening games, they recognize the letter from...
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Egg Letter Matching

For Teachers K - 1st
In this upper and lower case letter matching game worksheet, students cut out and color 26 alphabet eggs, each with an upper and lower case letter, with a crack separating them. Students cut apart, shuffle, and match.
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Nativity Play

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd
Students participate in a play. In this Christmas lesson, students act out the Nativity. A game, a song, a craft, and a recipe are all included with the lesson.
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Punch in the Stomach

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners recognize the short vowel U in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /u/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify...
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She Ships Shells to the Shore

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify the digraph /sh/ in written and spoken language. After a brief discussion the independent and combined sounds of the phonemes /s/ and /h/ students practice identifying initial and final placement of the new digraph...
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When A Says Its Name

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students are introduced to the concept of vowel digraphs. They identify the digraph /ai/ in spoken language. After a brief discussion, students apply the rule for reading and spelling words containing the /ai/ digraph by playing word bingo.
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Bless You

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice recognizing the phoneme /a/ in spoken and written words as well as by symbol. They interact with the book, "The Cat Nap," from Educational Insights and the Dr. Seuss book, "ABC's Book." Each student also plays a memory...
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Ta-Ta- Timer

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students identify a letter of the alphabet. They recognize this letter in print and in spoken language. The letter and phoneme chosen is the letter t and /t/. They write the letter in both lower and upper case. They read 'One Tiny...
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Train Talk

For Teachers 1st
First graders retell specific information. They listen and interpret train whistle signals and work cooperatively to play the game, I'm Going on a Train Trip.
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Grammar: Contractions

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students access a variety of contractions themed websites. They locate information on grammar rules and play interactive contraction games and exercises.
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Crayola and the Internet: Rename Indian Red

For Teachers K - 6th
Students use the internet to practice their internet searching skills. They use their newly acquired skills to enter a contest through crayola to rename one of their colors. They can also play their games on the website.
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"Uuuuuuggghhh That Hurts"

For Teachers 1st
First graders give examples of consonants and vowels. They review the sound the /u/ phoneme makes and then play a word creation game placing letters together to make the /kuuuu/ sound which bumps into /p/ forming the word "cup" as a class.

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