Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Animal Adventures: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 6)
This packet, the third in the series of support materials for the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt thematic units on animal adventures, contains skill-building activities designed for learners who need extra support mastering the concepts in...
Curated OER
High Frequency Words--Lesson 26
For this high frequency words worksheet, students read and write the thirteen spelling and high frequency words onto the provided lines. Students fill in the correct words to complete each of the five given sentences.
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Vowel Lessons: To Help Improve Spelling
There are a few things every good speller knows: spelling rules, vowel sounds, and word endings. Help your learner with dyslexia become a more efficient speller with a few tips from a dyslexia expert. Included in the lesson is a video,...
Curated OER
"Name Those Vowels"
Help your class recognize the capital and lower-case forms of the five vowels. They will learn how to make capital and lower-case forms of the vowels and all the rules surrounding vowels. Fun songs and activities are included. Links to...
Curated OER
Sing Your Way Through Phonics Lesson Plan
Students explore how to recognize and spell sets of rhyming words. They become familiar with short vowel spelling patterns.
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Long "u" With Silent "e" Printing Practice Worksheet
In this long "u" with a silent "e" printing practice activity, student trace 8 words, read them, and match them to black line pictures. They print words such as flute, rule, and tune.
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Beat the Heat
First graders are introduced to the concept of vowel digraphs. They identify the digraph /ea/ in written and spoken language. After a brief discussion, 1st graders apply the rule for identifying and spelling words containing the /ea/...
Curated OER
Snake and Sight Word Board Game
Students practice sight words. Game begins with the first student rolling a die and moving the number of spaces shown on the die. If they lands on a shaded square, he or she turns up a card and reads it aloud.
Curated OER
Spill the Beans
Young scholars play an alphabet game with beans that asks them create simple short vowel words. They spill several marked beans onto a paper and separate those that have fallen face-up. They arrange the beans into words and read them aloud.
Curated OER
Variation on Making Words
Students copy the letters ABEDREF onto their strip of paper and cut the ltters out.
Curated OER
Snakes and Ladders Game Board- Short Vowel Words
in this language arts worksheet, students practice reading short vowel a, o and e words by playing a game. Students use the Snakes and Ladders game board with words printed in the squares. There are no directions but the rules seem evident.
Curated OER
When A Says Its Name
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.
Curated OER
Compound Words
First graders read newspaper articles and locate compound words. They break the words into two parts, then draw pictures of the two words.
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Sounds of Y
In this sounds of y practice learning exercise, students discover that y can be a consonant or a vowel as they respond to 6 questions.
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O-o-o-oh, no-o-o-o!!
Young scholars engage in an emergent literacy lesson in order to practice the skill of phonemic awareness. They learn this skill using the phoneme for the letter "o". Students must recognize the letter as well as its sound.
Heidi Songs
Th Sound (Th- Family Words)
Think about using these worksheets that focus on the th digraph! These materials provide plenty of opportunities for pupils to practice their spelling and phoneme recognition.
Other
Darlene Dittus: Free Phonics Lessons
Click on any of the ten interactive charts to hear different letter and letter-blend sounds and see corresponding words and pictures. In addition, over sixty printable phonics lessons provide word lists and practice activities for the...
Kidsource OnLine
Kid Source: Beginning Reading and Phonological Awareness
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/,...
Phonics Guide
Papa Jan: What Is Phonics?
How can you define phonics? Take this opportunity to learn a little more about phonics and its relationship to letters and sounds.
LD Online
Ld Online: Beginning Reading and Phonological Awareness
This site from the LD OnLine focuses on beginning reading and phonological awareness for students with learning disabilities. Check out the information presented in this informative article.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Phonemic Activities
Come and learn more about these awesome phonemic activities for the preschool or elementary classroom.
LD Online
Ld Online: Learning Disabilities Online: Phoneme Awareness Activity
What do you know about phoneme activities for collaborative classrooms? This site will show how to develop your own activities to sharpen your students phonemic awareness skills. This informative resource will support any teacher's work...
Auburn University
Auburn University: Hand Gestures for Phonemes
Come and learn some hand gestures for phonemes designed by the faculty and students at Auburn University. Students and teachers will find these gestures beneficial in the learning process.