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7 Syllable Types - Classroom Posters
Review r-controlled words, open and closed vowels, and dipthongs with a set of classroom posters. Each page features one concept with a colorful illustration, an explanation, and a list of applicable words.
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Animated Alphabet
Students explore English by completing an interactive language history activity. In this word recognition lesson, students discuss word formations and the phonetic relationship between letters. Students identify the origin of individual...
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Crying Baby
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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Can you cry like a baby?
Students practice the strategies of phonemes and spellings maps to sound out new words. They work on the short vowel /a/ sound with a sentence strip with "Allie the Alligator sat on a mat eating apples," on it and the book, "Cat in the...
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Cry Baby
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 the book "A Cat Nap" and identify the words containing the...
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Pick a Picture
First graders practice recognizing words with the short /a/ sound and applying /a/ phoneme in spoken words. They interact with the book, "Pat's Jam," and five picture cards with pictures of a hat, rat, cat, pig and a dog on each one....
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Boo.....AAAaaaa!!!
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 the word containing the short /a/...
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Emergent Literacy: Open Up and Say Aaaah!
Students, through modeling, explore how to make the short /o/ sound. They practice /o/ sound tongue twisters and recognize the sound in written form as the letter 'a'. They practice writing the letter 'a'. They pick out the /o/ sound...
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Do You Hear That Crying Baby?
Students study the short /a/ sound by examining the movement of their mouths as they make the sound mimicking a baby's cry. They recite a tongue twister and write the lower case "a." They raise their hands when they hear the letter sound...
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Picture the Word
This is an excellent way to make onset and rime visual for beginning readers. They examine CVC-word picture cards that are all missing the first letter. Using plastic letters (or whatever you have), they complete each word and record it...
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Reader Rabbit 1
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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The Note Was in Code!
While it's quite an ode, this short poem uses the long /o/ sound repeatedly in words like code, note, alone, and phone. Kids read the selection and answer three comprehension questions about the text.
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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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"Ea" Review
In this vowel combinations worksheet, students respond to 40 fill in the blank and short answer questions that require them to identify and use words have the "ea" sound.
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Ride a Broom to the Moon
Your class can practice words that contain the long oo sound. Cool! Learners read a short poem that includes many examples of the oo digraph and then respond to three reading comprehension questions.
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Spelling Words for Frog and Toad Together
In this spelling words for Frog and Toad Together worksheet, 1st graders write 5 high frequency words and 10 spelling words, find and write long I and long O words, complete 5 sentences, answer 6 questions from a story and write a short...
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Spelling Words for Plants Can't Jump
In this spelling words for Plants Can't Jump activity, 1st graders write 6 high frequency and 10 spelling words, then fill in the blanks with letters and words, and read sentences over a period of 4 days with parental help.
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High Frequency Words: lesson 27
In this high frequency words worksheet, students complete high frequency word activities by writing ou sound words, fill in the blanks to sentences, and answering short answer questions about stories. Students complete 4 activities total.
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Jake Makes Cake
Students distinguish between short vowel a and long vowel a. They are introduced to the vowel-consonant-e pattern that changes short vowel sounds into long vowel sounds. They practice changing words to long vowel sounds by adding an...
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A-a-aaachoo!
Students complete a variety of activities related to the short /a/ sound. As a class they recite a tongue twister, and trace and write the letter A. Students then view a stack of picture cards and identify the words containing the short...
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Say Aaaaah, Says the Doctor
Pupils explore the short /o/ sound using tongue twisters. They identify the /o/ sound in spoken language and recognize the /o/ in written words. Students practice writing the letter o. They spell words with the /o/ sound and they read In...
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Little Pig
First graders discover that letters are used to write words and that they have different sounds. They pronounce the word, "pig" emphasizing the /i/ sound. They say a tongue twisters that features the /i/ sound in each word. They then...
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The Big Hit
In this reading instructional activity, students practice reading words with short /i/ by making an eight-page booklet. Students read the story about a tin man who plays baseball.
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Language: lesson 23
In this language arts worksheet, students complete activities such as reading, writing high frequency words, finding long o words, fill in the blanks, and short answers. Students complete 4 activities.