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The Very Quiet World of Silent Letters
What is a silent letter? Review these terms and rules with your native and non-native English speakers to improve pronunciation. They read groups of words and identify which letter is silent.
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Vocabulary Building: Fine-e Rule 2
For this recognizing words spelled with the final-e rule worksheet, students write words from dictation, unscramble letters, and create sentences using the words five, gave, take, came, and come. Students write fifteen answers.
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Vocabulary Building: Final-e Rule
For this recognizing words with the final-e spelling worksheet, students write the words from dictation, unscramble letters, and create sentences using the words name, home, here, like, and some. Students write fifteen answers.
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February and Other Words with Tricky Spellings
In this February and other words with tricky spellings worksheet, students use scrambled letters, definitions and a dictionary to identify 65 words with tricky spellings, then write them. A list of more irregular words is included.
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Word Game Rules
In this spelling and vocabulary worksheet, learners play a word game with classmates. Students decide on a topic and write as many related words as possible in 5 minutes. Learners score the game according to the directions.
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Vocabulary Words With Final-e-Rule
For this vocabulary words spelled using the final-e rule worksheet, students spell from dictation, unscramble, and create sentences using the words huge, strange, continue, race, chose, and include. Students write eighteen answers.
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Vocabulary Words Using Two Consonant Rule 3
In this recognizing words spelled with the two consonant rule worksheet, students write from dictation, unscramble, and create sentences using the words coffee, pepper, distance, sandwich, address, and number. Students write eighteen...
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Vocabulary Building: One Consonant Rule III
In this recognizing words spelled with the one consonant rule worksheet, students write the words from dictation, unscramble their letters, and create sentences using the words tiger, motor, student, locate, lately, and writer. Students...
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Here's an Instant Activity for November 19, 2007
An instant spelling activity, that's what it's called. Learners practice their spelling skills with consonant and vowel -y ending words. They use a word bank to help them sort the words into consonant and vowel-y ending words.
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Spelling Plural Nouns
Learners complete a crossword puzzle with entries that are the plural version of the clues. For example, the clue for 20 across is baby; the word in the crossword is babies. Thrity-five words in all.
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Ocean Animals - Fill in the Missing Vowels
Learners look at 8 pictures of ocean animals and fill in the missing vowel for each ocean animal. This activity is a very goo way for young learners to practice their vowel sounds and spelling rules.
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Spelling, Capitalization, and Punctuation
Elementary schoolers explore writing conventions. First they play a ball toss game to practice spelling high frequency words. (A link to a 2nd grade list is attached.) The class works together to correct spelling, punctuation, and...
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Superlative Adjectives: Words That End in Y
What's the silliest game you've ever played? Which was the rainiest day this month? Practice superlative forms with a worksheet that focuses on adjectives that end in the letter y.
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Spelling Worksheet
Each student receives a copy of the worksheet that focusing on the rules of "ie" and "ei". They examine the spelling principle and also examine the exception to the rule. They then work on the worksheet independently.
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Playing Vocabulary Basketball
Learners view a slide show featuring famous athletes and educational institutions that have played a part in the history of basketball. They participate in a game in which a basketball is tossed from person to person as facts and...
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"More Than One"
Help your class learn the spelling rule for adding -es to plural nouns and third-person singular verbs. The resource suggests using songs daily to reinforce the rules. The songs are contained in a Sing Your Way Through Phonics 2-CD set...
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Spelling Patterns: Or , Oor, and Ore Words
Fourth graders complete word work with words that contain the /or/, /oor/, or /ore/ spelling pattern. In this spelling pattern lesson, 4th graders participate in the weekly spelling list activity in which they sort words with the given...
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You and the U.S. Constitution
Fourth graders write new rules of their school. In this rules and U.S. Constitution lesson, 4th graders discuss why we celebrate the fourth of July and examine the U.S. Constitution. Students discuss the differences between people now...
Education World
Every Day Edit - Miranda Rights
In this everyday editing, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Miranda Rights. The errors range from capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.
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Every Day Edit - President John Adams
In this everyday editing activity, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about President John Adams. The errors range from capitalization, punctuation, grammar, and spelling.
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The World of Ramona
Bring the fun and whimsy of Beverly Cleary into your classroom with a teaching guide created to accompany the Ramona series. The guide offers several ideas for classroom use, including independent reading, reading aloud, and literature...
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...
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Vocabulary Building: Final-e Rule III
In this recognizing words spelled with the final-e rule worksheet, students spell the words from dictation, unscramble their letters, and create sentences using the words pipe, mule, skate, care, size, and wise. Students complete...
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Perfecting Plural Nouns
Turn potato into potatoes with a great activity on plural nouns. A quick reference guide at the top of the page shows third graders how to make regular and irregular nouns plural. They list as many nouns as they can think of, then work...