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Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Blending [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Classroom teachers will learn how to blend words as a classroom modeling strategy. Teachers will learn direct instructional techniques for blending; games and activities are also provided to reinforcement the concept of blending.
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Unit Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: What's the Sound? Identifying Phenomes Activity

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
An activity to build students' abilities to identify sounds, even in nonsense words. The teacher says a word and states that it is not a real word, but asks the students to just listen for the sounds.
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Unit Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Word Swat a Word Sound Recognition Game

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A classroom game to help students create new words from a particular word family. The class is divided into two teams; the first student in each line is given a flyswatter and must go to the board and "swat" the correct letter that...
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Lesson Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Treasure Box Game, Segmenting Syllables

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A classroom game designed to build accuracy skills in students' abilities to identify syllables. The teacher prints picture cards (this site links to the site for pictures) of one-, two-, or three-syllable words. Students pull a picture...
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Unit Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: The Take Away Game: Onset Rime Segmenting

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A classroom activity led by the instructor. The student is given a spoken onset and rime, and learns to remove the onset and state the remaining rime.
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Unit Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Picture Hunt Activity: Phoneme Manipulation

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This activity uses the students' favorite classroom book as a resource. The instructor says We are going on a Picture Hunt! and then asks the class where an object is in the picture, but leaves out the first letter sound when asking.
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Curated OER

The Reading Genie: Teaching Blending

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Suggestions of ways to help students learn to blend phonemes to make real or nonsense words. Dr. Murray explains both onset-rime and body-coda methods of blending.
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Activity
Free Reading

Free Reading: Listen for My Sound. A Phoneme Segmenting Activity

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A simple, yet effective activity to teach students to identify the same sounds in different words. The teacher says a word and the students give a thumbs up or thumbs down. This site also includes a Word Generator list link as a resource.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Amplify Education, Inc.: Words Separated Into Phonemes

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This page contains audio clips of words separated into phonemes. The audios give the word and then the word separated. There is a link to the Phonological Awareness activities page that utilizes this sound page. The sounds are pronounced...
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Organization for Community Networks

Ofcn: "The Blending Slide" Sounding Out Cvc Words

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A kindergarten/first grade lesson plan for sounding out consonant vowel consonant words. Young scholars and teachers will benefit from this hands-on activity.
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Unit Plan
Los Angeles County Office of Education

Teams: Phonemic Awareness Activities

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site offers phonemic awareness activities that will extend the concepts and skills associated with this reading skill. Activities include rhyming words, segmenting syllables, substituting beginning sounds, isolating sounds, and...
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Letter K

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] Learning activities related to the letter /k/ are included such as word identification, initial letter recognition, blending with short vowels and /k/ck, and story structure with beginning, middle, and...