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Cut and Paste Alphabet Apple Tree
Here's a cut-and-paste activity that lets kids practice both their fine motor skills as well as alphabetizing. They cut out 26 apples, write one letter on the fruit, color it, and paste their work on an apple tress.
PBS
Using Symmetry to Create Corporate Logos
Young mathematicians investigate the use of symmetry in graphic design. After first learning about reflection, translational, and rotational symmetry, children use this new knowledge to identify symmetry in letters of the...
Utah State University
Cursive Handwriting Practice: Capital Letters
Practice can make for perfect penmanship. Kids can practice their cursive on these lined pages. Learners start out by tracing capital letters and move on to writing them on their own.
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Letters of the Alphabet
In this alphabet template learning exercise, learners are given each letter of the alphabet accompanied by a picture that starts with each. Page is a template only, letters and pictures can be colored.
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Alphabet A-M: Beginning ESL Lesson
Bring this fun presentation about the first half of the alphabet to your beginning ESL class. Each slide features one letter, along with a word that starts with the letter and a picture. The slideshow could accompany a lesson about the...
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Alphabet N-Z: Beginning ESL Lesson
Guide your ESL pupils through the second half of the English alphabet. Each slide features one letter (N-Z) and an illustration to accompany the letter. You could use this presentation in the context of a sight word lesson or in a review...
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Alphabet Shopping
The act of making up a grocery shopping list can have a lot of learning built into it. Kids love to do "grown-up" tasks, and this simple instructional activity allows them to do just that. Learners make up a shopping list by combining...
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A Statistical Study of the Letters of the Alphabet
Students gather appropriate information for simple statistical analysis. Then they will calculate probability working with a piece of literature that makes this lesson ideal for teaching across the whole curriculum.
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Evaluating Using The Order of Operations
Scholars are introduced to the usage of the Order of Operations. They explore the use of variables and how they are represented by any letter of the alphabet. They then engage in discussion for verbal assessment.
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Animal Alphabet
Second graders identify animals with each letter of the alphabet. In groups, they create a PowerPoint presentation which shows the information they have collected about each one. Using all of this information, they create an animal...
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Alphabet Picnic Baskets
In this alphabet awareness activity, students cut out the 26 letters of the alphabet found at the bottom of the activity and then paste them in their correct baskets.
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Traceable Alphabet: Letter O Worksheet
This worksheet provides ruled lines for early writers to practice tracing the letter 'O' in both upper and lower case. The first example is numbered and has an arrow to indicate the direction of the stroke. It also includes three...
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Alphabet Worksheet: Printing the Letter Y
This is a traditional letter tracing worksheet on which children practice tracing the capital and lower case letter 'Y'. The pencil strokes are numbered to indicate the steps in writing the letter, and the direction of each stroke is...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Fluency: Letter-Sound Correspondence, Letter Flash
Scholars work in pairs to drill and practice alphabet sounds, keeping track of their progress on a chart. Working one at a time, each partner flips letter cards, saying the sound and letter. If they get it correct, it goes in the YES...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
A World of Animals: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 10)
Provide extra support with this collection of animal-themed lessons. Early readers gain proficiency in high frequency words are and he, practice blending short vowel sounds, and substitute initial and final phonemes while...
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Letter and Rhyme a Day
There are so many fun activities for alphabet learners! Use nursery rhymes, letter hunts, and the name sort to have learners interact with the letter of the day. Your learners will never get bored with the variety of activities provided...
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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.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Look at Us!: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 1)
Support struggling learners and focus on the alphabet with the three weeks of activities and materials provided here. Each day, learners review some letters and practice others in depth. They work on rhyming, practice new words, and...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Letter Recognition: Poetry Pen
It's always nice to have a great idea and all the tools to make it happen. The class can use these nursery rhyme and alphabet cards to teach each other letter recognition and letter sound correspondence. There is a full set of alphabet...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Lesson 4: The Phoenicians, the Greeks, the Romans, and Us
Learners review knowledge gained in the three-part unit on the history of the alphabet. Using maps and images, learners consolidate their understanding of ancient Greece, the Romans and the Phoenicians, and their respective impacts...
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A Statistical Study of the Alphabet
Learners determine probability by completing statistical study on letters of the alphabet and comparing and contrasting results.
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Dr. Seuss’s ABC: An Amazing Alphabet Book Lesson
Dr. Seuss's ABC Book is used to help young readers distinguish between the letters of the alphabet and their letter sounds. After a discussion reviewing the letters that are vowels and consonants, the book is read to the class. Then, the...
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Find the Letters
It's an alphabet treasure hunt in this beginning spelling activity. Learners examine eight jumbled letters inside a picture of a dog, circling the letters in the word dog. Then, they do the same for the word hat. An...
PreKinders
Carrot Letters
Munch on the alphabet with a series of carrots that feature the alphabet. The carrots are black and white and have one letter each, making it easy for kids to identify and decorate each one.