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Vowel Sounds-- Short Aa Words
In this short A word worksheet, students unscramble 20 words. Students will write the three letter word on the line. There is a word bank to help clue students.
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Short A Puzzle Game
In this short A puzzle game activity, students match 24 short A words with the pictures on puzzle pieces that the teacher has printed, cut and laminated.
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Irregular Word Fluency, Tic Tac Toe
Students play a tic-tac-toe game to practice reading irregular words. In this tic-tac-toe lesson, students read words to a partner. If they are correctly read, students mark the tic-tac-toe board.
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Vowel Sounds -- Short Ee Words
In this short Ee vowel sound practice worksheet, students use their problems solving skills to unscramble 20 words that feature the short e sound.
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Phonics Scramble Games: Correct the Spelling
After a lesson on vowel sounds and spelling, students identify four pictures and work on unscrambling the words below. Each word is three or four letters long (drum, sock, bug, dog).
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Phonics Scramble Games: Correct the Spelling
In this scrambled words spelling activity, students examine 4 scrambled words and write the correct spelling. Pictures are provided.
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Phonics Scramble Games: Correct the Spelling
In this scrambled words spelling activity, students examine 4 scrambled words and write the correct spelling. Pictures are provided.
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Initial Sound Memory Game
Students are reintroduced to initial sounds and play a picture card game to build accuracy. In this initial sound lesson, students place the picture cards face down and organize the picture cards into an even number of rows and columns...
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Silly Sentence Game
Young scholars participate in a game while naming the parts of a sentence. For this silly sentence lesson, students are divided into teams they must identify specific cards related to the parts of the sentence the teacher is asking them...
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Body Words
Students use their bodies to form the letters to spell each of the five words that they were given. They must spell the word correctly and the teacher must be able to read the word from left and right on their "baseline." The teacher...
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Silent-letter Word Fluency
First graders practice reading. For this fluency building lesson, 1st graders practice quickly saying words that have a silent letter in them. They work in small groups to read a group of word cards as quickly as they can. This lesson...
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Letter and Word Scramble
Students engage in a instructional activity designed to encourage the identification of letters and their characteristics, as well as moving them using a variety of locomotor skills. This done using the instructional strategy of playing...
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Words With Multiple Meanings #7
In this words with multiple meanings #7 worksheet, students use 4 pairs of words with multiple meanings in a vocabulary game.
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Animal Word Scramble
For this animal-themed word scramble worksheet, students use the provided picture clues to unscramble 5 animal-related words.
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The Words Of "U"
In this literacy worksheet, students match the words with the appropriate pictures in this sheet. The words can be cut out and made into a game.
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Unscramble the words
In this unscrambling worksheet, students unscramble the words represented by a picture having to do with school. Students unscramble 6 words.
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Word Slide-CVC Words
In this CVC words activity, students say, print, and draw a picture of each CVC word given. The page has related web links.
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Bat Activities and games
First graders read the book Stelluna by Janell Cannon. In this bat lesson plan, 1st graders use their sense of smell to identify objects, learn and recite a rhyme, and differentiate between the words night and day.
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Synonym Scramble
Play a game with a deck of cards to reinforce synonyms and vocabulary. Young spellers look at the blue words on the cards they are holding and try to match it with the red word the teacher is holding. The game continues until the deck is...
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Winter Syllables pg. 1
It's winter! Bring the winter theme into your classroom with a syllable instructional activity. Scholars identify the winter picture, clap the number of syllables in the word, and then write in the matching number of syllables for the...
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Introduce Middle Sounds Segmenting (Mico Version)
Mico the puppet offers a phoneme challenge for emerging readers: can they find the object with the middle sound they hear? Use the fantastic set of full-color picture cards to play this game with small groups or even the whole class....
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Digraph Boggle
Th, wh, ch, and sh are only some of the consonant digraphs early readers need to master. Increase skills and digraph recognition with a fun game. Children find words containing an initial or final digraph, circle them, and then write...
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Storytime
By reading two books aloud, Ben and Becky in the Haunted House and The Ghost in the Classroom, youngsters learn new words and understand story events. They workin small groups to review the vocabulary in a game-like setting.
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Advanced Phonics Redux Fluency
After being introduced to words with advanced phonics features, the teacher presents the whole class with a stack of cards containing both new and familiar words. As each card is presented, the teacher says the word and recites the rule...