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Beginning and Ending Consonants

For Teachers K - 1st
Young readers explore consonant sounds. In this beginning phonics lesson, learners fill in a beginning/middle/end vertical column chart with the sounds they hear in the pictured object. Practice spelling CVC words.
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Lesson 2 - Consonant-Vowel-Consonant Words

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Closed syllable words contain short vowel sounds. A phonics lessons introduces readers to consonant-vowel-consonant words. Guided instruction introduces the words with a series of dictation activities, and then learners practice reading...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Family Time: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 5)

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Provide extra support with a unit that follows a teach, blend, guided practice, and practice/apply routine to reinforce reading, grammar, vocabulary, and writing skills. Reading and writing lessons include supporting details, story...
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All Together Now: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 1)

For Teachers 1st Standards
All Together Now is the theme of this series of extra support lessons. The collection aids the instruction of blending sounds and reading high-frequency words through writing and reading sentences. Support also engages pupils in...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Family Time: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 5)

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Support English language development with a family-themed unit consisting of a series of lessons designed to get your scholars moving, looking, speaking, writing, and listening. Conversation topics include birthdays, family...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Friends Together: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 4)

For Teachers K Standards
Friendship is the theme in this series of extra support lessons. With a variety of resources (practice worksheets, letter, word, punctuation and picture cards), young readers gain knowledge of initial consonants v and h, blending short...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Nature Walk: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 2)

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Reinforce concepts such as long vowels, spelling patterns, sound clusters, double-final consonants, and syllables with a nature-themed unit. Through a series of extra support lessons, learners compare and contrast using a Venn diagram,...
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Let’s Count!: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 5)

For Teachers K Standards
In a themed series of lessons and activities, beginner readers are given extra support in reading through chants, games, and practice worksheets.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Friends Together: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 4)

For Teachers K Standards
Enjoy this thematic friendship unit compiled with ESL lessons to develop strong language development while listening, speaking, looking, and moving. Class members participate in activities covering topics like making friends, asking for...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

All Together Now: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 1)

For Teachers 1st Standards
All Together Now is the theme of this series of ESL lessons. Provide support to your language learners through games, role play, stories, and discussions all about greeting others, giving commands, telling about themselves, and being...
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Phonics: Read and Write Words with a Consonant Blend

For Teachers K
Reading often times starts with phonemic awareness and letter sound correspondence. Get little ones blending those letter sounds together to read and write simple words. As the teacher sounds out each word, learners count phonemes, and...
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Sing Your Way Through Phonics Lesson Plan "What's That Sound?"

For Teachers K - 1st
Students practice pronouncing the correct consonant sound.
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A Model Lesson Plan for Teaching Phonics

For Teachers 1st
First graders decode words containing the letter o when it is followed by a consonant and silent e.
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Consonant Digraphs Make Beginning Sounds

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this creating words with consonant digraphs worksheet, students say the picture words, guess the letters that make the beginning sounds, circle the letters that make the middle vowels and final sounds, and write the words. Students...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Person to Person: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 4)

For Teachers 5th Standards
Authors use many strategies when writing stories. A series of extra support lessons breaks down those strategies, as well as key grammatical and phonics-based concepts to support struggling learners. The last of three lessons offers...
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Consonants, Colors and Pictures Gymnastics

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students practice with consonants. In this writing lesson, students complete a variety of activities practicing consonants including naming consonants, producing the sound of consonants and identifying the color used for the consonant.
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Phonics: Long O Spelling Patterns

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders review the spelling of words with the long O sound. In this phonics lesson, 2nd graders brainstorm words with the long O sound, gain exposure to common long O spelling patterns and sort long O words based upon the spelling...
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Down on the Farm: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 8)

For Teachers K Standards
Chants, rhymes, practice pages, picture, word, and punctation cards provide extra support for reading high-frequency words, substituting, blending, segmenting, and identifying phonemes in this Down on the Farm themed unit. 
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Vowel Lessons: To Help Improve Spelling

For Teachers K - 12th
There are a few things every good speller knows: spelling rules, vowel sounds, and word endings. Help your learner with dyslexia become a more efficient speller with a few tips from a dyslexia expert. Included in the lesson is a video,...
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Technology that Makes Phonics Fun

For Teachers K - 3rd
Learners discover the Internet by participating in on-line educational activities.  In this educational technology lesson, students utilize interactive story books, podcasts, and games to help expand an understanding of phonics....
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Chad's Choo Choooo

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Choo, choo! Do your youngsters like trains? After studying the target sound, have your learners read A Peach for Chad. Do a class read and an independent read to increase fluency. At the lesson's close, consider creating a ch train where...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Animal Adventures: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 6)

For Teachers 1st
This packet, the third in the series of support materials for the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt thematic units on animal adventures, contains skill-building activities designed for learners who need extra support mastering the concepts in...
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The Letterbox Lesson

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students analyze phoneme sequence in a word. They spell words using phoneme analysis and read new words using phoneme analysis.
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Small Group: BL

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Practice target sounds, especially the /a/ sound. The teacher first speaks and learners repeat words, discriminating between words with varying sounds after focusing on /a/. Letter cards are held up to show the symbolic representation of...