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Practicing Sight words
Review sight words with readers. They will look over their sight words and come up with sentences for each of them. They also review the alphabet and identify unfamiliar words.
Deliberating in a Democracy
Freedom of Expression
Should democracies include hate speech as a protected right? Scholars analyze the rights found under the First Amendment to the Constitution through researching evidence. Freedom of expression becomes the focal point of the...
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Word BINGO
Practicing sight words is all fun and games with this app! Users hear, read, and spell words off the Dolch Word List. But that's not all! Players also get to create their own avatar, collect BINGO bugs, view their scores, and more within...
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N is for Nest
Students identify the letter and phoneme /n/ in written and spoken language. Students practice the production of the /n/ sound through listening and matching activities. They identify the initial placement of the letter and sound using a...
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The Cat in the Hat
Young scholars participate in an emerging literacy lesson in order to focus on the skill of phonemic awareness. The letter "a" is the phoneme that is chosen for letter and sound recognition in the lesson.
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Spelling Connections: Grade 4: Spelling Coloring Puzzle
In this spelling worksheet, students read the words within a large design. Students color the words with the long U sound yellow. Students color the other words green.
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Spelling Practice-Long i Words
In this long i spelling activity, students choose letters from a box, adding "ight" to make spelling words, then color words that have the long i sound blue, and those that don't are colored orange to find a mystery word.
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Animal Alphabet: Kindergarten Zoo
Learners explore the letter sounds and read the book, "A, My Name is Alice." They create a page for a class alphabet book or zoo animal display.
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Short Ii Picture Words
In this identifying the pictures whose names have the short Ii sound worksheet, students view pictures, say their names, color the ones with the short Ii sound, and practice printing I and i letters. Students complete 29 questions.
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Color Recognition Game
Students study color words. In this math lesson plan, students complete a variety of activities on the computer in which they identify colors and color words.
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"Arrrrr" said the Pirate
Students practice decoding r-controlled vowels. Through various activities, they identify the change made to a vowel sound by adding "r." They decode words and spell them using Elkonin boxes. To conclude the lesson, students identify...
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Animal Alphabet
Students make a class animal book using the letters of the alphabet. They use a website imbedded in this plan to get pages with animals that begin with any of the 26 letters.
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123/ABC Hopscotch
Students practice alphabet recognition, alphabet sounds, and number readiness while playing a hopscotch type game.
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Trucks and Community Workers
First graders identify community helpers and their roles. In this transportation lesson plan, 1st graders complete a series of lessons integrating technology and literacy. Students decode sounds of short u, c/s/ and g/j/ words and...
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Sh! Sh! We're in the Library
Students focus on the diagraph of sh. They recognize this in both the written and spoken word. To introduce this lesson, the teacher asks if anyone's mom or dad has told them shhhh, when they were trying to get them to quiet down. ...
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Hi, My Name is A
Students distinguish between short vowel a and long vowel a. They are introduced to the vowel-consonant-e pattern that changes short vowel sounds into long vowel sounds. They practice decoding pseudo words with the vowel-consonant-e...
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Vocabulary Lesson-Pre-K Through Grade 2 and ESL
Students say the name of pictures of simple objects, people and places, choosing 15 to use for the lesson. Students glue pictures in a scrapbook and write the word for each picture beside it. Students complete word recognition worksheets...
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Writing with Beans
Students become familiar with the letters in a word by pasting beans on it. In this Bean writing activity, students make words using navy beans. Students color or paint the beans.
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Capital T
In this alphabet worksheet, students master the capital letter T. Students trace the dotted lines and color the 3 pictures beginning with the t sound.
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Beginning Consonant R
In this beginning consonant R worksheet, students trace the letter R, then draw a line to connect it to pictures that begin with that sound. Students then color the pictures.
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Capital H
In this alphabet worksheet, students master the capital letter H. Students trace the dotted lines and color the 3 pictures beginning with the h sound.
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Made You Mad
Young scholars explore the phoneme for the vowel-consonant-silent e grapheme. They recognize the silent "e" at the end of words and practice speaking them. Students say words, spell them, and say tongue twisters with the vowel...
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Beginning Consonant-B
In this beginning consonant worksheet, students trace the letter B, then draw a line to match it to a picture that begins with the sound. Worksheet has a reference web site for additional activities.
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Cars, Trucks, and Things that Go Sorting Fun!
First graders sort toys by various attributes. They, in groups, sort toy vehicles by color, size etc. and then explain how they chose to group the toys. They write, draw or dictate an explanation of their sorting methods.