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Curated OER

Stackers Game for Word Fluency

For Teachers K - 2nd
Explore words by building and decoding three-letter words. Real or nonsense words can be formed with the alphabet tiles. Practice fluency and blending sounds with CVC patterns.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonics: Encoding and Decoding, Three-In-One

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Scholars use the provided pack of alphabet cards to construct basic CVC words, then write down each word they make in one of two columns. Column one is for real words and column two is for nonsense words.
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Heidi Songs

Ladybug Color Nonsense

For Students K - 1st
Let these ladybugs teach your youngsters a thing or two about spelling CVC words. Kids color the real words black and the fake words red to reveal what these ladybugs really look like.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Onset and Rime Slide

For Teachers K - 1st
Discover onset and rime blends using this interactive activity which will appeal to your kinesthetic learners. Using the sliding templates provided, budding readers try different onsets with each rime. They practice reading skills by...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonics: Onset and Rime, Word Swat

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
With a fly swatter in hand, learners swat the rime-flys with their onset swatter to make, read, and write words by blending the onset with the rime-fly. Scholars blend words, make and write words, and also work to determine if the words...
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Curated OER

Sounding out accuracy, Build a Word

For Teachers K - 1st
Students demonstrate how to build words. In this word study activity, students play a game where they must choose two index cards from each bucket and put them together to build a word.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonics: Encoding and Decoding, Digraph Delight

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
There are three spinners to use in this phonic activity. Spinner one contains digraphs, spinner two contains vowels, and spinner three contains consonants. Learners spin each spinner, write down the letters they get, blend them to make a...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonics: Onset and Rime, Word-Roll-A-Rama

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Learners roll two die; die one contains various onsets, and die two contains different rimes. They write down the onset and rime pair they get, then blend and read their word.
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Curated OER

Stackers Game for word fluency

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars create three letter words and decode for fluency and accuracy.  In this fluency lesson, students use alphabet tiles to build words with the CVC pattern and read the word aloud.  Young scholars alternate turns by stacking...
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Curated OER

Sounding Out, Alien Word Game

For Teachers K
Students invent words using a set of letters.  In this Alien word lesson, students determine if the letters made a real word.  Students record problem words in an activity log.
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Curated OER

Sounding Out Accuracy: Word Swatter Game

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore word fluency by participating in a language arts game. In this vocabulary identification activity, students collaborate in two small teams, each armed with a fly swatter, in order to swat vocabulary words spoken by their...
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Curated OER

The Creaky Door Says "ehhhh"

For Teachers K - 1st
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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Curated OER

Nonsense Knows

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
For this poetry lesson, young readers discuss that poems can sometimes have silly words and made up people, places, and things. Students read and listen to silly poems then write a response poem to their favorite.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonics: Encoding and Decoding, Letter Cube Blending

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Emergent readers use a letter cube to identify, blend, and make words. They roll each of the three-letter cubes, mark down the letters they rolled, then blend the letter sounds together to make a word. They record each word on a...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonics: Encoding and Decoding, Vowel Stars

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Learners are given a star; each star contains a c_c form in the center and vowels on each point. They use the vowels to fill in the blank between the consonants making a simple CVC word. They write each word they make on a piece of paper. 
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonics: Onset and Rime, Say It Now

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Pairs use onset and rime cards to make as many words as possible by blending the onsets with the rimes.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Word and Letter Practice #6

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this word and letter practice worksheet, students say the name and sounds of given letters, read simple sentences, practice reading sight words and practice "chunks" of words.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonics: Varient Correspondances, Silent "e" Changes

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Engage early readers in a silent e activity to help them understand the changes the letter can make to a simple word. With the provided cards, learners read and write each word as it appears without the silent e. Then they read and write...
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Curated OER

Sounding out accuracy, The Sum of the Parts

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore word structures by participating in a group activity. In this word segment lesson, students collaborate in small groups and pass out cards with certain letters that can form words when put together. Students win the game...
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Curated OER

Words and Letters Practice #3

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this words and letters practice instructional activity, students practice naming letters and practicing sounds of given sets of letters, read simple sentences, and practice sight words. 
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Curated OER

You've Got a Wocket Where?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students identify rhyming word pairs, apply generalizations about the principle of onsets and "rimes," and create and classify multiple lists of words, both real and nonsense, based on given rhymes.
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Curated OER

Big Grammar Book

For Students K - 8th Standards
With this comprehensive language arts resource in your arsenal, you'll never have to look for another grammar activity! Whether you're teaching kindergartners how to write the upper- and lower-case letters of the alphabet, or helping...
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International Reading Association

Literacy Survival Tips for New Teachers!

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Whether new to teaching or a seasoned pro, this 12-page phonics and phonemic awareness guide is a must for your curriculum library. Everything from a summary of research on the topic to exercises and activities is included.
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Poetry Society

The Jumblies

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd
Who would ever think to go to sea in a sieve? Only Edward Lear's Jumblies! The poem "The Jumblies" is the inspiration for these poetry reading and writing activities that ask learners to think about how strangers are different, consider...

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