Starfall
Robot and Mr. Mole
In this reading instructional activity, students practice reading long /o/ words by making an eight-page book. Students read the simple book about a mole and a robot and color the pictures.
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Paint Pails
For this phonics practice instructional activity, students examine 10 words. Student color the buckets with the words that have the long a sound green.
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What Do You See?
In this phonics practice activity, learners examine 10 words and identify those that have the long e sound. Students then find the pictures of each the circled words in the picture.
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Hidden Words
In this phonics practice learning exercise, students examine 5 pictures, record the long e word that represents each picture, and find the words in a word search puzzle.
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Jean and Dean
In this phonics practice activity, students examine 9 pictures and identify each of the pictures using the appropriate long e words in the word bank.
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Lesson 21
In this trace and write worksheet, students trace and write words that contain the the long a sound and a silent e. Students trace and write 10 words.
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Long And Short E Sounds
In this vocabulary worksheet, students examine 4 picture clues which depict long and short vowel e words. There is a primary writing line and the direction "write," but it is unclear if students are to write a sentence or just the word.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Phonics: Letter-Sound Correspondence, Medial Phoneme Spin
A collaborative activity challenges young scholars to match medial graphemes and phonemes. Pairs take turns spinning the spinner, naming the letter, and saying its name. They choose from a stack of cards with the same medial sound.
K12 Reader
The Coat Got Soaked on the Boat
This silly story of a family, their pet goat, a coat, and boat will capture your pupils' attention as they work on the long /o/ sound, the oa digraph, and reading comprehension.
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Make a Word: Long U by Starfall
Students explore language arts by participating an on-line grammar activity. In this letter U lesson, students discuss the uses for the letter U in the English language and the different sounds that can be made from the vowel. Students...
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Phonics Jeopardy
For this phonics PowerPoint, 1st graders participate in a game show similar to "Jeopardy" in which they identify pictures that have a beginning sound corresponding to the given vowel pattern, blend, or digraph.
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Reading Recall
Second graders review the vowe-consonant-e pattern in association with reading fluently. After identifying the changes made to a phoneme when the letter e is added at the end of the word, 2nd graders practice reading a phonetically...
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Letter Pronunciation- "o" Sound
In this letter "o" worksheet, students read four words that all contain letter O. Students circle the word that best describes the picture and use it in a sentence.
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When I am Blue...
In this phonics practice worksheet, learners read a story and fill in the 6 words in the story using the words in the word bank. Students draw a picture of the story in the box provided.
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Animal Alphabet
Students make a class animal book using the letters of the alphabet. They use a website imbedded in this plan to get pages with animals that begin with any of the 26 letters.
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Spare Square
For this recognizing the -are words instructional activity, learners read one syllable words in squares, identify those with the same vowel sound as square, and color them. Students color 8 squares.
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Vocabulary Building Activity
In this vocabulary learning exercise, students write down 5 vocabulary words on the lines provided as the teacher reads them out loud. Students unscramble 5 vocabulary words and then write each one in a complete sentence.
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Catchin' Air
In this identifying words with -air sound instructional activity, learners observe rows of balls with words and color the balls with the same vowel sound as chair. Learners color 5 balls.
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The Creaky Door Says "ehhhh"
Study the long vowel sound /e/, as in a creaky door noise. Children repeat the sound and learn a chant. They use letters in letterboxes to make words with the /e/ sound before reading a book and writing a message about their favorite...
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'Y' Long E Word Search
In this word search worksheet, students find the hidden 'y' words within the word search puzzle. Students use the word bank to help them locate the 16 words.
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School-Home Links: Long e and Long o
In this vowel worksheet, students trace the word beside a picture. All words have either the long e or long o sound. Worksheet is designed to be signed by parent and child when completed.
Core Knowledge Foundation
Second Grade Skills Unit 1: The Cat Bandit
For twenty-two lessons over five weeks, scholars practice sound-spelling correspondence, spelling patterns, tricky words, and reading decodable text. Assessments aid in small group formation and gauge comprehension. Lessons begin with a...
Core Knowledge Foundation
Second Grade Skills Unit 2: Bedtime Tales
A unit covering second-grade skills reviews 16 letter-sound correspondences, tricky words, and punctuation. Readers provide context for examining story elements, and pupils participate in close reading and write narratives retelling a...
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A Race to Place
Students distinguish between short vowel a and long vowel a. They are introduced to the vowel-consonant-e pattern that changes short vowel sounds into long vowel sounds. They practice spelling words with the vowel-consonant-e pattern.