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Open Wide

For Teachers K - 1st
Students recognize the short vowel o in written and spoken language. Through matching and listening activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /o/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation in...
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Up, Up and Away

For Teachers K - 1st
Students recognize the short vowel u in written and spoken language. Through matching and listening activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /u/ from other phonemes. Students identify the phoneme and letter in words and pictures.
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Riding the Roller Coaster

For Teachers 1st
First graders recognize the short vowel a in written and spoken language. Through matching and listening activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /a/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation...
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I Can't Stop Itching

For Teachers K - 1st
Students recognize the short vowel i in written and spoken language. Through matching and listening activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /i/ from other phonemes. After reading the story "Liz is Six," students draw a picture with...
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Sammy the Slimy Snake

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students engage in a emergent literacy activity with the intention of improving reading comprehension. The goals of the activity include recognizing both upper and lower case S, to create an awareness of the mouth movement and the...
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Worksheet
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What's the Big Idea? 1

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this recognizing the common subject for groups of words learning exercise, learners read groups of words and write a good title for each list. Students write 12 short answers.
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Interactive
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Various 135: Fill In Sentences

For Students 3rd
In this sentence structure worksheet, 3rd graders choose the proper word to complete the ten given sentences. This is an interactive, multiple-choice worksheet.
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Drum Roll, Please!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Drill and practice phonemes, letter formations, written language, vowel correspondences, as well as consonant correspondences with youngsters. They will locate and identify the /b/ in written and spoken words from flash cards containing...
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Lesson Plan
Perkins School for the Blind

Familiar Sounds

For Teachers K - 6th
To foster concept development and auditory discrimination skills, learners with visual impairments listen to identify a variety of common sounds. The teacher makes recordings of various sounds, including those found in the home, at the...
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Context Clues and Idioms

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
Kids practice using five types of context clues (definition, synonym, antonym, example, and general) to decode idiomatic language.
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Picture Stories

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars write a story. For this picture stories lesson, students write a story on a topic of their choice and then rewrite their story using only pictures. Young scholars share their stories with the class.
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Animal Signs

For Teachers 1st - 9th
Students discuss the many different types of animal signs that can be used to identify and track animals. They participate in an hands-on activity in which they examine tracks, trails, homes, territory markings, and even "scat" left by...
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Interactive
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Using the Verb "to be" Exercise 8

For Students 6th - 8th
In this simple present tense learning exercise, students fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verb "to be" in the simple present tense.  Students complete 10 sentences.
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Interactive
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So and Neither

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this so and neither worksheet, students respond to sentences given to them with either the word so or neither at the front of the sentences. Students write 37 sentences total.
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Sweet Potato Pie Goes Fast

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students practice their reading fluency by covering up parts of words in order to identify word they do not know, and by completing repeated readings. They read "Sweet Potato Pie" with a reading partner who times them and records the...
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Worksheet
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Comma Splices and Fused Sentences

For Students 6th - 7th
In these comma splices and fused sentences worksheets, students read the sentences and the three underlined parts. Students then find and fix either the comma splice or fused sentence.
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Is It What I Think of What I Know? (Fact and Opinion)

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Pupils analyze the difference between facts and opinions. In this fact or opinion lesson plan, students talk about the difference between factual information and opinions. They complete a fact or opinion chart, and describe how they know...
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Interactive
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Active or Passive

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this active and passive voice instructional activity, students write sentences and choose the correct tense for the active and passive voice. Students complete 3 activities total.
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Happy Birthday to Them!

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders use a search engine to search the Internet and find the birthdates of the singers listed on the Popular Singers Worksheet. They provide the URL address from which they obtain their information for each singer.