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Robot and Mr. Mole
In this reading instructional activity, students practice reading long /o/ words by making an eight-page book. Students read the simple book about a mole and a robot and color the pictures.
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Wild for Watermelon
In this multiple skills worksheet, students identify long and short vowel sounds in words and sequence the life cycle of a watermelon. Students write 14 answers.
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Phonics lesson for -ew and -oo
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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Applying Phonetic Principles
Young readers develop their phonetic skills by using a nifty tool called a word pocket. They use the tool to help them organize individual letters that they have at their desks to spell entire words and to construct beginning and ending...
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ESL: Long Vowel Activity
In this ESL long vowel worksheet, students write words for pictures that contain a long vowel sound. Students may click on a sound icon to hear the word if necessary.
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Long Vowels, Silent E Rule Practice
In this long vowel, silent e worksheet, students fill in missing letters in "silent e" words to correctly complete sentences, 8 total.
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Phonics: Long O With a Silent E
In this long o with a silent e learning exercise, students say what each picture is, write in the o and e to finish each word, trace each word and then read each of the twelve words out loud.
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Ned's Red Guitars
In this phonics practice activity, learners examine 10 words that have "ea" in them. Students color the guitars with the long e sound red and those with the long a sound gray.
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Short Vowel Activity
In this short vowel learning exercise, students place an X through bubbles that contain words with short vowel sounds and circle bubbles whose vowels have long sounds.
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Phonics: Long U With Silent E
In this long u with silent e worksheet, learners look at eight pictures and add a u and e where they belong to complete each word that names each picture.
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Long u With Silent e Writing Activities
In this long u with silent e writing learning exercise, 1st graders look at 5 pictures, say their names, write them or make sentences with the words. They draw 2 pictures of items that are named using the spelling pattern.
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Long And Short E Sounds
In this vocabulary instructional activity, learners examine 4 picture clues which depict long and short vowel e words. There is a primary writing line and the direction "write," but it is unclear if students are to write a sentence or...
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Bubble Pop-Short Vowels
In this short vowel instructional activity, students place an X over bubbles that have words with short vowel sounds printed on them. A website reference for additional resources is given.
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Word and Letter Practice #6
In this word and letter practice learning exercise, students say the name and sounds of given letters, read simple sentences, practice reading sight words and practice "chunks" of words.
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Vocabulary Building Activity- oa Words
In this spelling oa words learning exercise, learners study 5 words that contain long vowel O spelled "oa". Students write the words once, unscramble them, and use each in a sentence.
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Review Letters and Words: 28
In this reviewing letters and words learning exercise, students read sentences, read word chunks, determine syllables, and more. Students complete 5 exercises.
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Word and Letter Practice #2
In this words and letters practice learning exercise, students practice naming letters and practicing sounds of given sets of letters, read simple sentences, and practice sight words.
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Teaching Guide: Can You Make a Piggy Giggle?
Students explore the book Can You Make a Piggy Giggle?. In this language arts lesson, students focus on a variety of aspects within the book. Students study the illustrations, listen for rhymes, and attempt the tongue twisters in the text.
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Vowels
In this grammar worksheet, students read ten sentences where the vowel is missing in some of the words. They put the correct vowel in the space to make each sentence make sense. Students also identify whether each word is a short or long...
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Vowel Exercise for the Vowel Chart
In this vowel worksheet, students place words into the correct column, using a vowel chart given in a web site address, transcribe phonetics into words and place on the chart, and match given words with vowel sounds.
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Color and Read Long Vowel Words
In this long vowel worksheet, students read and color 8 words with long vowel sounds. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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The Man and the Dog
In this long vowel worksheet, learners complete the short story "The Man and the Dog" by filling in the five blanks from the vocabulary words found in the word bank on the worksheet. Students then put the four pictures in chronological...
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Vocabulary Building Grade 1
In this recognizing vocabulary words with long vowels learning exercise, students review the words so, be, he, my, and why by spelling the words from dictation, unscrambling them, matching the correctly spelled words, and...
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Spelling Connections Grade 2
In this spelling worksheet, students read ten sentences with a scrambled word in bold type within them. Students unscramble the word so it would make sense within the sentence. All words have the "or" spelling pattern.