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Oo is for Octopus
Oodles of fun and opportunities for learning are overwhelming in this Letter O activity series, which features printing practice for letters and numbers, connect the docts, and lots of cute octopi for your learners to color.
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Back To School Crossword
In this reading worksheet, students analyze 10 words which pertain to Back to school time. Students read clues and fit the words in the crossword puzzle.
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Ehhh! What'd ya say? Eeeggs
Students identify the vowel sound with a short e. They distinguish this sound /e/ in written and spoken words. Finally, students identify and spell using a letterbox lesson and reading various words with the vowel sound and are...
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Everyone is Reading
Students study /e/ in both written and spoken words using a tongue twister and letterbox activities. They recite a tongue twisters and make words using letterboxes. Next, they read "Red Gets Fed" and find words that contain the /e/...
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Kindergarten Phonics
Students are introduced to the letters and phonemes for C, L, N, P, T, and A. They identify each letter in its upper and lowercase forms. Students differentiate the letters from each other and practice identifying objects and pictures...
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The Big City
Students explore structures in a big city. In this big city lesson plan, students become familiar with vocabulary about big cities through songs graphs, and hands-on art. Students practice phonic sound /M/.
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Number Recognition Games
Students explore number sense by participating in a math recognition activity. For this number identification lesson, students practice pronouncing names of numbers and matching the number with an amount of objects. Students practice...
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Shape Recognition Games
Students explore shapes. In this math activity, students identify basic geometric shapes. Students complete activities in which they identify shapes, symbols and letters. Students draw geometric shapes.
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Phonics lesson for -ar
First graders identify words associated with the -ar sound. They read sentences and compose a story that include words with the -ar sound. The assessment portion of lesson involves students in spelling words with the
-ar pattern.
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Phonics lesson for "sh"
First graders identify words with the "sh" pattern. They participate in phonemic awareness, decoding, blending, spelling patterns, and dictation exercises. As the assessment portion of the lesson, they may write a story using words...
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Looks Like Snow
Students listen to the teacher read the book, The Jacket I Wear in the Snow, and create vocabulary and graphic cards from the story.
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Trucks and Community Workers
First graders identify community helpers and their roles. In this transportation lesson, 1st graders complete a series of lessons integrating technology and literacy. Students decode sounds of short u, c/s/ and g/j/ words and improve...
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Temperature Conversions
Students discuss the different between the English system of measurement and the metric system. Working ins mall groups, students read the weather map. They convert temperatures from one measurement system to another.
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Gingerbread Baby
Students explore gingerbread stories. For this poetry lesson, students read the folk tale "The Gingerbread Man" as well as Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett and identify rhyming words. Students also make art projects, dramatize the stories,...
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Capital letter A
In this alphabet activity, students will cut out the letter A. Students will then cut out 16 pictures and glue those that begin with the letter A onto the large letter.
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Verbs - Adding -ing
For this grammar and spelling worksheet, students read how to add the -ing ending to verbs. They fill in 10 blanks using the proper spelling for adding the -ing ending to the given verbs.
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Building a Sentence
First graders echo a sentence targeting a vowel selected by the teacher and shown on a sentence strip. In this sentence building instructional activity, 1st graders put the cut up sentence strip back into correct order, repeating the...
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IIII---L-lll-ke---IIII-ke-and-M-IIII-ke
Students recognize the letter combination i_e by reading and spelling words with letter boxes in this lesson. They say a tongue twister which emphasizes the long /i/ silent /e/ combination. They then listen the story "Kite Day at Pine...
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The Doubling Rule
Students practice the rule for doubling the final consonant of a word when adding a suffix. Through guided practice and class discussion, they identify the spelling patterns that require letter doubling. Students practice doubling by...
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Phonics and Decoding Strategies for Struggling Readers Using Core Knowledge Poem
Students complete multiple activities to help them hear sounds, syllables, and spell words with vowel patterns, digraphs, or blends. In this word sounds lesson, students use letter tiles, sort words cards, analyze poems, and play a bingo...
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Oo is for Octopus
Learners learn to print the upper and lower case DeNelian letter Oo in this language arts activity. Students trace several examples before forming their own letters in the unlined boxes. Also included is a Connect-the-Dot and counting...
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"Ca...Ca...Ca...Caterpillar Blending"
Students improve blending skills. They produce many individual short utterances and mouth moves (phonemes) into one long utterance (words) and create their own blending caterpillar. They draw a picture of a caterpillar with three...
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Ee is for Egg
For this literacy worksheet, learners use the letter E in various contexts to increase letter recognition and spelling skills for related words.
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Spelling Graffiti
Pupils practice the skill of spelling through using creative art integrated with technology. They use technology by using powerpoint slides for each spelling word. Then students work to create posters for spelling words with colors or...