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Rhyming Words: The -at Family
Explore rhyming words with your kindergarten or first grade class. Learners review words that end in at, an, ar, aw, and more. This is a comprehensive review of the topic. It is visually-appealing and bound to get your class rhyming.
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Rhyming Words: The Ut Family
What a great resource! Learners can review words with short vowel sounds, such as bun, bus, and hut using this presentation. The slides are easy to understand and colorful. This would be a quick way to review these words either in a...
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ai Sound
Here is a well-designed presentation for young readers on the ai vowel blend sound. Nice photographs, graphics, and text are embedded in the slides along with lots of examples for practice.
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Compound Words
This 14-slide language arts presentation does a credible job of introducing how compound words work. It gives learners many examples, along with pictures, to practice reading compound words. Nicely-done!
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Compound Words
This charming and colorful presentation would be ideal for very young readers. The focus is on putting two words together to make a compound word. First a slide with two pictures appears, the next slide has the words that are associated...
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CVC Words
This 102-slide presentation presents many consonant/vowel/consonant words for your young readers to practice. There are also many consonant and vowel blend examples for you to present to your students. This PowerPoint would be best-used...
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Quick and Sticky Context Clues
Discuss strategies for defining word your young readers don't know. They read sentences with key words covered by sticky notes and guess from the context what the word might be. They peek at the first letter and guess again.
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Dolch First Grade Word Cards
Forty-one sight word cards are presented in this seven-page packet of worksheets. The words are in alphabetical order, and are among the highest-used words in our language.
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Beginning Sounds: A is for Ant
The ABC's and beginning letter sounds are the foundation of strong reading skills. Use this presentation to build your young learner's abilities to recognize beginning sounds and alphabet letters. Each slide contains an image and a word...
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Silent "e"
Large font and colorful images allow your students to study words including the silent "e". There are a total of nine words on separate slides with the consonants and vowels typed in different colors. Tip: While reading the...
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Popcorn Words
Sight words fly across the screen like popcorn in this innovative activity. Focusing on fifteen simple words, this presentation features animation and repetition techniques to help viewers remember what they have learned.
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First Grade Reading: Sight Words
Introduce your first graders to 10 new sight words with this vibrant PowerPoint. Words include: always, because, call, and more! Each word is on its own slide with a corresponding picture and an example sentence. Tip: After teaching...
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Hockey Game (Advanced Code)
Make reading your goal with a hockey-themed phonics game! Kids read the words on each hockey puck, then move down the ice rink game board by following the instructions on each card.
Kelly's Kindergarten
Kelly's Kindergarten: Snow and the Letter E
It's a flurry of vowels! Learners review a series of snowflakes featuring pictures that include the letter E, glue them into place, and write the words underneath.
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Kelly's Kindergarten: The N Ending
Never fear, N is here! Practice matching words that end in the letter N with their corresponding pictures. Kids glue the words onto the sails of a ship that include each picture.
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Christmas Rhymes
What better way for children to celebrate the holiday season than by practicing their phonemic awareness skills? Presenting young readers with a series of eight Christmas-themed words, this instructional activity asks them to circle...
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Find the Same Word
Assess the spelling skills of your beginning readers with a simple worksheet. Looking at a list of five CVC words, children must correctly match each one to another word with exactly the same spelling. An easy way...
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The Kid Will Win a Ship
Which word included the short /i/ sound: pirate or ship? Work on the short /i/ sound with your class by using the short poem provided here. Class members read the poem and answer three reading comprehension questions.
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She Needs Less Shell
Supply your pupils with some practice of the short /e/ sound. They read brief poem that includes several examples of words that include this sound. Once they are finished reading, class members respond to three reading comprehension...
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My First Hat
Practice the short /a/ sound with your class. To get it down, they read a short poem that supplies many examples of words that include the short /a/ sound. Once they are finished reading, learners answer three reading comprehension...
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Fun in the Sun
Don't shun this worksheet based around -un words! Class members read a quick poem full of -un words and then respond to three comprehension questions about the text.
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The Duck is Stuck
What luck! You've just found a resource that focuses on -uck words. It includes a short poem for kids to read that includes quite a few -uck words as well as three reading comprehension questions.
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Kick the Brick
Your class won't say ICK when they see this worksheet that focuses on -ick words! Learners read a short and silly poem containing many -ick words. They then practice reading comprehension and handwriting by tracing the answers to the...
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Ride a Broom to the Moon
Your class can practice words that contain the long oo sound. Cool! Learners read a short poem that includes many examples of the oo digraph and then respond to three reading comprehension questions.