Core Knowledge Foundation
First Grade Skills Unit 2
Nineteen lessons make-up a four-week-long unit that explores long vowel sounds, nouns, and 11 high-frequency words. Lessons scaffold information to gain confidence in reading a decodable text and answering questions. Routines include...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Canned Sort
Give your budding readers practice with vowel sounds using a sorting activity which will especially appeal to kinesthetic learners. They examine two cans, each with a header card attached. The header card words have the same vowel...
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What Do You See at the Pond?
With What Do You See at the Pond?, young readers explore pond life and practice reading strategies. Learners first make predictions and then read the simple story independently. After a second read-through with a partner, kids come...
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Phonogram: "TH" and "EE"
In this recognizing words with th and ee instructional activity, students read sentences, identify the phonograms, and draw pictures illustrating the sentences. Students complete 4 activities.
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Review Letters and Words: 28
In this reviewing letters and words worksheet, students read sentences, read word chunks, determine syllables, and more. Students complete 5 exercises.
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Word and Letter Practice #2
In this words and letters practice worksheet, students practice naming letters and practicing sounds of given sets of letters, read simple sentences, and practice sight words.
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Long Vowels – Silent Ee Rule Practice – The Magic Ee – Long Vowel Ii
In this long vowel Ii sound practice worksheet, students fill in the blanks in 10 words that are part of 10 different sentences.
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Long Vowels – Silent Ee Rule Practice – The Magic Ee – Long Vowel Ii
In this long vowel Ii practice worksheets, students examine 10 words that feature the long vowel Ii sound and respond to 10 yes or no questions.
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Long Vowels – Silent Ee Rule Practice – The Magic Ee – Long Vowel Aa
In this long vowel "Aa" practice worksheets, students examine 10 words that feature the long vowel "Aa" sound and respond to 10 yes or no questions.
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Ee Pictures and Words
In this phonics worksheet, students discover the sound of long vowel E by cutting apart 28 word cards with their corresponding picture cards. Students read the words and match the cards.
Arcademics
Coconut Vowels
Scholars show what they know about vowel digraphs with a quick coconut-themed learning game. Players fill in the blanks of falling coconuts to make words with a double vowel spelling pattern.
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We All Scream for Ice Cream!
Students complete a variety of activities related to the long /e/ sound. As a class they recite a tongue twister, then spell different words that contain the ee and ea correspondence. Students then read the book "Tea For Three" with a...
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Words and Letters Practice #3
In this words and letters practice activity, students practice naming letters and practicing sounds of given sets of letters, read simple sentences, and practice sight words.
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Silent E
In this long vowel activity, 2nd graders focus on classifying nouns and verbs with long vowel sounds. Students study 20 words and write each word under the correct column.
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Barnyard Bingo
Students explore farm animal sounds. They sing a song that introduces them to the sounds of farm animals. Students create animal bingo cards to help them recognize the correct sounds for each of the farm animals. They discuss the types...
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Do Sheep See Sheep When They Feel The Need To Sleep?
First graders distinguish between the sounds for short vowel e and long vowel e. They are introduced to the vowel patterns that comprise long vowel sounds, with a particular emphasis on /ee/. They practice reading and identifying a...
Make Take Teach
7 Syllable Types - Classroom Posters
Review r-controlled words, open and closed vowels, and dipthongs with a set of classroom posters. Each page features one concept with a colorful illustration, an explanation, and a list of applicable words.
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Eeeee -- It's a Mouse!
Students recognize the long "e" sound, and identify it in spoken words by learning letter symbols. Students participate in role playing and tongue twisters to learn the long "e" sound. By learning phenomes, students are taking the...
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What Do Seals Eat?
Students recognize the ea=/E/ correspondence in spoken and written words. They participate in a group letterbox lesson. In groups of two, they practice reading with each other, taking turns reading one page at a time, identifying the...
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Ohhhh Wheeee!!!!
Students complete a variety of activities as they explore the long /E/ sound. They recite tongue twisters, practice writing words with the long /E/ sound (especially those using 'ee'), and read and identify long /E/ words in the story,...
Get Fluent
Get Fluent in French: Going on Holiday
Take a vacation into French with lots of vocabulary and plenty of activities. This collection of worksheets includes instruction as well as practice and invites French language learners to hone their translation skills.
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Meet Lee, the Sleepy Bee
First graders distinguish between the different ways to create the sound for long vowel e. They are introduced to the vowel patterns that comprise long vowel sounds. They practice reading and spelling a variety of words containing the...
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Verbs and Nouns
In this long vowel instructional activity, 1st graders focus on classifying nouns and verbs with long vowel sounds. Students study 10 words and use each word to complete 5 given sentences.
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"Easy E Street"
Students investigate how the same letter can make more than one sound. It is also important for students to understand that the correspondences can be spelled and pronounced differently. This instructional activity will review e=/e/ and...