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Spelling by Picture: School Subjects
For younger English grammar classes, this activity could be a review of vocabulary related to school; however, it could also be used with older English language learners. Guided by a simple graphic for each of eight words, pupils fill in...
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Family Fundamentals for Summer Learning
Just because it's summertime, doesn't mean that learning has to stop. Support children with continuing to develop their reading fluency with this extensive collection of literacy activities.
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Teacher Templates
Letter by letter, sound by sound, monitor the growth of your emergent readers with these assessment templates. Adaptable to the needs of individual students, these one-on-one assessments focus on children's ability to identify...
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Point of View
Incorporate technology into a literature lesson with an innovative language arts lesson. Middle schoolers read an electronic version of original stories or fairy tales, and after determining the point of view, rewrite the tale from...
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Animated Alphabet
Students explore English by completing an interactive language history activity. In this word recognition lesson, students discuss word formations and the phonetic relationship between letters. Students identify the origin of individual...
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Compound Word Games
Students build compound words out of two separate words using a variety of activities. In this compound word lesson plan, students practice building compound words using word cards. These word cards can be used in a variety of ways to...
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Big Rigs: high frequency and spelling words
In this language arts worksheet, students read the story Big Rigs and then complete language arts activities. Students write spelling and high frequency words, fill in the blanks to sentences, answer short answer questions, and circle...
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Phonics Scramble Games: Correct the Spelling of Short Vowel Words
Using pictures of a bed, a desk, a fish, and a pig, students unscramble the letters below to form the correct words. Pictures range from photographs to illustrations, and are easy for kids to understand.
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20th Century Spelling Test
In this spelling test activity, learners practice spelling words related to important events from the 20th century. Students spell 10 words.
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Irregular Word Fluency, Musical Chairs
Students study language. In this word fluency lesson, students play a version of Musical Chairs in which they must correctly say an irregular word, pulled from a bag, to keep their chair. The game is played with a small group of...
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Clam Alphabet Activity
In this alphabet activity worksheet, students read the 9 words and alphabetize them. Students write the words onto the provided lines.
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Phonics: Segmenting Sounds in Short Words
F-u-n spells fun. It is a simple word that little learners can sound out as they build phonemic awareness and those early reading skills. This short scripted lesson provides teachers with the basics for teaching how to sound out...
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Word Games
Want to build your class' vocabulary through a fun learning game? In this activity learners explore new words and their meanings and usages using Word Attack 3 computer software. They unscramble words, develop vocabulary words, navigate...
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Present Tense -ar Verbs
Enrich your Spanish instructional activity with this useful PowerPoint that tests student knowledge of present tense -ar verbs. There are over forty multiple choice/fill-in-the-blank sentences for students to complete. Tip: Use...
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Phonics Scramble Games: Correct the Spelling of the Short Vowel Words
Students practice their spelling skills in this activity, which provides four pictures and labels for them to unscramble. The words are fan, bag, cat, and bat.
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Phonics Scramble Games: Correct the Spelling
In this scrambled words spelling activity, learners examine 4 scrambled words and write the correct spelling. Pictures are provided.
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Phonics Scramble Games: Correct the Spelling
For this scrambled words spelling activity, students examine 4 scrambled words and write the correct spelling. Pictures are provided.
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Spelling Cow
Students practice their spelling words by completing the cow craft. In this spelling craft lesson, students cut out and create a cow. Students print their spelling words on the cow.
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Phonics Scramble Games: Correct the Spelling
After a lesson on vowel sounds and spelling, students identify four pictures and work on unscrambling the words below. Each word is three or four letters long (drum, sock, bug, dog).
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Introduce Double-Letter Words
First graders explore the concept of double letter words. In this word recognition instructional activity, 1st graders discuss the concept and play a game that requires them to form double letter words.
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Double-Letter Word Fluency
First graders explore the concept of double letter words. In this word recognition lesson, 1st graders discuss the concept and play a game that requires them to use letter cards to form double letter words.
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Vocabulary Building Activities- ar Words
In this "ar" words vocabulary building activity worksheet, 2nd graders write down the 6 "ar" words as they are dictated by the teacher. They unscramble letters to make the words, and write each in a sentence.
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Breaking News English: Italy and Paraguay
In this Italy and Paraguay instructional activity, students read the article, answer true and false questions, complete spelling words, complete phrase matching, complete a gap fill, answer short answer questions, answer discussion...
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The oo Sounds
Investigate spelling patterns that make the /oo/ sound in this labeling worksheet. Scholars read a brief introduction explaining the different vowel pairings that make the long /oo/ sound, along with word examples. Then, they...