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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Overview of Letter Combinations

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This resource has two sections: Overview of Letter Combinations and two video demonstrations. It provides downloads of the following: lesson plan, lesson materials, word list, video transcripts, and teaching tips.
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Word Hunts

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Word Hunts are used to enhance students' vocabulary growth. Teachers ask students to look for words and patterns in reading materials based upon selected features. Word Hunts focus on the structure and meaning of words by turning...
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Converting Parts of Speech

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] The ways in which nouns and adjectives e.g. fix, simple, solid, drama, can be made into verbs by use of the suffixes -ate and -en. Investigate spelling patterns and generate rules to govern the patterns.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Letter C

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart will help students to explore spelling patterns of consonants and formulate rules of the letter c. They will distinguish between soft c and hard c and learn the exceptions.
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Bartleby

Bartleby.com: Cambridge History of Eng and Am Lit: Later National Literature: P3

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This encyclopedia, "The History of English and American Literature" provided by Bartleby.com, includes some information about regional dialects during the 19th and 20th centuries. Check out section XXX 'The English Language in America'....
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Long and Short Vowel Sounds

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students examine word and letter patterns to determine long and short vowel sounds.
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Hopelink

Hopelink: Reading Lesson Idea: R Controlled Words

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Practice reading and pronouncing words that have a vowel followed by the letter R.
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Rock ’N Learn

Rock 'N Learn: All Day: All and Al

For Students 1st - 2nd
This printable phonics worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will fill in words to complete sentences with words that end with -al or -all. Then students will complete a word...
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Quizlet

Quizlet: Digraphs Gh, Ph, Kn, Wr

For Students 2nd - 6th Standards
This Quizlet study set provides six different ways for students to master the digraphs gh, ph, kn, and wr. Flashcards, games, and a test focus on fifteen words which contain these letter combinations.
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Other

Make, Take, & Teach: Long I Vowel Sound Word List [Pdf]

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
Use this list to master the letter combinations which create the long i sound in English words.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Double Time

For Teachers 4th - 5th
The student will identify variant correspondences in words.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: The Write Word

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students make words, including those with variant correspondences, by using letter cards.
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Other

Prefixes Suffixes: Suffixes

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Learn seven rules for adding suffixes to words.
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Big Learners

Biglearners.com: ccss.ela literacy.l.1.2.d : First Grade English Language Arts

For Teachers K - 1st
Here is a collection of our common core aligned worksheets for core standard L.1.2.D. A brief description of the worksheets is on each of the worksheet widgets. Click on the images to view, download, or print them. All worksheets are...
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Other

Free Phonics Lessons: Digraphs ( Ph, Gh) as in "Alphabet," and "Laugh"

For Students 2nd - 4th
This lesson teaches the ph and gh digraphs through examples and practice.
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Other

Free Phonics Lessons: Lesson 60

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Word lists and practice activities for the suffixes "tion" and "sion."
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Other

Western Michigan University:george Herbert, "The Collar"

For Students 9th - 10th
The text of Herbert's poem, "The Collar," in modern English. A link takes the viewer to the poem in its original spelling.
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Tagalog Language

For Students 9th - 10th
A Wikipedia encyclopedia entry on Tagalog / Filipino, the official language of the Phillipines. Provides information on known history and influences and Tagalog's selection as the national language. Gives examples of words incorporated...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Changing "Now" Words to "Then" Words

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
This interdisciplinary lesson plan teaches first graders to use the inflectional ending -ed to create past tense verbs from present tense verbs. As children learn to use the -ed pattern, they change familiar root words into longer words...
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Phonics Guide

Papa Jan: What Is Phonics?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
How can you define phonics? Take this opportunity to learn a little more about phonics and its relationship to letters and sounds.
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: By Car, Train, or Bus! The Sounds of Language on the Go

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Come and check out this awesome pre-reading resource. This site offers examples of simple word games you can play with kids to increase their ability to recognize and use letters and sounds. Try these games the next time you're in the...
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Other

Carson Newman College: A Brief History of English

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site features a brief history of English. Come and check out the links provided within this site. Students and teachers will benefit from this educational resource. It includes time lines.
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Other

Armstrong Atlantic State University: English Language

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Discover more about the history of the English language when you visit this informative site. Students and teachers will benefit from this educational resource.
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Kidsource OnLine

Kid Source: Beginning Reading and Phonological Awareness

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Key to learning how to read is the ability to identify the different sounds that make words and to associate these sounds with written words. There are 44 phonemes in the English language, including letter combinations such as /th/,...

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