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Medial Consonants, Hard and Soft c and g
Students participate in a series of lessons that are used to develop phonics skills. There are a variety of activities and a curricular map is included in the plan. A good list of age appropriate texts is given for extensions of going to...
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Grade 1 Phonics- Short a
Work on the short /a/ in phonics lessons. Recognize and identify "Aa," name the letter "A," know the short /a/ sound, rhyme using short /a/ word families, decode basic short consonant-vowel-consonant words and transfer wisdom of the...
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Get Rid of It!
Students participate in matching game to practice their phonics awareness. They can apply the activity to any curriculum review that is word or vocabulary based.
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Phonics Diagraph
This simple presentation is designed for very young readers who are just starting to learn their consonant blend sounds. Pictures of a shark, a chicken, a whale, and a moth help introduce these blends.
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Letter Sounds
In this phonics worksheet, learners say the name of each object out loud. Students listen for the sound of the letter in the word. Learners then sing the alphabet song and point to each letter while they sing.
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Here's an Instant Activity for September 6, 2004
What are the words that use the silent e? With this resource, youngsters complete a teacher-led activity for spelling words with silent e sounds. They then complete a worksheet that adds suffixes s, ed, or ing to words that end in silent e.
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Phonics: Decoding Words in Connected Text
Introduce your little ones to the wonders of phonemic decoding. They practice along as you sound out simple cvc words in the context of a sentence.
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Phonics Instruction: Letter Sound Correspondence
The letter m is the first letter in many of my favorite words. It has the best /m/ sound ever. Get your little ones excited about letter m with this super simple, super short lesson. They work with the teacher to practice saying,...
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Phonic Knowledge
This lengthy presentation gives young readers a lot of chances to practice sounding out vowel and consonant blends. There are 122 slides full of vowels, consonants, and actual words. For example, one slide has ay, the next slide has pl,...
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Final /-s/ and /-es/ Pronunciation
Practice the pronunciation of the final /-s/ and /-es/ sound with this instructional activity. After reading information about and looking at charts of voiced and voiceless sounds, learners determine what the final sounds of plural words...
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Making Words
Students add letters to teacher provided endings to make new words. In this phonics lesson, students learn to make new words using word families. A sample worksheet is provided and a rubric
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Letter Sound Blending
Learners play a game that asks them to blend sounds and differentiate between long and short vowels. They give clues to one student by sounding out all consonants and classifying the vowel as short or long. The student then blends the...
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Here's an Instant Activity for March 3, 2008
Here are some good spelling activities for 'ou' words. First and second graders complete an oral spelling activity with their teacher and then an Instant Activity worksheet. and spell 'ou' words.
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Reading Simple Words
Explore the ending -ear with this resource. Learners can read and spell a list of words containing this sound. This presentation could be augmented to provide a richer experience. It could be used as a whole group or center activity.
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Phonemes
Focus on phonemes with this simple presentation. Learners discuss a group of phonemes and then read words with a particular spelling pattern. Add some material of your own to make this a richer experience.
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Ending Sounds
Use this resource to review consonant blends and ending sounds. Learners can look at these series of sounds, such as -ct, and come up with words that contain these endings. Since there are no clear instructions in the presentation,...
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Phonics
This short, 6-slide presentation provides practice for very young readers in decoding simple words that utilize the short vowel sounds. Words such as cat, sit, hop, and dog are read by pupils.
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Words With Short A Sound
While just a series of slides with lists of words containing the short A sound, this resource would be a handy tool in a kindergarten or first grade classroom. You could use this resource as a quick review of this sound. This...
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Sounding out accuracy, Word Potato
Learning to sound out CVC words can be fun, when you turn skills practice into a game. Kids play "Hot Potato" by passing a bucket filled with phonetically regular words on cards. When the music stops, students choose a word and sound it...
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Introduce /ir/
Learners recognize and pronounce the /ir/ sound. In this beginning phonics decoding activity, students say the "ir" sound when the teacher points to the corresponding letters and remain silent when other letter combinations are targeted.
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BL to the Ends (blends)
Learners examine word blends. In this word blends lesson, students investigate common word blends. Working in pairs, learners analyze words containing blends and generate a word list.
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On-Level Small Group Phonics Lesson: ea /e/
Students explore /e/. In this phonics instructional activity, students decode words with "ea" representing the short e sound. Students read sentences and a short book that includes "ea" word practice.
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Alphabet
Students state the letters of the alphabet individually and in new words. In this alphabet lesson plan, students use the alphabet in a variety of ways during reading.
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Phonics for Beginners
In this phonics worksheet, students choose the correct word that represents each picture. Students complete 20 multiple choice problems.