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Poetry Portfolios: Using Poetry to Teach Reading
Over the course of five periods, scholars create a poetry portfolio. They begin with a reading of the poem, Firefly. With a focus on vocabulary, learners reread the poem then look for sight words and other skills.
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Puzzle Page 2
Beginning readers complete this simple crossword using visual clues. Each word is missing a first letter and has a corresponding picture. Pupils practice printing by writing in the first letter and tracing subsequent letters. There are...
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Red Barn, Red Barn, What do you See?
In this Red Barn, Red Barn, What do you See? learning exercise, students read a mini booklet, trace the color words and sight words "fluffy" and "me," and illustrate each sentence. Students print and illustrate six sentences.
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Summer Reading Activities
Provide parents with the tools they need to bridge the summer learning gap with this collection of fun activities. Whether it's creating an alphabet poster with illustrations for each letter, playing a game of sight word concentration,...
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Dolch Sight Word List
In this Dolch sight word worksheet, students are given a list of sight words, ranging from pre-primer to third. There are no associated activities, worksheet is a word list only.
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Phonics: Four (Sight Word and Printing Practice)
For this printing practice worksheet, students learn the sight word "four" by coloring a picture and practicing the DeNelian printing style. Students write the word "four" on the primary lines.
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Kindergarten-sight Words Fall Colors
Students listen to the poem Fall Colors and find their favorite Fall color. In this Fall color lesson, students recognize the Fall color words. Students make leaf prints with their favorite colors. Students talk about their leaf prints.
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Going to the Doctor: Vocabulary Cards
Flash cards are a great tool for kids with autism; use them to build a functional vocabulary. This set of nine flash cards focus in on vocabulary you'd use at the doctor's office. Consider providing sentence frames for your learners to...
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Snatch A Card
Students practice recognizing sight words by playing a word card game. In this snatch a card lesson, students read at least 10 dolch words, play a mixing the word cards game, and read rotating cards.
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Valentine's Day Vocabulary
Positively Autism has produced another resource for building sight word recognition, content specific vocabulary, and an understanding of holiday events. Special-needs learners will see the word and an associated image of items common to...
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Word Shape Puzzles: Where Are You, Little Cat?
In this language arts learning exercise, students examine four sight words in a word bank and fit them into word shape grids. Students then trace a sentence using these words.
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Spelling List 26: Sight Words, Prefix "in-," and Academic Vocabulary
In this spelling worksheet, students copy a set of 21 words two times each. Words are sight, academic or have the prefix "in." A website reference for additional resources is given.
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Dolch Primer Word Search
In this sight word activity, students find a total of 9 primer level words, all positioned left to right in the puzzle. Worksheet contains links to additional activities.
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Phonics: Fix (Sight Word Printing Practice)
In this sight word recognition and printing practice worksheet, students recognize and practice printing the word "fix." Students also color the picture.
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Fruits and Vegetables
Here is a fun way to investigate fruits and vegetables. In this healthy diet and reading lesson, learners read and recite several poems about fruits and vegetables. They sort pictures and word cards with assorted names of fruits and...
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3 Eyes: Print and Color
In this word recognition worksheet, students trace the word "3 eyes", write the word independently, and color the picture of a creature with 3 eyes.
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Eyes: Print and Color
In this word recognition worksheet, students trace the word "eyes," write the word independently, and color the picture of a creature with several eyes.
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Word a Day
Students create a word bank of sight words. Each student creates his/her own personal word bank, and creates pictures to illustrate the word.
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Dolch Primer Word Search
In this vocabulary word search worksheet, students read the one-syllable words in the word bank and find them written from left to right in the crossword. Students locate 9 words.
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Word Recognition
Young scholars recognize and spell color and shape words. In this color and shape words lesson plan, students reinforce their vocabulary and spelling skills.
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Alphabetic Understanding, Phonics, and Spelling
Have your youngsters reading in no time with with collection of literacy activities and lessons. Starting with a basic understanding of the alphabet, this unit progressively builds students' phonemic awareness and ability to decode and...
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Dolch Primer Word Search
In this sight word learning exercise, students locate a total of 9 primer level sight words, all positioned left to right in the puzzle. Worksheet contains links to additional activities.
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Apple Picking
Students practice reading Dolch words using an apple theme. For this sight word lesson, students play an apple picking game that allows them to practice reading several Dolch words. Students play this game frequently to ensure encoding...
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Pasta Names
Helps learners recognize alphabet letters by having them glue dry pasta over their names. Scholars use a card with their names printed neatly, then decorate it with noodles while saying each letter they make.