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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Totally Tubular Blending

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students practice a wide variety of techniques and strategies to strengthen their blending skills to form words and read. They read "A Cat Nap" and interact with different colors of inner tubes with the letters "a, c, b, d, f, l, m, p,...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Hurry Home, Henry!

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students practice letter recognition of /h/ in spoken and written words. They listen for the phoneme, repeat it and participate in meaningful hands-on activities to help master the letter H. Students encounter the book, "Hungry Harry,"...
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Unit Plan
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Let’s Count!: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 5)

For Teachers K Standards
In a themed series of lessons and activities, beginner readers are given extra support in reading through chants, games, and practice worksheets.
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Unit Plan
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Friends Together: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 4)

For Teachers K Standards
Friendship is the theme in this series of extra support lessons. With a variety of resources (practice worksheets, letter, word, punctuation and picture cards), young readers gain knowledge of initial consonants v and h, blending short...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Phonics: Decoding Words in Connected Text

For Teachers K
Introduce your little ones to the wonders of phonemic decoding. They practice along as you sound out simple cvc words in the context of a sentence. 
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Open wide...and say Ahh!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Participate in an emerging literacy lesson that focuses on the skill of phonemic awareness! The phoneme of choice is the letter "o". They need to use letter recognition in conjunction with the sound.
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Activity
Teachers.net

Chicka-Chicka-Boom-Boom/ Chicka Challenge (Elementary, Literature)

For Teachers K Standards
Is your Kindergarten class about to read the book, Chicka-Chicka-Boom-Boom? If they are, and you want a few wonderful activity ideas to reinforce phonemic awareness and letter identification skills, look no further. Here you'll find over...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Alphabet Letters S, T, U and V

For Students Pre-K - K
Primary readers look at nine pictures and choose which letter, S, T, U or V begins each picture. Students circle their answers. This instructional activity is a great way for them to practice their phonemic awareness and letter recognition.
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Printables
Curated OER

Pictures That Beginning With the Letter T

For Teachers Pre-K
In this letter/sound recognition worksheet, students circle the pictures whose names begin with the letter T. They choose from 9 items such as a taco, a crab, a turtle, a tent, and a ball.
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PPT
Curated OER

Now I Know My ABCs

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Provide little learners with a visual of the English alphabet. Each slide contains a letter of the alphabet and an associated image. Have learners say each letter as it appears or make the sound each letter makes to build phonemic...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

High Frequency Words

For Students K - 6th
Phonemic awareness might not be a skill all autistic children will understand, but pattern and sight word recognition may prove to be more effective means of building strong reading skills. Use this set of twelve high frequency word...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Long Vowel Sounds (a)

For Teachers K - 1st
Several words use the long vowel a sound. Match the six words to the correct illustration. Practice saying the word, writing the word, and identifying the written word. 
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Long Vowel Sounds (e)

For Teachers K - 1st
Many words in the English language use the long e sound. Learners will match the words leaf, meal, feet, deer, team, and peel to their correct illustration. They practice reading and printing the word before illustrating a combination of...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Long Vowel Sounds Continued

For Teachers K - 1st
Continue exploring long vowel sounds with this worksheet. Learners will match the words lake, soap, leaf, pail, meal, and fire to the correct illustration. They will print the word on the dotted lines and illustrate two of the words...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Ending Consonants

For Students K - 1st
Provide this extensive practice packet for your young learners. Consider having them complete a section each day, or provide this for take-home work. For each letter, the learner says it aloud, traces it, writes it on the blank line, and...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

ABC It's as Easy as 1-2-3!

For Teachers Pre-K - K Standards
Help readers explore initial letter sounds. They will choose a letter of the alphabet and create a page for a classroom "ABC" book. They will write down various words that begin with their assigned letter and draw a picture to go in the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Short Vowels

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Learners will create a list of short vowel sound words and participate in computer phonics activities to practice. They will read an interactive storybook online. Next, they will complete words in order to better understand short vowel...
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Activity
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Letter Recognition: Poetry Pen

For Teachers K - 1st
It's always nice to have a great idea and all the tools to make it happen. The class can use these nursery rhyme and alphabet cards to teach each other letter recognition and letter sound correspondence. There is a full set of alphabet...
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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Onset and Rime Slide

For Teachers K - 1st
Discover onset and rime blends using this interactive activity which will appeal to your kinesthetic learners. Using the sliding templates provided, budding readers try different onsets with each rime. They practice reading skills by...
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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Picture the Word

For Teachers K - 1st
This is an excellent way to make onset and rime visual for beginning readers. They examine CVC-word picture cards that are all missing the first letter. Using plastic letters (or whatever you have), they complete each word and record it...
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Printables
Little Book Lane

"Sh" Words

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Sh, sh, sh! When two letters together always make the same sound, they're called a consonant digraph. Get those early readers ready to use the sh sound with confidence. This packet contains printable wall cards, a...
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Printables
Little Book Lane

"Ch" Words

For Teachers K - 2nd
What do chug and chain have in common? The consonant digraph ch of course. Hold onto your hats – here is a packet of worksheets with enough practice activities to fill a short unit. It contains two lists of ch words, three practice...
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Workbook
School Sparks

Christmas Worksheets for Santa's Little Helpers

For Students Pre-K - 2nd Standards
Just because children aren't in the classroom over winter break, doesn't mean that learning has to stop. Intended as a resource for parents, this eBook provides Christmas-themed worksheets and activities that engage children in...
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Unit Plan
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Core Knowledge Foundation

Kindergarten Skills Unit 2

For Teachers K Standards
Kindergarteners practice prewriting skills in a 10-day unit.  Young scholars blend sounds and syllables, build shapes with playdough, write shapes on paper, and trace their names.