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Max's Magic Magnets
Young scholars identify the letter and phoneme /m/ in written and spoken language. Students practice the production of the /m/ sound through tongue twisters and stories. They identify the initial placement of the letter and sound using a...
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O-o-o-oh, no-o-o-o!!
Learners engage in an emergent literacy lesson in order to practice the skill of phonemic awareness. They learn this skill using the phoneme for the letter "o". Students must recognize the letter as well as its sound.
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Tim the Turtle Takes Two Turns Today
First graders examine the way their mouths move when making the /t/ sound at the beginning and middle of a word. Next, they recite a tongue twister and write the letter. They listen to "A Cat Nap," discuss the story, and write a message...
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Sight Word Activity Pages
In this sight word worksheet, students are given a calendar naming 4 weeks worth of sight words and their activities for each school day of the week. Activities follow on subsequent pages.
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Speedy, Speedy Students Reading Fast
Learners review basic reading decoding. Given books at their independent reading level, they read independently and with several different partners to increase reading fluency. They see how many more words per minute they can read after...
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Fuzz and the Buzz
Students practice various strategies for becoming fluent readers. They review the skills of phoneme recognition, decoding, crosschecking and spelling in order to read with automation. Working in pairs, students complete a pair-share of...
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Wash Your Hands...they are icky sticky!
Students engage in an emergent literacy lesson 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 reading development.
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Language Arts: Becoming Fluent Readers
First graders develop letter-sound correspondence skills by segmenting words according to their phonemes. Using letter tiles and letter boxes, they spell words called by the teacher. After reading several books with the teacher, 1st...
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Sammy the Slimy Snake
Students engage in a emergent literacy lesson with the intention of improving reading comprehension. The goals of the lesson include recognizing both upper and lower case S, to create an awareness of the mouth movement and the phoneme...
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Language Arts: Sound Recognition
First graders practice the short i sound by repeating tongue twisters. Later they write the letter i by using the analogy of drawing a straight line from the "fence" down to the "sidewalk" and putting a "basketball" above it. Other...
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"Spooktacular Patterns" - A Math Unit for October
Students extend a pattern using everyday objects. They use sound and objects to make a pattern
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Reading Recall
Second graders review the vowe-consonant-e pattern in association with reading fluently. After identifying the changes made to a phoneme when the letter e is added at the end of the word, 2nd graders practice reading a phonetically...
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Spinning Short Vowel Game
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.
Rock ’N Learn
Missing Instrument Beginning Consonant G Ending Consonant X
In this phonics activity instructional activity, 2nd graders follow directions to color a picture. They color yellow the words that have the same beginning sound as queen and color red the words that have the same ending sound as fox.
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Short Vowel A
In this short vowels worksheet, 1st graders look at and say each pictured word. Students listen for the vowel sound of the short "Aa." Students color only the pictures that have the short "Aa" sound. Students then trace the upper and...
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Home-School Links: Reading Sight Words
In this sight word worksheet, students practice reading 10 sight words. Students are instructed to cut out both word lists [5 words each] and practice reading. Worksheet is designed to be signed by parent and child when completed.
Utah Education Network (UEN)
7th Grade Poetry: I Am Poem
A study of Alfred Noyes's poem "The Highwayman" opens a lesson about narrative poetry. Scholars read the poem and compare it to the animated video version using a worksheet. Learners look at models and use a template to craft an "I Am"...
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Basic Food Items
Students explore healthy eating by defining food vocabulary terms. In this food purchasing lesson, students utilize word/picture cards to participate in a food identification activity among their classmates. Students read a list of food...
Little Book Lane
"Ch" Words
What do chug and chain have in common? The consonant digraph ch of course. Hold onto your hats – here is a packet of worksheets with enough practice activities to fill a short unit. It contains two lists of ch words, three practice...
Kelly's Kindergarten
June Daily Activities
This is an absolute must-have resource for early elementary teachers! Here you'll find a collection of activities and worksheets for each day of the month of June, with topics ranging from ordering numbers on a calendar or identifying...
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Rainbow Spelling: A Kinesthetic Approach to Encoding
Have your young learners interact with phonemes through this tactile plan! Each learner will have a colored mat where they connect different phonemes to create words. The best part is that they can self-correct easily as they spell!
Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk, University of Texas at Austin
Lesson 9 - Contractions
Is it do'nt or don't? How about doesn't or does'nt? A lesson on contractions helps learners identify, form, and use contractions. Components within the plan include direct instruction on decoding and encoding contractions, as well as...
Book Units Teacher
Skill Lessons – Prefixes and Suffixes
Sometimes the best way to understand a concept is to break it down. Young vocabulary pupils work with word parts in a hands-on activity that prompts them to connect flash cards with affixes to their root and base words....
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Find The Hidden Message: Media Literacy in Primary Grades
Learners practice listening to and reading various types of media and text. In groups, learners use video, newspapers, magazines, and more to compare and contrast different types of information. They identify the differences between fact...