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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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Fluency is Fantastic
Students, through teacher modeling and guided activities, practice their word decoding and blending skills in order to become more fluent readers. Reading aloud to a partner, they practice reading smoothly and with expression.
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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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Vroom, Vroom, Vroom! Off We Go!
Students practice sentences and short books to improve their fluency. They read practice sentences to model fluent reading. They review decoding strategies for unknown words including cross-checking. They read with their partner and...
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What's My Sound?
Students follow a power point presentation to practice the sounds each letter of the alphabet make. In this 'what's my sound' lesson, students apply word recognition strategies and demonstrate listening and comprehension skills to build...
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Introduce -ed = /d/, -ed = /t/ Words
First graders explore word structure by participating in a phonics activity. In this word ending instructional activity, 1st graders discuss the -ed endings to many words and practice sounding out words with that ending. Students...
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Sound It Out!
Help your class improve their spelling skills. Learners take a test, are given a particular spelling rule to practice, and play a Bingo game. This employs various methods for practicing spelling skills.
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Ta-Ta- Timer
Students identify a letter of the alphabet. They recognize this letter in print and in spoken language. The letter and phoneme chosen is the letter t and /t/. They write the letter in both lower and upper case. They read 'One Tiny...
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And a Baby Cries
Students model the sound a baby makes when it cries, saying "aaaaa". They say the word "rat" stretching out the vowel sound and look at a tongue twister for the /a/ sound; repeating it together as a class. They then practice making the...
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Allie The Alligator
Students recognize the short vowel a in written and spoken language. Through listening activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /a/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify them...
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Open Wide at the Dentist, "Aaaahh"
Study the /o/ in both written and spoken words by reciting a tongue twister and making words using Elkonin letterboxes. Next, write a message about frogs using /o/ words. Finally, listen to a short book talk on "Doc in the Fog" before...
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Beginning Reading Design: A and I are Team Players
Students complete a variety of activities related to the long /a/ sound and the /ai/ correspondence. As a class they recite a tongue twister, and spell words containing the /ai/ correspondence using letter manipulatives. Students then...
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The Whining Child
Students recognize the short vowel u in written and spoken language. Through matching and listening activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /u/ from other phonemes. Students identify the phoneme and letter in words and pictures.
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Shhh
Pupils identify the digraph /sh/ in written and spoken language. Students practice the production of the /sh/ sound through storiesand tongue twisters. They identify the initial and final placement of the new digraph /sh/ using a picture...
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Champions Check
First graders identify consonant digraphs in written and spoken language. After a brief discussion of the combinations of /c/ and /h/ that comprise the /ch/ digraph, 1st graders practice identifying initial and final placement of the...
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Aaa-aaa-aaa-choo!!
Students study the /a/ sound by mimicking the sound one makes when they sneeze. Next they work with a tongue twister, which they recite while stretching out the initial short a sound. Next, they practice writing the letter and read "A...
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Word Wizards: Students Making Words
Students explore patterns in words and how to make new words by adding or changing the sequence of letters
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Comparing Fiction and Nonfiction
Fifth graders compare and contrast an informational article with a fictional story. They read the story "The Contest" as a class, and discuss the different types of literature genres. Next, they complete a vocabulary worksheet and a...
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B B BEE!!
Students recognize phonemes in spoken words and match letters to phonemes. They focus on the letter /b/ and the meaningful representation of the /b/. They read 'The Honeybee and the Robber' by Eric Carle and hold up their bees when...
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Alphabet Books
Students work with a partner from a different grade level to brainstorm, draft, edit, illustrate and publish alphabet-themed books. They take turns reading the books to each other and conference with a teacher to review their work.
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Silly Sid
Learners recognize the short vowel i in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /i/ from other vowel sounds. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify...
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Ashley's Apples
First graders compare the /a/ sound to that of a baby crying. They practice making the sound and then say the tongue twister as it is written on a sentence strip and then using the overhead and letters, name words with that sound in them.
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Rub Those Eyes
Students 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 in words pictures,...
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D says DUH! Duh?
Students identify the letter D, both upper and lower case and recognize and identify the letter d in various words and illustrations. They identify how the mouth moves with the letter D through various word pronunciations. Finally,...