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Icky Fingers
Which i sound is used in the word icky? Kindergarteners and first graders listen to the short /i/ sound. They practice shaking their fingers to indicate icky when they hear the target sound. Then they practice reading a poster with the...
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Short Vowels
For this short vowels worksheet, 1st graders listen for the short vowel sounds by saying the picture word slowly and listening for the sounds. Students circle one letter from each column for the beginning, middle, and final sound....
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Short 'e'
First graders recognize the short vowel e in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /e/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify...
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Short A Words
Young scholars study the short "a" sound. In this word study lesson, students brainstorm words that begin with a short "a" sound and are given a picture of the word. Young scholars play an online game to reinforce the concepts taught.
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Phonics Instruction: Long Vowel Sound, Silent E
Learners explore language arts by participating in a class word identification game. In this phonics lesson plan, students read several words in class and identify the different sounds between short and long vowel words. Learners...
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Phonics Jeopardy
In this phonics PowerPoint, 1st graders participate in a game show similar to "Jeopardy" in which they identify pictures that have a beginning sound corresponding to the given vowel pattern, blend, or digraph.
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Alphabetic Understanding, Phonics, and Spelling
Have your youngsters reading in no time with with collection of literacy activities and lessons. Starting with a basic understanding of the alphabet, this unit progressively builds students' phonemic awareness and ability to decode and...
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Ehhhh?
Are your kindergarten learners working with the letter e and the sounds that is makes? They'll practice writing a capital e, hear the /e/ sound in a funny tongue twister, and then identify when the teacher is saying a word that uses the...
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Consonant Blends Blended with Short Vowels
Here is a simple, yet effective lesson 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 trigraphs.
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Letters and Sounds
Use this resource to review letters and sounds with your class. This presentation featuring a list of vowels and consonants could be used in a variety of ways. It could be used to review letters and sounds, have learners name words that...
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Phonics
This short, 6-slide presentation provides practice for very young readers in decoding simple words that utilize the short vowel sounds. Words such as cat, sit, hop, and dog are read by pupils.
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Short I Label the Picture
For this reading worksheet, students use the words from a list to label six pictures within an illustration of a circus show. All of the words contain the short vowel /i/ sound.
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Home Spelling Practice: Grade 1: Short E
In this spelling learning exercise, students learn to spell a list of six words that all contain the sound of short vowel E. Students write each word one time. There are additional at-home activities.
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Beginning and Ending Sounds Springtime Bouquet: Short E
For this beginning and ending sounds worksheet, students fill in the letter blanks in each of the 7 words with the short e sound to make the 7 words match the pictures that go with them.
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Short Vowel Word Building
In this short vowel word building worksheet, students will choose a vowel from the letter bank to complete a 3-letter short vowel word.
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Short Vowel Picture Match
In this short vowel picture match worksheet, 1st graders will draw a line from the wordbank to match the correct picture. All of the short vowels are represented.
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Short Vowel Practice
In this short vowel worksheet, students circle words in a row that have the same short vowel sound as the first word. Worksheet contains links to additional activities.
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Short I Sentences
In this short I review worksheet, students practice the vowel sound as they fill in the blanks in 7 sentences with the appropriate short i words.
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The Amazing Silent E—Changing Short /a/ Words
In this language arts worksheet, students learn the amazing power of the silent E to change short vowel /a/ words to long sounds. Students change two words and then write sentences for each.
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Short Vowel Discrimination
Young scholars read a Dr. Seuss book and complete activities for short vowel sound words. In this short vowels lesson, students read Hop on Pop and analyze the rhyming words in the text. Young scholars complete rhyming activities and...
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Long -oo and Short -oo
When two Os are put together in a word, a long -oo or a short -oo sound are produced. Learners examine two slides that have pictures and decide if the word depicted has the long -oo or short -oo sound. Examples are: football, hood, and...
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CVC Words
Use this colorful and easy-to-understand presentation to help kindergartners review words with the short a sound. With words such as van, man, can, and fan, learners practice reading skills. While short, this resource could be augmented...
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Iggy the Penguin
Take your young word detectives on a hunt for the /i/ sound. Use the tongue twister about Iggy the penguin to help learners identify the target sound. Then learners are given several words, and they have to use their detective skills to...
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Short Vowel E
In this short vowel e activity, learners say the name of 4 pictures, all with the short e sound, then color each one. A reference web site is given for additional activities.