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Phonics Instructional Routine: Read and Write Words with Consonant Digraphs

For Teachers K - 1st
Use consonant digraphs to introduce learners to word patterns and high frequency words. They observe a chart with the digraphs /sh/, /ch/, /th/, and /wh/. After listening to each of these phonemes, scholars watch as the teacher...
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Soft Syllable Endings

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders complete a crossword puzzle. In this grammar activity, 6th graders discuss what a list of words have in common. Students complete a crossword puzzle focusing on words with soft syllable endings.
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Phonics: Long O Spelling Patterns

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders review the spelling of words with the long O sound. In this phonics activity, 2nd graders brainstorm words with the long O sound, gain exposure to common long O spelling patterns and sort long O words based upon the...
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Beginning and Ending Sounds - Lesson 1 of 2

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Stamp, slap, and clap! Emergent readers demonstrate their awareness of the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds in spoken, short vowel, single-syllable words with a stamp/slap/clap activity. After identifying the letters and sounds of...
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Transferring Rhythmic Patterns From Music to Movement

For Teachers K - 5th
Students identify and demonstrate movement elements in relation to musical notation. They clap to rhythms, beat on drums, match musical notes to speech patterns and use the rhythms of the their names to create a dance.
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We Flew With a Baboon

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
More vowels? Elementary schoolers recognize how vowel patterns change a short vowel sound into a long vowel sound. With an emphasis on the /oo/ that makes the long U sound, kids identify the phoneme and letter combination through...
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ESOL: Pronouncing Multi-Syllable Words

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders in an ESOL class discover where to place the stress in multi-syllable words. Through drill and practice sessions they identify a variety of stress patterns for words containing multi-syllables. In pairs, 12th graders...
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Finding Rhyming Words in a French Poem

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Explore rhyming in this phonemic awareness and French lesson. Listen to the poem "J'Adore la Pizza" by Karen Kransky and identify rhyming words. Compare grapheme spelling patterns with like phonemes, and sort word cards according to...
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Using the Sounds of Words Reading Task

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young readers demonstrate phonemic awareness in words and blends, and recognize 100 high-frequency words. Use a nursery rhyme to point out rhyming words, and change the words by putting a new letter at the beginning. Each learner will...
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Poetry in Motion

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explore poetry and technology.  In this poetry writing activity, students choose a theme and write a pattern poem, then create a related slideshow.
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Rhythm and Nature

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders listen to song "Listen to the Water," discuss nature sounds and importance of water to life, perform quarter and eighth notes from notation, play instruments in rhythm patterns of quarter and eighth notes, and write rhythm...
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Consonants Blended with Long Vowels and Endings

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students practice vowel and phonic sounds. In this grammar lesson, students practice rhythm, rhymes, voiced phonic sounds, unvoiced phonic sounds and voiced vowel signs. Students brainstorm words with the cvce patterns.
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Short Vowel Sounds

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Pupils write down all short vowel sounds. They read their spelling words and attach them to each short vowel sound. They practice writing each spelling word under each short vowel sound that they have listed on their paper. They discuss...
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What is a Haiku? How Do You Write a Haiku?

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Haiku poetry is explored in this language arts lesson. Yong readers identify the characteristics of haiku and read several examples. Students make connections between their study of Japan and the poetic form of haiku, and they write...
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Five Quick Games Build Reading Skills

For Teachers K - 8th
Build reading skills with these five quick games! Whether you're hoping to build grammar, syllabication, or word recognition skills, this resource has options for you. Kids will love taking a break from the mundane to play these...
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Closed Syllables

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders, given 5 elephant words, divide the words into syllables by underlining the talking vowels, swooping, and pulling down consonants to find cutting pattern, and to explain that a single vowel represents the short vowel sound.
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Patterns in Poetry: Part I--Rhythm

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students explore patterns in poetry. In this language arts lesson, students discuss rhythm in poetry. Students read poems and discuss the rhythm of each poem.
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Word Family Jamboree

For Teachers K
Students explore rhyming words, beginning and ending sounds. For this word family lesson, students identify beginning and ending sounds. Students draw pictures of words and use phonetic spellings to write stories. Students use Dr. Seuss...
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Shared Reading and Writing with La Casa Adormecida

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Write a book using Spanish vocabulary after listening to the book La Casa Adormecida. Learners identify known vocabulary, match vocabulary from the book with visuals, and unscramble syllables discover words. Students write a new version...
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Somewhere

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders write their own version of the book "Somewhere" in this instructional activity. They listen to the book and locate the rhyming words within the text. They find the number of syllables per word in the text, and compare...
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Decoding

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students decode words containing r-controlled vowels. In this r-controlled vowel lesson plan, students use letter tiles to make words containing specific vowel patterns, and substitute letters to make new words, while the teacher writes...
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Phonics lesson for -ew and -oo

For Teachers 1st Standards
First graders identify letters and sounds associated with -ew and -oo sounds. Each learner receives a stack of cards containing these sounds, and they must determine whether the word uses the -ew or the -oo sound. This could easily...
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Rhythm in Language - Feel the SWAMP BEAT!

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Learners explore the rhythm of words. In this reading skills lesson, students read Bedtime at the Swamp and use rhythm instruments to find the cadence in the words of the story. Learners listen for rhythm in other written text as they...
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American English

Welcome to the Color Vowel Chart

For Teachers 4th - 12th Standards
Focus English language learners' attention on word stress and phrase stress with a pronunciation chart that breaks the sounds into moving and non-moving vowel sounds. The chart tool uses colors and key words to indicate...

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