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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Dr. Seuss's Sound Words Playing With Phonics and Spelling

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Contains plans for three lessons that teach about sound and letters using Dr. Seuss's "Mr. Brown Can MOO! Can You?" In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Phonics Through Literature Learning About the Letter M

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Contains plans for lessons that teach about the letter M using a "Mystery Box" filled with items starting with M and the books "Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed" and "Five Little Monkeys Sitting in a Tree" by Eileen Christelow. In...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Tap and Say an Activity for Segmenting Words

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
You can add a phonemic awareness activity to your phonics lessons each day and it will only add a few extra minutes to your lessons. You also don't need to buy expensive manipulatives for your learners to use. There are lots of low-cost...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Phonic Generalizations in "Chrysanthemum"

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This online lesson uses an interactive activity to teach students how to determine the common and alternative sounds for specific vowel combinations. The words for this lesson are taken from the book "Chrysanthemum," by Kevin Henkes....
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: The Big Green Monster Teaches Phonics in Reading and Writing

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A big green monster helps students build their reading fluency and word recognition skills through choral reading, literacy center activities, and writing stories.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Tic Tac Toe; Letter Sound Accuracy Activity

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A letter sound version of Tic Tac Toe that students play with partners. Before they can take their turn, they must draw a letter and give three words that begin with that letter. Their partner must give them a thumbs up before they can...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Catch a Sound: Letter Sound Accuracy Activity

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A quick alphabet game for the whole class. Students stand in a circle and throw a beanbag to each other. When they catch it, they must say a word that begins with the letter given. Continue this in alphabetical order.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Give Me Five; Letter Sound Accuracy Activity

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
An exciting game to build students' understanding and accuracy of producing words that begin with the same letter. Students sit in a circle and the teacher says the sound of the letter. One student must pass a bean bag around the circle...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Egg Carton Game; Letter Sound Accuracy Activity

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A small group game to build students' abilities to identify letters and their sounds. A student shakes an egg carton, opens it to see where a chip landed, and says the letter and its sound.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Connect 4 Words: Letter Sound Accuracy Activity

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A reading game based on "Connect 4" that will build student's abilities to say the name and sound of a letter and find a word beginning with that sound.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Letter Ring Game: Letter Sound Accuracy Activity

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A fun, unique version of the game "Ring Around the Rosie" that builds the students' accuracy in identifying letters, sounds, and words that begin with that letter. A link to printable letter cards is provided on this site as well.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Whole to Parts Phonics Instruction: Letter Sound Correspondences

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Contains plans for two lessons that use the whole-to-parts phonics approach to beginning reading. It uses onset and rime to group word families and spelling patterns to show sounds in context. In addition to objectives and standards,...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Phonics in Context

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Contains plans for a lesson that teaches students the letter-sound relationship for the short /u/ sound using the book "Umbrella" by Taro Yashima. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down? Letter Sound Accuracy Game

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
An exciting activity for the whole class to practice listening for a specific letter sound. When they hear a word with the sound they are listening for they give it a thumbs up; if it doesn't have the sound, they give it a thumbs down....
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Finding Initial Sounds: A Pre Reading Game

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A teacher-led activity that helps young scholars learn to isolate the initial sounds of words.
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Magic Rocks [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this lesson, students work in groups with each acting as a predator, prey, or family member in a particular habitat. They present their habitat performance to the class and students identify the habitat and animal relationships. Then,...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Abc Fun

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this differentiated lesson, teachers will engage students in working with letters and their sounds. Word-making (low level), word making with several letters (middle level), and word generating with random single letter pulling are...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Sound Toss Game; Letter Sound Accuracy

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A letter sounds game that students will love! They toss a bean bag onto a poster board with pictures on it, and tell what the first letter and sound is of the picture that the bean bag lands on. This site includes a link to printable...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Sound Spaghetti; Letter Sound Accuracy Game

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A great game to teach students how to sound out words. Each student picks a piece of long paper out of the teacher's basket and pronounces the letters on it.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Musical Chairs Game; Letter Sound Accuracy

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A letter sound accuracy game based on Musical Chairs. But to keep the chair that they sit in the student must pick a letter from the teacher's bucket and give a word that starts with that letter. A link to Letter Cards is included on...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Long Vowel Choice Game; Letter Sound Accuracy

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
An entertaining, whole class game to build the accuracy of the students' abilities to identify the sounds of different vowels. This site includes a link to a Word List Generator.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: "You're a Liar!" a Letter Sound Accuracy Game

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A small group game using cards with letters of the alphabet on them. The object is to place cards face down in a pile in alphabetical order. Based on an old card game called "I doubt it." This site has a link to a Letter card site for...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Amplify Education, Inc.: Introduce Reading Connected Text

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
An exciting introduction to reading! The instructor writes a simple, one-line story on the board from literature, and the students learn to sound out the words.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Marvin K. Mooney Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 1st
In this instructional activity students get to combine the world of literacy and physical movement! As the teacher reads the book "Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now" by Dr. Seuss, students listen carefully and safely jump up out of...