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Letter and Word Scramble
Students engage in a lesson designed to encourage the identification of letters and their characteristics, as well as moving them using a variety of locomotor skills. This done using the instructional strategy of playing a game.
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ABC Yummy Treat Book
Students explore the letter sounds and the book, "ABC Yummy." They create a page including the letter, illustration, and sentence for a class ABC book.
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Smart Board Literacy Center
Students practice spelling their names. For this technology and early emergent literacy lesson, students locate the letters in their name among a cluster of letters on the Smart board, then click and drag each letter to the other...
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Let's Write Invitations for our Class Celebration
Students examine the parts of a letter and a written invitation. They write letters inviting family members to a classroom celebration.
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Sesame Street Letter Recognition
Students study the letters of the alphabet, explore different shapes, rhyme, and listen to the different sounds of the alphabet to help them sound out words and begin elementary level reading.
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Introduction To Pests
Students investigate common pests and match pests to their respective pictures. In a group discussion, students explore the basic needs of pests and share personal pest stories. They examine common self-protection measures. Using the...
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The Cheeto Walk
Students walk around numbered tiles on the floor as music plays. When the music stops, a number is drawn and if they are on that number they win reward (Cheetos or other snack.)
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A is for Area, B is for Billion
Students use important math vocabulary by creating an illustrated storybook. They become familiar with the mathematics terms they encounter on a standardized test and connect these words to the world around them.
PBS
Dear Pen Pal
Explore cultures from around the world with an engaging pen pal resource. Through a series of classroom activities and written correspondence, children learn about the favoritec pastimes, schooling, geography, and weather that is...
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Your Healthy Body
Third graders identify the food groups. In this nutrition instructional activity, 3rd graders examine the food pyramid and create a balanced diet plan. Students label a blank food pyramid outline.
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Research Skills
In this research worksheet, students answer 25 questions about the World Cup 2006. For example, "What position does Luis Figo play and for what team?"
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Making a Grocery List
Students make a list and decode words that are related to grocery shopping. In this grocery shopping lesson plan, students discuss what you do at the grocery store.
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A's Baseball
First graders distinguish between short vowel a and long vowel a. They are introduced to the vowel-consonant-e pattern that changes short vowel sounds into long vowel sounds. They practice reading words with the vowel-consonant-e pattern.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Alphabet Matching
This is a fun educational activity where children must match letter sounds to beginning word sounds. All letters and words are sounded out for children as they play the game.
Other
Letter Lane Alphabet Action Game
An alphabet learning game where you have to match letters, colors, and actions! You can print the game board and game cards but you'll have to be creative and find your own game pieces.
SEN Teacher
Sen Teacher: Alphabet Cards
Generate and print out two sets of alphabet cards to use in a matching game to help students with their letters and sounds.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Alphabet Bubble
Alphabet Bubble is a fun educational game that helps develop phonemic awareness. Children pop bubbles to match letters with words that start with the correct letter sound. Once a match is completed children are shown a picture of the word.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Monster Mansion Letter Match
Monster Mansion Letter Match is a fun educational game for kids to practice matching capital and lowercase letters. Click on the windows of the Monster Mansion to reveal the friendly monsters inside and match the uppercase to lowercase...
Fun Brain
Fun Brain: What's the Word? Alphabet (Easy)
In this vocabulary game for beginning readers, students click on the words that fit the picture. A link to other games is available.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Uppercase & Lowercase Letter Matching
Play a game by dragging the lowercase letters to their matching upper case letters in order to get all the colors back in the picture.
TVOntario
Tvo Kids: Alphabet Goop
A colorful game to help young readers or beginning English language learners practice the beginning sounds of words.
Other
Lil' Fingers: Games: A B C Match Up
This memory, match-up game has children match pairs of upper case letters by clicking on blocks and remembering the location. They need to match them all to win. Java is required
Scholastic
Scholastic: Clifford the Big Red Dog: Letter Match
Practice initial letter sounds with this game from Scholastic.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Guess What I'm Thinking?: Initial Sound Accuracy
A version of the "20 Questions" game. The instructor tells the class he is thinking of something that starts with, for example, /b/. The students have to come up with what the teacher is thinking of.