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Lights, Camera, Action!
First graders complete a variety of activities in which they practice recognizing verbs including a word guessing game. After a lecture/demo, 1st graders use worksheets imbedded in this plan to play the verb recognition game.
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Locomotor Go Fish
Students reinforce their 8 locomotor skills of walking, running, jumping, hopping, skipping, sliding, galloping, and leaping by playing a game of "go-fish" for each of the skills.
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Clifford Phonics Fun
Students develop phonemic awareness skills. They recognize consonant sound spellings and distinguish easily confused letter pairs. Students examine common short and long vowel sound spellings. They read stories containing high frequency...
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Homonym Baseball
Sixth graders are introduced to the characteristics of homonyms. In groups, they are given points in the baseball game when the homonyms are matched to the correct definition. To end the lesson, they practice spelling the different...
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Elementary Homophones 3
In this language arts learning exercise, students examine 15 words in a word bank. Students write a word that is a homophone, or word that sounds the same but is spelled differently.
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Teapot Homophones
Young scholars participate in a game about homophones. They write sentences on the board omitting the homophones. They try to determine the correct word and must spell the word as well.
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Shirley Loves To Shake Her Shakers
Students identify the digraph /sh/ in written and spoken language. After a brief discussion of the independent and combined sounds of the phonemes /s/ and /h/ students practice identifying initial and final placement of the new digraph...
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Test Your Reading Skills-- Homophones 4
In this language arts worksheet, students learn that homophones are words that sound the same but have different meanings and spellings. Students read 15 words and write the homophone for each.
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Create Your Own Homophone Worksheets
Students develop their own homophone worksheet. They practice the spelling and using the different homophones. They participate in a homophone bee to end the lesson.
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Thanksgiving
Learners work together to find and spell Thanksgiving. On a obstacle course, they follow the cones to search for the letters. If they acquire an incorrect letter, they are required to do either push-ups or sit-ups. To end the lesson,...
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Giving Directions
In this spelling worksheet, students locate 20 misspelled words in a conversation about directions. Students underline the errors and write them correctly above.
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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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Yelena Isinbayeva
In this famous person worksheet, students read a passage about Yelena Isinbayeva and then complete a variety of in-class and homework activities to support comprehension, including partner interviews, spelling, cloze, synonym matches,...
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Spill the Beans
Young scholars play an alphabet game with beans that asks them create simple short vowel words. They spill several marked beans onto a paper and separate those that have fallen face-up. They arrange the beans into words and read them aloud.
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Parts of the Body 3
In this spelling instructional activity, students learn to spell parts of the body by first analyzing 20 names which have missing letters. Students add some letters to complete each word.
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Derby Suburbs And Villages
In this ESL worksheet, students fill in the gaps to spell twenty different suburbs and villages around Derby, UK. The vowels are given but students must determine the needed consonants to complete each word.
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Hikaru Utada
For this famous person worksheet, learners read a passage about Hikaru Utada and then complete a variety of in-class and homework activities to support comprehension, including partner interviews, spelling, cloze, synonym matches, and...
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Yao Ming
In this famous person worksheet, students read a passage about Yao Ming and then complete a variety of in-class and homework activities to support comprehension, including partner interviews, spelling, cloze, synonym matches, and...
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The 80 Question Oral Quiz- Test Your Listening Skills!
In this dictation quiz instructional activity, students listen and write as the teacher reads the numbers, letters, and words given in the list. They can read the words to each other as an adaptation of this instructional activity. The...
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Ee is for Egg
For this literacy worksheet, learners use the letter E in various contexts to increase letter recognition and spelling skills for related words.
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Smart Board Literacy Center
Learners practice spelling their names. In this technology and early emergent literacy lesson, students locate the letters in their name among a cluster of letters on the Smart board, then click and drag each letter to the other side of...
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Chiro Suzuki
In this famous leaders worksheet, students read a passage about Chiro Suzuki and then complete a variety of in-class and homework activities to support comprehension, including partner interviews, spelling, cloze, synonym matches, and...
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Contraction Baseball
In this grammar worksheet, students use cards to say and spell contractions and move around a baseball mound if they are correct. Each team goes up to bat 3 times.
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Elementary Homophones 2
In this language arts instructional activity, students discover that homophones are words that sound the same but are spelled differently. Students match 15 homophones.