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My Family
For this literacy worksheet, students practice using the words that end with the letter y. Pupils color words with the long /i/ sound and long /e/ different colors.
University of Texas
Essential Reading Strategies for the Struggling Reader
Beneficial for beginning readers, struggling readers, and those in need of review, a set of language arts activities is a great addition to any foundational reading unit. Focusing on phonological awareness, fluency, instructional...
Starfall
Pete's Sheep
In this reading activity, learners assemble an 8 page beginning reading book with controlled vocabulary. The story is about a boy who cannot sleep and resorts to counting sheep. Students color and read.
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Jake's Tale
In this reading learning exercise. learners assemble an illustrated 8 page beginning reader booklet. The story is about a sea bird who meets a whale with the same idea for playing in the waves.
Curated OER
Icky Icky I
First graders review the letter "i" and use popsicle sticks and cotton balls to make upper and lower case "i's". Volunteers make the capital and lower case "i" on the board and then the class discovers the short sound that letter "i"...
Curated OER
Sing Your Way Through Phonics Lesson Plan
Learners explore how to recognize and spell sets of rhyming words. They become familiar with short vowel spelling patterns.
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Itchy Iggy
First graders observe the letter /i/ and the sound that it makes watching their mouths as the sound is formed. They say the tongue twister displayed repeating it three times; the last time they stretch out the /i/ sound as it occurs in...
Curated OER
Teaching Guide: Can You Make a Piggy Giggle?
Students explore the book Can You Make a Piggy Giggle?. In this language arts activity, students focus on a variety of aspects within the book. Students study the illustrations, listen for rhymes, and attempt the tongue twisters in the...
Curated OER
Doctor Check-Up
Students recognize the short vowel o in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, students discriminate the short vowel o from the long vowel o. They associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify the...
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"IIIIH" it is a bug!
Learners practice the long and short vowel sounds of /i/ in a variety of text with assessing different strategies. They utilize tongue twisters to assist them including "The Itsy Bitsy Spider" and "Liz is Six." Letterboxes are also...
Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk, University of Texas at Austin
Lesson 9 - Contractions
Is it do'nt or don't? How about doesn't or does'nt? A lesson on contractions helps learners identify, form, and use contractions. Components within the plan include direct instruction on decoding and encoding contractions, as well as...
Get Fluent
Get Fluent in French: Going on Holiday
Take a vacation into French with lots of vocabulary and plenty of activities. This collection of worksheets includes instruction as well as practice and invites French language learners to hone their translation skills.
Curated OER
Trucks and Community Workers
First graders identify community helpers and their roles. For this transportation lesson, 1st graders complete a series of lessons integrating technology and literacy. Students decode sounds of short u, c/s/ and g/j/ words and improve...
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Wash Your Hands...they are icky sticky!
Students engage in an emergent literacy instructional activity that focuses on phonemic awareness and they practice corresponding the letter "i" to its long or short sound. This type of recognition has been found to be essential to...
Curated OER
Phonograms
In this phonograms practice worksheet, students read 2 sentences, identify the "ar' and "ea" phonograms, and draw pictures pertaining to each of the sentences.
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ESL: Intermediate Grammar 3
In this intermediate ESL grammar worksheet, students type the correct tense of a given verb in a sentence, shown in parentheses. Students may click on a check answer an show answer button.
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My Love and I - 2
Learners sing the song "My Love And I" by Sonja Poorman and Berta Poorman in this Music activity for the High School SSA choir. The activity is part of a unit that can be used to aid the performance and practice of the song in a choir...
Curated OER
Letter Names
Students explore language arts by participating in a letter identification activity. In this word recognition lesson plan, students are shown a list of vocabulary terms which they practice reciting with their classmates. Students...
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Here's and Instant Activity for October 20, 2008
Students complete spelling activities for words with or and ore spellings. In this spelling lesson, students find antonyms for the 'or' words in the first exercise. Students find synonyms for the second exercise.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Long and Short Vowel Sounds
During this instructional activity, students will learn the different sounds vowels make. They will view a slideshow presentation that teaches them the different sounds. Once they have learned the sounds, students will create a document...
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Make, Take, & Teach: Long I Vowel Sound Word List [Pdf]
Use this list to master the letter combinations which create the long i sound in English words.
Starfall
Starfall: The Lone Vowels
Grammar rules taught through song. A familiar tune helps to teach the E and O at the end of the word that make a long vowel sound. There are opportunities to demonstrate understanding by identifying words that that follow the rule.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Sound Spaghetti; Letter Sound Accuracy Game
A great game to teach students how to sound out words. Each student picks a piece of long paper out of the teacher's basket and pronounces the letters on it.