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Guidance for Creating Phonics Lessons for Dyslexic Students
Here is a quick and easy guide to help a new teacher build phonics lessons for students with dyslexia. It stresses the importance of fundamental basics while also providing clear and direct instructional practices that will help you...
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Primary Grades Vocabulary Instruction With Word Wizard Dictionary
Elementary schoolers discover that the world is at their fingertips as they acquire new vocabulary. Several suggested activities and strategies are provided here, building new reading and oral vocabulary.
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Guided Reading with Elizabeti's Doll
Practice reading strategies using Elizabeti's Doll by Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen. Readers utilize decoding and comprehension strategies before, during, and after reading the story. A detailed list of text features, high frequency words,...
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Word Family Nuts
Students explore the English language by participating in a word match activity. In this word family lesson, students write a specific word family on a paper squirrel and write words that belong to the family on a paper acorn. Students...
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Making Words
Students add letters to teacher provided endings to make new words. In this phonics lesson, students learn to make new words using word families. A sample worksheet is provided and a rubric
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Click it! See it! Say it!
Scholars take digital photographs of a phonic cluster. Each child will use their digital pictures in a PowerPoint slide with text showing the sound and the word that contains that sound. Then they will take a picture of the object they...
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Puzzle Fun with Long /O/ and Long /I/ Words
Search this crossword puzzle for words with long /o/ and /i/ sounds. Some of the clues are challenging, so consider completing the most difficult clues together. As an extension, it is suggested that your learners find the homophones in...
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Snake and Sight Word Board Game
Learners practice sight words. Game begins with the first student rolling a die and moving the number of spaces shown on the die. If they lands on a shaded square, he or she turns up a card and reads it aloud.
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Sight Words
Learners practice sight word recognition using dolch word lists, or high frequency words. They' mastering of these words helps with reading skills, and builds reading confidence. This worksheet combines sight words with money recognition.
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Language Arts: Word Recognition and Mental Images
Learners read short stories containing Dolch sight words and describe the scenes and answer comprehension questions. After relating the stories to their own experiences or observations, they draw pictures illustrating a scene from 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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Teaching Strategies: The Word Wall: A Tool for Beginning Readers and Writers
Students participate in various activities through the school week involving the high-frequency words on their word wall in order to increase familiarity with reading and spelling the selected words. In this word wall lesson, students...
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Phonics
Students complete online phonics activities. In this phonics lesson, students view online clips about using 'oa' words. Students make their own Phonics Finder badge and wear it to play the first and end sounds worksheet. Students also...
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Technology that Makes Phonics Fun
Students discover the Internet by participating in on-line educational activities. In this educational technology instructional activity, students utilize interactive story books, podcasts, and games to help expand an understanding of...
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How to Teach Dolch Words with Kid Pix
Students use KidPix computer program to learn Dolch sight words. In this technology and language instructional activity, students type their Dolch sight words into KidPix to create a quasi-sentence.
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Word Search Puzzle: Phonics--Words That Begin With FR
In this words that begin with FR worksheet, students find and circle/highlight twelve words in a word search puzzle that begin with FR.
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Word Search Puzzle: Phonics--Words That Begin With PR
In this words that begin with PR worksheet, students find and circle/highlight twelve words in a word search puzzle that begin with PR.
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Word Search Puzzle: Phonics--Words That Begin With sh
For this words that begin with sh worksheet, students find and circle/highlight twelve words in a word search puzzle that begin with sh.
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Word Search Puzzle: Phonics--Words That Begin With spr and str
In this words that begin with spr and str worksheet, students find and circle/highlight twelve words in a word search puzzle that begin with the letters spr and/or str.
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Word Search Puzzle: Phonics--Words That Begin With wh
In this words that begin with th worksheet, student find and circle/highlight twelve words in a word search puzzle that begin with th.
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Word Search Puzzle: Phonics--Words That End With -CT
In this words that end in -CT worksheet, students locate and circle/highlight twelve words in a word search puzzle that end in -CT.
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Word Search Puzzle: Phonics--Words That End With -MP
In this words ending in -MP worksheet, students find and circle/highlight twelve words in a word search puzzle that end in -MP.
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Word Search Puzzle: Phonics--Words That End With -ng
In this words that end with -ng worksheet, pupils find and circle/highlight twelve words in a word search puzzle that end with -ng.
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On-Level Small Group Phonics Lesson: ea /e/
Students explore /e/. In this phonics lesson plan, students decode words with "ea" representing the short e sound. Students read sentences and a short book that includes "ea" word practice.