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Curated OER

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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Curated OER

The "N" Sound

For Students K - 1st
In this phonics worksheet, students will 6 short vowel words that end with "N". Then students will draw a picture of a pen and a man.
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David Suits

“Wild Readers” Decoding Skills Lesson Plan

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Set young readers on the path toward fluency with this phonemic awareness resource. Based on the award-winning children's book, Where the Wild Things Are, this lesson allows beginning readers to practice isolating phonemes and...
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Curated OER

Juggling Bugs

For Teachers K - 1st
Students examine the letter 'u'. Through instruction and modeling they explore the sound the letter makes, how the letter is written, words that contain the letter, etc. They say tongue twisters with the /u/ sound in them. They listen to...
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Jolly Learning Ltd

Cartoonito Activity Sheets

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
The snake goes sssss and the plane goes nnnnn! Practice letters and their sounds with a collection of activities. For each letter, kids get to color, practice the sound, and practice writing the letter. This is group one. See the...
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Curated OER

Reader Rabbit 1

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders participate in a reading instructional activity in order to improve phonics skills. They generate the short vowel sound in CVC pattern words. Students blend beginning consonant, short vowel sound and final consonant into...
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Rock ’N Learn

Ned's Red Guitars – More Sounds of "ea"

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this vowel sounds activity, students analyze 14 pictures of guitars with long or short vowel A words printed in them. Students color red all guitars that have the same vowel sound as Ned's name. Students color gray all guitars that...
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K12 Reader

The Coat Got Soaked on the Boat

For Students 1st Standards
This silly story of a family, their pet goat, a coat, and boat will capture your pupils' attention as they work on the long /o/ sound, the oa digraph, and reading comprehension.
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Curated OER

Voicing and Syllable Length (Using Rubber Bands)

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify voiced and unvoiced sounds. They practice using short and long vowel sounds. They identify consonants only after paying attention to the length of vowels. They use rubber bands to help them determine the difference...
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Curated OER

Icky-Sticky

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students practice recognizing the connection between phonemes and letters with an emphasis on finding the short vowel /i/ in words. They each receive a Elkonin letterbox and a picture card with icky-sticky gum on it and the letter i.
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Curated OER

Say Aaaaa for Apple

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young scholars say words by blending sounds and phonemes. They decode words in order to read and identify and understand the letter a. This phoneme /a/ is one of the short vowels that are needed to read and write. They will show...
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Curated OER

Iggy and the Icky Sticky Inchworm

For Teachers K - 1st
Students read and spell words. They have to recognize that letters stand for phonemes and spellings map out spoken words. Long and short vowels are hard to recognize and this lesson focuses on that. The short i is taught in the...
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Curated OER

Aye, Aye Captain

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Learners investigate how correspondences appear differently in different words. They also recognize the difference between long and short vowels. Students study how these correspondences are spelled and pronounced differently.
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Curated OER

It's O-o-o-obvious That You're Sick

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students experience the phonemes and map spellings of the short vowel /o/ sounds in spoken words. They practice matching letters to phonemes to identify the /o/ representations and letter symbols in words. Students work with the Dr....
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Curated OER

Grandpa Ed

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students engage in an emergent literacy lesson that focuses on phonemic awareness. For practice they become more comfortable with a short vowel phoneme, which can often be the most difficult to identify, by learning it in isolation.
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Curated OER

Icky Fingers

For Teachers K - 1st
Students are introduced to digraphs so they can match letters to their phonemes. They recognize the short vowel i=/i/ in both spoken and written words by practicing reading and spelling words containing /i/. Elkonin Letter Boxes are...
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Curated OER

Say it. Trace and Write in the O. Read it.

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this phonics worksheet, students identify nine pictures of items or activities that contain the short sound of o in them. Students trace the consonants in each word and write in the letter o.
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Curated OER

Lesson 1 - Skill 1 - CVC WORDS - Recognition Memory

For Students K - 1st
In this CVC recognition memory learning exercise, learners examine 20 pictures, say the picture words listening to the sounds, and circle the 1 letter from each of the 3 columns to spell the word in each of the 20 problems.
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Curated OER

Lesson 1 - Skill 2 - CVC WORDS - Beginning Sound

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this CVC beginning sounds worksheet, students examine 20 pictures, say the picture words, guess the letter that begins the word and circle the middle and final letters to spell the word in each of the 20 problems.
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Curated OER

Spelling List 13: Sight Words, Short /ou/ Sound, and Academic Vocabulary

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this spelling list worksheet, students practice spelling words that are sight words, ou sounds, and vocabulary. Students practice spelling 16 words total.
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Curated OER

Picture Match

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students 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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Curated OER

EA Words

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students determine if the "e" sound is long or short in words. In this language arts lesson, students practice discriminating between the long and short "e" sounds by practicing with word cards that are embedded in the lesson. This...
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Curated OER

Crying Baby

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore phonemes. They discuss the short a sound. Students discuss the shape their mouths make when saying /a/. They read familiar words with the /a/. Students read "The Cat In The Hat." They identify words with the short a sound.
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Curated OER

Say What?

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore phonemes in spoken words. They discuss the /e/ (short e) correspondence. Students read "Red Gets Fed." They learn a meaningful letter symbol for the /e/. Students identify /e/ sound in both spoken and written words.