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Building Fluency
As your youngsters begin to recognize the letters of the alphabet and their correponsding sounds, there are some they will be more familiar with than others. Cement their letter associations using this quick strategy, shown here with the...
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Letter Pronunciation - /f/ Sound
Are you working on the /f/ sound in your class? Develop phonemic awareness with this worksheet. This graphic organizer has students circle the word that best describes the picture in the right-hand column. Then, in the middle column,...
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Digraph Boggle
Th, wh, ch, and sh are only some of the consonant digraphs early readers need to master. Increase skills and digraph recognition with a fun game. Children find words containing an initial or final digraph, circle them, and then write...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Letter Recognition: Poetry Pen
It's always nice to have a great idea and all the tools to make it happen. The class can use these nursery rhyme and alphabet cards to teach each other letter recognition and letter sound correspondence. There is a full set of alphabet...
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Alphabet/Pictures
In this alphabet awareness activity, students experience matching up the twenty six letters of the alphabet to pictures that begin with each letter of the alphabet.
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Animal Alphabet Book
Students identify each letter of the alphabet. They listen as the teacher reads an animal alphabet picture book. Students listen to the alphabet song. They create their own movements for the alphabet song. Students are asked to name...
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Letter A Recognition
Learners look at 13 words and circle each word that begins with the letter A. In this alphabet letter A worksheet, students also look at 5 pictures and circle each one that begins with the letter A , and then color those pictures.
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Shizuko’s Daughter: K-W-L
What would your class like to learn about Japanese culture? Prepare them for a novel unit about Kyoko Mori's Shizuko's Daughter with a KWL chart. After listing what they already know about Japanese culture, they write questions about...
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Phonics: Kite
In this handwriting worksheet, students utilize phonics skills to pronounce and write the word kiss four times and then color a picture of two fish kissing in a fish bowl.
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4 Four Leaf Clovers
In this number 4 worksheet, students count the four leaf clovers, trace the number 4 three times and the word four twice and then print each one 5 times on their own.
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Tracing the Letter G
In this alphabet letter G instructional activity, students practice tracing the uppercase and lowercase letter G 5 times a piece. Students view 2 pictures that begin with the letter G.
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Countries
In this country worksheet, students find a country for each letter of the alphabet.
Penn State
Early Childhood Education Lesson Plan for Good Night, Good Knight
The book Good Night, Good Knight is the inspiration for this plan. Learners get into small groups to search for words in books that begin with their names and fill out and illustrate their own personal letter and name pages.
PBS
Dear Pen Pal
Explore cultures from around the world with an engaging pen pal resource. Through a series of classroom activities and written correspondence, children learn about the favoritec pastimes, schooling, geography, and weather that is...
Ken Baker
Phonemic Alliteration Lesson Plan
Old MacDonald had a ... dragon? A shared reading of this funny take on the classic children's song engages beginning readers as they learn about phonemes and alliteration.
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The Glory That Was Greece
Today we are going Greek! Provide the class with a clear and well-organized overview of all things pertaining to ancient Greece. From early Greeks and Homer, to the Persian Wars and great philosophers, this slide show has it all. Review...
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"Uhh..Did I do that?" - Phonemic Awareness
Students practice using the letter u in order to understand letter-sound correspondence. In this letter-sound correspondence lesson plan, students write, read, and say different words with the letter u in them.
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Rockin' Round Letter a
In this alphabet letter a instructional activity, learners trace the cursive alphabet letter a 40 times and write the letter a 28 times on their own on the lines provided.
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Letter W: Wolf
In this alphabet awareness of uppercase letter W instructional activity, students pronounce the letter W on the page, locate the wolf in the picture and then color the picture.
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Daily Life and Schooling
Students compare the ancient Greek method of schooling and writing to contemporary methods and learn the Greek alphabet on wax tablets.
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Our Green City
Young scholars practice beginning reading while exploring an environmental theme. In this our green city lesson, students create their own published books, examine phonemic awareness, alphabetic principle, comprehension, and vocabulary.
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International Festival: Greece
Learners celebrate the culture of Greece. In this multicultural activity, students participate in several activities which examine the culture of Greece. Learners study the Greek alphabet, identify the country on a world map, and make...
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Swat The Spot
Students practice beginning letter/sound association. In this beginning letter/sound lesson, students listen to a reading of Potluck by Anne Shelby while identifying the sounds that are associated with the beginning letters of words in...
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Line or Bilateral Symmetry
In this problem solving worksheet, 4th graders figure out how many lines of symmetry 6 Greek alphabet letters have. Students write each number and draw the line or lines on the lines provided.