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Imagine It
Pupils become skillful readers by assessing phonemic awareness and deciphering the words and syllables that follow challenging sounds. This lesson emphasizes the correspondence dealing with the i=/i/ in written and spoken words.
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Sing Your Way Through Phonics Lesson Plan "What's That Sound?"
Students practice pronouncing the correct consonant sound.
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Sounding Out, Holiday Relay
Students explore word sounds by participating in a visual relay game. In this vocabulary identification game, students create holiday themed images and cards based on the different holidays in a year. Students place the cards and images...
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Mama, Do You Love Me?
Students complete a variety of activities related to the /m/ sound. As a class, they recite a tongue twister, and play the "I Spy" game for the letter M. Students then listen to the book "Mama, Do You Love Me?" and identify words in...
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Spelling with Vowels
Students practice spelling words with vowels. In this letter sound and identification instructional activity, students learn all the vowels and their vowel sounds. Students spell words with vowels and fill in missing letters.
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Oooohhhh Nooo, My Nose!
First graders relate the long o sound to the sound you make when you finally understand something and say, "Oohhh". They practice the tongue twister for the day saying it together holding out the /O/ sound as it appears and practice...
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Hhhh, I'm Getting Sleepy!
Young scholars complete a variety of activities related to the /h/ sound. As a class they recite a tongue twister, then trace and write the letter H. Students then view pictures and identify the pictures that contain the /h/ sound, and...
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Sorting Snowballs: Phonics
In this early childhood phonics worksheet, students practice the s and p sounds as they choose the correct letters to match the 8 pictures.
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CVC Words: Middle e
In this CVC words worksheet, students examine 5 pictures featuring the short e sound in order to fill in the blanks in 5 sentences. Students also copy the sentences on the lines provided.
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Phonic Cow
In this phonics learning exercise, students think of words that contain the -ow sound and list them in a box below the cow sketching on the paper provided.
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What doe the doctor say?
Students must explore the phoneme awareness. They must decode many different correspondences. Students explore the o sound by illustrating the concept using memorable tools used in by showing the o sound in spoken and written words.
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Letter Recognition Flash Games for Kids
Students explore the alphabet by completing an on-line letter identification activity. In this phonetics activity, students utilize the website www.literarycenter.net and listen to word sounds as they identify the spelling of the...
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School-Home Links: Name Letters by the Sounds they Make
In this letter sounds worksheet, students say the sound that each letter makes and then name the letter the matches the sound. Students then write their names and say the names of the letters.
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Learning to Read With Superman Speed
Students practice techniques to become more fluent readers by reading more proficiently and with faster speed. They stress mastery of the d=/d/, e=/e/ and de=/de/ sounds in spoken and written words. The book, "John Henry," by Julius...
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School-Home Links: Putting Sounds Together to Make Words
In this word sounds instructional activity, 1st graders look at each letter in each word. Students say all of the sounds the letters make in the word. Students repeat the sounds and then say the word.
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What's My Sound?
Students follow a power point presentation to practice the sounds each letter of the alphabet make. In this 'what's my sound' activity, students apply word recognition strategies and demonstrate listening and comprehension skills to...
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"An Icky Sticky Mess"
Young scholars practice a hand motion to help them remember the short vowel sound of I. They answer a variety of questions focusing on the vowel sound. They repeat a tongue twister with the repetitive sound of I. They practice writing...
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"Icky Sticky Hands"
Students study the /i/ sound in both written and spoken words by reciting a tongue twister, making words in Elkonin letterboxes, reading "Tin Man Fix It," and recognizing /i/ words on flashcards. They write a message about their favorite...
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International Phonetic Alphabet Vowels 3
In this phonetic alphabet worksheet, students fill in a list of words that contain the "o" sound. Students fill in 2 columns for 2 different sounds.
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Alphabetic Understanding, Phonics, and Spelling
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 and...
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From George to Martha: Writing a Sonnet Using Primary Sources
What was the relationship like between George and Martha Washington? To protect their privacy, Martha Washington destroyed all her husband’s letters after his death so historians have little evidence of their lives together. Two letters...
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A River Ran Wild: An Environmental History
The Nashua River serves as the focal point of an investigation of the treatment of and care for natural resources. A reading of A River Rand Wild: An Environmental History by Lynne Cherry, launches the study and class members consider...
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Red Gets Fed
Students practice with the strategy that letters represent phonemes and spellings map out phonemes in spoken words. They work on the phoneme sounds of /a/ and e=/e/ in correspondences with reading. Each student also recites the tongue...
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Blake's Brave Race
Students distinguish the difference between the short and long vowel sounds. They practice correspondences that are spelled and pronounced differently working with a_e=/A/ vowel sounds. Elkonin Letter boxes and class set of books are...