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The Cream Cake Mystery - Seeing Patterns
A great language arts lesson designed for emerging readers awaits your class. Rhyming words are the focus. Learners play an interactive learning game on the computer that helps them to understand words that rhyme. As with all of these...
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Guess Which Word?
Students listen to clues to a mystery word. They use phonics and language skills to figure out a mystery word.
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Laugh at the Cat!
Students complete a variety of activities related to the short /a/ sound. As a class they recite a tongue twister, then trace and write the letter A. Students then play a concentration matching game, listen to the book "Cat Traps," and...
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Sight Word Soup
Students explore language arts by completing a vocabulary activity. In this sight words lesson plan, students discuss the commonly used words that are seen often in writing and define 10 new words each week. Students utilize flashcards,...
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A-Okay
Students complete a variety of activities related to the long /a/ sound and the a_e vowel correspondence. As a class they recite a tongue twister, and spell words containing the /ae/ correspondence using letter manipulatives. Students...
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The Letter B
Students read books, play internet games, and trace letters to learn about the letter b. In this letter b lesson plan, students also make bear crafts.
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Letter Sound Accuracy, Musical Chairs
Students explore word structure by participating in a game of musical chairs. In this phonics lesson, students discuss the letters of the alphabet and identify words that begin with each letter and the sounds they make. Students...
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The Alphabet
Students discover the letters of the alphabet by participating in a game. In this phonics instructional activity, students create books about themselves using their favorite toys and pets. Students utilize a computer program called...
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Color Recognition Game
Students study color words. For this math lesson, students complete a variety of activities on the computer in which they identify colors and color words.
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Letter Recognition Flash Games for Kids
Students explore the alphabet by completing an on-line letter identification activity. In this phonetics lesson, students utilize the website www.literarycenter.net and listen to word sounds as they identify the spelling of the...
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Beginning Sounds
Students find the beginning letters of words. In this alphabet lesson, students sound out words to find the beginning sound and the beginning letter. They play a game to mark these letters on a card.
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Rock the Boat
Second graders play a spelling game. They draw a card that shows two ways to divide a word into syllables. They are to choose which one is divided correctly, either A or B. They move along the game board as they choose correct answers.
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Clifford's Sports Day
First graders participate in a game of three legged race that involved the practice of matching pictures or text. They use the subject of sports to create the context. Students play the game to strengthen classification and reading...
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Beginning Sounds - Kindergarten Reading
Students practice the use of beginning sounds to improve their emerging reading skills. For this beginning sounds lesson, students review beginning sound of words before participating in a "Bingo" type game that has them use the sounds...
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Musical Chair Review
Students play a simple game designed to reinforce letter names, sounds or sight words. They walk in a circle as music plays, and stop in front of a chair when the music stops. Each chair has a letter or sight word that the child must...
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Segmenting and Blending Words
Students are introduced to the concept of segmentation and blending of words. As a class, they are shown various words and are asked to determine the amount of letters and sounds in each. To end the lesson, they participate in a...
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Short A Words
Students study the short "a" sound. In this word study instructional activity, students brainstorm words that begin with a short "a" sound and are given a picture of the word. Students play an online game to reinforce the concepts taught.
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Build Accuracy /A/, /M/
Students practice identifying the letters /a/ and /m/. In this letter identification lesson, students examine letter cards for /a/ and /m/, tell the difference between the two, and say the sound for each. They play an identification game...
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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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Something's Fishy
Learners study fish habits and traits. In this marine life lesson, students complete four learning centers of a fish memory game, a fish habitat study, draw and glue fish craft activity, and a fish read-a-thon. Learners complete their...
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Language Exercises
In this language activity, students write words that start with the beginning letter given and complete the clue, and look at the picture and tick the sentences that are true. Students complete 2 activities.
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Sand Paper Rubbings
Students discover the alphabet and the sounds the letters make. In this alphabet lesson, letters are cut out of sandpaper and the sound the letter makes is discussed. Students then color over the letter with crayons.
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Sounding out fluency, Relay Race
Pupils practice reading. For this fluency building lesson, students participate in a relay race to quickly sound and read word cards. They work in small groups to accurately sound out and say three word cards before it is another team...
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Hh is for Helicopter
Students learn to form the upper and lower case letter Hh in this printing practice activity. Students trace several examples before forming their own letters.