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Crying Baby Sound

For Teachers K - 1st
Students recognize the short vowel a in written and spoken language. Through matching and listening activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /a/ from other phonemes. Students identify the phoneme and letter in words from the story...
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What's My Sound?

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students follow a power point presentation to practice the sounds each letter of the alphabet make. For this 'what's my sound' lesson, students apply word recognition strategies and demonstrate listening and comprehension skills to build...
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Seeing Sound and Sonar

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students grasp how underwater animals can "see" using sound waves. They practice making inferences, and build a conceptual understanding of sonar radar.
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To Absorb or Reflect...That is the Question

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students learn how different objects absorb and reflect sound. In this sound lesson plan, students actively listen to a lecture on sound absorption and sound reflection.
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Long Vowels – Silent Ee Rule Practice – The Magic Ee – Long Vowel Ii

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this long vowel Ii sound practice worksheet, students fill in the blanks in 10 words that are part of 10 different sentences.
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Imagine It

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students become skillful readers by assessing phonemic awareness and deciphering the words and syllables that follow challenging sounds. This lesson emphasizes the correspondence dealing with the i=/i/ in written and spoken words.
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Hop Scotch

For Teachers K - 2nd
Pupils practice a variety of techniques and strategies to assess the letter sound of o=/o/. They encounter Elkonin Boxes to assist them with their task as well as the tongue twister "Oliver had an operation in October, and Oscar gave him...
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Short a – Long a – Short e

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this vowels sounds learning exercise, students recognize the sounds that vowels make as they read lists of 11 short a sound words, 11 long a sounds, and 11 short e sounds.
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Hilarious Honker

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students investigate sound vibrations by experimenting with a cup.  In this sound waves lesson, students utilize a paper or plastic cup, string, and different household items to create different sounds by plucking the string or...
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Mr. Cloak Loads his Boat with Oats

For Teachers 1st
First graders distinguish between the sounds for short vowel o and long vowel o. They are introduced to the vowel patterns that comprise long vowel sounds, with a particular emphasis on /oa/. They practice reading and identifying a...
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Marvelous Muffins!

For Teachers K - 1st
Students study the letter "m" in written and spoken words by making the sound, reciting a tongue twister, and writing the letter. They identify the sound in words and in Laura Joffe Numeroff's book, "If You Give a Moose a Muffin". Next,...
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Sound- Alike Words 5- Test Your Speaking and Listening Skills

For Students 5th - 6th
In this literacy worksheet, students read the definition of homophones at that top of the page before reading 15 sentences. They underline the incorrect word in each sentence and write the proper homophone on the line next to each sentence.
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Short a - Short e – Short i – Short o – Short u

For Students 1st - 2nd
For this vowels reading worksheet, students recognize the words that have the short a, short e, short i, short o, and short u sounds as they read several words.
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My Family

For Students K - 2nd
For this literacy learning exercise, students practice using the words that end with the letter y. Pupils color words with the long /i/ sound and long /e/ different colors.
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Short a - Short e – Short i – Short o

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this short vowels practice instructional activity, students listen for the short a, short e, short i, and short o sounds in 22 groups of words as they read them.
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Word Building

For Students 1st
In this long vowel instructional activity, 1st graders will focus on the long o sound. Students will study 6 pictures and choose the beginning, middle, and end sound for each before writing the words on the lines provided.
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Long O Trace the Words

For Students 1st
In this letter o worksheet, 1st graders will read words that have the letter o sound. Students will then trace 8 words and draw a line from the word to the correct picture it represents.
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Keep It Hot

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students design and conduct an experiment to explore the insulating abilities of different materials for keeping a liquid in a paper cup warm. A small group of lab partners test four different materials: black paper, white paper,...
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Consonant Clusters Activity Sheet 4A

For Students 1st - 3rd
For this initial consonant blends worksheet, students complete a word search puzzle where they look for 8 different words with the initial consonant blend of "pl", "cl", "gl", or "fl".
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Initial Blends

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this consonant clusters worksheet, learners fill in the missing initial blends for the words. Students fill in cr, gr, fr, pr, tr, and dr to make each word match the picture. Learners find nine different words.
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Harder Homonyms

For Students 3rd - 4th
In these homonyms worksheets, students complete two different word search puzzles that give clues and the words to help them identify homonyms.
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Vowel Sounds and Spellings

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this vowel activity, students complete multiple choice questions, selecting the word that comes next in a rhyming sequence. Answers and explanations are given.
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How Does Sound Behave?

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this sound worksheet, students will brainstorm the cause and effect of sound and how sound behaves in different situations. Students will complete a graphic organizer.
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Mystery Word

For Teachers K
Help spellers hear words that have the same beginning letter in them and guess the letter. Each speller has a piece of paper where they are to write down the letter once they have identified it. For instance, the teacher will say, "may,...