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Vowel Sounds
This plan aims to increase the reading proficiency of your fourth grade class. While no materials are provided, a list of activities to practice are included. Various activities include creating songs for short vowel sounds, using cue...
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Who Knows the Letter?
Help learners identify initial consonant sounds and letters that represent that sound. They indicate awareness of consonant sounds and letters by responding with a physical movement. They also sing using "Sing Your Way Through Phonics"...
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Phonics lesson for -ar
First graders identify words associated with the -ar sound. They read sentences and compose a story that include words with the -ar sound. The assessment portion of activity involves students in spelling words with the
-ar pattern.
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Phonics lesson for "sh"
First graders identify words with the "sh" pattern. They participate in phonemic awareness, decoding, blending, spelling patterns, and dictation exercises. As the assessment portion of the lesson, they may write a story using words...
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Long Vowel Phoneme - oo
Learners recognize words by common spelling patterns. The teacher reads a poem to the class and look at rhymes for the word moon. They practice handwriting in conjunction with spelling, and they can even write their own -oo- poem!
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Short Vowels With Clifford
Phonetic masters identify and recognize short vowel sounds by reading and listening to a story that highlights select words. They use picture clues to aid comprehension and construct a story by actively choosing and identifying...
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Say and Spell Vowel Digraph Board Game
Students say and spell vowel digraphs by playing a board game. In this vowel digraphs lesson plan, students make a single sound with 2 vowels.
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A Model Lesson Plan for Teaching Phonics
First graders decode words containing the letter o when it is followed by a consonant and silent e.
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Beginning and Ending Sounds - Lesson 1 of 2
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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Lesson Plan: Long Vowel Phoneme "oa"
Students read The Toad and The Goat, discuss main idea and story sequence, and identify rhyming words with the "oa" sound.
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Sing Your Way Through Phonics Lesson Plan
Learners read words containing the dipthongs ow, ou, oi, and oy. They write and spell words containing the dipthongs ow, ou, oi, and oy.
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Phonemic Awareness
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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Long Vowel Words in a Coloring Picture
In this long vowels instructional activity, students read the long vowel words in a picture. Students color the picture of the bird according to the directions in the key.
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Coloring A Short Vowel Picture
In this short vowels coloring instructional activity, students read 15 short vowel words printed in a drawing of a chicken. Students use the key to color the sections correctly in the picture.
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Long Vowel Sounds
In this long vowel sounds learning exercise, 2nd graders recognize vowel sounds. Students say words and then color the section according to sound. There are eight words in the picture and four different vowel sounds.
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Vowels: The Long and Short! E
For this long and short vowel E worksheet, students read the labels under 8 pictures of words with vowel E. Students write the name of each picture under the Long or Short vowel heading.
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Short Vowels Coloring Page
In this short vowels worksheet, students analyze a picture of a dog who is fishing. Students read the words that are typed in different parts of the picture. Using the key, students color the short vowel word areas the correct colors.
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Clifford Phonics Fun
Students develop phonemic awareness skills. They recognize consonant sound spellings and distinguish easily confused letter pairs. Students examine common short and long vowel sound spellings. They read stories containing high frequency...
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Consonants Blended with Long Vowels and Endings
Students practice vowel and phonic sounds. In this grammar lesson, students practice rhythm, rhymes, voiced phonic sounds, unvoiced phonic sounds and voiced vowel signs. Students brainstorm words with the cvce patterns.
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Fraction Spelling
An interesting take on spelling practice is included here! Emerging spellers take their weekly spelling list and create a three-column chart. In the first column, they write the word itself. In the second column, they write how many...
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The Long and the Short!: a
Recognize the long /a/ sound and the short /a/ sound with this activity. Readers will observe picture words and categorize the names in the long vowel words and short vowel words columns. Then match 8 short answers.
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Consonant Blends Blended with Short Vowels
Here is a simple, yet effective instructional activity on consonant blends. Young readers watch as the teacher demonstrates voiced phonic sounds, unvoiced phonic sounds, and voiced vowel sounds. They practice rhyming consonant blends and...
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Long Vowels With Clifford
Learners recognize long vowel sounds by reading and listening to a story that highlights words with long vowel sounds. They then construct an original story. They use picture clues to aid comprehension, and match words with similar vowel...
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The Everyday Red
Pair a hand motion with the /e/ sound so young learners remember it better! This plan has the class open their "creaky door" whenever they hear the /e/ sound. They'll learn a tongue twister and read the short story Red Gets Fed, both of...