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I Said a Boom Chicka Boom

For Teachers K - 1st
Pupils explore how to blend words. They distinguish phonemes and practice blending them. Students practice the /oo/ sound and identify words that contain that sound. They read Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and identify words that have the /oo/...
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Ohhhh Me, Ohhhhh My!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice identifying phonemes and recognizing letters in written words to become fluent readers. They study the phoneme /O/ in the tongue twister, "Oh No, my Nose needs an operation in October." Each student also interacts with...
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Adult ESOL Lesson Plan-Phonemic Awareness Infusion

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students focus on the articulation of /r/ and /l/ consonant sounds while practicing the sounds and usage within reading passages. Students also examine the parts of a medicine label and interpret important medical information.
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Let's Go to the Farm

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore corresponding letters of the alphabet with the corresponding phonemes using farm animals. They create a classroom word wall of the items they saw on a trip to the farm or zoo. Students create pictures to go along with...
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Swish the Fish

For Teachers K - 1st
Students study the /sh/ phoneme by making the sound, and reciting a tongue twister. Next, they make words that the teacher models using their Elkonin letterboxes. While using the big book version of Dr. Seuss', One Fish, Two Fish, Red...
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Muffins are Yummmmmy!

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore phonemes. They discuss the phoneme /m/. Students learn a tongue twister to help them identify the phoneme /m/. They read "If You Give A Moose a Muffin." Students search for /m/ words while reading the story. They...
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Isabelle the Icky Iguana

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice the sound and spelling of the short vowel /i/. They identify the short /i/ sound in spoken and written words. The tongue twister "Isabelle iguana is in her igloo," and "Tin Man Fix It," along with Elkonin letter boxes...
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Gorilla Girl Grows Green with the Letter G

For Teachers K - 1st
Students practice recognizing the letter g in spoken words. They identify the phoneme g=/g/ by listening and saying it in words. Students read Planting a Rainbow and identify words with the letter g. They create green, glittered G's on...
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore phonemes and short vowels. They identify /a/ (short a) sound in spoken words and learn a meaningful representation and a letter symbol for the sound. Students identify /a/ (short a) sound in words. They read "The Very...
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Grandpa Ed

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students engage in an emergent literacy lesson that focuses on phonemic awareness. For practice they become more comfortable with a short vowel phoneme, which can often be the most difficult to identify, by learning it in isolation.
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"Open Your Mouth and Say AH!"

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice letter and sound recognition of the vowel o=/o/. They study the tongue twister "Tom got a frog from the pond" and the book, "If You Give a Moose a Muffin," by Laura Joffe Numeroff with an accompanying worksheet to master.
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Oddity Rhyming Strips

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students list rhyming words. In this rhyming lesson, students look at a groups of pictures, name them and identify which one doesn't rhyme with the rest. Students make their own rhyming strips.
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Eddie the Egg

For Teachers 1st
First graders recognize the short vowel e in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /e/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify...
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"Whaaa" Said The Baby"

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars recognize phonemes that correspond with the letters in the alphabet. They focus on identifying the short a, /a/ sound. They examine the way their mouths move when making the short a sound mimicking a baby's cry. In given...
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Good Grape Soda--Gulp, Gulp, Gulp

For Teachers K - 1st
Students recognize the phoneme /g/. Through matching activities, students discriminate the phoneme /g/ from other letters and phonemes. They associate the phoneme /g/ with its letter representation and identify the phoneme /g/ in various...
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Growling Tiger Rrrrr

For Teachers 1st
First graders recognize the phoneme /r/. Through listening and matching activities, 1st graders discriminate the phoneme /r/ from similar looking letters and phonemes. They associate the phoneme /r/ with its letter representation and...
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The Crying Baby Sound

For Teachers K - 1st
Students recognize the short vowel a in spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /a/ in words and sentences. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and read sentences...
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"Aaaaaaa...a Fast Crab! "

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students participate in an emergent literacy lesson that focuses on the skill of phonemic awareness. The phoneme chosen is the letter "a". They need to correlate the sound to the letter.
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The Itsy Bitsy Pig

For Teachers 1st
First graders 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...
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Timmy the Turtle Goes Tick Tock

For Teachers K - 1st
Students identify the letter and phoneme /t/ in written and spoken language. Students practice the production of the /t/ sound through tongue twisters. They identify the initial placement of the letter and sound using a picture worksheet.
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Dribble The Basketball

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars recognize the phoneme /d/. Through listening and matching activities, students discriminate the phoneme /d/ from similar looking letters and phonemes. They associate the phoneme /d/ with its letter representation and...
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Where The Green Grass Grows

For Teachers K
Students recognize the phoneme /g/. Through matching activities, students discriminate the phoneme /g/ from other letters and phonemes. They associate the phoneme /g/ with its letter representation and identify the phoneme /g/ in various...
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Egg-xtra E!

For Teachers 1st
First graders recognize the short vowel e in written and spoken language. Through listening activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /e/ from other phonemes. Students identify the phoneme and letter in words and sentences they write.
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The Not-So-Scary Creaky Door!

For Teachers K
Students recognize the short vowel e in spoken language. Through listening activities, they discriminate the short vowel phoneme /e/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify the...