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Poem: One, Two, Three, Four, Five
For this poetry worksheet students read the poem, "One, Two, Three, Four, Five." They the cut out rhyming words and color a picture to match the poem.
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Phonics Cards: ar
In this phonics practice worksheet, learners cut out 26 picture and word cards. Students match "ar" word cards to the appropriate picture cards.
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Doctor : Open Wide And Say /o/
Students complete a variety of activities related to the short /o/ sound. As a class they recite a tongue twister, then trace and write the letter O. Students listen to a list of words and identify the words containing the short /o/...
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Rhyming Activity
In this rhyming words worksheet, 1st graders use the word bank to spell a word that rhymes with the picture. Students write five words.
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Rhyming Fun
For this rhyming words worksheet, students color the picture that rhymes with the word in the boxes. Students complete 4 examples for rhyming words.
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Popcorn PPPPopping P
Learners are introduced to the most popular phonemes to help them with their reading. As a class, they listen to popcorn popping and identify the sound being heard. They practice saying different tongue twisters and drawing the letters...
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Sound the Foghorn
Students complete a variety of activities related to the long /u/ sound. As a class they recite a tongue twister, then trace and write the letter U. Students then listen to pairs of words and identify which word contains the long /u/...
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Ch Ch Ch Ch ....Here Comes the Train!
Students complete a variety of activities related to the digraph /ch/. As a class they recite a tongue twister, then listen to different words and identify the words containing /ch/. Students then listen to the book "Chicka Chicka Boom...
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Beginning Sounds
Students find the beginning letters of words. In this alphabet lesson, students sound out words to find the beginning sound and the beginning letter. They play a game to mark these letters on a card.
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Choo, Choo!
Students complete a variety of activities related to the /ch/ digraph. As a class they recite a tongue twister, and write the letters Ch. Students listen to word pairs and identify which word in each pair contains the /ch/ sound, and...
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Sid the Silly Slow Sloth
Learners complete a variety of activities related to the /s/ sound. They write the letter S, and listen to word pairs, identifying the word in each pair that contains the /s/ sound. Students then listen to the book "Slowly, Slowly,...
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No Pain, No Brain!
Students complete a variety of activities related to the /ai/ digraph. As a class they recite a tongue twister, then spell different words containing the /ai/ digraph using letter manipulatives. Students listen to the book "The Long Long...
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Initial Consonant Blend Sounds
For this initial consonant blend sounds worksheet, 1st graders look at four pictures and write the missing consonant blends to spell each word correctly.
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Initial Sound Memory Game
Students are reintroduced to initial sounds and play a picture card game to build accuracy. In this initial sound lesson plan, students place the picture cards face down and organize the picture cards into an even number of rows and...
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Howwwwl At The Moon
Students explore vowel digraphs. They discuss what a vowel digraph is and discuss the vowel digraph ou=/ow/. Students read "The Napping House." They practice spelling words with the /ow/ sound in them. Students read words with the /ow/...
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Introduce Word Families
First graders study words. For this word families lesson, 1st graders discover words that rhyme with the endings -est and -ill. They work as a group to determine which ending various words have and to put them in the proper category...
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The Fly Swatter Game
Students are placed in small groups to participate in the "Fly Swatter Game" to reinforce phonetic sounds of letters.
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Using Starfall to Review the Short A Sound
Students read a story with the short a sound. The story is about a rat. They access Starfall and select the story called Zac the Rat. They read the story out loud as a group then the students answer comprehension and skill questions...
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I Ate Grape Cake
Students distinguish between the sounds for short vowel a and long vowel a. They are introduced to the vowel patterns that comprise long vowel sounds, with a particular emphasis on vowel-consonant-e pattern. They practice reading and...
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Eager E
Students complete a variety of activities related to the long /e/ sound. As a class they recite a tongue twister, then trace and write the letter E. Students then play a concentration type game, listen to the book "Lee and the Team,"...
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Method for Teaching the Blending of Sounds: Train Technique
Students explore the blending of individual sounds to make words and, using visuals and manipulatives, equate this process to the hooking up of railroad cars to make a train. They link individual letters/sounds to make short words.
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Shhhh...Something Is Fishy!
Students study the consonant digraph /sh/. They listen to tongue twisters containing the /sh/ digraph and write words beginning with /sh/. They create words using Elkonin boxes that have the /sh/ digraph.
