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Aaaaaaa! Let's Ride the Roller Coaster

For Teachers K - 1st
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 listen to word pairs and identify which word in each word pair contains...
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Mmmm, Good!

For Teachers K
Students complete a variety of activities related to the letter M. They trace and write the letter M, and identify words on word cards that contain the letter M. Students also participate in a Letter M Hunt in their classroom, and...
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Reintroduce /aw/

For Teachers K - 1st
Students are reintroduced to the letter combination 'aw' and its sound. In this lesson on the  'aw' letter combination, students practice reciting a mix of 12 letter combinations on the board and take turns identifying 'aw' letter...
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Sound Boxes

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students explore language fluency by identifying word segments. In this word structure lesson, students utilize words from their vocabulary lesson, dissect them into syllables and sound out their individual parts. Students participate in...
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An Icky Sticky Mess!

For Teachers K
Students complete a variety of activities related to the short /i/ sound. As a class they recite a tongue twister, and trace and write the letter I. Students then view flash cards and identify the pictures containing the short /i/...
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Beginning Reading Design: A and I are Team Players

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students complete a variety of activities related to the long /a/ sound and the /ai/ correspondence. As a class they recite a tongue twister, and spell words containing the /ai/ correspondence using letter manipulatives. Students then...
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Alphabets And More Alphabets

For Teachers K
Pupils identify and phonetically pronounce the letters in the alphabet. They participate in a letter identification game, and play musical letters. Students then listen to the book "Alphabet Family" and discuss their favorite words for...
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School-Home Links: Putting Sounds Together to Make Words

For Students 1st
In this word sounds worksheet, 1st graders look at each letter in each word. Students say all of the sounds the letters make in the word. Students repeat the sounds and then say the word.
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School-Home Links: Ending Sounds

For Students K - 1st
In this ending sounds instructional activity, students name each pictures and listen for the last sound. Students then write the letter for the last sound they hear.
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Build Fluency /A/

For Teachers K
Students are introduced to the letter "A" and play a game to reinforce the printed and sound recognition of the letter "A."  In this letter "A" lesson, students observe the teacher model the letter card game. Students participate in...
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Beginning Letters Matching

For Teachers K - 1st
In this beginning letters worksheet, learners draw lines to match pictures with their beginning letters; letters used are b, f, d and h.
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Sound Spelling

For Teachers K
Practice how to change words by switching out letters that make different sounds with youngsters. The teacher encourages spellers to, "Think of words that rhyme with "bug." As the kids come up with words like, "rug," "tug," and "mug,"...
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Phonics lesson for "sh"

For Teachers 1st
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 instructional activity, they may write a story...
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Phonics: Short E

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this short E worksheet, students say what each of the nine pictures are, trace and write in the e in each of the nine words and then read out loud each one.
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Lesson Plan: Final Phoneme ll, ff, ss

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students apply word level skills through shared and guided reading.
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Bossy Letter R Blends

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this r blend learning exercise, students practice reading a chart of 40 r blend words, then write their own r blend words to complete the chart.
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Making Words: -at Sound

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this early childhood making words worksheet, students make the words bat, cat, hat, mat, rat, and flat as they fill in the blanks with the appropriate letters in 24 words.
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Making Words: -ug Sound

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this early childhood making words learning exercise, students make the words bug, rug, dug, hug, mug, jug, tug, slug, and plug as they fill in the blanks with the appropriate letters in 18 words.
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Beginning Sounds-What sound does each picture begin with?

For Teachers K
Students view a multimedia presentation to identify beginning sounds.  In this phonics lesson, students recognize beginning sounds.  Students navigate a website for addition phonics sounds.
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"The Scary Letter...aaaaaaaaaa!!!"

For Teachers K - 1st
Pupils study the /a/ using the hand gesture and 'aaa' sound as if they were seeing a ghost. Next, they recite a tongue twister and make words using letter boxes using different numbers of phonemes. Next, they read "Pat's Jam" out loud to...
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First Vowel Sounds

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this vowel sounds worksheet, students practice saying the vowel sounds by reading the vowel letters in each line. Students read 7 lines of vowels.
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Kindergarten Phonics

For Teachers K
Students are introduced to the letters and phonemes for C, L, N, P, T, and A. They identify each letter in its upper and lowercase forms. Students differentiate the letters from each other and practice identifying objects and pictures...
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Quack Attack

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars complete a variety of activities related to the short /a/ sound. As a class they recite a tongue twister, and write the letter A. Students listen to a list of words and identify the words containing the short /a/ sound,...
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The Long A Sound: Worksheet 3

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards
Let's learn about the long A sound! Youngsters practice saying the name of each picture listed, and then they unscramble the letters in the boxes provided. They write the word that contains the long A sound on the line. Note: The...