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Lug and the Giant Stork - Capital Letters
Capital letters are the star of the show in a wonderful language arts lesson. After a teacher-led demonstration and discussion on capital letters, groups of pupils get together and work on the computer to fix the flashing letters that...
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Letter Fans (Can Customize)
Create a set of letter fans for your learners based on the letters or blended sounds that you're working on in your class. The printable allows you to customize the particular letters on the fan, making the activity applicable to any...
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Long or Short Vowels?
Vowel letters of the alphabet and the sounds associated with the vowel are the focus of this lesson. Students distinguish between both long and short vowel sounds by reading, writing, speaking, and listening to the words and sounds....
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Connect the Rhymes
Pre-readers benefit from visual context clues like the ones in this rhyme activity. There are two sets of objects here, and scholars connect objects on the left with their rhyming counterparts on the right. Each word has the vowel...
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Find the Rhyme
Find the rhyming word. All of these rhyming, single-syllable words have the short i sound, but learners have to determine which ones they are. There are four starting objects each heading a row of three objects. They examine the...
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Shall We Practice More Phonemes?
A simple presentation designed for emerging readers. Learners practice saying the sounds that a variety of phonemes produce. As the slides go on, the phonemes are combined to make actual words. Good practice for the young ones!
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Icky Insect Is In Icky Sticky Ink
Practice the strategy of letter-sound correspondence when identifying the short vowel /i/ sound in written and spoken words. The teacher recites the tongue twister "Icky insect is in icky sticky ink," while listeners repeat. Letter boxes...
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Beginning Letter
In this initial consonant worksheet, students analyze 9 pictures of common objects. From 3 choices of beginning consonant letters, students circle the correct choice.
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Alphatech
Students explore letters and their sounds. In this beginning phonics literacy lesson, students bring objects from home that begin with an assigned letter. Students show their object/s and the teacher takes a picture. ...
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Consonant Digraphs Make Beginning Sounds
In this creating words with consonant digraphs worksheet, students say the picture words, guess the letters that make the beginning sounds, circle the letters that make the middle vowels and final sounds, and write the words. Students...
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Letter A Sound
In this spelling worksheet, students write the words for 7 pictures. All of the words contain the letter A sound, such as cake, ape, and rain. Students also draw 2 related pictures.
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Beginning Consonants
First graders practice with beginning consonant sounds, including identifying initial consonants and matching letter sounds to their corresponding letters. They recognize beginning consonant sounds by reading and listening to a story...
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Beginning Sounds
In this early childhood beginning sounds activity, students learn to recognize beginning letters of words as they look at the pictures of the ball, goat, money, octopus and zebra on the page and then draw a line to the letter each item...
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Beginning Sounds Worksheet
In this early childhood beginning sounds phonics worksheet, students draw a line from pictures of the umbrella, tire, lion, apple, and fan on the page to the letter it begins with on the other side of the page.
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Phonics Test Practice: Beginning Sounds
In this phonics worksheet, students complete a 5 question test practice for beginning sounds. Students listen for the dictated instruction to mark the picture with the given consonant sound. Students choose from 3 pictures and mark the...
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Beginning Sounds Worksheet
In this beginning sounds instructional activity, students draw a line from each letter on the left to the picture on the right that begins with that sounds. The students are given 5 letters and pictures to practice the skill.
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Short Vowel Review
First graders practice short vowel sounds. For this literacy lesson, the teacher demonstrates the short vowel sounds, then guides students through practicing the sounds and making words. Students complete a worksheet for independent...
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Splendid Sounds
In this short vowel sounds learning exercise, students match pictures that have short vowel sounds in them to the letters they contain. Students match 5 pictures to 5 short vowels.
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Beginning Sounds Worksheet: Part 2
For this matching sounds worksheet, students study the pictures and then write the letter that each picture begins with on the line. Students may reference a letter bank to help them with the pictures.
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Beginning Sounds Worksheet: Part 1
In this matching sounds worksheet, 1st graders study the pictures and write the letter that each picture begins with on the line. Each pictures starts with one of the letters in the box at the bottom of the page.
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Hello Year 1 - Do You Know These Phonemes?
Here is a very basic presentation which introduces young readers to the letters, s, p, i, t, n, and a. After each letter sound is practiced, the remaining slides make simple words for pupils to read that use different combinations of the...
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Long Vowel - Letter I
In this long vowel i worksheet, students say the name of the picture and fill in the missing i in the word. Students fill in 3 missing letters.
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Final Sounds: p
In this final sound activity, learners trace the letter p, and insert a p into the final sound of words. Students trace 5 letters and insert the p into 6 words.
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Ending Consonant Sounds: T, N, K, L
In this ending consonants worksheet, students study each of the pictures and circle the letter that makes the ending consonant for each of the 4 pictures.