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Night Sounds

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students listen and discuss the sounds they heard at night. They write a class poem about those sounds at night. They keep a chart on their desk for ideas. The poem is read aloud to the class when it is finished.
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Alphabet Game

For Teachers K
Students are given flash cards with pictures. The teacher calls out a particular sound and if they have the sound, they put their card into a chart.
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Use of Flashcards in the Kindergarten Classroom

For Teachers K
Students practice with phonics and the alphabet using flashcards. They are asked to say a word that starts with a specific sound. When shown the flashcards, they are to write the sound of the picture they see.
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Creating with "Found Sounds"

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students are placed in small groups for this project. Groups collect and use ordinary objects to create a "Stomp" like performance.
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MUSICAL MYSTERIES

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore the concept of steady beat and develop listening skills.
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1st Grade - Act. 07: Seven Fat Cats

For Teachers 1st
First graders listen to story Seven Fat Cats and match the sounds (rhyming, beginning, ending, and vowel).
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What Is My Family Name?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students listen to selected solo instruments and place the instrument in its correct family of instruments; students also identify from listening to examples: orchestra, band, vocal solo, and choral performance.
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Your Song

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students create instruments to demonstrate their understanding of how the science of vibrations is used to create sounds.
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Chrysanthemum Sound Boards

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students listen and match sounds such as rhyming, beginning, ending and vowel sounds to build phonemic awareness.
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Consonant Cowboy/Letter and Sound Recognition

For Teachers K
Students play an educational computer game, complete a letter recognition activity and close the game appropriately. They sing the alphabet song as the teacher holds each corresponding card with the letter and picture as support.
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Sound; Year 1

For Teachers K - 6th
Learners, on a listening walk around the school and its grounds, make notes/comments on the range and variety of sounds in each environment. They listen to recorded sounds and attempt to recognize them.
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What words sound like rice?

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students experiment with sounds of words. In this word comparison activity, students complete a series of games to assist them in hearing and sounding out the letters in the word rice.  Students use this information to find or think of...
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Sounds Around

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this sounds worksheet, students choose one of five activities to do at home with parents. Students experiment with making sounds with natural objects, list "noisy" foods or count all the outdoor sounds that can be heard.
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Sound 4

For Students K - 1st
In this beginning sounds worksheet, students circle the picture in each column whose name begins with the same sound as the first picture.
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Sounds 1

For Students K - 1st
In this beginning sounds worksheet, students circle the picture in each column whose name begins with the same sound as the first picture.
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School-Home Links

For Students K - 1st
In this letter sounds instructional activity, students look at each letter in the words and make all of the sounds. Students say the sounds quickly and then say the word.
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School-Home Links: Sound Combining

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this letter sounds worksheet, students read several silly sentences and circle the two letters that make new sounds. Students write these two letters on the lines. Students then write the sound a train makes and the two letters that...
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Beginning Sounds Worksheet: Part 5

For Students K
In this matching sounds worksheet, students draw a line from each letter that represents a specific beginning sound to the picture that illustrates it.
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Timbre II

For Students 4th - 5th
In this music worksheet, students learn that timbre, or tone color, means different kinds of sounds. Students complete 10 questions about timbre and general music topics.
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Series 1 Letters and Sounds Camera Words

For Students 1st - 4th
In this letters and sounds worksheet, students practice in pairs pronouncing and using in context thirty six sight words for mastery.
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The Squiggly Snake says: "ssssss...."

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students identify the sound the letter /s/ makes. They associate the /s/ sound with the letter symbol and practice finding the /s/ in words. As a class, students make the /s/ wound, draw the letter symbol. They read a book, "James and...
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Aaaa! Don't Scare Me Like That!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Learners practice saying each letter of the alphabet to determine the different sounds from each letter. As a class, they are given a tongue twister to practice making the "a" sound and spelling the words. To end the instructional...
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Alf's Song

For Teachers K
Students are introduced to and practice the musical concept of sound and how it is produced. They assess how to distinguish their singing voices from other voices like whispering, talking, etc. Each student differentiates between singing...
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Animals and Initial Sounds

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore animals and initial sounds. They create a slideshow by clicking and dragging background pictures, letters, animal pictures and sounds to accompany each slide. Students search for animals whose name is the same sound...