Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk, University of Texas at Austin
Lesson 7 - Letter Combinations
Individually, letters have their own sounds, but when combined with other letters, those sounds completely change. Introduce letter combinations with a lesson that asks learners to search for combinations in familiar words and use oral...
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“Wild Readers” Decoding Skills Lesson Plan
Set young readers on the path toward fluency with this phonemic awareness resource. Based on the award-winning children's book, Where the Wild Things Are, this lesson allows beginning readers to practice isolating...
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The Note Was in Code!
While it's quite an ode, this short poem uses the long /o/ sound repeatedly in words like code, note, alone, and phone. Kids read the selection and answer three comprehension questions about the text.
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Sounding Out CVCE Words
First graders explore vowels and consonants by participating in a flash card activity. In this phonetics lesson, 1st graders discuss the difference between short and long vowels and identify them within a story told to them by their...
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Vowels and Consonants on the Farm
In this reading worksheet, students discover the vowel and consonant pattern in the following six words: pig, cat, dog, hen, and sun. Students write their pattern in a chart.
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Meal Time
In this identifying words with long o sounds worksheet, learners use a word box to help fill in the blanks with long o words and then find those words in a word search. Students write 10 answers.
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The Sneaky e
Young readers are exposed to the vowel-consonant-e rule in reading. They see how, by adding an e to the end of a word, a vowel sound changes from a short sound to a long sound. This clear presentation should be helpful to your young...
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Long Vowel O Words
For this vowels worksheet, learners recognize the long vowel O. Students are given a list of twenty-four words where they are to say the words out loud and circle all of the words that contain the long vowel O.
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Long Vowel Practice
In this long vowel worksheet, students fill in blanks in words with the correct long vowel, then draw a line to match the word to its picture.
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Rhyming Words
In this English worksheet, students read a list of rhyming words. One list groups rhyming words with the long a sound. A second list groups words with the long o sound.
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Long Vowel I
In this long vowel worksheet, 1st graders will focus on the long i sound. Students will study 6 pictures and choose the beginning, middle, and end sound for each before writing the words on the lines provided.
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'Ew' (long u) Wordsearch
In this phonics word search puzzle learning exercise, students use the 15 long u sound words listed in the word bank in the word search puzzle.
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'Ow' (Long o) Wordsearch
For this phonics word search puzzle worksheet, students use the 20 long o sound words listed in the word bank in the word search puzzle.
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Long Vowels a, i, o
In this long vowels worksheet, 5th graders figure out the answers to sixteen definitions associated with spelling words with long vowels. Students then locate and circle each of their answers in a word search puzzle.
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letter a
In this letter a worksheet, 1st graders will focus on both the long and short vowel sounds. Students will study 12 pictures and decide if the word contains a long or short sound and circle the correct answer accordingly.
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Long Vowel u And Silent e- Reading Passages
In this long u and silent e worksheet, 2nd graders read 4 short passages and answer the questions that follow. They use the words from a word bank at the end of the passage.
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Capital letter A
In this alphabet activity, students will cut out the letter A. Students will then cut out 16 pictures and glue those that begin with the letter A onto the large letter.
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'Y' Long E Word Search
In this word search worksheet, students find the hidden 'y' words within the word search puzzle. Students use the word bank to help them locate the 16 words.
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Oh Deer!
In this identifying the long o sound words activity, students observe a puzzle with words written on each piece, color the words with long o sounds brown, and the remaining words green. Students color 17 puzzle pieces.
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All Day
In this identifying -all and -al words instructional activity, students use words from a word box to fill in the blanks in sentences and find them in a word search. Students write 12 answers.
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Phonics: Long I With Silent E
For this long i with silent e worksheet, students complete a maze with six pictures, fill in a crossword and word search puzzle containing the words to match the six pictures that have long i's with silent e's.
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Long Vowel Search and Sort
Students practice identifying long vowels. In this vowel lesson, students read a story and find long vowel words that fit their pattern. Students then sort their word under the correct long vowel pattern.
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Long Vowels With Clifford
Learners recognize long vowel sounds by reading and listening to a story that highlights words with long vowel sounds. They then construct an original story. They use picture clues to aid comprehension, and match words with similar vowel...
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Practicing Short and Long Vowel Sounds
What are the differences between short and long vowel sounds? The class participates in a teacher ledlesson in which they add letters to words as they evolve from a three letter, short vowel word to a longer long vowel word. They...