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First Sound Segmenting Accuracy
What's the sound, Mico? Use your class' favorite puppet (in this example, Mico) to teach them about initial sounds in single-syllable words. Using the picture cards provided, choose three and lay them out in front of learners. When Mico...
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Long Vowel Sound "OA"
It's a guessing game! Can your youngsters guess the word that the clues describe? Can they draw a picture to accompany two of the answers? Have them locate the oa digraph in each written word when they're finished!
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Introduce /r/
Use these inventive strategies to focus on the letter r, forming sound associations along with letter recognition. Explain the tongue movement in making the /r/ sound, asking learners to try it. Draw the r on the board and give examples...
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Sorting
Students examine the concepts of organization and classification. In this library skills lesson, students practice ordering and sorting skills by playing an interactive Internet game. Students then practice their classification skills in...
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Capitalization and Punctuation
First and second graders explore writing conventions. They add question marks or periods to the end of teacher generated sentences on sentence strips. They locate punctuation marks in poems and write original sentences using appropriate...
Pearson
Rumpelstiltskin
Classic fairy tales are great! They have memorable characters, present interesting story lines, and lend themselves to art projects. Grab a copy of "Rumpelstiltskin" and get ready to participate in several early literacy activities. The...
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Learning About Prediction
The skill of prediction as a reading strategy is explored. Learners are shown how to use clues within a story, along with pictures, to make predictions as to what's going to happen in the story. A clever in-class game which uses objects...
Florida Department of Education
Phonemic Awareness
Build your library of strategies and activities for teaching phonemic awareness with the ideas provided in this resource. Described here are five different activities to try out with your class.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Phonics: Letter-Sound Correspondence, Letter-Sound Bingo
Young scholars build a strong understanding of medial sounds, vowels, and letter sound correspondence while playing Bingo. Taking turns, peers choose a card and say its name and medial sound; all players look for the vowel on their card....
British Council
Alphabet
Here's a packet filled with suggestions and activities for teaching the alphabet.
ESL Kid Stuff
Classroom Objects
How many classroom objects can your learners identify? Use a set of activities based on object recognition and color matching to help young kids use their observation to learn new vocabulary.
Curated OER
Adjective, Adjective, Noun
Students create artistic renditions of two random adjectives and one noun in this game-like Art lesson for the elementary and middle school classroom. The cross-curricular lesson includes a vocabulary list and a short resource list.
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Halloween Vocabulary Game
In this Halloween vocabulary worksheet, students use the Halloween pictures and words to play a game like bingo and recognize new words.
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The -ad Word Family
In this word family worksheet, learners practice printing 10 -ad words, they circle all of the -ad words in a short story, cut out -ad word cards and put them in alphabetical order, and write about what makes them sad and glad. They play...
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Phonics Scramble Games: Correct the Spelling of the Short Vowel Words
Students practice their spelling skills in this activity, which provides four pictures and labels for them to unscramble. The words are fan, bag, cat, and bat.
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Alphabet Fishing Game
In these alphabet letter matching worksheets, Learners cut out the fish printed with both the uppercase and lowercase letters of the alphabet. Students then attach a paper clip to the fish and use a magnet to try and catch both sets of a...
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Egg Hunt Reinforces Math, Language Skills
It's amazing what you can do to reinforce math skills while leading an egg hunt! Learners of all ages will benefit from playing this simple game.
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Rhyme Brainstormers
Students identify words that rhyme and realize that this literacy skill is engaging. Then they prepare their own language game props. Students also monitor each other in following rules, erasing duplicate words, and scorekeeping....
Teachers' Domain
Sequencing: Princess Fairy Tales
Review with your young readers the course of events in typical fairy tales with princes, princesses, and dragons. Then read either The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch or Princess Smartypants by Babette Cole to compare these two...
K12 Reader
Write a Noun for the Adjectives
Adjectives can't exist without something to describe! Young writers find nouns to match ten short adjectives in a straightforward grammar worksheet.
Curated OER
'Ea' Missing Vowels
In this phonics missing vowel activity activity, students fill in the missing vowels in 30 words in order to form 30 words with the "ea". Students then read the list of words they have created.
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Irregular Word Fluency
Learners explore language arts by participating in a word fluency activity. In this irregular word lesson, students discuss the sounds that are made from different words as they read them from flash cards. Learners shuffle the flash...
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Sight Words: me, at, help, and too
In this sight words worksheet, students study the 4 sight words: "me," "at," "help," and "too." Students then circle the words in 4 sentences.
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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.