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Word Work: Blends, Digraphs & Trigraphs
Practice thirty-three different consonant blends, digraphs, and trigraphs with your emergent readers! Each letter combination has its own column in which you and your learners can write down five different words that demonstrate the...
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Five Part Phonics: Blends
First graders participate in a variety of activities that feature the consonant blend 'st'. They read "Stan the Squid" and "Stella Started for the Station", answer comprehension questions for the stories, manipulate beginning sounds and...
Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk, University of Texas at Austin
Lesson 2 - Consonant-Vowel-Consonant Words
Closed syllable words contain short vowel sounds. A phonics lessons introduces readers to consonant-vowel-consonant words. Guided instruction introduces the words with a series of dictation activities, and then learners practice reading...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
We’re a Family: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 3)
Pay special attention to onsets and rimes and initial consonants with this packet of activities designed to provide additional support to youngsters just learning to read and write.
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Special Spelling Using S
In this spelling worksheet, students answer 10 questions about the letter s blends. Students must think of 5 words which begin with each combination.
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Pronunciation of Initial /s/ Consonant Clusters
Students comprehend how to produce these pronuciation features, recognize the various blends of initial /s/, hear the sounds, produce them correctly when thinking about it, and practice correct pronunciation to be comprehended by others.
Perkins School for the Blind
Find the Objects/Beginning Sound Indentification
If you are just starting out as a teacher for children with visual impairments and want a fun way to teach braille and phonemic awareness, look no further. You'll fill 21 boxes with objects that start with specific letter sounds. You'll...
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Working with Ss Blends
In this Ss blends practice worksheet, students examine 12 pictures, say the names of the pictures, and select the correct name for each of the pictures.
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Home Spelling Practice: Initial Consonant Clusters
Let's get your youngsters spelling and writing! Young spellers take six words, print them, and either say or write a sentence that uses the word. Intended for at-home practice, this reinforces newly learned vocabulary.
August House
Anansi Goes To Lunch - First Grade
Greed is the theme of this collection of multidisciplinary activities. As a class, read The West African folktale, Anansi Goes to Lunch by Bobby Norfolk, and take part in a grand discussion about it's plot and theme. Reinforce the theme...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Friends Together: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 4)
Friendship is the theme in this series of extra support lessons. With a variety of resources (practice worksheets, letter, word, punctuation and picture cards), young readers gain knowledge of initial consonants v and h, blending short...
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Final Consonant Sounds: Review - ft, ld, lt, mp, nd
These are challenging phonics review sheets. On the first page, learners match the end sounds to the pictures and write a rhyming word for each word. For the second page, pupils choose an end sound to complete a series of incomplete...
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Choose the Blend
In this phonics worksheet, students practice pronouncing the pictures on 16 squares. Students discover the consonant blends for each picture. Students cut out each picture and glue them in their appropriate squares on the second page.
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Initial "S" Clusters
In this initial consonant blends worksheet, students examine 7 words that begin with consonant blends that start with the letter S. Students then look at pictures and words with the initial blends missing and write the correct initial...
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School-Home Links: Word Blends
In this consonant blends worksheet, learners find the correct word for each picture using the words in the box. Students then write the word on the line and circle the consonant blend.
K5 Learning
The Day I Tried to Cook
First graders read a short story on cooking. Then they respond to questions based on interest and practice writing.
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Spelling words
In this spelling worksheet, students copy their spelling words containing 2 beginning consonants, st words, adding s, and adding ing. Students copy 24 words.
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"SM" Words
In this consonant blends word search, students locate 10 words that begin with "sm." There is a word bank for students to use for this easy poem.
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S Clusters
In this s consonant clusters instructional activity, students say the word for 9 words and identify the s cluster that begin each of the words. Students also create sentences with sc and sn consonant clusters.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
All Together Now: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 1)
All Together Now is the theme of this series of extra support lessons. The collection aids the instruction of blending sounds and reading high-frequency words through writing and reading sentences. Support also engages pupils in...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Down on the Farm: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 8)
Chants, rhymes, practice pages, picture, word, and punctation cards provide extra support for reading high-frequency words, substituting, blending, segmenting, and identifying phonemes in this Down on the Farm themed unit.
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Sleeping Beauty: Initial S Clusters
In this consonant cluster instructional activity, students read through the sections for the 'sleeping beauty' poem. Students then cut out the strips of the story and rearrange them so the poem is in order.
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Lesson Plan: Initial "s" clusters
Students identify words in Sleeping Beauty which begin with the letter 'S'.
Pyro Innovations
Phonemic Awareness
What was the sound that letter made? The letter S is the phoneme of today's lesson and it is ready to make an appearance. Little ones discuss the sound S makes, then they hold up S cards every time they hear words containing the initial...