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The Itsy Bitsy Pig
First graders recognize the short vowel I in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /i/ from other vowel sounds. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and...
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Word Detectives!
Students recognize the short vowel e in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, students discriminate the short vowel e from the long vowel o. They associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify the...
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Rub Those Eyes
Students recognize the short vowel a in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /a/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation in words pictures,...
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What's My Sound?
Young scholars follow a power point presentation to practice the sounds each letter of the alphabet make. In this 'what's my sound' lesson, students apply word recognition strategies and demonstrate listening and comprehension skills to...
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This is a test.
multiple resources from various sites. I am, needless to say, frustrated, and don't understand why the programmers say they have tested and do not experience this. I have the problem with both Internet Explorer on a PC and Safari on a...
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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.
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Alphabet
Students state the letters of the alphabet individually and in new words. In this alphabet lesson plan, students use the alphabet in a variety of ways during reading.
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Say it. Write in the I and E. Read it.
In this phonics worksheet, students say the name of each of the twelve pictures. They trace the consonants and add the i and silent e to each word.
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English Skills Assignment
In this English skills worksheet, students complete various English skill activities. There are 12 activities in total, with topics including proof-reading, word puzzles, alliteration, consonants, vowels, word meanings, anagrams, and...
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Ned's Red Guitars – More Sounds of "ea"
In this vowel sounds worksheet, students analyze 14 pictures of guitars with long or short vowel A words printed in them. Students color red all guitars that have the same vowel sound as Ned's name. Students color gray all guitars that...
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Spelling Connections: Grade 4: Alphabetical Order
In this spelling worksheet, students number each group of 8 words in alphabetical order and write them on the steps. Students then use picture clues to complete 4 sentences. All words have long vowel sounds with silent E.
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Beginning, Middle, or End?
Here's a worksheet to help students become familiar with where to find words in a dictionary. Students whether the each of the 15 flower related words would be found at the beginning, middle or end of the dictionary. 
 
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No Pain, No Brain!
Students complete a variety of activities related to the /ai/ digraph. As a class they recite a tongue twister, then spell different words containing the /ai/ digraph using letter manipulatives. Students listen to the book "The Long Long...
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Sound the Foghorn
Students complete a variety of activities related to the long /u/ sound.  As a class they recite a tongue twister, then trace and write the letter U.  Students then listen to pairs of words and identify which word contains the long /u/...
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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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Letter Names
Young scholars explore language arts by participating in a letter identification activity. In this word recognition lesson, students are shown a list of vocabulary terms which they practice reciting with their classmates. Young scholars...
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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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Let's Read For Speed!
Explore reading for fluency and speed with your class. They discuss reading faster, smoother, and with more expression. Practice reading with fluency using one minute timed reads. They read "Tin Man Fix-It." and record how many words...
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Derbyshire Accent Project 1
Compare the Derbyshire accent to Standard English. There are eight common differences between the two languages for learners to discover. A great learning exercise to start a discussion on the various forms and conventions of Standard...
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Jake Makes Cake
Students distinguish between short vowel a and long vowel a.  They are introduced to the vowel-consonant-e pattern that changes short vowel sounds into long vowel sounds.  They practice changing words to long vowel sounds by adding an...
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Long Vowel Phoneme -IGH
Students listen to a poem and discuss the rhyming words. They complete worksheets focusing on the long vowel phoneme -igh.
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Vowel Change of Short E
In this language arts worksheet, students look for the pattern for changing the vowel "E" into the right form for writing the words in the Latin language.
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"IIIIH" it is a bug!
Pupils 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...
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Oooohhhh Nooo, My Nose!
First graders relate the long o sound to the sound you make when you finally understand something and say, "Oohhh". They practice the tongue twister for the day saying it together holding out the /O/ sound as it appears and practice...