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Laus Dnet: Kinder. Word Lesson Alphabet Potluck Feast [Pdf]

For Teachers K Standards
Students will create a class book (PDF) modeled after the book Potluck, by Anne Shelby, to identify the beginning sounds of words and the letter of the alphabet representing that sound (phonemic awareness). Contains links to step sheets...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Finding Initial Sounds: A Pre Reading Game

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A teacher-led activity that helps young scholars learn to isolate the initial sounds of words.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Initial Sound Memory Game: A Pre Reading Game

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A teacher-led activity that helps learners learn to isolate initial sounds of words. Students match pictures according to the initial sounds of the words that the pictures represent.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Catch a Sound: Final Sounds Game

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This site contains a flexible activity that teaches students how to "catch" or identify the final sound of a word.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Abc Fun

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this differentiated lesson, teachers will engage learners in working with letters and their sounds. Word-making (low level), word making with several letters (middle level), and word generating with random single letter pulling are...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Amplify Education, Inc.: Introduce Reading Connected Text

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
An exciting introduction to reading! The instructor writes a simple, one-line story on the board from literature, and the young scholars learn to sound out the words.
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A to Z Teacher Stuff

A to Z Teacher Stuff: Sheep in a Jeep Activities

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This online lesson focuses on Nancy E. Shaw's "Sheep in a Jeep." There are several creative activities that help students to determine what words rhyme with each other.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Around the World Game: Sounding Out Accuracy

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A fun game involving the entire classroom that builds word and sound recognition phonetically.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Bam! Game: Sounding Out Accuracy

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A small group game to practice word and sound recognition and accuracy. Students pull cards out of a hat and if they can sound it out accurately they keep the card.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Build a Word: Sounding Out Accuracy Game

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A small group game to practice word and sound recognition and accuracy. Students pull cards with word parts printed on them out of a hat and if they can put it together and sound it out accurately they keep the card.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Draw Two: A Sounding Out Accuracy Game

For Teachers K - 1st
A whole group game to practice word and sound recognition and accuracy. Students pull a card out of a hat and if they can sound it out accurately they keep the card. But Watch out! You may draw a card that says Draw Two! Then the student...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Mix, Mix, Match: A Sounding Out Accuracy Game.

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A small group game to practice word and sound recognition and accuracy. Students receive a card with a word part on it. The instructor plays music and when the music stops, the students "mix" and put their cards with another student.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Tic Tac Toe: A Sounding Out Accuracy Game

For Teachers K - 1st
A small group game to practice word and sound recognition and accuracy. Students play tic tac toe with partners, but before they can take a turn they must pick a work from a pile on their desk and sound it out. Their partner gives them a...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Spotting Sounds All Around

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This is both a hands-on and technology based lesson plan where students can apply their knowledge of letter/sound relationships while incorporating the use of classroom technology. This Language Arts activity will allow for the students...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Word Detective

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this lesson, students will become word detectives to find spelling patterns in a story, and then sort the words they find according to the patterns. This "word detective" will become a favorite independent activity throughout the...
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Los Angeles County Office of Education

Teams: Distance Learning: Recognizing Rhyme

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This site from the TEAMS Distance Learning provides a K-1 activity: "Quick test you can give your students to see if they can tell when words rhyme and when they do not."
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Hopelink

Hopelink: Reading Lesson Idea: R Controlled Words

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Practice reading and pronouncing words that have a vowel followed by the letter R.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Make a Picture Dictionary

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Children will create a picture dictionary to encourage the development of letter-sound recognition and fine-motor and creative-thinking skills, and increase their awareness about informational text.