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Nature’s Fury: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 1)
Earthquakes, hurricanes, volcano eruptions, and more. To enrich their study of nature's big events, kids map tectonic plates and major earthquake locations, identify emergency response agencies, and storyboard a film about volcanos.
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Second-Grade Comprehension-Based Intervention
Help your youngsters find meaning in the text they read with this series of five intervention lessons. Offering explicit, step-by-step instructions for walking children through shared readings of leveled books, these...
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The Reading Boost: How Technology Bolsters Literacy
Online technologies can foster increased reading comprehension and motivate learning.
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Daisy the Snail - Phonics
In this phonics instructional activity, learners study and view a picture of a snail. Students practice pronouncing with the use of phonics the word snail.
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Genki Phonics: B
In this letter B learning exercise, 1st graders study the mini arrows to help them learn the uppercase letter B stroke pattern. Students fill in the missing B for the words butterfly, bedroom, and baby.
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Genki Phonics: C
In this letter C worksheet, 1st graders study the mini arrows to learn the stroke patterns for the uppercase letter C. Students fill in the missing C for the words candy cane, car, and cat.
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Genki Phonics: E
In this letter E worksheet, 1st graders study the mini arrows to learn the stroke patterns for the uppercase letter E. Students fill in the missing E for the words eggs, elephant, and expensive.
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Phonics: r-Controlled Vowels er, ir, ur Review
For this r-controlled vowels worksheet, learners study the pictures and circle the r-controlled words that match the 8 pictures. Students then complete 2 fill in the blank questions about r-controlled vowels.
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EA Words Word Search
In this word search worksheet, learners study the 'ea' words and locate them within the word search. Students locate 11 words within the puzzle.
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Word Families
In this word families worksheet, students study several sets of word families including "-am," "-it," "-ip," "-at," "-ap," and "-ot." Students use the extra house templates to find more word families.
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Bossy IR words
In this ir words worksheet, 1st graders study the word bank containing 'ir' words. Students write the words in alphabetical order on the provided lines.
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Here's an Instant Activity for March 3, 2008
Here are some good spelling activities for 'ou' words. First and second graders complete an oral spelling activity with their teacher and then an Instant Activity worksheet. and spell 'ou' words.
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Here's an Instant Activity for September 6, 2004
What are the words that use the silent e? With this resource, youngsters complete a teacher-led activity for spelling words with silent e sounds. They then complete a worksheet that adds suffixes s, ed, or ing to words that end in silent e.
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"Tongue Tangle"
First graders engage in a study of phonics that focuses on the beginning sounds with an emphasis upon varying types of genres that includes songs, speech, and poetry. They recognize the beginning sounds of words and make physical...
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Little Words Are Hiding Inside!
First graders practice finding smaller words inside larger ones. In this spelling lesson, 1st graders write smaller words that they find in larger ones. They look at words such as water and write a list of words within. They use the...
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Short U Word List
For this short u phonics practice worksheet, students study 32 examples of words that feature the short u sound. Students also read 4 sentences featuring words with the short u sound.
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Rhyming Words, Phonics
First graders understand why words rhyme and how to form rhyming words. In this rhyming and phonics instructional activity, 1st graders complete a worksheet to show words that are spelled as they sound and not spelled as they sound.
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Short Vowel Sounds
In this short vowel activity, 1st graders will focus on reading CVC words. Students will study 6 pictures and choose the correct word from the word box to write on the dotted lines beneath each picture.
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Configuration Station #3
In this language arts worksheet, students study 6 words in a provided word bank. Students generate sentences, fill in missing words, write rhyming words and illustrate to show meaning.
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Conditionals Types 0 and 1
In this online interactive grammar worksheet, students choose the appropriate multiple choice verb to complete 6 sentences correctly. Students determine whether the article "the" should be used in 10 blanks in 1 paragraph. Students then...
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Shhhhhhhh!!!!!
Students recognize and practice putting certain letters together as they make unique sounds in one mouth movement. This lesson focuses on the digraph /sh/. They study and recite the tongue twister "Shelly's aunt, Sharon shears sheep" and...
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Diphthongs OO
In this oo words activity, 1st graders study the 20 words with the 'oo' diphthong. Students find all the words in the word search.
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Diphthongs Oi and Oy
In this oi and oy words worksheet, 1st graders study the oi and oy words and use them and the clues to complete the crossword puzzle.
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Write the Missing Vowel
In this vowels activity, students study 15 pictures with corresponding word labels, each with a missing vowel. Students generate the missing vowel and write it in the blank.