Reading Resource
Bubble Letters
A fun way to display the alphabet in your classroom! Each letter of the alphabet is featured on a full-page piece of paper, ready for decoration or use as a learning tool.
Reading Resource
Going to the Movies (Basic Code Sentences)
Take a pretend trip to the movies with a series of basic code sentences. Images of movie tickets, popcorn buckets, and movie cameras award learners varying amounts of points for each sentence that they can successfully read.
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b or d: What do you see?
First graders often mix up the letters b/d, making them pronounce words incorrectly because they are identifying a b or d when they should be pronouncing the opposite letter. They are exposed to the two letters in a variety of ways...
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Y Letter Recognition
In this letter Y worksheet, students identify words that begin with the lower case letter y and pictures of items that begin with the y sound. Students circle and color ten answers.
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Letter L
In this letter L worksheet, students circle words that begin with the letter L and circle and color pictures that start with the letter L. Students circle and color twelve letter L words and pictures.
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The Listening Walk
Students play instruments that reflect sounds in the story: hoots, toots, creaking, shrieks, clacking, crunching, whooshing, etc. They make vocal sounds from the story: whispered, sniffled, sigh, giggled, croaked, laughed. The...
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Red Gets Fed
Students practice with the strategy that letters represent phonemes and spellings map out phonemes in spoken words. They work on the phoneme sounds of /a/ and e=/e/ in correspondences with reading. Each student also recites the tongue...
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Consonant-Vowel-Consonant Words
In this recognizing consonant-vowel-consonant words activity, students pronounce three-letter picture words, circle one letter from each column for the beginning, middle, and final sounds, and write the picture words. Students write...
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Phonics and Vegetable Books
Students participate in phonemic awareness and phonics activities and develop a list of vegetable vocabulary words. They break up words into beginnings and endings, and trace and write the letter s. Students then create a Vegetable...
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Letter Recognition
In this letter recognition worksheet, students say the given letters and the sounds aloud. Students also say the four sentences aloud.
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Getting the Message: What Did You Say?
Students listen to and compare the first sentence of the Gettysburg Address spoken in different languages. They also compare frequency readings for each and discuss how the brain interprets spoken words.
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Consonant Vowel Consonant Skill 1
For this recognizing words spelled with the cvc pattern worksheet, students say picture words, choose the beginning, middle, and final letters, and write the picture words. Students spell and write twenty words.
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Printing the Letter Gg
For this handwriting worksheet, students practice writing the uppercase and lowercase letter G four times in the boxes provided. Students also write the four words gerbil, giraffe, gymnast and gingerbread on the lines provided.
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Words that Begin with E?
In this E words worksheet, students draw a line to fill the empty box with the items that begin with the short vowel sound of e. Students find the words eleven, egg, and elephant.
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Sounds 1
In this beginning sounds activity, students circle the picture in each column whose name begins with the same sound as the first picture.
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What Begins with S?
In this letter S instructional activity, students study the pictures and then draw a line to help the three sailboats find the items that begin with the sound of s.
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Beginning Consonant Sound Matching
In this beginning consonant matching worksheet, students analyze 6 pictures of common objects and match them to the initial consonant letters.
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The "T" Sound
In this phonics activity, 1st graders will copy 6 words that begin with the letter T. Then students will draw ten tomatoes and a table.
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Counting Sentences' Words
Explore language arts by completing a worksheet with class. They read the story Owl Moon and discuss the rhythm of the writing and how action verbs are used appropriately. Then complete a writing worksheet which discusses writing...
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Look at Us!: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 1)
Support struggling learners and focus on the alphabet with the three weeks of activities and materials provided here. Each day, learners review some letters and practice others in depth. They work on rhyming, practice new words, and...
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No Title
Students are introduced to and practice with the letter "A" in beginning short sound words through various experiences involving many of their senses. They interact with flash cards that contain the letter "A" sound including animals,...
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The Tell-Tale Heart
Here's the perfect resource for anyone using Edgar Allan Poe's famous short story the "Tell-Tale Heart." The packet includes five worksheets that provide skills practice exercises focusing on spelling with consonant blends,...
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Jeopardy! The Eight Parts of Speech
Thrill your class with the daily doubles and increasing points of Jeopardy! Complete with sound effects and visual cues, the game focuses on parts of speech, including nouns, prepositions, and conjunctions. Each point square links to a...
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They That Wash
Scholars examine the "They That Wash" poster and listen to the rhymes. They match word cards to the words in the nursery rhyme, practice sounds, and create new words. Afterward, they add copies of the rhyme to their "My Very Own Nursery...