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Introduce /r/
Use these inventive strategies to focus on the letter r, forming sound associations along with letter recognition. Explain the tongue movement in making the /r/ sound, asking learners to try it. Draw the r on the board and give examples...
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R Sound
In this writing learning exercise, students write the beginning sound of each picture. Students also circle the pictures that begin with the sound of R.
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Sight Words and Letter Sounds
Is your elementary class learning letters and letter sounds? This take-home sheet provides a week's worth of practice for your learner at home. The repetitive nature helps learners remember!
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Practicing Letters q and r
Youngsters drill their alphabet skills, honing in on lowercase letters q and r. They trace and print each letter before connecting it to images with the same initial sound. They also complete the alphabet by adding these two letters....
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The "R" Sound
In this phonics worksheet, 1st graders will copy 6 words that begin with the sound R. Then students will draw a picture of a ring and a rat.
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Short Vowel Sounds
Use this resource to provide a quick review of words with short vowel sounds. Learners view pictures, and read and write words with the short vowel sound o. Afterwards, they write a sentence using some of the short o words. Students...
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Rosie's Roses Lesson Idea: Practice Hearing the R
Students focus on the sound of the letter /r/ after listening to Rosie's Roses by Pamela Duncan Edwards. In this letter /r/ lesson, students identify animals in the book that contain the /r/ sound. They sort /r/ words into groups by the...
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Ending Consonants
Provide this extensive practice packet for your young learners. Consider having them complete a section each day, or provide this for take-home work. For each letter, the learner says it aloud, traces it, writes it on the blank line, and...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Surprise!: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 2)
Surprise! is the theme of a unit covering such topics as consonants, blending, short vowels sounds, high frequency words, and number words. The unit's lessons also include teachable moments covering story structure, illustrations,...
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Listening For Long Vowel Sounds
Provide young learners practice identifying different letters and the sounds they create. For each illustration, learners will say the word aloud and identify the correct spelling based on the word's pronunciation. Then they write the...
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Rain Rain Go Away
Complete a variety of activities related to the long /a/ sound with a focus on words containing the ai and ay correspondence with your readers. As a class, they recite a tongue twister, then spell different words containing ay and ai...
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Missing Letters
As your youngsters begin learning to read, use visual worksheets like this to help them tie objects to words. Scholars examine six images labeled with a word. Each word is missing a first letter, and they must use one of the letters at...
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Draw it Yourself
What rhymes with fox? Get learners engaged with rhyming words through this drawing instructional activity featuring four single-syllable words for beginning readers. For each, they draw something that rhymes with the word. Challenge...
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Introduce /R/
Young scholars demonstrate the sound of the letter "r". In this sound fluency lesson plan, students view the letter "r" on the board and practice repeating the letter sound after the teacher. Young scholars identify the sounds of the 12...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
All Together Now: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 1)
All Together Now is the theme of this series of extra support lessons. The collection aids the instruction of blending sounds and reading high-frequency words through writing and reading sentences. Support also engages pupils in...
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Indiana Igloo
Your young charges practice identifying the /i/ sound in this lesson. The class looks at words on cards and identifies which word has the target sound. They continue their practice using Elkonin letterboxes to spell words with the /i/...
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The Tug Says Uhh!
Kindergarteners and first graders discover the /u/ sound! After practicing making the sound with the funny tongue twister, youngsters use their Elkonin letterboxes to divide a set of words into their phonemes. Then pairs read Bud the Sub...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Phonological Awareness - Phoneme Segmenting and Blending, Treasure Chest
Working in pairs, scholars use picture cards to practice segmenting words into phonemes and blending phonemes into words. When a peer answers correctly they place a penny in a treasure chest. Incorrect responses make the card go back in...
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Letter Recognition: The Letter R
In this letter R worksheet, students identify the R words from a word bank and circle them. Students then circle and color the pictures that start with the letter R.
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Beginning Reading Design: Blending Boats
Students study how to blend the sounds together in words with the CVC form. They use letter cards and the books, "Tin Man Fix-It," and Dr. Seuss', Green Eggs and Ham. They work with /m/ words to blend the sounds together to read words....
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Short A Vowel Sound
In this short a sound worksheet, 1st graders say the word for each picture and circle one letter from each column for the beginning, middle, and final sound. Students then write the word in the provided space. Students read a list of...
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Short 'A' and Phoneme Blending
Have your class explore the short /a/ sound. They will pronounce isolated consonant and short /a/ sounds and then blend the sounds to make a word. An assessment sheet is provided.
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"Uhh..Did I do that?" - Phonemic Awareness
Students practice using the letter u in order to understand letter-sound correspondence. In this letter-sound correspondence lesson plan, students write, read, and say different words with the letter u in them.
McGraw Hill
Phonics Teachers Resource Book
Looking to improve your classes literacy program? Then look no further. This comprehensive collection of resources includes worksheets and activities covering everything from r-controlled vowels and consonant digraphs, to the different...