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Phonics and Decoding Strategies for Struggling Readers Using Core Knowledge Poem

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students complete multiple activities to help them hear sounds, syllables, and spell words with vowel patterns, digraphs, or blends. In this word sounds lesson, students use letter tiles, sort words cards, analyze poems, and play a bingo...
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Letter Hunt

For Teachers K - 1st
Students search for and find certain letters, blends, or vowel combinations in words, sentences and paragraphs. They investigate how these letters, blends or combinations are used in "every day" writing.
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Lesson Plan
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Igga Bigga

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students explore consonant digraphs in written words and use them in their own sentences. They work with /th/, /sh/, and /ch/ digraphs. Students read The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything and identify words with the...
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Worksheet
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School-Home Links: Putting Sounds Together

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this sound blends instructional activity, students read about the sound blends 'oi,' 'oy,' 'ou,' and 'ow.' Students then examine several pictures, say the names of the pictures, and write the letters on the line under each picture to...
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Phonics: CK

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this phonics ck worksheet, students view nine different pictures and place them in sequential order on the lines provided.
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Phonics lesson for -ick family

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Kindergarteners and first graders develop phonemic awareness for words that contain -ick. Each learner gets a stack of cards with different -ick words, highlighting the target sound as they review each one. 
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Phonics: SH

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this phonics blending of SH worksheet, students complete a maze to find the nine pictures of words containing SH, say what each picture is and then write each one down in sequential order.
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Phonics: CH

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this phonics CH worksheet, students view twelve pictures, say and pronounce each one, write in the CH in each word and then read each word out loud.
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PPT
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Phase 5 - Tricky Words 2

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
This simple presentation shows learners examples of tricky words, or, words that have unusual letter combinations. Words such as, laughed, different, friends, and mouse are shown. Learners read the words as they appear on the screen.
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Chuggin' Choo Choo

For Students 1st - 3rd
For this consonant digraph CH activity, students circle the word in three train sets that begin with the same sound as check and then circle the word in three train sets that end with the same sound as match.
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Rockin' Thad

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this consonant digraph TH instructional activity, students help the main character Thad sort ten words into two jars. Students distinguish the difference between a soft TH and a hard TH in ten words.
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Consonants Blended with Vowel Digraphs and Endings

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore words. In this blending syllables lesson plan, 1st graders practice voiced and unvoiced phonic sounds. They follow the teachers lead in practicing various sounds and then try to come up with cvvc words.
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Guided Reading: Shapes Where We Play

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars discover shapes on a playground. In this guided reading lesson, students discover new vocabulary words related to shapes as they read Shapes Where We Play. In small groups, young scholars use picture clues and one to one...
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Animated Alphabet

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students explore English by completing an interactive language history activity. In this word recognition lesson, students discuss word formations and the phonetic relationship between letters. Students identify the origin of individual...
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Worksheet
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Starting or Ending Blends- "th, qu, or wh"

For Students 1st
In this beginning or ending blend activity, 1st graders examine 12 black line pictures. They draw a circle around the proper beginning or ending blend under each picture. They choose between "th, qu or wh."
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Worksheet
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At the beach: ea words

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this ea words worksheet, students fill in the blanks with the blend "ea". Students read a paragraph about a boy at the beach, fill in 15 ea blends, and draw a picture of him at the beach.
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Worksheet
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Phonics Digraphs

For Students 1st - 3rd
For this digraph worksheet, students look at a picture, then fill in the mission digraph in a word in a sentence that relates to the picture.
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Worksheet
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Sh Sound

For Students K - 2nd
In this "sh" sound worksheet, students examine 6 pictures and identify each of them. The words feature the "sh" sound.
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Worksheet
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Picnic Party

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this consonant digraph ck learning exercise, students circle the words listed that end with the same blending sound as sock and then color in each of their answers in the picture shown.
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Sh Sh Sh: The Baby is Sleeping

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students work with the /sh/ digraph. They read and spell words that contain the phoneme /sh/. Students read Sh!Sh! Stop that Noise. They identify the words containing the phoneme /sh/ while reading the story. Students practice spelling...
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Phonics on the Farm

For Students K - 2nd
In these eight recognizing the phonetic sounds in picture words worksheet, students observe pictures of farm animals and color the ones that have the specified /c/ , /d/, /p/, /h/, /m/, /g/, /sh/, or /ch/ sounds. There are five pictures...
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Yesterday's World "th" activities

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students read through the text, and discuss the main points. They discuss the commonality of the digraph/th/. Students highligt any text with 'th'word where they see it. They identify the words. Students discuss the different sounds on...
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Shaggy Sheba Shakes!

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars study the /sh/ digraph in order to determine that when the letters are together in a word they make one sound. They use letter boxes, letter manipulatives with the sh taped together, and poem, "My Shaggy Dog." Using the...
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I'm going to chase you

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify the digraphs in written and spoken language. After a brief discussion of the combinations of /c/ and /h/ that comprise the /ch/ digraph, 1st graders practice identifying initial and final placement of the digraph...