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Cry Baby
Students complete a variety of activities related to the short /a/ sound. As a class they recite a tongue twister, then trace and write the letter A. Students then listen to the book "A Cat Nap" and identify the words containing the...
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Poor Crying Baby
Students examine the letter 'a'. Through instruction and modeling and a variety of practice activities, they explore the sound the letter makes and how the letter is written. They recite tongue twisters and read stories and pick out...
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Totally Tubular Blending
Students practice a wide variety of techniques and strategies to strengthen their blending skills to form words and read. They read "A Cat Nap" and interact with different colors of inner tubes with the letters "a, c, b, d, f, l, m, p,...
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Roll the Dice
Students practice recognizing and blending letters together to create new and unique words in the process of decoding text. They play a game where they roll dice to help blend a variety of words together and create new ones to analyze...
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ADULT ESOL LESSON PLAN--Transportation and Travel.
Students explore and identify specific safety practices when driving (seat belts, child safety, air bags, etc.) with the help of prepositions. They practice many of the techniques shown to them on their vocabulary list of terms with the...
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Red Gets Fed
Young scholars practice with the strategy that letters represent phonemes and spellings map out phonemes in spoken words. They work on the phoneme sounds of /a/ and e=/e/ in correspondences with reading. Each student also recites the...
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ADULT ESOL LESSON PLAN--Transportation and Travel
Students, after defining a list of vocabulary words on the board, review and identify basic types of transportation (bus, taxi cab, car, plane, and ship) in the United States. In addition, they make a graph of all the different ways that...
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"Aaaaaa!!!!" Please Don't Cry Baby!
Students complete a variety of activities as they examine the letter 'a' as it makes the short /a/ sound. Through instruction and modeling, they explore the sound the letter makes and how the letter is written. They recite tongue...
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Icky Sticky Inchworm
Students recognize the short vowel i in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /i/ from other vowel sounds. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify...
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Dad's Fat Hat
Students complete a variety of activities as they examine the letter 'a' as it makes the short /a/ sound. Through instruction and modeling, they explore the sound the letter makes and how the letter is written. They recite tongue...
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Bless You
Students practice recognizing the phoneme /a/ in spoken and written words as well as by symbol. They interact with the book, "The Cat Nap," from Educational Insights and the Dr. Seuss book, "ABC's Book." Each student also plays a memory...
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The Fat Cat
Students explore phonemes. They identify that a=/a/. Students recognize /a/ in spoken words by learning a meaningful representation and a letter symbol. Students practice finding /a/ in a variety of words. Students read a book that...
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"Gazunheit!"
Students study the /a/ phoneme by determining how the mouth move when it makes the sound by imitating a sneeze. They recite a tongue twister, practice writing the lowercase "a" and listen to a story while identifying the letter sound....
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Say Aaah!
Students complete a variety of activities as they explore/review the letter 'o' as it makes the short /o/ sound. They recite short /o/ tongue twisters and practice writing the letter 'o'. They rewrite 'Skip to My Lou" using short /o/...
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Boo.....AAAaaaa!!!
Students complete a variety of activities related to the short /a/ sound. As a class they recite a tongue twister, then trace and write the letter A. Students then listen to word pairs and identify the word containing the short /a/...
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Alikizam...There's Apple Jam!
Students complete a variety of activities as they explore/review the letter 'a' as it makes the short /a/ sound. Through instruction and modeling, they explore the sound the letter makes and how the letter is written. They recite tongue...
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Don't Make that Baby Cry
Students study the short "a" sound in words by examining the mouth movements made when making the sound. They practice making the sound by pretending they are making baby sounds. Next, they recite a tongue twister that contains a number...
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Emergent Literacy: Open Up and Say Aaaah!
Students, through modeling, explore how to make the short /o/ sound. They practice /o/ sound tongue twisters and recognize the sound in written form as the letter 'a'. They practice writing the letter 'a'. They pick out the /o/ sound...
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Baby Talk
Students complete a variety of activities related to the short /a/ sound. As a class they recite a tongue twister, and write the letter A. Students listen to a list of words and identify the words containing the short /a/ sound, and...
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Bump on the Head
Students discuss as a class if they have ever had a bump on the head and started crying and said /a/. They pretend they have hit their head and say the /a/ stretching it out and try a tongue twister containing the sound and write the...
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AAAAAAAAAAA! Stop Crying!
Students practice recognizing the phoneme /a/ in spoken words. They interact with the book, "A Cat's Nap," and a poster with Abby and Allen on it that are asking animals for apples, and cards with words on them like at, mad, went, bag,...
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AAA!! The Baby is Crying! AAA!!
First graders take out primary writing paper and review how to form the letter "a". They observe a large picture of a baby crying on the board, discuss it and make the sound a baby makes when it is crying. They listen to some words,...
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Aaa, Alligators!!!
Students are introduced to different words that have the /a/ sound in them. They think of their own words that contain the sound and practice making the letter "a" on primary writing paper. Students who have formed the letter correctly...
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Beginning Reading Lesson: Aaa-aaa-aaa-choo!!
Students study the letter sound recognition for the /a/ by recognizing the sound one makes when they sneeze. They use a chart with a tongue twister on it and work with letterboxes and manipulative letters that focus on words with the...