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Fun Phonics Beginning Aa Worksheet
In this beginning "Aa" phonics worksheet, students circle the pictures that begin with the letter "Aa." They cross out the rest of the black line pictures. They work on 11 pictures.
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Design a Quilt
Students quilt to create a personal design. In this quilting lesson plan, students follow the steps listed in order to patchwork quilt that represents themselves in art.
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Making Words
Third graders spell words and define homophone. In this making words lesson, 3rd graders decipher words from letter strips in an effort to identify the "secret word". Students use a set of letters to spell different words.
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Web-Based Practice
Young scholars explore technology by participating in a word structure activity. In this grammar lesson, students utilize the Writing Center computer software to practice keyboarding while identifying word formations in class. Young...
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Picture Match
Young scholars match pictures with words that have specific phonics connotations. For this picture matching lesson plan, students have groups of words with the same phonics sayings.
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Writing With Environmental Print
Students develop literacy skills by exploring street signs, cereal boxes, and billboards. In this writing with environmental print lesson, students build word recognition in every day print. Students decode words and discover new words.
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Letter Recognition Flash Games for Kids
Students explore the alphabet by completing an on-line letter identification activity. In this phonetics lesson, students utilize the website www.literarycenter.net and listen to word sounds as they identify the spelling of the...
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Color Recognition Game
Students study color words. For this math lesson, students complete a variety of activities on the computer in which they identify colors and color words.
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Mirror, Mirror
First graders explore how their bodies are similar and different from others after reading the book, In the Mirror.
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Teaching Language Arts in Kindergarten Using Stories, Aesop's Fables, and Tall Tales
Students search into a variety of story elements in the eight lessons of this unit. The title, author, illustrator, setting, main character, problem, solution, events and the story are the components of the lessons.
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Sing a Song of Coinage
Young scholars examine the Tennessee state quarter. They discuss Tennessee's musical heritage, examine all of the coins and as a group, create a song about coins or money. They also complete worksheets pertaining to the lesson.
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I Grow
Students describe factors that influence relationships with family and friends. They write a book about themselves using personal knowledge.
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Diphthongs
Second graders examine and identify the diphthongs /oi/ and /oy/. They discuss the two ways that this sound is spelled and read words containing this vowel combination, create a list of words with /oi/ and /oy/, and complete a worksheet.
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Vowels, Reading Fluency
Third graders practice identifying words with the short o vowel sound. They use the strategy will reading a page from The Hare and the Tortoise. They read the passage while focusing on increasing their reading fluency and practice...
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Alphabet Activities
In this literacy instructional activity, students complete a variety of activities involving the alphabet. They also practice putting words into alphabetical order.
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Classic Storytelling with a Technology Twist
Students use technology to improve their knowledge of literary terms, math, and technology skills. In this technology storytelling lesson, students learn about character, plot, and setting in various stories by using technology like...
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The Big City
Young scholars explore structures in a big city. In this big city lesson, students become familiar with vocabulary about big cities through songs graphs, and hands-on art. Young scholars practice phonic sound /M/.
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Feeling Bright, Green and Proud (words with R-Blends)
What words begin with an r-blend? Group each picture card into the correct category according to its initial consonant blend. After they complete the list, have kids write words into each box in the worksheets. Fun and educational for...
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: Initial Blends Lesson
In this beginning reading module, the instructor introduces words with initial consonant blends. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see words sounded out,...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Overview of Consonant Vowel Consonant Words/closed Syllables
This resource has two sections: Overview of Consonant-Vowel-Consonant Words/Closed Syllables and video Demonstrations. It provides downloads of the following: lesson plan, lesson materials, word list, and video transcript. This section...
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Rock 'N Learn: Missing Instrument: Beginning Consonant G and Ending Consonant X
This printable consonant letters worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will find hidden words that begin with /g/ and end with /x/. An answer key and lesson extension are...
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: Initial Blends Quiz
This site is an interactive quiz to assess knowledge of initial blends. Words with initial blends are included on the assessment. The quiz is designed to follow the "Reading Bear: intial blends" lesson.
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Free Phonics Lessons: Breath Sound Consonants: Beginning Consonant Sounds
Ready-to-print phonics chart on beginning consonant breath-sounds. Students can click on the letters, pictures, or words to hear the sounds independently or as a part of the words.
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Rock 'N Learn: Mini Stories: Beginning Blends
This printable consonant blends worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will add initial consonant blends [ bl, br, cl, cr, dr, fl, fr, gl, gr, pl, pr, sc and sw] to form words...