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Phonics Instruction: Long Vowel Sound, Silent E

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students explore language arts by participating in a class word identification game. In this phonics instructional activity, students read several words in class and identify the different sounds between short and long vowel words....
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Beginning and Ending Consonants

For Teachers K - 1st
Young readers explore consonant sounds. In this beginning phonics lesson, learners fill in a beginning/middle/end vertical column chart with the sounds they hear in the pictured object. Practice spelling CVC words.
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Animated Alphabet

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students explore English by completing an interactive language history activity. In this word recognition activity, students discuss word formations and the phonetic relationship between letters. Students identify the origin of...
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Reintroduce "ee"

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore phonics by participating in a word sound activity. In this repeating vowels lesson, students identify the sound that is made from the letters "ee" and words in which the consecutive vowels appear.
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Long or Short Vowels?

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Vowel letters of the alphabet and the sounds associated with the vowel are the focus of this lesson. Students distinguish between both long and short vowel sounds by reading, writing, speaking, and listening to the words and sounds....
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Reintroduce /S/

For Teachers K
Students explore the alphabet by participating in a phonics activity. In this letter "S" activity, students identify the different sounds made by the letter "S" and discuss words that start with the letter. Students view a letter card to...
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The Ogre Bully Lesson

For Teachers K
Students investigate bullies, agriculture and cooking by completing worksheets about a book they read.  In this story analysis lesson, students read the story The Ogre Bully, and discuss bullying as well as farming with their...
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Phonics and Vegetable Books

For Teachers K
Students participate in phonemic awareness and phonics activities and develop a list of vegetable vocabulary words. They break up words into beginnings and endings, and trace and write the letter s. Students then create a Vegetable...
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"Tongue Tangle"

For Teachers 1st
First graders engage in a study of phonics that focuses on the beginning sounds with an emphasis upon varying types of genres that includes songs, speech, and poetry. They recognize the beginning sounds of words and make physical...
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What is a Haiku? How Do You Write a Haiku?

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Haiku poetry is explored in this language arts lesson. Yong readers identify the characteristics of haiku and read several examples. Students make connections between their study of Japan and the poetic form of haiku, and they write...
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Irregular Word Fluency, Draw Two

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Explore vocabulary by participating in a word fluency game! Utilize a deck of flash cards with irregular words printed on them to play a game. As they show each other the cards, they collect points for each word they sound out correctly.
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Grammar Through Jeopardy

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students create questions for a grammar based version of a Jeopardy quiz game. The teacher assesses student questions and decides which questions should be used in the game. Individuals compete using proper grammar, phonics, and...
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Long ee or ea

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students practice spelling words with the long e sounds using ee or ea. In this ee or ea lesson plan, students complete words using the ee or ea pattern, identify rhyming words, and write a rhyming poem using ee words. Using word and...
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Letter Combination Fluency

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore language arts by participating in a word structure activity. In this phonics activity, students utilize flash cards with specific letters on them which can be combined with other cards to create words. Students practice...
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Reintroduce /ol/

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore phonetics by participating in a speaking activity. For this word sound lesson, students identify the sound "ol" and the different words the sound can be found in. Students write words in class with the sound and are...
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Introduce /ee/

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore phonetics by participating in a pronunciation activity. In this vowels lesson, students identify words in the English language which contain the "ee" sound. Students participate in an activity in which the teacher speaks...
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Phoneme Recognition Games

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students explore language arts by completing an in-class phonics activity. In this word structure lesson, students utilize the Internet to identify the sounds that different letter combinations make. Students practice combining word...
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"More Than One"

For Teachers K - 3rd Standards
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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Sounding out accuracy, Mix, Mix, Match

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore English by identifying segments of words in class. For this phonetics lesson, students utilize flash cards which contain letters and mix them in order to create a "match" word. Students sound out the words they...
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We’re Going on a Bear Hunt

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders participate in guided reading and writing experience in this set of five lessons. They complete a picture walk of Michael Rosen's, We're Going on a Bear Hunt before listening to the story and retelling it. Working with a...
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Something's Fishy

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Learners study fish habits and traits. In this marine life lesson, students complete four learning centers of a fish memory game, a fish habitat study, draw and glue fish craft activity, and a fish read-a-thon. Learners complete their...
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Word Origins

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Understanding a word's etymology can really help with decoding and building vocabulary skills. Readers compare and contrast words of similar origins but with different difficulty levels. They focus on prefixes, suffixes, and affixes....
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Picture This

For Teachers K - 4th
A unique writing lesson, this plan begins with learners talking about multiculturalism in small groups. Each learner will choose a picture from a newspaper, describe it to their small group, and think about how it relates to...
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"Contraction Action"

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students read and spell common contractions formed from a verb paired with the word not. They read and spell common contractions formed from a pronoun paired with a verb.

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