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Sounding Out, Alien Word Game
Students invent words using a set of letters. For this Alien word lesson, students determine if the letters made a real word. Students record problem words in an activity log.
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Sounding out accuracy, Build a Word
Students demonstrate how to build words. In this word study instructional activity, students play a game where they must choose two index cards from each bucket and put them together to build a word.
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Stackers Game for word fluency
Students create three letter words and decode for fluency and accuracy. In this fluency lesson, students use alphabet tiles to build words with the CVC pattern and read the word aloud. Students alternate turns by stacking one...
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Sounding Out Accuracy: Word Swatter Game
Students explore word fluency by participating in a language arts game. In this vocabulary identification lesson, students collaborate in two small teams, each armed with a fly swatter, in order to swat vocabulary words spoken by their...
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The Creaky Door Says "ehhhh"
Study the long vowel sound /e/, as in a creaky door noise. Children repeat the sound and learn a chant. They use letters in letterboxes to make words with the /e/ sound before reading a book and writing a message about their favorite...
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Nonsense Knows
In this poetry lesson, young readers discuss that poems can sometimes have silly words and made up people, places, and things. Students read and listen to silly poems then write a response poem to their favorite.
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Word and Letter Practice #6
In this word and letter practice worksheet, students say the name and sounds of given letters, read simple sentences, practice reading sight words and practice "chunks" of words.
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Words and Letters Practice #3
In this words and letters practice learning exercise, students practice naming letters and practicing sounds of given sets of letters, read simple sentences, and practice sight words.
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Sounding out accuracy, The Sum of the Parts
Young scholars explore word structures by participating in a group activity. In this word segment lesson, students collaborate in small groups and pass out cards with certain letters that can form words when put together. Young scholars...
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You've Got a Wocket Where?
Students identify rhyming word pairs, apply generalizations about the principle of onsets and "rimes," and create and classify multiple lists of words, both real and nonsense, based on given rhymes.
International Reading Association
Literacy Survival Tips for New Teachers!
Whether new to teaching or a seasoned pro, this 12-page phonics and phonemic awareness guide is a must for your curriculum library. Everything from a summary of research on the topic to exercises and activities is included.
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Take Your Pick of "Beary" Fun Activities.
Students complete an integrated unit on bears. They read numerous books about bears, create a bear puppet, act-out stories, create a polar bear painting, participate in a Teddy Bear Picnic, and conduct a Teddy Bear parade.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Real Words or Nonsense Words?
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson helps students to distinguish between real words and nonsense words. Real words are words that we use to communicate. Nonsense words are words that we do not use.
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: Where Do Animals Live?
In this lesson plan students listen and participate by filling in missing words as the teacher reads a silly poem about places where animals might live. Students are required to draw pictures representing both their favorite nonsense...