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Spinning Short Vowel Game

For Teachers 1st
First graders, in pairs, use spinners to experiment with different combinations of letters. They combine letters and determine whether they have produced a word or not. They construct and record words choosing letters from designated tiles.
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I Can Read With Expression

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Young scholars practice reading fluently and expressively through the use of various strategies. After reviewing chunking, decoding, and rereading, students complete an initial read of a novel text. They create a deck of expression cards...
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Uhh I don't know!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students engage in an emergent literacy lesson in order to work on the skill of phonem ic awareness. The use of flashcards is essential for the instruction of the lesson. Students match the card with its beginning phoneme.
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IIII---L-lll-ke---IIII-ke-and-M-IIII-ke

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners recognize the letter combination i_e by reading and spelling words with letter boxes in this lesson. They say a tongue twister which emphasizes the long /i/ silent /e/ combination. They then listen the story "Kite Day at Pine...
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Word and Letter Practice #6

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this word and letter practice worksheet, students say the name and sounds of given letters, read simple sentences, practice reading sight words and practice "chunks" of words.
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Words and Letters Practice #3

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this words and letters practice learning exercise, students practice naming letters and practicing sounds of given sets of letters, read simple sentences, and practice sight words. 
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Picture Hunt: R Control O

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students use the r controlled o sound to sound out words and identify items and people in a picture. In this r controlled o lesson plan, students use the internet to complete their activity.
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"Ca...Ca...Ca...Caterpillar Blending"

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students improve blending skills. They produce many individual short utterances and mouth moves (phonemes) into one long utterance (words) and create their own blending caterpillar. They draw a picture of a caterpillar with three...
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Nothing but Nests

For Teachers K - 1st
Students examine both the upper and lower case letter "N,n." They practice making the "n" sound, writing the letter, and recognizing it in words. After a teacher book talk, they listen to Christine Young's, "Nests," and make the "boat...
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Unit Plan
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Phonics and Decoding Strategies for Struggling Readers Using Core Knowledge Poem

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students complete multiple activities to help them hear sounds, syllables, and spell words with vowel patterns, digraphs, or blends. In this word sounds lesson, students use letter tiles, sort words cards, analyze poems, and play a bingo...
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Ee is for Egg

For Students K - 2nd
For this literacy worksheet, learners use the letter E in various contexts to increase letter recognition and spelling skills for related words.
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Word and Letter Practice #2

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this words and letters practice activity, students practice naming letters and practicing sounds of given sets of letters, read simple sentences, and practice sight words. 
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Starfall

Aa is for Apple

For Students K - 2nd
For this printing worksheet, students form 11 upper and lowercase letter A's. Students color in pictures of words beginning with the letter and write two rows of A's on their own.
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Starfall

Uu is for Umbrella

For Students K - 2nd
In this printing worksheet, learners form the upper and lowercase letter U. Students also color in two pictures that begin with the letter U.
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Starfall

Uu is for Umbrella

For Students K - 1st
For this printing practice learning exercise, students learn to form both upper and lower case Zaner-Bloser letter u. Students trace several examples before generating their letters in the boxes.
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Tornadoes

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Students research tornadoes. For this weather activity, students construct a KWL chart on tornadoes and view the video National Geographic-Tornadoes. Students discuss the facts they learned from the film and complete the KWL chart.
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Worksheet
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Grammar: Adjectives

For Students 4th - 5th
In this adjective learning exercise, students read about adjective and articles, then find adjectives in sentences, complete sentences with adjectives from a word box, and complete a short assessment, finding adjectives and articles.
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The Letter O

For Students K - 2nd
In this letter O worksheet, learners determine whether an underlined word had the long or short o sound, circling the correct answer.
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Doc on Top

For Teachers K - 1st
Students recognize the short /o/ sound in written and oral words in this lesson. They say a tongue twister which emphasizes words with the short /o/ sound. They then listen to the story "The Big Top" and identify the words in the story...
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Icky-Sticky

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students practice recognizing the connection between phonemes and letters with an emphasis on finding the short vowel /i/ in words. They each receive a Elkonin letterbox and a picture card with icky-sticky gum on it and the letter i.
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Wash Your Hands...they are icky sticky!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students engage in an emergent literacy instructional activity that focuses on phonemic awareness and they practice corresponding the letter "i" to its long or short sound. This type of recognition has been found to be essential to...
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Uhhh..What?

For Teachers K
Students identify and become competent and in reading the letter u, pronounced /uh/. They also use and spell words with the correspondance u = /uh/ by the use of a letterbox lesson, reading a short story, and writing a message.
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This is a test.

For Students 2nd
multiple resources from various sites. I am, needless to say, frustrated, and don't understand why the programmers say they have tested and do not experience this. I have the problem with both Internet Explorer on a PC and Safari on a...
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"Aaaaaaa...a Fast Crab! "

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars participate in an emergent literacy lesson plan that focuses on the skill of phonemic awareness. The phoneme chosen is the letter "a". They need to correlate the sound to the letter.