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Lesson Plan
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Alphabet Organizer

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Learners practice organizing their vocabulary words in an online organizer tool. In this vocabulary instructional activity, students read a text and take notes. Additionally, learners organize their vocabulary words into an online...
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Lesson Plan
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Gone Fishing

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students practice decoding words phonetically. The teacher discusses the association between spoken and written language. After the discussion, each student is given a word that is spelled phonetically. They decode the word by playing...
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Lesson Plan
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Fuzz and the Buzz

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars practice various strategies for becoming fluent readers. They review the skills of phoneme recognition, decoding, crosschecking and spelling in order to read with automation. Working in pairs, students complete a...
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Unit Plan
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Celebrate Reading!

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students improve their reading skills by completing at home reading assignments. In this reading skills lesson, students participate in a bulletin board competition to help them track and progress with their daily reading. Students...
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Worksheet
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Phonetic Skill 4

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In these phonetic skills worksheets, learners complete several activities that help them learn to recognize phonetic patterns in words. Students complete 6 activities.
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Unit Plan
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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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App
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Word BINGO

For Students Pre-K - 4th
Practicing sight words is all fun and games with this app! Users hear, read, and spell words off the Dolch Word List. But that's not all! Players also get to create their own avatar, collect BINGO bugs, view their scores, and more within...
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Unit Plan
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Celebrate Comprehension with Classical Characters

For Teachers 2nd
Students listen to books and answer questions using reading skills. In this reading lesson, students develop reading strategies such as decoding, understanding characters, and comprehension. Students relate characters and events in the...
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Lesson Plan
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Celebrations

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders answer questions after listening to the the story "Celebrating Life Around the World" and verbally identify three ways in which people celebrate special occasions. They then make two verbal connections from their own...