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Curated OER

Little Red Hen

For Teachers K - 3rd Standards
Pupils listen to a teacher reading of The Little Red Hen, identify the story elements and sequence them. They talk about different jobs associated with providing food and act out a play based on the story. Be aware that although several...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Word a Day

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Students create a word bank of sight words. Each student creates his/her own personal word bank, and creates pictures to illustrate the word.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

See, Say, Write, and Read

For Students K - 1st Standards
In this reading skills worksheets, students use the pictures to help them identify the words see, in, bunny, and hat. Students then read the 3 sentences that use pictures in the sentences.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

See, Say, Write, and Read

For Students 1st Standards
In this reading and writing worksheet, 1st graders identify the words, print them on the lines, and then read 3 sentences that include pictures to help with each sentence.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Beginning Sounds

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this beginning sounds worksheet, students say the name of the pictures in each row. Students circle the letter that makes the same beginning sound as the picture names. Students recognize the beginning sounds for the letters h, c, t,...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

My First Number Word Search

For Students K - 1st Standards
In this basic mathematics worksheet, learners find and circle the numbers shown in the puzzle box. They identify and spell correctly the first ten numbers.
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Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Kids: Super Why: Letter Sounds Worksheet [Pdf]

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
An excellent resource for teaching beginning letter-sound correspondence. Student must identify the object in the picture and circle the letter that begins the word.
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St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Or Quiz

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site is an interactive quiz to assess knowledge of words that incorporate "or" in them. The quiz is designed to follow the "Reading Bear: or" lesson.
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St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Lessons 68 73 Review

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this beginning reading module, the instructor reviews how to pronounce words that incorporate"a_e", "e_e", "ing", and other patterns. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to...
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St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Wor, Wa, Ou Quiz

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site is an interactive quiz to assess knowledge of words with the letters "wor", "wa", and "ou" are included on the assessment. The quiz is designed to follow the "Reading Bear: wor, wa, and, ou" lesson.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Building a Sentence Activity

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
An activity teaching the short vowel sounds and how they are used in a sentence. The students put together sentences that are cut apart and then identify the sounds of the targeted vowel.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Beginning Sound Spin Letter Sound Accuracy Activity

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Builds students' abilities to identify the sound of a letter and say if a word begins with that sound. The student spins a wheel and says what letter/sound it stops on. Then they find a picture that begins with that sound. This site...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Initial Sound Memory Game: A Pre Reading Game

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A teacher-led activity that helps students learn to isolate initial sounds of words. Students match pictures according to the initial sounds of the words that the pictures represent.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Catch a Sound: Letter Sound Accuracy Activity

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A quick alphabet game for the whole class. Students stand in a circle and throw a beanbag to each other. When they catch it, they must say a word that begins with the letter given. Continue this in alphabetical order.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Sound Toss Game; Letter Sound Accuracy

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A letter sounds game that students will love! They toss a bean bag onto a poster board with pictures on it, and tell what the first letter and sound is of the picture that the bean bag lands on. This site includes a link to printable...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Sound Spaghetti; Letter Sound Accuracy Game

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A great game to teach students how to sound out words. Each student picks a piece of long paper out of the teacher's basket and pronounces the letters on it.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Musical Chairs Game; Letter Sound Accuracy

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A letter sound accuracy game based on Musical Chairs. But to keep the chair that they sit in the student must pick a letter from the teacher's bucket and give a word that starts with that letter. A link to Letter Cards is included on...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Long Vowel Choice Game; Letter Sound Accuracy

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
An entertaining, whole class game to build the accuracy of the students' abilities to identify the sounds of different vowels. This site includes a link to a Word List Generator.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Letter Ring Game: Letter Sound Accuracy Activity

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A fun, unique version of the game "Ring Around the Rosie" that builds the students' accuracy in identifying letters, sounds, and words that begin with that letter. A link to printable letter cards is provided on this site as well.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Letter Hunt Tally: A Letter Sound Accuracy Game

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students play detective and discover a given letter at the beginning of a word. They keep a "tally" sheet and compete with their classmates. This site includes links to Letter cards and a Letter Hunt Tally Sheet.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Give Me Five; Letter Sound Accuracy Activity

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
An exciting game to build students' understanding and accuracy of producing words that begin with the same letter. Students sit in a circle and the teacher says the sound of the letter. One student must pass a bean bag around the circle...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Egg Carton Game; Letter Sound Accuracy Activity

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A small group game to build students' abilities to identify letters and their sounds. A student shakes an egg carton, opens it to see where a chip landed, and says the letter and its sound.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Connect 4 Words: Letter Sound Accuracy Activity

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A reading game based on "Connect 4" that will build student's abilities to say the name and sound of a letter and find a word beginning with that sound.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down? Letter Sound Accuracy Game

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
An exciting activity for the whole class to practice listening for a specific letter sound. When they hear a word with the sound they are listening for they give it a thumbs up; if it doesn't have the sound, they give it a thumbs down....