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Patti the Pig Pops Popcorn
Learners explore the letter 'p' and the /p/ sound. Through instruction and modeling they practice writing uppercase and lowercase p's. They say 'p' tongue twisters. They identify 'p' words as they are read aloud from a story. They write...
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Bum, Bum, Beat the Drum
Students experience practicing sorting words and pictures to build letter and sound recognition. They identify /b/ in spoken words and learn how to write the graphemic representation of /b/. Each student also practices with the tongue...
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Batter's Up
Students recognize the short vowel a in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /a/ from other vowel phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify...
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Syllables Millionaire, Silent Scrabble
In this spelling worksheet, teachers have access to websites with games to enhance learning. Syllables Millionaire is a powerpoint presentation used to help students understand how syllables help spelling. Silent Scrabble helps...
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Ike's Ice Cream is Icy
Students recognize the short vowel i in written and spoken language. Through matching and listening activities, they discriminate the short vowel /i/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and...
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Simple Simon Saves the Day
Students recognize, identify, and locate the /s/ sound in spoken or written words. They say a tongue twister with words emphasizing the /s/ sound. They then listen to the story "Simple Simon" and make "finger snakes" whenever they hear...
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Adding e
In this adding e learning exercise, students add the letter e to the end of words to make new words. Students add e to 20 different words.
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Doctor Check-Up
Students recognize the short vowel o in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, students discriminate the short vowel o from the long vowel o. They associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify the...
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The Beautiful Bouncing Ball
Students practice recognizing a letter and its phoneme by utilizing the alphabetic principle while working with and identifying the sounds of /b/. They assess a big book, objects in the room, a timer and the tongue twister, "Billy...
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Initial Or Ending Consonants in Words
In this phonics instructional activity, students say the name of 12 pictures, listening to hear if the indicated letter comes at the beginning or ending of the word. Students color the first or second box to indicate whether the letter...
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Final Consonant "N"
In this final consonant worksheet, students say the name of 6 labeled pictures that end with letter N. Students write the final letter N under each picture.
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Read and Draw: Silent e
In this silent e learning exercise, students read about words ending in silent e, then read words with a silent e ending and draw pictures of them. Worksheet includes a link to additional activities.
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Chauncey Chicken and Consonant Digraphs
In this consonant digraphs activity, 2nd graders complete the words inside the egg by adding the consonant digraph ch or sh to either the beginning or ending section of each word.
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Popcorn PPPPopping P
Students are introduced to the most popular phonemes to help them with their reading. As a class, they listen to popcorn popping and identify the sound being heard. They practice saying different tongue twisters and drawing the letters...
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the Little Red Riding Hood
Students respond to the story of Little Red Riding Hood. In this Red Riding Hood lesson, students retell and discuss story elements. Students practice phonic sounds. Students role play, make predictions, use picture...
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Brown Bear Phonics
Students listen to Brown Bear, Brown Bear and imitate the style of Eric Carle in writing a sentence. In this writing lesson, students use the beginning and ending sounds of words to write an Eric Carle type sentence. ...
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Circus Alliterations
Make the learning of alliteration more fun by using the topic of a circus! 2-3rd graders will write a circus alliteration and draw an illustration. In the end, they will complete an allitration acrostic poem. This lesson could take place...
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Morning Message-Mystery Code
Students copy and figure out the Mystery Codeword each day. They copy Mystery Code into journal. They match the number with the letter to decipher the code word. They draw a picture to match code word. At the end of the week, the...
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Say It Connect It
In this spelling activity, 1st graders will focus on spelling CVC words. Students will study 6 pictures and choose the correct letters for the beginning, middle, and ending sounds before writing the complete word on the lines provided.
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Hip on Hemingway
Students participate in an official "Hip on Hemingway Club." They explore Hemingway and create a biography of Ernest Hemingway patterned after an alphabet book. They record their "key word" with each of the twenty-six letters of the...
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Word Family Memory Match
For this word families matching worksheet, students cut out 24 word cards. Students place beginning sound cards face down in one group and word family ending sound cards face down in a separate group. Students turn over cards to make...
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High Frequency Words
In this high frequency words worksheet, students practice reading and writing the ten high frequency words by filling in the missing letters of each word. Students also complete ten sentences using the correct word.
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A World of Animals: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 10)
Animals are the theme of this series of English language development lessons. Scholars take part in grand conversations about woodland, jungle, and grassland animals. They also go on picture walks, read poems and high...
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Family Time: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 5)
Support English language development with a family-themed unit consisting of a series of lessons designed to get your scholars moving, looking, speaking, writing, and listening. Conversation topics...