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Vowels Short And Long: Farmer Pete
Second graders study short and long vowel sounds. They hear each word or picture by clicking on it to hear each rhyme. There is also the option of letting some students type their own rhyming sentence in this program. They complete a...
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Long Vowel O Sound
In this long vowel O activity, students practice saying the names of pictures with the long o sound, then color each picture. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Introduce /ai/
Students state the "ai" long a sound. In this vowel combinations phonics lesson, students say the sound of "ai" when the teacher points to the corresponding letter combination and remain silent when all other letters are highlighted.
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ESL: Long Vowel Activity
In this ESL long vowel worksheet, students write words for pictures that contain a long vowel sound. Students may click on a sound icon to hear the word if necessary.
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Vocabulary Building Activity: Two Letter Long Vowels
In this vocabulary skills worksheet, 1st graders examine the words go, no, me, we, and going. Students use the words in a memory activity, a word scramble activity, and a spelling activity.
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Long I Words: Matching
In this vocabulary skills worksheet, students match the 20 words that feature long /i/ to the appropriate listed definitions.
Essential Skills Software
Worksheet Set: Super Phonics Level 2
Supercharge beginning readers phonics skills with this extensive collection of worksheets. With exercises on long and short vowels, consonant blends, rhyming words, word endings, and much more, this resource is a primary grade teacher's...
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Soap Boat
When two vowels go walking, who does the talking? Learners explore this question with several activities featuring words with OA, AI, and EA. The activity includes many fun pictures and requires different skills sets such as context...
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Comparing an Author’s Presentation of Ideas: “Rachel Carson: Sounding the Alarm on Pollution”
It's all in the presentation. Readers take a look at author's presentation in the article Rachel Carson: Sounding the Alarm on Pollution. Scholars work together to complete a Comparing
and Contrasting Authors’ Presentation graphic...
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Literature of Asia and the Middle East: "A Sound of Hammering" by Dazai Osamu
Dazai Osamu’s short story, “A Sound of Hammering” is the focus of a three-day investigation of modern Japanese literature and life in post-World War II Japan. The events in Osamu’s story mirror those in his own life, and give a...
Primary Resources
Long Multiplication
Multiplying two-digit numbers together can be confusing for many learners. This clear presentation does a good job of showing each of the steps, and explaining why the steps are taken, to young mathematicians. The presentation takes one...
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Connect the Rhymes
Pre-readers benefit from visual context clues like the ones in this rhyme worksheet. There are two sets of objects here, and scholars connect objects on the left with their rhyming counterparts on the right. Each word has the vowel...
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Will You Stay and Play?
Start off your day with a study of -ay words. Pupils can practice long a with -ay words by reading the brief poem included here. After they read, class members answer three reading comprehension questions right on the page.
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Sounds and Letters: ai
Review reading skills with your class using this colorful presentation. Learners read a series of words missing the letter i. They add the letter and read the new word. It is a quick and simple review of the topic. Note: The resource...
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School-Home Links: Long Vowel/Same Endings
For this long vowel sound worksheet, students read the words in the box that have long vowel sounds and the same endings. Students then divide the words according to their vowel sounds. They write words that rhyme with hay and cake on...
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'EW' Long U Wordsearch
In this word search activity, students practice spelling words containing 'ew' or the long 'u' sound. Students complete the word search to find the 'ew' words.
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Long U Words Printing Practice and Sentence Writing
In this language arts worksheet, students examine 4 words in a word bank which all have long U sounds. Kids trace, then write the words. Students then use 2 of the words in a sentence.
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Sounding Out CVCE Words
First graders explore vowels and consonants by participating in a flash card activity. In this phonetics lesson, 1st graders discuss the difference between short and long vowels and identify them within a story told to them by their...
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Soap Boat
In this language arts activity, students investigate the sound of /oa/. Students write words to match pictures and rhyme words. Note: This activity has all the examples shown in DeNelian printing.
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I See A Bee
Students create a drawing of a word containing the sound /ee/. They are introduced to the /ee/ vowel pattern that comprise the long /ee/ vowel sound. They practice listening for and reading a variety of words containing the long vowel...
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Spelling Practice
In this spelling worksheet, students practice writing their spelling words containing the long i and long o sounds. Students write 24 spelling words.
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Word Building
In this long vowel worksheet, 1st graders will focus on the long o sound. Students will study 6 pictures and choose the beginning, middle, and end sound for each before writing the words on the lines provided.
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Long ee or ea
Students practice spelling words with the long e sounds using ee or ea. In this ee or ea lesson plan, students complete words using the ee or ea pattern, identify rhyming words, and write a rhyming poem using ee words. Using word and...
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Home Spelling Practice: Grade 4: Long a, ai, ay
In this spelling worksheet, students learn to spell a list of 20 words. All words have the long A sound with: "a", "ai" or "ay". Students write each word one time on the lines. There are additional at-home spelling activities listed.