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Free Reading

Free Reading: Syllable Walk; A Syllable Identification Game

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A fun, active game to learn all about syllables! Students line up on one side of the room and take one step for each syllable in the word that the instructor says.
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Rock ’N Learn

Rock 'N Learn: Chuggin' Choo Choo

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This printable worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Learners will look at a series of words and identify each word that starts with the /ch/ consonant digraph. An answer key and lesson...
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Rock ’N Learn

Rock 'N Learn: Hidden Words

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This printable vowel letter worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will find hidden words that contain "ie" to form long /e/. An answer key and lesson extension are included.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Draw My Sounds: Oral Blending Fluency Activity

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A fun activity that has students draw each individual letter and then blend them together.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Slate Races: A Phoneme Blending Game

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A classroom or small group game to build accuracy of students' abilities to blend phonemes. Students write the sounds that the teacher gives them on their own slate/dry erase board and then blend the sounds together to form words.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Catch a Sound: Final Sounds Game

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This site contains a flexible activity that teaches students how to "catch" or identify the final sound of a word.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Amplify Education, Inc.: Words Separated Into Phonemes

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This page contains audio clips of words separated into phonemes. The audios give the word and then the word separated. There is a link to the Phonological Awareness activities page that utilizes this sound page. The sounds are pronounced...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Lucky Dip Game: Oral Blending and Segmenting

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students pull an object from a bag, keep it hidden, stretch out its name by pronouncing each letter sound for at least a second, and everyone else has to guess the object.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: "Aliens of Paz" Picture Activity: Oral Segmenting Accuracy

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
An exciting activity that helps pre-readers identify sounds and break down words into segments. The students pretend to be "Aliens of Paz" who pronouce words very slowly. This activity also incorporates movement as the student touches...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Listen for My Sound. A Phoneme Segmenting Activity

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A simple, yet effective activity to teach students to identify the same sounds in different words. The teacher says a word and the students give a thumbs up or thumbs down. This site also includes a Word Generator list link as a resource.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Syllable Slap! Segmenting Syllables

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A higher level activity that helps students develop fluency in identifying open and closed syllable words.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Word Split Stomp, Segmenting Syllables Activity

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A classroom activity that introduces and builds the accuracy of students' abilities of identifying syllables in a word. The instructor says a word, the student stomps once for each syllable in the word and then stomps one more time to...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Slate Races: A Phoneme Segmenting Game

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A classroom or small group game to build accuracy of students' abilities to blend phonemes. Students write the word that the teacher gives them on their own slate/dry erase board and then underneath the word, writes down each sound in...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Segmenting and Blending Words

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this activity, students will learn how to segment words. Then students will play a segmentation game that utilizes Elkonin boxes and markers.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: The Take Away Game: Onset Rime Segmenting

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A classroom activity led by the instructor. The student is given a spoken onset and rime, and learns to remove the onset and state the remaining rime.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Finding Initial Sounds: A Pre Reading Game

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A teacher-led activity that helps students learn to isolate the initial sounds of words.
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St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Y and More Lesson

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "y" to form words with the long /e/. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Works from famous artists...
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St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: U E Lesson

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate the silent e to form the long /u/. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound...
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St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: O E Lesson

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "o_e" pattern. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see words...
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Other

Teacher.org: Beginning Sound Match

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This lesson will allow young scholars to practice both writing names and identifying beginning sounds for common item names.
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St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Adding S Lesson

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate that end in letter "s" in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out...
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St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Ge, Dge, Etc. Quiz

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site is an interactive quiz to assess knowledge of the soft /g/ in words that incorporate the "ge" and "dge" spelling patterns. The quiz is designed to follow the "Reading Bear: ge, dge, etc." lesson.
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St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Ge, Dge, Etc. Lesson

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "ge", "dge", etc. Students will choose to sound out words, see words sounded out, see words with pictures with and without sounds, and see...
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St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Initial Blends Lesson

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this beginning reading module, the instructor introduces words with initial consonant blends. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see words sounded out,...