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Printing Practice: Letter u
In this printing practice activity, students practice writing words that have the lowercase letter u in them. They first of all look at the picture and say what is in the picture. They then trace the letters below the picture. Finally,...
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Pictures Associated With the Letters Ee
In this vowel E worksheet, 1st graders view eleven pictures, circle the pictures that begin with an E and then cross out the pictures that do not begin with the letter E.
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Trucks and Community Workers
First graders identify community helpers and their roles. In this transportation lesson plan, 1st graders complete a series of lessons integrating technology and literacy. Students decode sounds of short u, c/s/ and g/j/ words and...
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Phonics and Decoding Strategies for Struggling Readers Using Core Knowledge Poem
Students complete multiple activities to help them hear sounds, syllables, and spell words with vowel patterns, digraphs, or blends. In this word sounds lesson, students use letter tiles, sort words cards, analyze poems, and play a bingo...
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Excellent E!
Students explore the short /e/ sound. They practice making the sound and recite an 'e' tongue twister. They practice writing the letter e and use Elkonin letter boxes to spell e words. In groups, they read stories and identify short /e/...
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"Ca...Ca...Ca...Caterpillar Blending"
Young scholars improve blending skills. They produce many individual short utterances and mouth moves (phonemes) into one long utterance (words) and create their own blending caterpillar. They draw a picture of a caterpillar with...
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Spelling: Code Words
In this spelling code worksheet, students use a key with shapes and alphabet letters to decipher the missing words in 11 sentences. There is a word bank to help. All are short A vowel words.
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Clifford Phonics Fun
Students develop phonemic awareness skills. They recognize consonant sound spellings and distinguish easily confused letter pairs. Students examine common short and long vowel sound spellings. They read stories containing high frequency...
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Students participate in activities associated with the book, "The Very Hungry Caterpillar". They practice using new vocabulary and the days of the week. They create a book about what they ate on the different days of the week and how the...
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A? Speak up, I can't hear you!
Students become phonemically aware of various sounds that make up written words. This instructional activity focuses on the vowel correspondence a_e=/A/. They decode the long a mouth moves in words as well as practice spelling the words...
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Phonics: Long O With a Silent E
In this long o with silent e worksheet, students pronounce twelve pictures and determine if they have a long or short o in them. Students circle their answers.
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The Letter O
For this letter O worksheet, students determine whether an underlined word had the long or short o sound, circling the correct answer.
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Hop Scotch
Students practice a variety of techniques and strategies to assess the letter sound of o=/o/. They encounter Elkonin Boxes to assist them with their task as well as the tongue twister "Oliver had an operation in October, and Oscar gave...
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Growing Seeds
In this science worksheet, students read 5 different scenarios with varied growing conditions for plants. Students make a prediction for each: Will it grow a little, grow a lot, or not grow at all?
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The Pink Pig
Students identify the short /i/ sound in spoken words and the letter symbol in this lesson. They say a tongue twister emphasizing words with the short /i/ sound. They then read the story "Liz is Six" and identify the words with the...
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"Whaaa" Said The Baby"
Students recognize phonemes that correspond with the letters in the alphabet. They focus on identifying the short a, /a/ sound. They examine the way their mouths move when making the short a sound mimicking a baby's cry. In given...
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ADULT ESOL LESSON PLAN--Family and Parenting
Students explore all the specific requirements that must be followed in order to enroll children in school/day care aged 6-16. In addition, they review the importance of regular school attendance.
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ADULT ESOL LESSON PLAN--Level 2--Transportation and Travel
Students explore all the possible options and benefits of transportation/travel within the United States. An extensive list of options is listed for them within a vocabulary list on the board.
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The Creaky Door says /e/
Students explore the short /e/ sound, and identify the short /e/ in writing. Students read fun sentences from the board which emphasize the short /e/. They stretch out the /e/ sound every time they come to it while reading. They then...
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Ashley's Apples
First graders compare the /a/ sound to that of a baby crying. They practice making the sound and then say the tongue twister as it is written on a sentence strip and then using the overhead and letters, name words with that sound in them.
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The Icky Sticky Igloo
Students focus on the correspondence i=/i/. They explore the sound and spelling of /i/ and discover vowels are used to spell all words in our vocabulary, so therefore it is important for students to understand the phoneme and grapheme of...
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Abra-kadabra-kazam /a//a//a/, POOF!
First graders discover that each letter of the alphabet has a sound then detect the /a/ sound represented by the letter a. They pretend to be magicians and say, "Abra-kadabra-kazam! POOF!" emphasizing the /a/ sound and then repeat an /a/...
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Rub a Dub in the Tub
Students explore the short /u/ sound in this lesson. They use phonetic spelling to create words with the short /u/ sound using letter tiles. They then listen to the story "Rub-a-Dub Cub" and identify the short /u/ sound words they hear...
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The Fat Cat
Pupils explore phonemes. They identify that a=/a/. Students recognize /a/ in spoken words by learning a meaningful representation and a letter symbol. Pupils practice finding /a/ in a variety of words. Students read a book that focuses...