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Everyone is Reading

For Teachers K - 1st
Students study /e/ in both written and spoken words using a tongue twister and letterbox activities. They recite a tongue twisters and make words using letterboxes. Next, they read "Red Gets Fed" and find words that contain the /e/...
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Adam's Apples

For Teachers K - 1st
Students examine the /a/ phoneme in both written and spoken words. They practice finding the /a/ in words, watch how their mouths move when making the sound, and write the letter. Next, they differentiate the sound in words, listen to a...
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AAA!! The Baby is Crying! AAA!!

For Teachers 1st
First graders take out primary writing paper and review how to form the letter "a". They observe a large picture of a baby crying on the board, discuss it and make the sound a baby makes when it is crying. They listen to some words,...
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Beginning Reading Lesson: Aaa-aaa-aaa-choo!!

For Teachers K - 1st
Pupils study the letter sound recognition for the /a/ by recognizing the sound one makes when they sneeze. They use a chart with a tongue twister on it and work with letterboxes and manipulative letters that focus on words with the /a/....
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Casper the Cat

For Teachers K - 1st
Students examine the letter 'a'. Through instruction and modeling and a variety of practice activities, they explore the sound the letter makes and how the letter is written. They recite tongue twisters, read stories and use letterboxes...
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Icky Sticky Inchworm

For Teachers K - 1st
Students 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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Crying Baby

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students practice techniques and strategies with phonics, spelling and word recognition with the sounds of /a/. They read and work on this task with the book, "Cat Nap," and the tongue twister "Alice asked if Annie's active animals were...
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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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Aaaaa! I um at the Doctor

For Teachers K
Pupils identify and interpret the short vowel sound a = /a/ and the sound aaa. They say a tongue twister together as a class stretching the /a/ at the beginning of the words and identify an illustration to go with each word. Finally,...
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Frog and Toad: Rhyming Words

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this rhyming worksheet, students match words in a column with those from a word box. There are 10 words total, all with short vowel sounds.
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Words that Begin with E?

For Students K - 1st
In this E words worksheet, students draw a line to fill the empty box with the items that begin with the short vowel sound of e. Students find the words eleven, egg, and elephant.
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ESL Writing Practice #2

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this ESL writing practice worksheet, students practice tracing and writing a set of 10 words that contain 3-4 letters and the short vowel sound. A reference web site for additional activities is provided.
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Word Recognition

For Students K - 1st
In this word recognition worksheet, learners read words with a short vowel sound.  Students draw a line to match the 5 words to the correct picture that is shown.
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Make a Word: Long U by Starfall

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students explore language arts by participating an on-line grammar activity. In this letter U lesson, students discuss the uses for the letter U in the English language and the different sounds that can be made from the vowel. Students...
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Blending is Fun

For Teachers K - 2nd
Use a poster picture of a slide to illustrate the blending of phonemes in words. First show your youngsters basic examples like cat and cap. Then have learners work in pairs to create some blends of their own! Provide words for them to...
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A Is For...

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Fun from A to Z! Use a collection of alphabet worksheets to help kids practice their letters. Kids can color and trace each letter, and draw items from a word list to indicate each letter.
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Alphabetic Understanding, Phonics, and Spelling

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
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...
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Trucks and Community Workers

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify community helpers and their roles. In this transportation lesson plan, 1st graders complete a series of lessons integrating technology and literacy. Students decode sounds of short u, c/s/ and g/j/ words and...
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Building a Sentence

For Teachers 1st
First graders echo a sentence targeting a vowel selected by the teacher and shown on a sentence strip. In this sentence building instructional activity, 1st graders put the cut up sentence strip back into correct order, repeating the...
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Phonics lesson for -ar

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify words associated with the -ar sound. They read sentences and compose a story that include words with the -ar sound. The assessment portion of instructional activity involves students in spelling words with the...
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CVC Words

For Students K - 1st
In this CVC words worksheet, learners write a set of 20 consonant, vowel, consonant words, all with short vowels in the middle. Students copy by tracing the word as it appears beneath its corresponding picture.
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Dictionary Use Worksheet

For Students Higher Ed
In this dictionary worksheet, students will practice using a dictionary. Students will respond to 16 short answer questions by looking up words in a dictionary in order to properly respond to each.
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Roll the Dice

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students practice recognizing and blending letters together to create new and unique words in the process of decoding text. They play a game where they roll dice to help blend a variety of words together and create new ones to analyze...
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The Crying Baby

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars practice recognizing phonemes with letters emphasizing the /a/ in spoken words and by letter symbols. They interact with Elkonin boxes, letter manipulatives, the book, "A Cat Nap," and a poster with a tongue twister on it.

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