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Let's Go to the Farm
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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Gorilla Girl Grows Green with the Letter G
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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Swish the Fish
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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What Begins With A? Short Vowel Sounds
For this letter/sound recognition worksheet, students draw lines from pictures of 3 astronauts to the items that begin with the short a sound. They choose from 5 pictures that include an ant, an apple, and a ring.
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Vowel Combination: Aw
In this word and sound recognition worksheet, students examine 3 words with the aw sound and trace the words. Picture clues are included. Students also practice tracing the letters and reading sentences.
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Vowel Combination: Oy
For this word and sound recognition worksheet, students examine 3 words with the oy sound and trace the words. Picture clues are included. Students also practice tracing the letters and reading sentences.
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Vowel Combination: Ir
In this word and sound recognition worksheet, students examine 3 words with the ir sound and trace the words. Picture clues are included. Students also practice tracing the letters and reading sentences.
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Vowel Combination: Ay
In this word and sound recognition worksheet, students examine 3 words with the ay sound and trace the words. Picture clues are included. Students also practice tracing the letters and reading sentences.
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Initial Sound Accuracy, Same Sound!
Pupils study words. In this phonemic awareness instructional activity, students play a game in which they identify if two words have the same initial sound. They play the game in pairs using a stack of word cards prepared by the teacher....
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Grandpa Ed
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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Phonemic Awareness Infusion
Students comprehend how to produce these pronuciation features, recognize the various blends of two and three letter consonant sounds, hear the sounds, produce them correctly when thinking about it, and practice correct pronuciation to...
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"Open Your Mouth and Say AH!"
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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Eddie the Egg
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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Egg-xtra E!
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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Dribble The Basketball
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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The Crying Baby Sound
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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The Not-So-Scary Creaky Door!
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...
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Growling Tiger Rrrrr
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 Itsy Bitsy Pig
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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Say aahhh....said the doctor
Students recognize the short vowel O in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /o/ from other vowel sounds. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify...
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Good Grape Soda--Gulp, Gulp, Gulp
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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Sammy Snake
Students identify the grapheme and phoneme for S. They practice writing the letter S and through listening activities, discriminate the phoneme /s/. They associate the phoneme /s/ with its letter representation and identify it in various...
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"Whaaa" Said The Baby"
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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"Aaaaaaa...a Fast Crab! "
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.