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Phonics Tic-Tac-Toe
In this phonics activity, 1st graders play tic-tac-toe while they practice reading words with short vowel sounds. Students cut Xs and Os to match with short vowel words on the game board.
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Phonics Tic-Tac-Toe
In this phonics worksheet, 1st graders play tic-tac-toe while they practice reading words with short vowel sounds. Students match Xs and Os to short vowel words on the game board.
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Long and Short Vowel O
In this vowel worksheet, students sort pictures according to their vowel sound, either long or short o, writing the words beneath the correct label. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Phonics Tic-Tac-Toe
In this phonics worksheet, learners practice reading a group of words with short vowel sounds while playing tic-tac-toe. Students cut out x's and o's to match with the words on the game board.
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Color the Bubbles
In this long and short vowels discrimination worksheet, students see 15 bubbles with words written in them. They color the long a sound words pink, and the short vowel sound purple.
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Short Vowel Activities
In this short vowel worksheet, students place an X through bubbles with short vowel words printed on them. A website reference for additional resources is given.
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Does It Have Long U or Short U?
For this long U worksheet, students say the name of 12 pictures. Students circle the symbol for long or short U to match the sound that the vowel in the word makes.
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Vowel Sounds and Spellings
For this vowel worksheet, students complete multiple choice questions, selecting the word that comes next in a rhyming sequence. Answers and explanations are given.
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Word Sort
In this word sorting activity instructional activity, students look through a story they have read and identify compound words, long e words, verbs, adjective, short a words, contractions, words with wh, feeling words, and words with...
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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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Bud And June
In this letter u worksheet, 1st graders will focus on both the long and short vowel sound. Students will study 8 pictures and write the word below each picture on the lines provided.
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Ned's Red Guitars
In this phonics practice activity, learners examine 10 words that have "ea" in them. Students color the guitars with the long e sound red and those with the long a sound gray.
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Beginning and Ending Sounds
First graders practice their letter and word recognition skills. In this initial and final sounds lesson, 1st graders participate in a classroom activity that requires them to blend phonemes into spoken words and sound out multisyllable...
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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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Ned's Red Guitars – More Sounds of "ea"
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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Who Knows the Letter?
Help learners identify initial consonant sounds and letters that represent that sound. They indicate awareness of consonant sounds and letters by responding with a physical movement. They also sing using "Sing Your Way Through Phonics"...
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First-Grade Intervention
Learning how to read is a big challenge for young learners, but this series of lessons provides them with the extra support they need to succeed. With each lesson following the a clearly outlined format, children are introduced to new...
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Peg and Hen
Learners navigate a website to practice the short e sound. In this short e sound lesson, students read a story on Starfall and complete practice with the short e sound.
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Color the Bubbles Long And Short Vowel Discrimination-i
In this long and short vowel discrimination worksheet, students study 16 bubbles containing words with long and short i sounds. They color each bubble according to the provided directions.
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Long And Short E Sounds
In this vocabulary worksheet, students examine 4 picture clues which depict long and short vowel e words. There is a primary writing line and the direction "write," but it is unclear if students are to write a sentence or just the word.
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Soap Boat
In this Language Arts learning exercise, students read a short book about a "soap boat." Students may practice reading it aloud and color in the illustrations.
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The Doctor Sound
Students recognize the short vowel o in written and spoken language. Through matching and listening activities, students discriminate the short vowel o from other short vowel sounds. They associate the phoneme with its letter...
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Closed Syllables
Second graders, given 5 elephant words, divide the words into syllables by underlining the talking vowels, swooping, and pulling down consonants to find cutting pattern, and to explain that a single vowel represents the short vowel sound.
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The Scary, Creaky Door
Students recognize the short vowel e in written and spoken language. Through listening and matching activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /e/ from other phonemes. Students identify the phoneme and letter in pictures using a...