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Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Digraph (Th) Activity

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Check out this interactive digraph activity for the "th" sound. Students will find this interactive activity engaging and educational.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: A New Letter for the Alphabet

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage discusses the history of the schwa sound. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for vocabulary...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Can You Crack the Code?

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students will conduct guided research on the Navajo code talkers and briefly discuss their impact on WWII. Students will also be introduced to other forms of cryptology and use number pattern skills to crack their own code and create a...
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Activity
Education.com

Education.com: Rf.2.3.c Worksheets

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] These worksheets can help students practice the Common Core State Standards skill of decoding regularly spelled two-syllable words with long vowels.
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Professional Doc
Auburn University

Auburn University: Developing Reading Fluency

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
How can you develop reading fluency in your students? This site offers insight into the direct and indirect approaches to teaching reading fluency. Come and check it out.
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Professional Doc
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Segmenting [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Classroom teachers will learn how to use segmenting phonemes as an instructional strategy. Teachers will learn direct instructional techniques for segmenting phonemes; games and activities are also provided to reinforcement student...
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Professional Doc
Auburn University

Auburn University: How Children Learn to Read Words

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
How do children really learn to read words? This resource offers insight into this complicated but exciting journey of putting sounds and words together to learn the joy of reading. Come and discover more.
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: The Alphabetic Principle

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
What are predictor's for a child's success in reading? Use this site to learn more how the knowledge of the alphabet and shapes is a factor for reading success.
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Professional Doc
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Structural Analysis [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Classroom teachers will learn about structural analysis of words, an important instructional strategy. Teachers will learn how to implement structural analysis, understand how to measure progress with structural analysis, find research...
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Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Intensive, Individualized Interventions for Struggling Readers

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Because the cause of adolescents' difficulties in reading vary, interventions may focus on any of the critical elements of knowledge and skill required for the comprehension of complex texts, including fundamental skills such as phonemic...
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Education.com

Education.com: rf.k.3.d Worksheets

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Choose from a variety of worksheets to help students practice distinguishing between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ.
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Lesson Plan
Auburn University

Auburn University: The Letterbox Lesson

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
The "letterbox lesson" is a phonics lesson in which young students are led to analyze the phoneme sequence in a word, first by spelling the word and then by reading it.
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Other

Printable Reading and Phonics Games

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site includes 15 different phonics and reading games to download, laminate, and cut out. Includes games for phonics blends; "When two vowels go walking;" ee; ir, ur er; tion, etc.
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Lesson Plan
HotChalk

Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Consonant Digraphs

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
What is a digraph? The objective of this lesson plan is that young scholars will be able to recognize and use consonant digraphs in sentences and speech.
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Article
Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Six Syllable Types

For Teachers 1st - 6th Standards
Six written syllable-spelling conventions are used in English spelling. The conventions are useful to teach because they help students remember when to double letters in spelling and how to pronounce the vowels in new words. The...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Tic Tac Toe; Letter Sound Accuracy Activity

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A letter sound version of Tic Tac Toe that students play with partners. Before they can take their turn, they must draw a letter and give three words that begin with that letter. Their partner must give them a thumbs up before they can...
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Unit Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Beginning Sound Spin Letter Sound Accuracy Activity

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Builds students' abilities to identify the sound of a letter and say if a word begins with that sound. The student spins a wheel and says what letter/sound it stops on. Then they find a picture that begins with that sound. This site...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Catch a Sound: Letter Sound Accuracy Activity

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A quick alphabet game for the whole class. Students stand in a circle and throw a beanbag to each other. When they catch it, they must say a word that begins with the letter given. Continue this in alphabetical order.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Sound Toss Game; Letter Sound Accuracy

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A letter sounds game that students will love! They toss a bean bag onto a poster board with pictures on it, and tell what the first letter and sound is of the picture that the bean bag lands on. This site includes a link to printable...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Sound Spaghetti; Letter Sound Accuracy Game

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A great game to teach students how to sound out words. Each student picks a piece of long paper out of the teacher's basket and pronounces the letters on it.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Musical Chairs Game; Letter Sound Accuracy

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A letter sound accuracy game based on Musical Chairs. But to keep the chair that they sit in the student must pick a letter from the teacher's bucket and give a word that starts with that letter. A link to Letter Cards is included on...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Egg Carton Game; Letter Sound Accuracy Activity

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A small group game to build students' abilities to identify letters and their sounds. A student shakes an egg carton, opens it to see where a chip landed, and says the letter and its sound.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Connect 4 Words: Letter Sound Accuracy Activity

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A reading game based on "Connect 4" that will build student's abilities to say the name and sound of a letter and find a word beginning with that sound.
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Lesson Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Give Me Five; Letter Sound Accuracy Activity

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
An exciting game to build students' understanding and accuracy of producing words that begin with the same letter. Students sit in a circle and the teacher says the sound of the letter. One student must pass a bean bag around the circle...

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