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Lesson Two: Writing Letters in Code

For Teachers Pre-K - 9th
Combine your friendly letter lesson, grammar lesson, and technology lesson with this fun activity! Young writers compose letters to friends, and then convert the text to Webdings font. Their friends then decode the letter based on a key....
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Curated OER

Ready...Set...Let's Read!!

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students observe and demonstrate various reading decoding strategies to improve their reading fluency. In pairs, they take turns reading sentences outloud to each other, with the goal of reading them more quickly each time. Students...
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Writing
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Riddles

For Students 4th - 6th
Riddles can be a fun way to practice word decoding. Scholars read two riddles to determine the word each is referencing. These riddles are based on word analysis to build letters one at a time rather than big-picture idea concepts....
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Spelling Counts!

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Play a game to practice spelling and math. By assigning a numerical value to each letter of the alphabet, you can engage learners in "spy" coding and decoding activities that reinforce grade-appropriate spelling and math skills....
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PPT
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Do the Word Stretch

For Teachers 1st
Young learners practice putting sounds together to form words. Even though the sound is not functioning on this presentation, the basic premise of leading students through the decoding process is great. There are only four examples,...
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Skill Lessons – Prefixes and Suffixes

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Sometimes the best way to understand a concept is to break it down. Young vocabulary pupils work with word parts in a hands-on activity that prompts them to connect flash cards with affixes to their root and base words. Additionally,...
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Worksheet
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New Words: Make a Conservation Dictionary

For Students 4th Standards
Gosh dictionaries are great, and your class gets to make one of their own. They look up and write down the dictionary definition to nine words related to conservation and pollution prevention. They list their words alphabetically for...
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Code.org

Text Compression

For Teachers 9th - 12th
The second instructional activity in a unit of 15 introduces pupils to text compression. The class begins with discussing how they already use text compression when sending text messages. Pairs learn more about the subject as they work...
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The Big Green Monster

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students practice rereading selected passages to improve their reading fluency. Working in pairs, students read and reread decodable, leveled passages. They complete center activities in groups of four in order to aid in decoding and...
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Lesson Plan
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Baseball Blending

For Teachers 1st
First graders practice blending sounds into words for reading decoding. Through guided practice, they recognize how they can blend together three phonemes to make one word. Students read a passage from a decodable reader with the...
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Sounding out accuracy, Word Potato

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Learning to sound out CVC words can be fun, when you turn skills practice into a game. Kids play "Hot Potato" by passing a bucket filled with phonetically regular words on cards. When the music stops, students choose a word and sound it...
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Roman Portfolio

For Teachers 2nd
Student practice decoding skills and phonological awareness. In this vocabulary development lesson, student identifies new vocabulary through word association and flash cards. Student also reads How he Chick Tricked the Fox making...
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Decode and Write Words with More Than One Syllable

For Teachers K - 1st
Practice sounding out multi-syllable words with this scaffolded lesson. Learners decode words by segmenting them into phonemes and combining the sounds. Your lines are in bold here, but you can easily use this simply as an outline...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Phonics lesson for -ick family

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Kindergarteners and first graders develop phonemic awareness for words that contain -ick. Each learner gets a stack of cards with different -ick words, highlighting the target sound as they review each one. 
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Say /o/

For Teachers K - 1st
Ollie the octopus is occupied! Use this tongue twister to help youngsters learn the /o/ sound. After practicing the target sound, learners should print the letter. When they are familiar with the letter and its sound, the group will...
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Vowel Sounds

For Teachers 4th
This plan aims to increase the reading proficiency of your fourth grade class. While no materials are provided, a list of activities to practice are included. Various activities include creating songs for short vowel sounds, using cue...
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Kites are Slow, Reading is Fast

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Speed read with your third, fourth, and fifth graders. Learners pair up and work together to improve their oral fluency. Use the technique of covering up unknown words to isolate the vowel and decode the word. There's a sheet included to...
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Blast-Off to Blending

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Practice working with different phonemes in consonants and vowels. Sounds are written on squares that get put on a rocket to "blast off" and meet other sounds. The teacher first models blending, then reads the new words. Young readers...
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Blending is Fun

For Teachers K - 2nd
Use a poster picture of a slide to illustrate the blending of phonemes in words. First show your youngsters basic examples like cat and cap. Then have learners work in pairs to create some blends of their own! Provide words for them to...
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Worksheet
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School-Home Links: Compound Words

For Students 1st - 3rd
What is a compound word? Have young learners review compound words, identify the two independent words in a compound word, and look for examples through reading and listening. Send this home for independent practice, and make sure to...
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Word Review Card Activity

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Pupils play a card game where they match the meaning of the word to the word or its prefix/suffix. They listen for the teacher to call out the definition and, with two players facing off, the first one to slap the correct card wins! Kids...
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Reading Like an Expert!

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students identify and interpret that they should read as if someone is explaining it to them like a conversation. Then they reread the text given until they are no longer decoding and it sounds like they are just talking. Students also...
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Worksheet
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Decode the Words #13 -Grade 7

For Students 7th
In this spelling skills activity, 7th graders decode 20 sets of numbers to spell their spelling words. A numerical-letter code is provided.
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Worksheet
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Decode the Words #15 -Grade 7

For Students 7th
In this spelling skills worksheet, 7th graders decode 20 sets of numbers to spell their spelling words. A numerical-letter code is provided.

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