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English Skills Assignment
In this English skills activity, learners complete 12 different activities covering numerous topics, including alliteration, proof-reading, root words, vowels, consonants, parts of speech and more. Students can earn 59 total points on...
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English Skills 6.206
In this English skills worksheet, learners complete 12 English skill activities of various topics. These topics include alliterations, rood words, vowels, consonants, parts of speech, anagrams, word meanings and proof-reading. Students...
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Transportation and Travel
Students discuss different types of travel, specifically
outlining travel arrangements requiring reservations (i.e., airplane,
bus, etc.) They work in small groups and create travel brochures then practice dialoging reservations and...
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What Do Seals Eat?
Learners recognize the ea=/E/ correspondence in spoken and written words. They participate in a group letterbox instructional activity. In groups of two, they practice reading with each other, taking turns reading one page at a time,...
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"Ca...Ca...Ca...Caterpillar Blending"
Students improve blending skills. They produce many individual short utterances and mouth moves (phonemes) into one long utterance (words) and create their own blending caterpillar. They draw a picture of a caterpillar with three...
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Comparatives
In this comparatives worksheet, students review and discuss adjectives. They define adjectives as words used to compare two things using superiority, equability and inferiority. They then complete six comparative prompts by creating...
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Fluency is Freedom!
Students read orally in groups of two to increase reading speed and fluency in this lesson. They read provided books which emphasize the short vowel sounds. The pairs time each others reading and offer encouragement and support as they...
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Aye, Aye Captain
Young scholars investigate how correspondences appear differently in different words. They also recognize the difference between long and short vowels. Students study how these correspondences are spelled and pronounced differently.
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Wash Your Hands...they are icky sticky!
Learners engage in an emergent literacy instructional activity that focuses on phonemic awareness and they practice corresponding the letter "i" to its long or short sound. This type of recognition has been found to be essential to...
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CVC Cloze: Middle a
In this CVC cloze activity worksheet, students fill in the blanks in 10 sentences with CVC words that have the short a sound. Students also list as many other CVC words with the short a sound as possible.
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Sound Stretching
In this basic vowel and consonant blending instructional activity, young learners are shown how to "blend" the sounds of different letters together in order to make a word. Simple words such as, "sun," "moon," and, "ant," are used in a...
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Pronunciation of Regular Past Tense Verbs
In this pronunciation worksheet, students learn how to pronounce a long list of regular past tense verbs. The list is broken into 3 sections based on the sound of the past tense verb ending: /t/, /d/, or/id/.
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'AY' Decoder
In this spelling codes worksheet, students use the code box of numbers and letters to decode the numbers and spell 'ay' words. Students spell 20 words.
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Latin: Third (-IO) Conjugation Verbs
Give your Latin learners a list of verbs and have them complete this basic verb chart. Make things challenging and give them verbs in different tenses (so that they have to practice different verb forms), or pair this chart up with a...
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Picture the Word
This is an excellent way to make onset and rime visual for beginning readers. They examine CVC-word picture cards that are all missing the first letter. Using plastic letters (or whatever you have), they complete each word and record it...
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Phonics lesson for -ew and -oo
First graders identify letters and sounds associated with -ew and -oo sounds. Each learner receives a stack of cards containing these sounds, and they must determine whether the word uses the -ew or the -oo sound. This could easily...
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Phonics: Variant Correspondences, Say and Write Letters
Scholars sound out and write twelve different words. Using Elkonin boxes, pupils say the name of each picture, then write the letters that make each sound.
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Fluency: Word Parts, Speedy Syllables
Prefixes, affixes, roots, and word parts are the focus of a lesson designed to boost scholars' speed and accuracy. Peers work collaboratively to time one another while reading word cards. Answers, scores, and times are recorded to track...
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Phonics lesson for -ick family
Kindergarteners and first graders develop phonemic awareness for words that contain -ick. Each learner gets a stack of cards with different -ick words, highlighting the target sound as they review each one.
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Derbyshire Accent Project 1
Compare the Derbyshire accent to Standard English. There are eight common differences between the two languages for learners to discover. A great learning exercise to start a discussion on the various forms and conventions of Standard...
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Withdrawing Money From The BAnk
High schoolers discuss the various options for withdrawing money from the bank. Students recognize the importance of keeping accurate bank records and personal banking information secure. This instructional activity is intended for...
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ESOL: Health and Nutrition
Students explore the four food groups and how they contribute to one's health. They identify the four food groups and create a poster of the four food groups with pictures. They present their posters to the class and practice answering...
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Crossing Time Zones
Students explore the concept of differing time zones. Students refer to maps to identify the time zones in particular regions. They role play phone calls from different time zones. This lesson plan is intended for students acquiring...
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What Do You See at the Pond?
With What Do You See at the Pond?, young readers explore pond life and practice reading strategies. Learners first make predictions and then read the simple story independently. After a second read-through with a partner, kids come...