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Amazing Alphabet Lessons to Excite Your Little Learners
Wiggle, create, and recognize! Fun and engaging activities to reinforce phonemic awareness and pre-reading skills.
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Literacy Teaching Guide: Phonics
You don't have to be a teacher in New South Wales to appreciate this phonics teaching guide. The 73-page packet is packed with information about the principles of effective phonics programs, teaching methods, sequencing, key strategies,...
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Baseball B: The Letter B
In this letter b worksheet, students color in designated colors the b's found on a picture in various places, then circle yes or no to tell whether things begin with the b sound.
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Dancing Dinosaur: The Letter D
In this letter d worksheet, students color in designated colors - the d's found on a picture in various places - then circle yes or no to tell whether things begin with the d sound.
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Jolly Jet: The Letter J
In this letter j worksheet, students color in designated colors the j's found in a picture, then circle yes or no to tell whether pictures begin with the j sound.
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Blending into Good Speech
Your class can increase their production of the target phoneme /sh/ through the use of video, the Internet, and hands-on activities listed here. Sound out the phoneme altogether, then model words that include /sh/ at the beginning....
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Small Group: BL
Practice target sounds, especially the /a/ sound. The teacher first speaks and learners repeat words, discriminating between words with varying sounds after focusing on /a/. Letter cards are held up to show the symbolic representation of...
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Blending Best Buddies
Practice blending letters together to make the words learners are reading. They decode words familiarized with the concept of blending. This lesson utilizes the Body-Coda method of blending developed by Lloyd Eldredge. Each child...
Progressive Phonics
Short Vowel “A”
Support your phonics instruction with this beginner reading book that focuses on the short vowel /a/. The book is divided into four chapters based on the word families at, ad, an, and am. Letters and words used are c, a, t, s, m, n,...
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Chicken Soup With Rice
Complete a variety of activities related to the Maurice Sendak's book Chicken Soup With Rice. Readers identify the months of the year, identify words starting with the letter J, explore online illustrations created by Maurice Sendak, and...
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Syllables
How many syllables? This practice learning exercise starts with a brief introduction on segmenting words, encouraging kids to say words aloud. They categorize 12 words into lists based on number of syllables: one,...
Penn State
Early Childhood Education Lesson Plan for Good Night, Good Knight
The book Good Night, Good Knight is the inspiration for this plan. Learners get into small groups to search for words in books that begin with their names and fill out and illustrate their own personal letter and name pages.
Bermingham City Schools
Opinion Writing
It's no secret that children can be very opinionated, but rather than fight against this natural tendency, embrace it with this primary grade writing project. After a shared reading of a children's book about...
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VCe Rule Accuracy
Explore word structure by participating in a vowels and consonants activity with young readers. They will read words their teacher points out in class and pronounce them correctly. Then they identify the words they say which have a...
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The Cow That Went Oink
Learners complete a variety of activities related to the book The Cow That Went Oink. They role-play the various animals from the story, write a letter to a farm animal in the book, identify syllables of story words, and create an...
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Letter Xx Worksheet
In this alphabet letter Xx worksheet, students practice the initial sound recognition of letter Xx, trace and write the letter Xx ten times each, write the initial letter of seven pictures and draw a picture of an item containing the...
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Letter W Worksheet
For this alphabet letter W worksheet, students trace and write the uppercase and lowercase letter W seven times each, write the letter W on the lines provided with seven pictures associated with the letter W and draw their favorite W word.
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Letter Y Worksheet
In this alphabet letter Y instructional activity, students trace and write the uppercase and lowercase alphabet letter Y ten times each. Students write the letter Y on the lines provided associated with pictures dealing with the letter Y...
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Letter Uu Worksheet
In this alphabet letter U worksheet, learners trace and write the uppercase and lowercase letter U ten times each, write the letter U in connect with seven pictures on the lines provided and draw their favorite U word.
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Letter Bb Worksheet
In this alphabet letter B activity, learners trace and write the uppercase and lowercase letter B ten times each. Students write the letter B next to seven pictures if they begin with a B and then draw their favorite B word.
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Letter D Worksheet
In this alphabet letter D activity, students trace and write the lowercase and uppercase letter D ten times each. Students write the letter D beside the seven pictures shown if indeed they begin with a D and then draw their favorite D word.
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Printing Practice Letter P
In this printing worksheet, students trace 4 uppercase letter P's. The first box provides arrows that guide students in tracing the letter.
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It's Time to Open Wide for O
Students recognize the short vowel o in written and spoken language. Through listening and decoding activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /o/ from other phonemes. Students match the phoneme and letter in words they read on index...
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Perfectly Popping
Students identify p in spoken words and the written letter the represents it. The story, Hop on Pop by Dr. Seuss is read the the class. They then have to circle pictures that have the p sound in them. This assessment is done after...