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Elementary Keyboarding Activities

For Teachers K - 6th Standards
Listen to the sound of children's fingers flying across their keyboards as they perform these fun typing lessons. From creating alphabet books and multimedia presentations to researching presidents and writing class newsletters, numerous...
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Letter Recognition Flash Games for Kids

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students explore the alphabet by completing an on-line letter identification activity. In this phonetics activity, students utilize the website www.literarycenter.net and listen to word sounds as they identify the spelling of the...
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Class Alphabet Book

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students are introduced to the Kid Pix software program and its templates. With a partner, they use the internet find a picture that starts with each letter of the alphabet. They practice saying and reading the words to their partner for...
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Reinforcing Alphabet Names/Sounds

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars reinforce knowledge of the alphabet essential to beginning reading by pulling random letters out of a hat and identifying the letter's sound.
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Alphabet Books

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore alphabetic principle and phonemic awareness by making alphabet books. They identify initial consonant sounds and choose pictures of objects that begin with given letters of the alphabet. Students identify phonemes...
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Beginning Sounds: T, F, K

For Students K - 1st
For this beginning sounds worksheet, students study each picture and say its name. Students then circle the letter that matches the beginning sound for each word. Students learn words that begin with the sounds t, k, and f.
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Chewy Pretzel Letters

For Teachers K
Students, with help of teacher, create pretzels shaped like letters. They then bake the pretzels and create words with the pretzel letters.
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The Letters Are Lost by Lisa Campbell Ernst

For Teachers K
Students are read a book about missing letters. They identify all words on the page that begin with the missing letter. They create their own picture of where they believe the letter went and share with the class.
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School-Home Links: Sounds Letters Make

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this letter sounds worksheet, students have a family member read each line to their child. The students then tell the letter for the sound he or she hears at the beginning of the word.
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The Letter P Popcorn Balls

For Teachers K
Students examine the letter and the sounds of P. They are read a book about popcorn and make treats for an activity. They identify other words that begin with P as well.
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The Letter B (b)

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students discover words through text, audio and images that begin with the letter B.  In this letter B lesson, students download an ebook and navigate through an interactive reading activity. 
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Coloring, Phonics and Handwriting: The Letter D

For Students Pre-K - K
In this letter D learning exercise, students color a picture of a large duck, fill in the first letter of the word, practice tracing and writing the word, then practice a sentence with the word. Worksheet is labeled ESL, but is also...
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Letter I Printing Practice

For Students Pre-K - K
In these printing worksheets, learners will master the letter I. Students will trace both upper and lower case as well as four words beginning with the letter and two sentences.
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Pride and Prejudice: ABC book (Vocabulary Activity)

For Teachers 7th - 10th Standards
Master Jane Austen's language from A to Z with an activity based on Pride and Prejudice. As kids read the novel, they find (or are assigned) words that begin with each letter of the alphabet, and create one-page documents that show the...
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Hanukkah

For Students 3rd - 8th
How much does your class know about the Jewish Festival of Lights? Young learners practice Hanukkah vocabulary, including latkes, Judea, sufganiot, and gimel, in a series of word puzzles.
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Winter Syllables pg. 1

For Students K - 1st
It's winter! Bring the winter theme into your classroom with a syllable instructional activity. Scholars identify the winter picture, clap the number of syllables in the word, and then write in the matching number of syllables for the...
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Where is the Sound of H?

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this letter/sound worksheet, students look at pictures, circle the letter sound they hear at the beginning of the word, then print the word in the space provided.
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Secret Code from Squigley-- A Man's Unexpected Gift

For Students 4th - 5th
In this language arts worksheet, students analyze the key to a secret code which has all the alphabet letters and a symbol underneath. Students solve the secret code. There is a graphic of a man holding up a pair of boxer shorts with red...
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Phonics Assessment

For Teachers Pre-K - K
In this phonics worksheet, students identify each alphabet letter and say the sound of the letters. Students complete 26 letters and sounds.
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Ick, That's Sticky

For Teachers K - 1st
Students recognize the short vowel i in written and spoken language. Through listening activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /i/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify the...
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Alphabody's ABC of Giving

For Teachers K - 2nd
Pupils brainstorm words about giving/kindness that begin with each letter of the alphabet. In this alphabet giving lesson, students bend into the shape of the letters and act out their giving words. Suggested words are included in the...
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ABC Scavenger Map

For Teachers K
Students explore phonetics by participating in a class game. In this alphabet sounds lesson, students collaborate in a ABC's activity where they identify a random letter, the sound it makes, and place it in it's correct spot on a mat....
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Ready to Rhyme with Hop on Pop

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students complete worksheets by circling similar letters used in rhyming sounds. They form rhyming words using index cards and play a game of rhyming Bingo. They use letter tiles to form the rhyming words in the Dr. Suess book "Hop on Pop."
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Alphabet Fun 3

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this early childhood alphabetical order worksheet, students examine 10 series of 4 words in alphabetical order and write the next 5 letters that belong in each line.