Curated OER
What's Behind the Creaky Door?
First graders are introduced to the concept that letters stand for the mouth moves that we make when sounds are made. They practice making the /e/ sound and compare it to the sound a creaky door makes and then try saying the tongue...
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Ah Ah Ah! Don't Do That!
Students become familiar with the alphabetic principle that letters stand for phonemes and spellings map out the phonemes in spoken words. They focus on identifying the short /o/ sound in spoken words and the tongue twister "Oscar Otter...
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Segmenting and Blending Words
Students are introduced to the concept of segmentation and blending of words. As a class, they are shown various words and are asked to determine the amount of letters and sounds in each. To end the lesson, they participate in a...
Starfall
Gus the Duck
In this spelling learning exercise, students fill in each sentence with the correct word or letter. The practice of using the right kind of sentence structure is done.
Curated OER
Open Up and Say /o/
Learners explore letters and phonemes. They discuss the phoneme /o/. Students recognize /o/ in both spoken and written words. They discuss the shape their mouths make when saying /o/. Learners learn a tongue twister to help them identify...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Silly Stories: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 1)
Kids who need extra support with the concepts in the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt thematic unit on silly stories, will benefit from this packet packed with skill builders, activities, exercises, and practice sets.
Florida Center for Reading Research
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...
Curated OER
Astonishing "A"
Young learners gain phonemic awareness with this quick activity. First, point out what sound you’re focusing on today: /a/. Then spell basic words that use this sound, like fat, bat, cat, etc. As a culminating activity, the whole...
Curated OER
Animal Alphabet
Students make a class animal book using the letters of the alphabet. They use a website imbedded in this plan to get pages with animals that begin with any of the 26 letters.
Starfall
Gus the Duck
For this daily activities worksheet, students cut out the short book Gus the Duck, read each page, and then color each page appropriately for visual authenticity.
Curated OER
Voicing and Syllable Length (Using Rubber Bands)
High schoolers 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...
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Allie the Rat
Students identify the letter a and the short vowel sound it makes. They do a tongue twister with the sound in it and write what the letter a looks like on primary paper. Students have to listen to or read a story called Pat's Jam and...
Curated OER
Ii
In this alphabet awareness worksheet, learners circle each picture that begins with the long or short /Ii/ sound and then make an x on each picture that does not begin with the /Ii/ sound.
Curated OER
What Begins with the Letter E?
In this letter recognition worksheet, students draw lines to match pictures that begin with the short vowel sound of the letter E or e to a box labeled as such. They choose between 6 pictures that include an elephant, eggs, and a bird.
Curated OER
Iggy is Icky Sticky
Second graders explore short vowels and their help in the development of phonemic awareness. They gain experience of the correspondence /i/. Students illustrate the correspondence by using memorable techniques used in showing /i/ in...
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Say It Connect It
In this spelling worksheet, 1st graders will focus on spelling CVC words. Students will study 6 pictures and choose the correct letters for the beginning, middle, and ending sounds before writing the complete word on the lines provided.
Curated OER
"Aaaaaa!!!!" Please Don't Cry Baby!
Students complete a variety of activities as they examine the letter 'a' as it makes the short /a/ sound. Through instruction and modeling, they explore the sound the letter makes and how the letter is written. They recite tongue...
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Icky "I"
Learners recognize the short vowel i in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /i/ from other vowel sounds. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify...
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Ehhh! What'd ya say? Eeeggs
Students identify the vowel sound with a short e. They distinguish this sound /e/ in written and spoken words. Finally, students identify and spell using a letterbox activity and reading various words with the vowel sound and are...
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"Whaaa" Said The Baby"
Students recognize phonemes that correspond with the letters in the alphabet. They focus on identifying the short a, /a/ sound. They examine the way their mouths move when making the short a sound mimicking a baby's cry. In given...
Curated OER
Fluency is Freedom!
Students read orally in groups of two to increase reading speed and fluency in this instructional activity. They read provided books which emphasize the short vowel sounds. The pairs time each others reading and offer encouragement and...
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Riding the Roller Coaster
First graders recognize the short vowel a in written and spoken language. Through matching and listening activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /a/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation...
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"IIIIH" it is a bug!
Students practice the long and short vowel sounds of /i/ in a variety of text with assessing different strategies. They utilize tongue twisters to assist them including "The Itsy Bitsy Spider" and "Liz is Six." Letterboxes are also...
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The Big City
Students explore structures in a big city. In this big city instructional activity, students become familiar with vocabulary about big cities through songs graphs, and hands-on art. Students practice phonic sound /M/.
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