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Language Arts: Word Recognition and Mental Images
Students read short stories containing Dolch sight words and describe the scenes and answer comprehension questions. After relating the stories to their own experiences or observations, they draw pictures illustrating a scene from the...
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Multisensory Sight-word Strategies
Students engage in a lesson that uses sight word strategies in order to increase reading comprehension. The skills are applicable to rote skill, math facts, formulas, etc... The lesson includes sample exercises for the teacher to use for...
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Who Knows the Letter?
Help learners identify initial consonant sounds and letters that represent that sound. They indicate awareness of consonant sounds and letters by responding with a physical movement. They also sing using "Sing Your Way Through Phonics"...
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Dr. Seuss - Make Time for Rhymes
Read the story Green Eggs and Ham to practice phonemic awareness, rhyming, and writing skills with emerging readers. They will match oral words to printed words, create a graphic organizer, and the use rhyming words in an original...
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Rain Rain Go Away
Complete a variety of activities related to the long /a/ sound with a focus on words containing the ai and ay correspondence with your readers. As a class, they recite a tongue twister, then spell different words containing ay and ai...
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Sound Blending Lesson Plan
Mr. Snowman wants to help emerging readers understand compound words, so he segments some familiar words to help them see that they are made of two distinct words. Learners repeat the words, both segmented and blended, and observe them...
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Applying Decoding, Vocabulary, and During Reading Strategies
Apply reading strategies to boost phonemic awareness. While reading a provided informational text, learners use decoding, vocabulary, and a graphic organizer to strengthen their overall reading ability. Handouts and the reading passage...
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Using Poetry in Teaching Reading to Special Education Students
A series of well-written activities, these lessons prompt middle schoolers reading below grade level (at a second, third, or fourth grade level) to use poetry to practice basic reading skills. They rhyme, build words, make inferences,...
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“Wild Readers” Decoding Skills Lesson Plan
Set young readers on the path toward fluency with this phonemic awareness resource. Based on the award-winning children's book, Where the Wild Things Are, this lesson allows beginning readers to practice isolating phonemes and...
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Teaching Strategies: The Word Wall: A Tool for Beginning Readers and Writers
Students participate in various activities through the school week involving the high-frequency words on their word wall in order to increase familiarity with reading and spelling the selected words. In this word wall lesson, students...
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Phonics
Students complete online phonics activities. In this phonics lesson, students view online clips about using 'oa' words. Students make their own Phonics Finder badge and wear it to play the first and end sounds worksheet. Students also...
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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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Technology that Makes Phonics Fun
Learners discover the Internet by participating in on-line educational activities. In this educational technology lesson, students utilize interactive story books, podcasts, and games to help expand an understanding of phonics....
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Poetry & Word Families
Students study a word family before listing rhyming words in that family. They use the words to begin developing lines of poetry. They continue writing poetry individually and finally, they illustrate their work using graphic software.
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How to Teach Dolch Words with Kid Pix
Young scholars use KidPix computer program to learn Dolch sight words. In this technology and language lesson, students type their Dolch sight words into KidPix to create a quasi-sentence.
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Sing your Way Through Phonics Lesson Plan "Belongings"
Young scholars spell and punctuate singular and plural possessive words.
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Using Letters to Make Words
First graders use the Internet to learn. In this word formation lesson, 1st graders use the Internet to complete an activity from their practice book and complete a worksheet where they use letter cutouts to make words.
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Phonics: Long O Spelling Patterns
Second graders review the spelling of words with the long O sound. In this phonics lesson, 2nd graders brainstorm words with the long O sound, gain exposure to common long O spelling patterns and sort long O words based upon the spelling...
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Word Search Puzzle: Phonics--Words That Begin With FR
In this words that begin with FR worksheet, students find and circle/highlight twelve words in a word search puzzle that begin with FR.
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Word Search Puzzle: Phonics--Words That Begin With PR
In this words that begin with PR worksheet, learners find and circle/highlight twelve words in a word search puzzle that begin with PR.
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Word Search Puzzle: Phonics--Words That Begin With sh
In this words that begin with sh worksheet, young scholars find and circle/highlight twelve words in a word search puzzle that begin with sh.
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Word Search Puzzle: Phonics--Words That Begin With spr and str
In this words that begin with spr and str worksheet, students find and circle/highlight twelve words in a word search puzzle that begin with the letters spr and/or str.
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Word Search Puzzle: Phonics--Words That Begin With wh
In this words that begin with th worksheet, student find and circle/highlight twelve words in a word search puzzle that begin with th.
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Word Search Puzzle: Phonics--Words That End With -CT
In this words that end in -CT worksheet, pupils locate and circle/highlight twelve words in a word search puzzle that end in -CT.