Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Nature Walk: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 2)
Walking in nature is the theme of a unit designed to support English language development lessons. Scholars look, write, speak, and move to explore topics such as camping, woodland animals, instruments,...
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I Like to Shuffle Along in My Shiny Shoes
Learners study the letters s and h as they blend together to make one sound. They practice making the sound, reciting a tongue twister while stretching the sh sound, and writing the letters. Next, they make words using letter boxes...
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Riddles with Blending
Students examine how blending sounds together helps them pronounce words. They look a flash cards with letters on them in order to blend the letter sounds together before listening to riddles that encourage them to blend letters into...
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School-Home Links: Vowel Blends
In this vowel 'oi' blend worksheet, students learn that two vowels can go together to make a new sound. Students trace the name of the words to the pictures and read aloud each 'oi' vowel blend. Parents or guardians must sign the worksheet.
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Beginning Reading Design: Blending Boats
Students study how to blend the sounds together in words with the CVC form. They use letter cards and the books, "Tin Man Fix-It," and Dr. Seuss', Green Eggs and Ham. They work with /m/ words to blend the sounds together to read words....
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Home Spelling Practice: Grade 4: Schwa "er", "or"
In this spelling instructional activity, students learn to spell a list of 20 words. All words have the "er" or "or" ending sound. Students write each word one time on the lines. There are additional at-home activities listed.
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-ake Words
Learners try to find rhyming words in the crossword puzzle provided. Ten words rhyming with bake are hidden somewhere in the puzzle; can your young learners find them? Consider having them use highlighters instead of pens to make it a...
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Pronunciation practice exercises
In this ending sounds learning exercise, students read 48 words and put them into 6 columns based on their ending sounds of 's' or 'ed.'
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The Letter C- Sound and Printing Practice
In this phonics and printing practice worksheet, student say the sound of Cc at the beginning of words as they name the pictures on one side of the worksheet, and say the ending sound of Cd as they name pictures on the right side of the...
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Hh- Beginning and Ending Sounds; Printing Practice
In this printing and phonics worksheet, 2nd graders color outline pictures of H and h. They say the Hh sound at the beginning of the name of 3 pictures and at the end of 3 pictures. They print for lines of H and h, circle three items...
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School-Home Links: Name Letters by the Sounds they Make
In this letter sounds activity, students say the sound that each letter makes and then name the letter the matches the sound. Students then write their names and say the names of the letters.
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School-Home Links: Putting Sounds Together to Make Words
In this word sounds worksheet, 1st graders look at each letter in each word. Students say all of the sounds the letters make in the word. Students repeat the sounds and then say the word.
Jumpstarting Journeys
Vowel Digraph Activities for au and aw
It can be awfully hard teaching young children how to read, but this phonics resource will make the job a little easier. Focusing on the au and aw vowel digraphs, this collection of engaging activities teaches beginning...
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The Mozart Effect
Music has been said to effect short term memory. Learners test out this hypothesis, graphing how knowledge retention in a biology classroom changes when music is played in the background. In the end, a better appreciation of the dynamics...
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Truth Be Told
Encourage your middle and high schoolers to share their memories of a recent event. After reading a New York Times article, they discuss Elie Wiesel's memoir, Night. They write their own memoir about a significant event that affected...
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ABC, Easy as 123
Kindergartners practice identifying the sight and sounds of vowels and consonants. They identify beginning consonants in single-syllable words and print the letters of the alphabet. This outstanding resource has many excellent...
PBS
Does Art Imitate Life?
Write what you know, sound advice for any writer and something many famous authors are known to have done. Use these materials to explore how Shakespeare's life influenced his plays. This resource is packed with readings, video segments,...
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Take-Home Midterm Exam #3
The University of Hawaii has published a vast collection of midterm and final exams for their Physics 152 course. This particular exam offers a variety of assessment methods, and covers the topic of electromagnetic radiation....
Film English
Missing U
Explore the relationship between U and I with a video and related activities. First, pupils have some fun with the alphabet and discuss text message language. Next they practice coming up with words that have the same sound a I and...
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A Rat's Life
Here is a two-page worksheet on rats and mice. Learners answer nine true/false questions about rats and mice, then compose answers to seven short-answer questions about these two rodents. Finally, they must compose a fictional story...
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Unknown Frost Poem Discovered
What? A long-lost poem from Robert Frost? Introduce your class to a poem recently found and published from Robert Frost's personal collection. The lesson includes background information on the author, the poem itself, and a list of...
Indiana University
World Literature: "One Evening in the Rainy Season" Shi Zhecun
Did you know that modern Chinese literature “grew from the psychoanalytical theory of Sigmund Freud”? Designed for a world literature class, seniors are introduced to “One Evening in the Rainy Season,” Shi Zhecun’s stream of...
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Language Acquisition
Detailing the stages of language, sound, word, and grammar acquisition for babies, this presentation is a great addition to a lecture that focuses on how the English language is developed in small children. Additionally, the slideshow...
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Practicing Letters g and h
Which of these pictures begins with this sound? Learners focus on letters g and h in this alphabet practice instructional activity. They trace and print each letter and add them to an incomplete alphabet. Then, they...