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--ar Family Word slide

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
In this vocabulary worksheet, students learn the "--ar" word ending by making a word slide. Students cut slits in the laminated jar shaped word ending piece. Students slide the strip with initial consonants and blends to make new words....
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Beginning and Ending Sounds - Lesson 1 of 2

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Stamp, slap, and clap! Emergent readers demonstrate their awareness of the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds in spoken, short vowel, single-syllable words with a stamp/slap/clap activity. After identifying the letters and sounds of...
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Pyro Innovations

Phonemic Awareness

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
What was the sound that letter made? The letter S is the phoneme of today's lesson and it is ready to make an appearance. Little ones discuss the sound S makes, then they hold up S cards every time they hear words containing the initial...
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Hunter Model 2

For Teachers K
Students produce the long sounds in the initial position of words making silly soup.
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Sounding Out CVCE Words

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore vowels and consonants by participating in a flash card activity. In this phonetics lesson, 1st graders discuss the difference between short and long vowels and identify them within a story told to them by their...
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The Missing Word

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars, after reading a short story, predict possible missing words by utilizing context clues and graphophonic clues. A picture book with several words covered up sets the scene for this lesson. They share their predictions in...
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Ruby's Whistle

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars investigate the children's book "Ruby's Whistle" in order to practice skills of reading comprehension. They make connections with the text while reading that include sight word recognition, putting together contractions,...
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Picture Match

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Young scholars match pictures with words that have specific phonics connotations. For this picture matching lesson plan, students have groups of words with the same phonics sayings.
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Shhhh! I'm Hunting Wabbits!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students identify the consonant digraph -sh in words and phrases. They practice recognizing the digraph /sh/ through tongue twisters and storytelling. Students read and spell words and pseudowords containing the -sh digraph.
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Introduction to Dolch Words

For Teachers 1st
First graders are introduced to Dolch words. In this reading improvement lesson, 1st graders use Dolch words to review beginning and ending sounds, consonant blends and sight words.
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Beginning and Ending Sounds

For Teachers 1st
First graders practice their letter and word recognition skills. In this initial and final sounds lesson, 1st graders participate in a classroom activity that requires them to blend phonemes into spoken words and sound out multisyllable...
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Short "u" vowel

For Teachers 1st
First graders successfully build words containing the short "u" vowel. They connect letter cards with an accuracy of 90%. Students build on phonics as well. They encounter within this lesson sequencing.
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Long ee or ea

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students practice spelling words with the long e sounds using ee or ea. In this ee or ea lesson plan, students complete words using the ee or ea pattern, identify rhyming words, and write a rhyming poem using ee words. Using word and...
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Lesson Plan: Initial "s" clusters

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students identify words in Sleeping Beauty which begin with the letter 'S'.
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Letter Sound and Letter Combination Accuracy, Sound Search Game

For Teachers K
Students participate in an activity to identify words with specific letter sounds or letter combinations. For this letter sound/letter combination lesson, students focus on three-letter sounds then identify words in a sound hunt...
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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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Phoneme Segmenting Accuracy

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Take your kindergartners on a journey to the mythical planet Paz where residents segment words into phonemes, touching parts of their arm with each sound. This physical response to phoneme segmenting will appeal to your physical learners...
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Rainbow Spelling: A Kinesthetic Approach to Encoding

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Have your young learners interact with phonemes through this tactile plan! Each learner will have a colored mat where they connect different phonemes to create words. The best part is that they can self-correct easily as they spell! 
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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...
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Spill the Beans

For Teachers K - 1st
Students play an alphabet game with beans that asks them create simple short vowel words. They spill several marked beans onto a paper and separate those that have fallen face-up. They arrange the beans into words and read them aloud.
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The Big City

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students explore structures in a big city.  In this big city lesson, students become familiar with vocabulary about big cities through songs graphs, and hands-on art. Students practice phonic sound /M/.
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Alphabet Tic-Tac-Toe

For Teachers K - 2nd
Use online resources to aid young readers' phonemic awareness. They will look at various sources to practice letter-sound relationships. They also are assessed using a rubistar rubric. Quite a few resources are given for this lesson.
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Word Washer Vowels

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Here is a perfect activity for all your kinesthetic learners. They practice long and short vowel discrimination as they hang out the paper articles of clothing on a clothes line. They each take turns pulling word clothes out of a pretend...
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"Uuuuuuggghhh That Hurts"

For Teachers 1st
First graders give examples of consonants and vowels. They review the sound the /u/ phoneme makes and then play a word creation game placing letters together to make the /kuuuu/ sound which bumps into /p/ forming the word "cup" as a class.