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Cry Baby
Students 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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Eek, It's a Spider
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 words while reading a...
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I Can't Stop Itching
Students recognize the short vowel i in written and spoken language. Through matching and listening activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /i/ from other phonemes. After reading the story "Liz is Six," students draw a picture with...
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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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Animated Alphabet
Students explore English by completing an interactive language history activity. In this word recognition lesson, students discuss word formations and the phonetic relationship between letters. Students identify the origin of individual...
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Short e, Long e Spelling Activity
In this spelling activity activity, students rewrite the words with short e and long e sounds on the lines. Students spell 20 words.
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Home Spelling Practice: Grade 2: Short A
In this spelling instructional activity, students learn to spell a list of ten words. All contain the short A sound. Students write each word one time on the lines.
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Turkey Vowels
In this vowel sounds worksheet, 1st graders cut and paste the short vowel pictures with their short vowel sound. Students cut and match 10 pictures.
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Vowels: Long and Short i
In this vowel worksheet, students sort a set of pictures in list whose name have either the short or long i sound. Worksheet contains links to additional activities.
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Bo Knows "O"
Students are introduced to the vowel-consonant-e patter that changes short vowel sounds into long vowel sounds. They distinguish between the short vowel o and long vowel o. Students practice reading and spelling words with the...
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letter a
In this letter a worksheet, 1st graders will focus on both the long and short vowel sounds. Students will study 12 pictures and decide if the word contains a long or short sound and circle the correct answer accordingly.
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Boom Chicka Boom
Pupils recognize how vowel patterns change a short vowel sound into a long vowel sound. With an emphasis on the /oo/ that makes the long U sound, students identify the phoneme and letter combination through listening and matching...
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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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Short i Spelling Activity
In this short i words instructional activity, students rewrite the short i sounding words on the lines. Students spell 6 words on the provided lines.
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Phonics: Vowel U
In this vowel u worksheet, students trace several times, read, write each word once, find and circle the words bug, bus, cup, mud and gum.
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Phonics: Mid Vowel O
In this mid vowel O worksheet, students trace and write six, three lettered words and then draw a line from the word to its actual picture on the right of the worksheet.
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Elmer the Elephant
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 spell...
Starfall
The Big Hit
In this literacy activity, learners look at pictures, trace, and write letters to make CVC words with a short /i/sound.
Make Take Teach
7 Syllable Types - Classroom Posters
Review r-controlled words, open and closed vowels, and dipthongs with a set of classroom posters. Each page features one concept with a colorful illustration, an explanation, and a list of applicable words.
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Learn-to-Read Pumpkin Patch
Learners practice identifying and pronouncing the short letter "u" sound. For this phonetic awareness lesson, students access the Starfall.com website and follow the directions on the screen to reinforce the short "u" sound. Learners can...
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Rhyming Words: Fox and Socks
What rhymes with the word fox? Actually there are quite a few words that contain the short o vowel sound and rhyme with fox. Pre-readers find, color, and circle the objects in the picture that rhyme with the sly looking fox. They also...
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Rain Rain Go Away
Complete a variety of activities related to the long /a/ sound with a focus on words containing the ai and ay correspondence with your readers. As a class, they recite a tongue twister, then spell different words containing ay and ai...
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Applying Phonetic Principles
Young readers develop their phonetic skills by using a nifty tool called a word pocket. They use the tool to help them organize individual letters that they have at their desks to spell entire words and to construct beginning and ending...
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Word Center
Construct spelling words through a Making Words activity. Learners create words at various levels using onsets, rimes, suffixes, long and short vowels, and word families. They write words as they create them and compare the words with...