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Monterey Bay Aquarium: ABC Search
This attractive worksheet has students identify beginning sounds in words using sea animals and related topics as a guide. Students fill in the beginning sounds for such words as diver or octopus. It can be used as a language arts...
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Hurry Home, Henry!
Students practice letter recognition of /h/ in spoken and written words. They listen for the phoneme, repeat it and participate in meaningful hands-on activities to help master the letter H. Students encounter the book, "Hungry Harry,"...
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Read and Spell
In reading worksheet, students cut out different letters and sounds. Students arrange the letters and sounds to form a variety of words.
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Mysterious E: Makes Space a Brave Place
Students complete a variety of activities related to the long /a/ sound and words containing a_e. In small groups they play a board game, then spell words containing the a_e letter pattern using letter manipulatives. Students read the...
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What Begins With?
In this reading instructional activity, students discover the sounds of all the alphabet letters by making a book. Students cut and paste the picture which begins with the letter on the page.
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L Blends
In this reading worksheet, students match 12 words with their pictures. All words contain the letter L as their second letter (blocks, glass, etc.)
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Board Game: Rhymes With, Begins With, Ends With, Opposite Of
In this language arts board game worksheet, students play a game with one or more classmates. Each space landed on requires students to say a word that rhymes with, begins with, ends with, or is the opposite of a given word or letter.
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That Sneaky E!!
Introduce your class to the concept of vowel digraphs. They identify the digraph /ea/ in spoken language. After a brief discussion, they apply the rule for identifying and spelling words containing the /ea/ digraph. Because the...
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Alphabet Books
Students explore alphabetic principle and phonemic awareness by making alphabet books. They identify initial consonant sounds and choose pictures of objects that begin with given letters of the alphabet. Students identify phonemes...
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Bum, Bum, Beat the Drum
Pupils 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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Phonics Genius
Readers at any level who are practicing phonics will benefit from a highly customizable set of features designed for instruction and practice. The extensive library of phonemes and exemplar words covers sounds from the a in cat...
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Vowel Sounds: I and O
Early readers put their short vowel know how to the test. They read a series of simple cvc words, circle all the words that contain the medial short vowel sound indicated, then write those words in the space provided. Phonics, reading,...
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Connect the Rhymes
Introduce your pre-readers to rhyming using this matching exercise! They examine two sets of images, connecting rhyming pictures with a line. All 10 words use the vowel sound i. Note that some of these images may be difficult for...
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Odd Ones Out
Some of these words don't rhyme; scholars determine which ones as they examine four sets of images with the vowel sound /e/. For each set, they circle the words that don't rhyme with the first image. Be sure kids know what these images...
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Find the Rhyme
Which of these objects rhymes? There are four starter pictures here, each heading rows of three objects. Learners determine and circle the row object that rhymes with the first one. Then, they connect two of the CVC words with printing...
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Draw it Yourself
Here are four familiar pictures and words for emerging readers: dog, mouse, cat, and hen. After examining the image and spelling, they draw something that rhymes with each in the space provided. Encourage pre-readers to sound...
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Find the Pictures
Uncover the hidden pictures. There are two sets of shapes here, and each has a CVC word inside. Beginning readers follow directions by coloring all the shapes with words that rhyme with a given sound (in for the first and ug for the...
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Odd One Out
Which of these pictures doesn't belong? Based on the first picture in each row, learners circle the picture that doesn't rhyme with it. Then, they get printing practice with rhyming CVC words pie and cry by tracing an outline....
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Rhyming Words: Spoon and Moon
One of these things is not like the other, one of these things does not belong. It's true! Little learners will say each of the four words in each of four rows, to determine which one does not rhyme with the others. After that, they...
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The ee and ie Sounds
Put to use the old saying, "When two vowels go a walking, the first one does the talking." Scholars focus on the /ee/ and /ie/ sounds and spelling patterns that create them. First, they label four pictures with the ea...
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The oa, oy, and ow Sounds
Focus on the vowel sounds /oa/, /oy/, and /ow/ in this spelling patterns worksheet. The sounds are split into three sections, with learners observing how each can be spelled differently in familiar words. They write words beneath...
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The oo Sounds
Investigate spelling patterns that make the /oo/ sound in this labeling worksheet. Scholars read a brief introduction explaining the different vowel pairings that make the long /oo/ sound, along with word examples. Then, they...
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Silent "e"
Large font and colorful images allow your students to study words including the silent "e". There are a total of nine words on separate slides with the consonants and vowels typed in different colors. Tip: While reading the...
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Word Wheel
Make a phonics wheel with your young learners! Either provide the pieces pre-cut for your learners, or have them practice their fine-motor skills to cut out the four circles provided. When the wheel is assembled, learners can create...