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Blending with Frog and Toad

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students apply word analysis and vocabulary skills to comprehend selections by reading and interpreting a variety of literary words. They then make predictions about the story and identify blends within the English language.
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Initial Blends

For Students 2nd - 3rd
For this consonant clusters worksheet, students fill in the missing initial blends for the words. Students fill in cr, gr, fr, pr, tr, and dr to make each word match the picture. Students find nine different words.
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Drew the Dragon: Consonant Clusters

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this initial blends worksheet, students read the ending sections of the 3 word lists. Students then write in the missing initial blend of br, cr, and gr.
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Sh Sound

For Students K - 2nd
For this "sh" sound worksheet, students examine 6 pictures and identify each of them. The words feature the "sh" sound.
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Blends: "gl" or "gr"?

For Students K - 2nd
In this consonant blends instructional activity, students respond to 12 fill in the blank questions that that require them to identify and use words have the "gl" and "gr" sounds. Picture clues are provided.
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Word Families

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
This phonics PowerPoint presents sets of word families featuring /a/ and /o/. Each of the words is accompanied by a picture. Students practice sounding out each of the words.
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Consonant Clusters 2

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this consonant clusters worksheet, students examine 12 pictures and determine where the words have the sh, ch or th cluster present in them.
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Phonics: Decode and Write Words

For Teachers 1st
Sounding out individual phonemes and blending them to make a word is usually one of the first tasks mastered when learning to read. Make master decoders out of your learners, they sound out a series of simple two and three-letter cvc...
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Making More Words With "at"

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Learners explore phonetics by identifying words with one specific sound. In this rhyming words lesson, students discuss the sound "at" and the many words that contain the same sound. Learners utilize index cards to participate in a word...
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Icky Insect Is In Icky Sticky Ink

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Practice the strategy of letter-sound correspondence when identifying the short vowel /i/ sound in written and spoken words. The teacher recites the tongue twister "Icky insect is in icky sticky ink," while listeners repeat. Letter boxes...
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Say /o/

For Teachers K - 1st
Ollie the octopus is occupied! Use this tongue twister to help youngsters learn the /o/ sound. After practicing the target sound, learners should print the letter. When they are familiar with the letter and its sound, the group will...
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Everybody Get Ready

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Learners identify and spell words containing the short /e/ sound. They rehearse a fun tongue twister which contains words emphasizing the short /e/ sound. They then read Red Gets Fed as a class. Have your group clap every time they hear...
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Where are the Mittens?

For Teachers K - 1st
Help early readers identify rhyming words in nursery rhymes. They will read the nursery rhyme Three Little Kittens Who Lost Their Mittens in order to identify rhyming words. Then they chart the rhyming words they heard in the...
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Produce Rhyming Words

For Teachers K - 1st
Have fun creating rhymes! Your class will read the familiar nursery rhyme Three Little Kittens and list rhyming words. They then use the story as a template to develop their own rhymes.
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Raven Chapter 13 Guided Notes: Patterns of Inheritance

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
For this short space, it would be impossible to describe the breadth of this seven-page genetics worksheet. Geared toward AP or college biology learners, they explore not only the basic vocabulary and concepts, but also the Law of...
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Phonics Consonant Blends Workbook Sample

For Students 1st
In this consonant blend worksheet, 1st graders complete words with th, wh, ch, or sh. They draw a line from the carrot next to the words with short vowel sounds to the basket at the bottom of the page.
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Initial Consonant Blends

For Students Pre-K - 3rd
For this phonics worksheet, students practice sounding out the initial consonant blends bl, br, cl, cr, dr, fl, fr, gl, gr, pl, pr, sc, sk, sl, sm, sn, sp, squ, st, str, sw and tr.
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Ough Words

For Students 2nd - 3rd
For this word blends worksheet, students complete several activities to learn the word blend of 'ough' words. Students look, say, and write to practice the words.
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Blending and Segmenting Multisyllabic

For Teachers K Standards
Syl lab i ca tion. Kindergartners practice segmenting and blending multisyllabic words in an activity that asks them to repeat the process modeled by their teacher. The teacher slowly says the name of a classroom object, enunciating each...
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oo

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
The vowel blend "oo" produces two different sounds. The words book and cool are examples of that. Young readers view slides that have pictures of words that use this blend, and they practice distinguishing between each sound.
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Phase 5

For Teachers K - 1st
A colorful presentation on common vowel blends awaits your class. Each of the 25 slides has a two-letter vowel blend in a large circle, accompanied by a smaller circle that has the phonetic sound that the blend makes. Pretty fish and...
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SCR

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Blend consonants scr together to make a great sound used to begin words like, scream, screw, and scrap. Learners view a series of six images and  related /scr/ words to practice spelling patterns, chunking, consonant blends, or...
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Consonant Clusters

For Students 2nd
In this letter blend worksheet, students focus on three letter blends beginning with the "s" sound. Students cut out and sort 11 words placing each word under the correct category.
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Poem: Initial Blends

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this initial blends worksheet, students read the poem and use the words with the initial blend sound of 'l' to help them complete the poem. Students then recopy the poem onto a sheet of paper and illustrate it.