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The Fly Swatter Game

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students are placed in small groups to participate in the "Fly Swatter Game" to reinforce phonetic sounds of letters.
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Build Accuracy /A/, /M/

For Teachers K
Students practice identifying the letters /a/ and /m/. In this letter identification lesson, students examine letter cards for /a/ and /m/, tell the difference between the two, and say the sound for each. They play an identification game...
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We All Scream for Ice Cream!

For Teachers K
Students complete a variety of activities related to the long /e/ sound. As a class they recite a tongue twister, then spell different words that contain the ee and ea correspondence. Students then read the book "Tea For Three" with a...
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Dazzling D's and Buzzing B's

For Teachers K
Students differentiate between the letters D and B. They trace and write the letters D and B, then spell different words containing D and B using letter manipulatives. Students then listen to the Dr. Seuss "ABC Book" and identify the...
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Pop Goes the Popcorn

For Teachers K
Students complete a variety of activities related to the phoneme /p/. As a class they recite a tongue twister, then identify words from word cards that contain the phoneme /p/. Students trace and write the letter P, listen to the book...
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Long Vowel – Letter E

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this vowel sound learning exercise, students examine 4 pictures and the words that represent them. Each of the words is missing the letter e needed to make the long e sound.
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Dancing & Bouncing with Piglet

For Teachers K - 1st
Students complete a variety of activities related to the difference between the /b/ and /d/ sounds. They examine picture cards and identify which pictures start with B or D, and recite two tongue twisters. Students write the letters B...
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Sid the Silly Slow Sloth

For Teachers K - 1st
Students complete a variety of activities related to the /s/ sound. They write the letter S, and listen to word pairs, identifying the word in each pair that contains the /s/ sound. Students then listen to the book "Slowly, Slowly,...
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Reading Homework for Kindergarten #7

For Students K
In this reading homework for kindergarten #7 worksheet, students review this page for several days by naming letters, saying the sounds of letters, reading words, reading sentences, naming pictures and identifying initial sounds with...
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Sand Paper Rubbings

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students discover the alphabet and the sounds the letters make. In this alphabet lesson, letters are cut out of sandpaper and the sound the letter makes is discussed. Students then color over the letter with crayons.
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What is the Beginning Sound?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this early childhood beginning sounds worksheet, students practice their phonics skills as they look at 6 pictures, say their names, and identify the letter that begins the 6 words. An animal habitat question is also included on the...
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Review Letters and Words: 28

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this reviewing letters and words activity, students read sentences, read word chunks, determine syllables, and more. Students complete 5 exercises.
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Letter Aa

For Students Pre-K - K
In this recognizing the letter Aa instructional activity, students pronounce picture words with beginning short a sounds, trace, and print upper case A and lower case a letters. Students complete three Aa activities.
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Kindergarten Homework #8

For Students Pre-K - K
In this kindergarten homework #8 worksheet, students name letters, make the sounds of letters, read sight words, read sentences, substitute initial consonants and practice making initial consonant sounds with parental guidance for 3 days.
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The Sound of Letter N-- Picture of Ship

For Students K - 1st
In this phonics worksheet, students identify where they hear the sound of the letter N in 6 words. Students examine the pictures of words containing letter N (at the beginning, middle or end) on a drawing of a ship. Beside each picture...
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Letter Mm Cut And Paste

For Students K - 1st
In this phonics/vocabulary worksheet, students examine the sound of letter M by cutting and pasting words on a blank grid. The directions say "Cut. Glue. Write," but there are no pieces provided and it is unclear what students are to do.
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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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Initial Sound Memory Game

For Teachers K - 1st
Students are reintroduced to initial sounds and play a picture card game to build accuracy. For this initial sound lesson, students place the picture cards face down and organize the picture cards into an even number of rows and columns...
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Sounding out accuracy, Bingo

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore language arts by participating in a class game. In this word sound lesson, students discuss the sounds that vowels make in words and identify the different vowels. Students utilize index cards with words on them to...
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Leapin' Lizards

For Students K - 2nd
The lizard needs to leap from rock to rock without getting bitten! Each rock has a word on it, but watch out for snakes! The safe rocks start with the same sound as lizard, and they can be colored purple. Give your learners a fun...
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Short 'A' and Phoneme Blending

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Have your class explore the short /a/ sound. They will pronounce isolated consonant and short /a/ sounds and then blend the sounds to make a word.  An assessment sheet is provided.
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Reading Bugs

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Review the phonemic sounds of the alphabet letters before examining how to blend letter sounds to make a word. During this teacher-modeled lesson, learners make word bugs out of three phonemes that blend together. As an assessment, read...
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Fix It Fun

For Students K - 2nd
Young learners practice spelling and phonics with this quick vowel instructional activity. For each of the seven words provided, they must unscramble the letters and write the full word on the line provided.
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Lesson 11 BL Group

For Teachers K - 1st
Three different groups work simultaneously in this activity. One group works on sight word review by holding up common words on flashcards and passing them around in a circle. Another group reviews word blending by pulling graphemes out...