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Letter A Picture and Word Match
For this initial /a/ worksheet, students examine 12 pictures and select the words that represent each of the pictures from the listed possibilities in the word bank.
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Making Words: -at Sound
In this early childhood making words worksheet, students make the words bat, cat, hat, mat, rat, and flat as they fill in the blanks with the appropriate letters in 24 words.
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Making Words: -ug Sound
In this early childhood making words instructional activity, students make the words bug, rug, dug, hug, mug, jug, tug, slug, and plug as they fill in the blanks with the appropriate letters in 18 words.
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Introduce Sounding Out
Students are introduced to the concept of sounding out words while building word recognition skills. For this sounding out words lesson, students take turns sounding out words on index cards. Students sound out the words as fast as they...
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The Letter C- Sound and Printing Practice
In this phonics and printing practice worksheet, student say the sound of Cc at the beginning of words as they name the pictures on one side of the worksheet, and say the ending sound of Cd as they name pictures on the right side of the...
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Last Letter: G, T, and X
In this ending sounds instructional activity, 1st graders study the pictures and the first letters for each word. Students then write the last letter for each word on the lines. Students learn the ending sounds of g, t, and x.
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Big Pig
Students study the/i/ sound and letter recognition using Elkonin letterboxes and letter manipulatives. They work with tongue twister that contains words with many examples of the /i/ sound. Next they buddy read "Liz is Six" before...
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Sound Stretching
In this basic vowel and consonant blending lesson, young learners are shown how to "blend" the sounds of different letters together in order to make a word. Simple words such as, "sun," "moon," and, "ant," are used in a whole-class setting.
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Letter Zz
In this letter Zz activity, 1st graders study the various illustrated images and color the pictures that begin with the letter Z. Students color the pictures of the zipper, zucchini, and zebra.
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Letter D
In this letter d activity, students focus on printing practice as well as the letter sound. Students practice writing 1 line of both capital and lower case and color 3 pictures that begin with the letter sound.
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Letter H
In this letter h worksheet, students focus on printing practice as well as the letter sound. Students practice writing 1 line of both capital and lower case and color 3 pictures that begin with the letter sound.
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Letter G
In this letter g worksheet, students focus on printing practice as well as the letter sound. Students practice writing 1 line of both capital and lower case and color 3 pictures that begin with the letter sound.
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Letter F
In this letter f worksheet, students focus on printing practice as well as the letter sound. Students practice writing 1 line of both capital and lower case and color 3 pictures that begin with the letter sound.
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Lesson 5 - R-Controlled Syllables
Put on your pirate hat and get ready to teach r-controlled syllables. Learners practice using words that contain ar, or, er, ir, and ur. Instructors model how to decode words to isolate vowel teams, as well as combine r-controlled sounds...
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Rhyming Words
Rhyming words are the focus of this language arts presentation. Young readers are introduced to the "ot," "ob," "op," "od," "og," "ox," and "oy" family of sounds. Additional slides have pictures that use these families of sounds with one...
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Crime and Punishment
Can an action be so bad that you are sickened with guilt? Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, the main character in Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, believes that committing a crime could be the answer to his troubles. However,...
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Phase 5 - Tricky Words 2
This simple presentation shows learners examples of tricky words, or, words that have unusual letter combinations. Words such as, laughed, different, friends, and mouse are shown. Learners read the words as they appear on the screen.
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Long vowel u pictures
In this long vowel u worksheet, students color the pictures that contain the long vowel u sound in their name and read the name underneath the picture. Students color 4 pictures.
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Fun Fonix: Gg
In this phonics activity, students respond to 8 questions by practicing the formation of capital and lower case G and writing the letter in the bubbles next to the pictures.
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Fun Fonix: Mm
In this phonics worksheet, students respond to 8 questions by practicing the formation of capital and lower case M and writing the letter in the bubbles next to the pictures.
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Long Vowel E
For this long vowel E worksheet, 1st graders look at six pictures, say the word written under the picture and circle all the ones that have a long E sound.
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The Largest Objects
In this alphabet worksheet, students focus on the letter q. Coloring pictures that begin with the letter q sound, students choose the largest object in each box to color.
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The Largest Objects
In this alphabet activity, students will focus on the letter y. Coloring pictures that begin with the y sound, students will choose the largest object in each box to color.
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The Smallest Object
In this alphabet activity, students will focus on the letter g. Coloring pictures that begin with the specific letter sound, students will choose the smallest object in each box to color.