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Over and Under: Learning Position Words

For Students Pre-K - K
In this worksheet on position words, students practice learning over the under. Students cut out a set of small pictures, then place them in the appropriate place on a larger picture of a tree. Pictures logically belong either over or...
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Investigation--Can You Build This?

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Early learners explore shapes using colored blocks. They first get some hands-on time with the blocks and then look at beginning math concepts regarding spatial relationships. They work with a partner to build a 6-8 block tower with...
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Paper Spiders

For Teachers Pre-K - K
The positional words up and down are the focus of a language and visual arts lesson. Learners get a paper plate and eight strips of construction paper. They create a spider out of their paper plate, and cut out a circle out of a piece of...
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Using Positive Self-Talk

For Students K - 5th
Boost positive self-talk with a chart that turns negative feelings into happy ones. Scholars write down their negative emotions then rewrite them with a positive flair to aid in changing their outlook. 
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The Plane

For Students K - 1st Standards
Prepositions are the focus of this grammar worksheet. Kindergarteners view the positional words over, under, behind and beside. They make a book about planes and read the words. Students color the pictures.
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What's in Front?

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Front and back are common prepositions. Early readers will practice understanding relative positions while using common prepositions by placing a check next to objects in front. Then they draw a cat in front of the house. Tip: Discuss...
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Picture the Word

For Teachers K - 1st
This is an excellent way to make onset and rime visual for beginning readers. They examine CVC-word picture cards that are all missing the first letter. Using plastic letters (or whatever you have), they complete each word and record it...
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More Position Words

For Students K - 1st
In this position words worksheet, students learn spatial terms by drawing a red squirrel traveling up the tree, a gray squirrel going down, a blue bird flying down from the left branch, and a yellow bird flying up from the right branch.
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Birthday Vocabulary Words

For Students K - 6th
Happy birthday! Use this resource while reading about or preparing for an upcoming birthday in your special ed class. Each of the twelve pages include a vivid image and boldly printed vocabulary word related to items associated with...
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Reading Phonetically: /an/ words

For Students K - 6th
What do the words van, man, and pan have in common? The /an/ sound! Reinforce this target sound with this resource, intended for an audience with autism or other special needs. Your learners will see an image and the corresponding word,...
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Word Phrases And Picture Card Matching

For Students K - 2nd
In this language arts activity, students use 16 phrase cards and 16 color picture cards to play a matching game. Students read the phrase on each card and find the picture card that illustrates it. Example: a cat on a bed
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Relative Position Step-by-Step Lesson

For Students K
Kindergartners demonstrate their ability to describe the relative positions of two objects. The two problems at the top of the worksheet are followed by written and illustrated explanations of the meanings of inside and “outside.”
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Above and Below

For Students K - 1st
In this identifying above and below learning exercise, students read sentences, observe pictures, and write the words above and below on primary paper lines. Students write two words.
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Creative Position Word Center Activity

For Teachers K
Students use positional words to describe the location of objects and demonstrate the ability to follow multi-step oral directions. Seasonal shapes are decorated in relation to the directions and positions stated by the positional word.
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Shake Your Star

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students recite poetry. In this poetry lesson, students make star sticks and use the sticks to act out a star poem that features positional words.
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Introduce Vocabulary: Alexander, Who Use to be Rich Last Sunday (Viorst)

For Teachers K - 3rd
Although this vocabulary-in-context activity is focused on Judith Viorst's book Alexander, Who Use to Be Rich Last Sunday, the strategy can be applied to any book budding learners read with you. First, introduce the three new words you...
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Blending into Good Speech

For Teachers K - 1st
Your class can increase their production of the target phoneme /sh/ through the use of video, the Internet, and hands-on activities listed here. Sound out the phoneme altogether, then model words that include  /sh/ at the beginning....
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Introduce Vocabulary: Night Shift Daddy (Spinelli)

For Teachers K - 3rd
Do any of your budding readers have parents who work the night shift? Eileen Spinelli's book Night Shift Daddy, which can be found on YouTube if you don't have it, examines this family dynamic in a positive light and is an excellent...
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Phonological Awareness: Rhyme, Rhyme Memory Match

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Young scholars play a memory-matching game to practice recognizing rhyming words and sounds. With picture cards, they flip over two cards and say the pictures' names. If the pair make a rhyming match, the learner keeps the cards. The...
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Train Phonics - /an/ Words

For Students K - 6th
Follow the phonics train and get your special needs class on the reading track. To promote the /an/ sound and phonemic awareness, each page contains an image of a train, and each car contains an item. The word representing that item is...
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Inside, Outside, and Between

For Students K - 1st
In this preposition instructional activity, students review the concepts inside, outside, and between in pictures and sentences. Students practice writing the three prepositions on primary lined paper.
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B Sound in the Initial Position

For Teachers K
Students listen for letter sounds.  In this phonics lesson, students read A Basket Full of Surprises, brainstorm items that start with the B sound, and complete a comprehension activity where they identify words with and without B sounds...
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Rate It - Working With Positive and negative Numbers

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Students practice rating things using numbers between -2 to 2. In this rating lesson, students determine what a rating scale is before rating things such as the weather, a book, or a day using the numbers -2 to 2. They examine the use of...
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Word Relay

For Teachers K - 8th
Students identify words from the class word wall or other vocabulary lists. They form teams and read words in an effort to identify as many correctly as they can. They utilize words from a variety of sources within the classroom to...

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