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Build a Word

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore new words through letters or letter groups. In this lesson about words, students use index cards to build new words. Each index card contains one letter or letter group. Students utilize different strategies like...
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Anansi Goes to Lunch

For Teachers Pre-K
Students read the story Anansi Goes to Lunch and complete many language arts-based activities to go with the book. In this language arts lesson plan, students complete activities including phonics, writing, coloring, counting, role...
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Silly Sally Sings Upside Down!!!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students use phonics to recognize the /s/ sound. As a group, students recite tongue twisters to recognize the /s/ sound. Students search through magazines to find objects that contain the /s/ phoneme.
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Long ee or ea

For Teachers 1st - 4th
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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Short a and short i

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students participate in a lesson used in order to strengthen reading comprehension skills. They use spelling lists in order to sort them to the corresponding studied sounds. Vocabulary is used and students read them in context.
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Sing Your Way Through Phonics

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students recognize and spell sets of words with/shun/suffixes. They become familiar with common t-i-o-n, s-i-o-n, s-s-i-o-n, and c-i-a-n words. Students listen as the teacher say, "I'm going to say several different words that all have...
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Word Family Nuts

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students explore the English language by participating in a word match activity. In this word family lesson, students write a specific word family on a paper squirrel and write words that belong to the family on a paper acorn. Students...
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Guided Reading: Shapes Where We Play

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars discover shapes on a playground. In this guided reading lesson, students discover new vocabulary words related to shapes as they read Shapes Where We Play. In small groups, young scholars use picture clues and one to one...
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Beginning Sounds: Poem

For Teachers K - 1st
Students practice identifying beginning sounds. In this phonics lesson, students review different beginning sounds and read a poem. Students then work together to identify the words in the poem with their particular beginning sound.
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Sounding out accuracy, Word Baseball

For Teachers K - 1st
Students practice sounding out words. In this phonics lesson, students play a baseball game, practicing sounding or stretching out words for accuracy.  Students read the word off the card and stretch it out.
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Letter Combination Fluency

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars explore language arts by participating in a word structure activity. In this phonics lesson, students utilize flash cards with specific letters on them which can be combined with other cards to create words. Young scholars...
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Introduce qu-

For Teachers K - 1st
Students practice saying and reading words beginning with qu. In this phonics lesson, students review the sound that the letter combination qu creates.  Students play a pronunciation game to ensure their understanding of the letter sound.
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Reintroduce /kn/

For Teachers K - 1st
Students practice reading words with the kn pattern.  In this phonics lesson, students review the sound kn makes.  Students then play a game to reinforce the correct use of the kn spelling pattern.
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Short "E" Searching

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students engage in a lesson which uses resources from the PBS show, Between the Lions to help identify the sound "e" in words that are written, read and sung.
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Activity Plan Mixed Ages: Fairytale Homes

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students create homes for fairytale characters. In this early childhood lesson plan, students develop literacy, language, and problem-solving concepts as they create block structures related to specific fairy tales.
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Fraction Spelling

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
An interesting take on spelling practice is included here! Emerging spellers take their weekly spelling list and create a three-column chart. In the first column, they write the word itself. In the second column, they write how many...
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Practicing Sight words

For Teachers K
Review sight words with readers. They will look over their sight words and come up with sentences for each of them. They also review the alphabet and identify unfamiliar words.
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Move the Sounds

For Teachers K - 5th Standards
Use cut out letters to make beginning sounds, blends, and word families that ultimately make new words. Learners move around physically as they hold the letters to make the specified blend or word. Assessment suggestions are included.
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Guided Reading: Flora's Box

For Teachers K - 1st
Young readers consider text-to-self connections. Learners discover the text-to-self connection as they read Flora's Box by Tina Althaide. They practice high frequency words, prepositions, and 1:1 correspondence.
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Hard C and Soft C

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Pupils categorize different words that contain a hard c and a soft c. In this hard and soft c lesson plan, students also pick words from each of the categories and write a story with those words.
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Say and Spell Consonant Digraph Board Game

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd
Students download from a website to learn about digraphs. In this digraphs lesson, students download a digraphs game to practice digraphs. 
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Phonemic Awareness: Syllables

For Teachers K - 1st
Count the syllables in your name, now count the syllables in your friend's name. Kids count syllables as they clap out and segment words. This activity is done as a whole class and has the potential of being highly engaging. The engaging...
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Phonemic Awareness: Phoneme Blending

For Teachers Pre-K - K
This resource is more of a suggestion than a full lesson. It explains how young pre-readers can work with their teacher to practice blending phonemes to make words. The class watches the teacher as she says and orally segments a word...
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Phonemic Awareness: Segmenting

For Teachers 1st
You ever feel like your going in circles? Because this lesson plan seems very much like others I've seen. First graders put up a finger as they count each phoneme the teacher emphasises as she says a series of words. 

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