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I Hear a Baby Crying
Pupils recognize the short vowel a in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /a/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify the...
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M&M Mountain
Students practice recognizing the capital and lowercase M when practice writing with M&M's. They listen to and view the book, "Are You My Mother?," by P.D. Eastman with Random House, Inc. Each student interacts with a tongue twister...
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Eehh?" is for Eleven Elephants
Students complete a variety of activities related to the short /e/ sound. As a class they recite a tongue twister, then trace and write the letter E. Students then listen to word pairs and identify the word containing the short /e/...
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Gulping Guppies
Students recognize the phoneme /g/. Through listening and matching activities, students discriminate the phoneme /g/ from other letters and phonemes. They associate the phoneme /g/ with its letter representation and identify the phoneme...
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Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed
Young scholars practice discerning between the letters D and B. Through hands on activities, they recognize the difference between the commonly confused letters B and D. Students practice writing both letters and correcting common...
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Cracking Codes and Ciphers
Learners explore different codes and ciphers including Morse Code, Egyptian Hieroglyphs, and the Alphabet. They discuss how and why codes are used. Students create their own code and message to exchange with classmates.
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The Largest Objects
In this alphabet worksheet, students focus on the letter a. Coloring pictures that begin with the letter a sound, students choose the largest object in each box to color.
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Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies!
Students complete a variety of activities related to the /ch/ digraph. As a class recite a tongue twister, and identify the words containing the /ch/ sound. Students then spell different words containing the /ch/ digraph using letter...
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Ch,Ch,Ch,Ch, Choooo, Choooo!!
Students complete a variety of activities related to the /ch/ sound. As a class they recite a tongue twister, and trace and write the letters /ch/. Students then sing a song, listen to the book "Choo Choo, the Story of a Little Engine...
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Sh! Sh! Stop that Noise!
Students practice reading, writing, and spelling words that contain the /sh/ digraph. Students participate in a chant using /sh/ digraph words. They then use Elkonin boxes to spell words containing the digraph. They complete a worksheet...
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Pop Goes the Popcorn
Students complete a variety of activities related to the phoneme /p/. As a class they recite a tongue twister, then identify words from word cards that contain the phoneme /p/. Students trace and write the letter P, listen to the book...
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You Are Awesome, Mr. Oo!
In this reading worksheet, students discover the short O sound and learn high frequency words "you" and "are" by making a book. Students assemble the 6 pages, then read the story which contains letter O words in the format "You are...
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Vocab-u-lous! Build a Fabulous Vocab: Words Beginning with P
In this vocabulary worksheet, students select the best word choice to complete the sentence. They are challenged by the choices which all start with the letter "p."
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Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Segmenting and Blending, Picture Slide
A hands-on activity challenges young scholars to name a picture, segment its phonemes, then blend those sounds to make the word.
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Dinosaur Upper Case Letters
In this printing practice worksheet, students learn to form all upper case Zaner-Bloser alphabet letters. Students examine the examples, then trace 4 letters. Each letter is inside its own dinosaur shape.
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Roger That!
Students study the letter R, r in order to recognize it, say its sound, and write it. They watch a partner's mouth as they make the "r" sound before repeating a tongue twister that contains many "r" sounds. Next, they practice writing...
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A Ststistical Study on the Letters of the Alphabet
In this Statistics and Probability learning exercise, learners create a line plot for the first 100 letters in the Preamble to the constitution and compare their frequency distributions to the actual frequency distribution. The one page...
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Ordering the Alphabet
First graders copy words onto index cards. They glue the index cards onto a large sheet of paper in alphabetical order.
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Animal Alphabet
Students make a class animal book using the letters of the alphabet. They use a website imbedded in this plan to get pages with animals that begin with any of the 26 letters.
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The Fly Swatter Game
Young scholars are placed in small groups to participate in the "Fly Swatter Game" to reinforce phonetic sounds of letters.
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ABC Brainstorm
Students practice a variety of strategies for mastering ABC brainstorming about a major topic. They take a topic and try to think of a word or phrase associated with that topic that begins with each letter of the alphabet and match them...
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Expressions and Operations
In this expressions and operations worksheet, 9th graders solve and complete 16 different problems that include various expressions and operations. First, they simplify each given equation. Then, students match that answer to the correct...
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Name & Word Wall Activities, Building Blocks: Literacy, Letter Recognition,
Students use the word wall to learn letters, their names, develop print awareness and many other literacy skills.
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Promoting Knowledge of Letters and Words
In this literacy worksheet, students benefit from the research displayed in this activity. Teachers read the information concerning the instruction of the alphabet.