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Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Goodnight Moon [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A reader's theater script for Margaret Wise Brown's early childhood book, Goodnight Moon, is provided on these pages. Four character roles are needed in this activity.
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Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: The Giving Tree [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A reader's theater script for Shel Silverstein's narrative poem, The Giving Tree, is provided on these pages. Thirteen character roles are needed in this activity.
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Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Reach

For Students Pre-K - 1st
REACH is a self-paced interactive reading program to engage parents and children as at-home reading partners. Designed by classroom reading specialists and aligned with kindergarten through third grade standards, these self-paced...
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Clifford the Big Red Dog: Buried Treasures

For Students Pre-K - K
In "Red Beard the Pirate," Tucker loses his beloved Lil' Squeakie after the friends spend the day burying treasures in the sand. Clifford and Emily Elizabeth make it their mission to find Tucker's treasured toy before bedtime, however,...
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Using Poetry to Teach Reading & Writing

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Lesson plan makes use of weekly poems for students to read, discuss, and study. Students compile a poetry portfolio to use for further learning in reading and writing, as well as engaging in interactive activities such as creative poetry...
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Generating Rhymes for Analogy Based Phonics

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This online lesson introduces students to many different approaches toward learning about rhyme and other similarities in words, such as shared/guided reading and small group instruction. A good tool for increasing students' phonological...
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Nursery Rhyme Standards

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Nursery Rhyme Flipchart by Donna Andrews (ELAKSV1 (elements a-d) for Kindergarten). Flipchart focuses on rhythm, rhyming, and interactive links for games that reinforce the standard.
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eBook
LM Digital Media

Kids World Fun: Bugs by Numbers by Danielle Bruckert [Pdf]

For Students K - 1st
This rhyming picture book has children counting creatures using numbers 1 to 5.
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Lesson Plan
University of Oregon

Pizzaz, Creative Writing & Storytelling: Tongue Twisters

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This PIZZAZ (People Interested in Zippy and ZAny Zcribbling) lesson plan will engage students in writing tongue twisters. Examples of tongue twisters are provided. A template is also included as a graphic organizing support for students.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Growing Readers and Writers With Help From Mother Goose

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Contains plans for short, daily minilessons that use nursery rhymes to teach basic reading skills. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as assessment and...
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Website
Other

Mama Lisa's World

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Large list of nursery rhymes for children to read. Each nursery rhyme is accompanied by pictures and some even have sounds.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Word Families: Ig and Ip

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This technology-based lesson plan will help students develop their phonemic awareness by teaching students to hear the sounds in the -ig and -ip word families. It also leads students to apply what they have learned.
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Professional Doc
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Word Families Letter Combinations [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Classroom teachers will learn about teaching phonics through word families and letter combinations. Teachers will learn how to implement the use of word families and letter combinations, understand how to measure progress with word...
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Lesson Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Beach Ball Word Families

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A great fun activity to use with students to practice fluency and word families.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: There's Magic in Green Eggs and Ham

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
As a part of a unit about Dr. Suess, students will learn about sequential order. Student understanding will be aided by the use of hands-on preparation of green eggs and ham, dictation, flannel board, sentence strips, and a living center.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Explicit Phonics Lesson for "Sh"

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This lesson plan covers phonemic awareness, decoding, blending, spelling patterns, and dictation. It can be used as an introduction or a follow-up lesson plan.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Bbc.co.uk

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Find the rhyming words in this interactive game. The animals will dig for the word to see if you are right. A great exercise in increasing young students' rhyming and reading abilities.
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Interactive
Roy the Zebra

Roy the Zebra: Words That Rhyme With Hill, Cat, Bug

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students identify words that rhyme with "hill," "cat" and "bug" in these 3 games.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Short Vowel Rhymes

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson helps students work on short vowel rhymes.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Farm Phonics

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is designed to be used to integrate phonics into a farm theme used in kindergarten. Students work with story sequence, making words, describing using their 5 senses, and listening to and...
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Article
Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: Three Letter Words for 4 Year Olds

For Teachers Pre-K - K
This article focuses on teaching early reading skills to 4 year-olds including Dolch sight words and other 3-letter words from the list provided, reading-readiness skills, and tips for teaching the alphabet.

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