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Spelling Success; Vowel Sounds
There is a big difference between the words bit and bite. Learners begin to understand how to differentiate between short and long vowel sounds as they are given a word with a short vowel sound, and then are asked to add a letter to make...
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Vowel Sounds - Short Ii Words
In this vowel sounds worksheet, students unscramble 20 short i words using the words in the word bank at the bottom of the page as clues.
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Common Sounds in Words
In this identifying one common sound in pairs of words, students write the letter in the box and fill in the three boxes with the corresponding graphemes for each phoneme. Students write 6 answers.
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Words With No Sound Clues
In this spelling instructional activity, 6th graders complete a crossword puzzle as they figure out the answers to nine clues associated with spelling words with no sound clues.
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Spelling List 12: Sight Words, /oi/ Sound, and Academic Vocabulary
For this spelling list activity, learners practice spelling words that are sight words, oi sounds, and vocabulary. Students practice spelling 16 words total.
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Out of the Dust: Figurative Language
Students find examples of figurative language in "First Rain" in Out of the Dust. In this Out of the Dust lesson, students takes notes on various type of figurative language and identify examples of each type in the poem.
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ESL-Odd Word Out
In this ESL "odd word out" worksheet, students select the word in a group that does not belong. Students may click on an answer button for immediate feedback.
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Under the Umbrella
Young scholars complete a variety of activities related to the short /u/ sound. As a class they recite a tongue twister, then trace and write the letter U. Students then listen to a list of words and identify the words containing the...
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Making a Musical Instrument
Students determine how music is produced through sound waves and how instruments produce music differently than others. They construct flutes out of straws and explore how to adjust the sound.
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Building Polymer Cup Speakers
High schoolers investigate sound waves and they build audio speakers. In this audio speakers and sound instructional activity, students explore how to make quality audio speakers. As a team they build their own speakers to have clarity...
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I'm A Cow
Young scholars identify animal names and sounds. In this animal lesson, students look at animal pictures and practice saying their name and the sound they make. A sing-along where young scholars insert names and sounds where appropriate...
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The Insect World
Students investigate how insects communicate since they cannot use their mouths for producing sound like humans can. In small groups, they devise a way to make an insect-like sound using body parts other than their mouths or vocal...
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Music Technology: Adding a Voice to a Cartoon
Students add their voice to a cartoon character and review sound waves using music technology software. They record specific information into the computer using a microphone and import their voice into the Flash program and apply it to...
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The Rocket Sled
For this secondary mathematics worksheet, students use the given information regarding a rocket’s distance and time to calculate the speed of sound. The one page worksheet contains one problem with the solution.
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Phonics Test #30 - (End of the Year Review)
In this recognizing vowel sounds instructional activity, students read the first word on each line, determine its underlined vowel sound, and identify the other word that has the same sound. Students circle 65 words.
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Name That Tune
Young scholars complete a fingerprint oil lab in order to simulate how geologists use the oil and natural gas in rocks to hear sound waves that signify there are oil in those rocks. In this rocks lesson plan, students learn that the rock...
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String Telephones and Musical Straws
Fourth graders investigate pitches of sound. In this physical science lesson, 4th graders participate in two activities that help them explore pitch--one activity has them working with string telephones and the amount of tension applied...
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Sound Spelling
Practice how to change words by switching out letters that make different sounds with youngsters. The teacher encourages spellers to, "Think of words that rhyme with "bug." As the kids come up with words like, "rug," "tug," and "mug,"...
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Sound Boxes
Students explore language fluency by identifying word segments. In this word structure lesson, students utilize words from their vocabulary lesson, dissect them into syllables and sound out their individual parts. Students participate in...
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Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury": Narration, Voice, and the Compson Family's New System
Students compare and contrast narrative speakers in "The Sound and the Fury" and describe Faulkner's "South" in the context of the historical South. They describe how the South was changing socially and economically.
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Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury" April Eighth, 1928: Narrating from an 'Ordered Place'?
High schoolers analyze the Dilsey chapter to gain an understanding of "The Sound and the Fury's" far-reaching place within a socially changing South.
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What words sound like rice?
Students experiment with sounds of words. In this word comparison activity, students complete a series of games to assist them in hearing and sounding out the letters in the word rice. Students use this information to find or think of...
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Spooky Sound
First graders explore the concept of vowel digraphs. They distinguish between the sound made by one vowel and two vowels. Through listening, matching, and writing activities, 1st graders identify the sound in words and sentences they...
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Nature Walk: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 2)
Reinforce concepts such as long vowels, spelling patterns, sound clusters, double-final consonants, and syllables with a nature-themed unit. Through a series of extra support lessons, learners compare and contrast using a Venn diagram,...