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Click it! See it! Say it!
Scholars take digital photographs of a phonic cluster. Each child will use their digital pictures in a PowerPoint slide with text showing the sound and the word that contains that sound. Then they will take a picture of the object they...
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Drum Roll, Please!
Drill and practice phonemes, letter formations, written language, vowel correspondences, as well as consonant correspondences with youngsters. They will locate and identify the /b/ in written and spoken words from flash cards containing...
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Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Matching, Pack-a-Backpack
Scholars sort words based on their initial phoneme or sound. Learners are given two backpacks, each with a picture card; they search and match picture cards with the same initial sound as the ones on each backpack.
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VCe Rule Accuracy
Explore word structure by participating in a vowels and consonants activity with young readers. They will read words their teacher points out in class and pronounce them correctly. Then they identify the words they say which have a...
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Phonemic Awareness Instructional Routine: Isolation
This phonemic awareness activity would be great for morning meeting or circle time. Teacher calls out a word, s/he identifies the final phoneme. The class then take turns saying other simple or cvc words that also have the same ending...
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Odd One Out
One of these words doesn't belong! As they practice first-letter recognition, scholars examine rows of familiar objects to determine what letter each begins with. For each row of three items, they decide which does not begin with the...
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Puzzle Page 2
Beginning readers complete this simple crossword using visual clues. Each word is missing a first letter and has a corresponding picture. Pupils practice printing by writing in the first letter and tracing subsequent letters. There are...
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High Five Blend and Word Family Game
Practice using word blends and learning about word families by participating in a class game. Learners will collaborate as teams in a game by throwing beanbags onto a shower curtain with word blends on it. They will say the sound their...
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Vowels and Consonants
Now that your scholars know the alphabet, make sure they understand that not all letters are the same! Explore the difference between vowels and consonants...not to mention that pesky y. Learners say the alphabet out loud and...
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Oh Say Can You DDDD!
Young readers see that letters represent phoneme sequences in spoken words. They identify the letter "d," and recognize "d" in spoken words by exploring the meaningful representation and a letter symbol. They practice finding the letter...
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More Nursery Rhymes
Jack and Jill went up the... bell? As your budding readers and writers begin to recognize simple words and rhyme, use these incomplete sentences as practice. There are three lines from familiar nursery rhymes here, each missing the last...
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Quick and Sticky Context Clues
Discuss strategies for defining word your young readers don't know. They read sentences with key words covered by sticky notes and guess from the context what the word might be. They peek at the first letter and guess again.
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Word Recognition, initial sounds, Letter U, V Sound, letter V, U sound
In this letter H activity worksheet, students examine 12 pictures of various objects and identify the pictures of the items that begin with the letter H. A word bank is provided.
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The Y Sound
In this word recognition worksheet, students examine 3 pictures and identify the words that represent them that have the y sound. Students also think of a word with the y sound and draw their own picture of it.
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Letter O
In this printing learning exercise, students write 2 lines of lower and uppercase O's. Students also form the words orange, open and octopus and color in a related illustration.
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Letter L
In this printing worksheet, students write 2 lines of lower and uppercase L's. Students also form the words lamp, lamb, and letter and color in a related illustration.
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Letter Dd
In this printing worksheet, students write 2 lines of lower and uppercase A's. Students also form the words dog, draw, and desk and color in a related illustration.
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Letter Ff
In this printing activity, learners write 2 lines of lower and uppercase F's. Students also form the words fence, fox, and flowers and color in a related illustration.
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Letter R
In this printing learning exercise, students write 2 lines of lower and uppercase R's. Students also form the words rain, raincoat, and rabbit and color in a related illustration.
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Coarticulation with R Sound
In this coarticulation with R sound worksheet, students add a syllable to the word red to practice making the R sound.
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Same Sound Crossword Puzzle
For this language arts worksheet, students read 14 clues in which they must think of a homonym for the word provided. Students then put these words that sound the same into the crossword puzzle.
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Phonics: Decode and Write Words with the “Silent e”
What happens when I add an 'e' to the word mad? It becomes made! Decoding and writing words with the silent e is the lesson for today. The class discusses what the e can do to a cvc word, then they practice adding e's to various words in...
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Where is the Sound of - j ?
In this phonics learning exercise, students pronounce each of the 6 pictures shown and decide where they hear the sound of j in each one. Students circle the correct word that names each picture and then write the correct word on each of...
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Long and Short Letter I Sound
In this phonics worksheet, learners write six words with the long and short letter I sound. Students also draw a picture of a kite and a kitten.