Florida Center for Reading Research
Phonics: Onset and Rime, Word Swat
With a fly swatter in hand, learners swat the rime-flys with their onset swatter to make, read, and write words by blending the onset with the rime-fly. Scholars blend words, make and write words, and also work to determine if the words...
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Match the Words
Even if your kids aren't reading yet, they can become familiar with words by identifying two that are the same. Youngsters focus on the word same as they examine eight words and match them to their identical spellings....
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Surprise!: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 2)
Surprise! is the theme of a unit covering such topics as consonants, blending, short vowels sounds, high frequency words, and number words. The unit's lessons also include teachable moments covering story structure, illustrations,...
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Let Us Rhyme With Madeline
Listen to the book Madeline, and identify rhyming words with learners as they hear them in the book. Learners will engage in a class discussion about rhyming words. After listening to Madeline, they will circle pictures of words that...
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Hickory Dickory Dock
Pupils pick out the sounds and -ck written in words. They are taught how to correctly say the sound with their mouth and read Hickory Dickory Dock. Words with the ck sound are underlined for the student's to notice. As an assessment,...
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Animal Alphabet
Students make a class animal book using the letters of the alphabet. They use a website imbedded in this plan to get pages with animals that begin with any of the 26 letters.
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Ready to Rhyme with Hop on Pop
Students complete worksheets by circling similar letters used in rhyming sounds. They form rhyming words using index cards and play a game of rhyming Bingo. They use letter tiles to form the rhyming words in the Dr. Suess book "Hop on Pop."
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Thump Your Thinker
First graders discuss how t and h together make one sound and then make the sound while examining the mouth movement associated with it. They listen for the sounds in sentences that are read to them before making words with the Elkonin...
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I'm Learning to Spell (Long i Sound)
For this spelling worksheet, 3rd graders work with 8 long i sound words. They fill in the missing letters in 4 examples to make words such as bike, tile, and dime. They read 4 sentences, draw an X on the word that is spelled incorrectly...
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Hop Scotch
Students practice a variety of techniques and strategies to assess the letter sound of o=/o/. They encounter Elkonin Boxes to assist them with their task as well as the tongue twister "Oliver had an operation in October, and Oscar gave...
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Chuga, Chuga, Choo, Choo
Pupils identify the digraphs in written and spoken language. After a brief discussion on the combinations of letters that comprise digraphs, students practice identifying initial and final placement of the digraph /ch/ in words and...
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Beginning Consonants
In this beginning consonants worksheet, students say the sound of a letter, name pictures in the row and circle the pictures that begin with the given sound. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Rhyming Fun
In this rhyming fun worksheet, students practice adding certain letters to other letters to strengthen their skills on rhyming words. Students fill in forty-six blanks with rhyming words from directives given on the worksheet.
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'Ow' (long o) Decoder
In this phonics word decoder worksheet, students use their problem solving skills and the decoder key to decode 20 sets of letters in order to form 20 long o words.
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'O / Magic e' Decoder
In this phonics word decoder worksheet, students use their problem solving skills and the decoder key to decode 20 sets of letters in order to form 20 long o words.
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Kids Learning Exercise -Match Word & Picture: E
In this online interactive vocabulary skills worksheet, students match the 6 words listed to the appropriate pictures. Students may submit their answers to be scored. All of the words begin with the letter E.
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Kids Learning Exercise -Match Word & Picture G
In this online interactive vocabulary skills activity, students match the 6 words listed to the appropriate pictures. Students may submit their answers to be scored. All of the words begin with the letter g.
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Kids Learning Exercise -Match Word & Picture: I
In this online interactive vocabulary skills worksheet, students match the 6 words listed to the appropriate pictures. Students may submit their answers to be scored. All of the words begin with the letter i.
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Kids Learning Exercise -Match Word & Picture: P
In this word recognition worksheet, students examine 6 pictures and match them to the appropriate words that begin with the letter P. Students may submit their answers to be scored in this online interactive format.
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Kids Learning Exercise -Match Word & Picture: U
For this online interactive vocabulary skills worksheet, students match the 5 words listed to the appropriate pictures. Students may submit their answers to be scored. All of the words begin with the letter U.
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"Oa" Review
In this "oa" word search activity, students locate and circle the 5 "oa" words listed in the word bank within the word puzzle. Students also fill in the blanks in 4 words with the letters "oa".
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Word Lists
In this Language Arts instructional activity, students read 5 lists of three to four letter words. The lists are groups by consonant-vowel combination.
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Copycat, Copycat!
Students observe that sometimes the letter "c" is a copycat letter and sometimes acts like a "k" or an "s" like in the words "cat" and "race". They use Elkonin letter boxes and letters to spell words as they are called out by the...
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Iiizzy is Iiicky Sticky!
Students answer a series of questions about the different sounds that the letter I makes. They observe a picture about a girl and the letter I. They practice a tongue twister with the different sounds of I. They practice writing the...