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To the Sea
Improve pronunciation and phonemic awareness in your first and second graders! With this plan, they distinguish between the sounds for short vowel e and long vowel e. They are introduced to the vowel patterns that comprise long vowel...
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We Flew With a Baboon
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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Bee a Reader
Use a fun tongue twister to help your class remember the /ee/ sound! With this lesson, they distinguish between the sounds for short vowel e and long vowel e. They are introduced to the vowel patterns that comprise long vowel sounds,...
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Peachy Teacup by the Stream
Help your kids distinguish between the sounds for short vowel /e/ and long vowel /e/. They are introduced to the vowel patterns that comprise long vowel sounds, with a particular emphasis on /ea/. They practice reading and spelling a...
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Blast-Off to Blending
Practice working with different phonemes in consonants and vowels. Sounds are written on squares that get put on a rocket to "blast off" and meet other sounds. The teacher first models blending, then reads the new words. Young readers...
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I Scream You Scream We All Scream for Ice Cream!
Use letter boxes and example words to help kids distinguish between the sounds for short vowel e and long vowel e. They are introduced to the vowel patterns that comprise long vowel sounds, with a particular emphasis on /ea/. They...
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Beat the Heat
Review common digraphs with your early elementary schoolers. They identify the digraph /ea/ in written and spoken language. After a brief discussion, they apply the rule for identifying and spelling words containing the /ea/ digraph....
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Icky Sticky Fingers
Practice recognizing the short vowel /i/ in written and spoken language. Introduce the target sound with a fun tongue twister about Lizzy the lizard. Through matching and listening activities, learners discriminate the vowel sound /i/...
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Shake With A
Use letter boxes and letter tiles (d,a,y,l,p,w,k,f,r,i,t,s,b,c,I) to help your class distinguish between the sounds for short vowel a and long vowel a. They are introduced to the vowel patterns that comprise long vowel sounds, with a...
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Everybody Get Ready
Learners identify and spell words containing the short /e/ sound. They rehearse a fun tongue twister which contains words emphasizing the short /e/ sound. They then read Red Gets Fed as a class. Have your group clap every time they hear...
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Itchy Ritchy
Itchy Ritchy can help your learners remember the /i/ sound! First teach young learners the fun tongue twister illustrating the target sound, and have them identify the target sound in other words. Use the reading Tim and the Top to...
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Old Ladies Say A?
The letter a produces so many sounds! Increase your class's awareness of concepts related to reading and spelling. They identify the digraphs /ea/ and /ai/ in spoken language and spelling as a long vowel sound. After a brief discussion,...
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"A" All Around
Spell and read words containing ai and ay. First and second graders identify vowel digraphs in written and spoken language. After a brief discussion on the combinations of letters that comprise digraphs, they practice reading and...
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Open Up And Say Ahh
Who has a word that has an /o/? Teach kids this fun song (sung to the tune of "Skip to My Lou") to remember the /o/ sound and words that contain the target sound. Then have learners identify the sound in various words before reading In...
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Spelling Assessment
In this spelling worksheet, 3rd graders solve three riddles. Each riddle contains three clues for two pictured words. The first two riddles refer to words with the same vowel sound. The third requires students to apply the same spelling...
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Amazing As
Help young readers recognize the short vowel /a/ in written and spoken language. Through matching and listening activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /a/ from other phonemes. Learners associate the phoneme with its letter...
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Say Aaaah
Using letter boxes and a series of activities, young learners will identify the /o/ sound. Give them the fun tongue twister before having them manipulate letters in the letter box, and then read In the Big Top. Can your learners find the...
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Say /o/
Ollie the octopus is occupied! Use this tongue twister to help youngsters learn the /o/ sound. After practicing the target sound, learners should print the letter. When they are familiar with the letter and its sound, the group will...
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Ehhhh?
Are your kindergarten learners working with the letter e and the sounds that is makes? They'll practice writing a capital e, hear the /e/ sound in a funny tongue twister, and then identify when the teacher is saying a word that uses the...
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Who Knows the Letter?
Help learners identify initial consonant sounds and letters that represent that sound. They indicate awareness of consonant sounds and letters by responding with a physical movement. They also sing using "Sing Your Way Through Phonics"...
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Vowel Sounds
This plan aims to increase the reading proficiency of your fourth grade class. While no materials are provided, a list of activities to practice are included. Various activities include creating songs for short vowel sounds, using cue...
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Iggy the Penguin
Take your young word detectives on a hunt for the /i/ sound. Use the tongue twister about Iggy the penguin to help learners identify the target sound. Then learners are given several words, and they have to use their detective skills to...
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Book Of Vowels - Long and Short Vowel Sounds
Students study letters. In this vowel sounds lesson, students distinguish between long and short vowels. They work independently to make a book of the two types of vowels.
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To Make a Cake you must say /A/
Here is a great way for learners to practice identifying sounds made by both short and long vowels. This lesson stresses the a_e=/A/ correspondence along with letterboxes. They read their spelled words, whole text selection and...