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Small Group: BL
Practice target sounds, especially the /a/ sound. The teacher first speaks and learners repeat words, discriminating between words with varying sounds after focusing on /a/. Letter cards are held up to show the symbolic representation of...
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Phonics: Encoding and Decoding, Make-A-Word
Little learners place a picture card on a magnetic board, say the name of the object on the card, then sift through alphabet magnets to find and spell the word they said.
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Phonological Awareness - Phoneme Segmenting and Blending, Treasure Chest
Working in pairs, scholars use picture cards to practice segmenting words into phonemes and blending phonemes into words. When a peer answers correctly they place a penny in a treasure chest. Incorrect responses make the card go back in...
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fr Word Search
Eleven words are provided that use the digraph fr. Can your learners find all eleven words in the crossword puzzle? Consider having them use a highlighter or a thicker marker to make it easier to locate the words.
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Drew the Dragon: Consonant Clusters
In this initial blends activity, students read the ending sections of the 3 word lists. Students then write in the missing initial blend of br, cr, and gr.
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S Blends: sk, sm, sn, sp, st, sw
In this S blends worksheet, young scholars use a word bank to select words to fill in the blanks to complete sentences and to find words in a word search. They unscramble a list of s blend words. Students write twenty-two answers.
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End Blends Match
In this word blend worksheet, student focus on the word blends at the end of each word. Students match 6 pictures in the first column with the correct word that corresponds in the second column.
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Phonics: Encoding and Decoding, Letter Cube Blending
Emergent readers use a letter cube to identify, blend, and make words. They roll each of the three-letter cubes, mark down the letters they rolled, then blend the letter sounds together to make a word. They record each word on a...
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Alphabet Sounds Teaching Tubs
A hands-on activity brings the alphabet to life in your kindergarten! Fill tubs with items that begin with the same letter or end with the same sound, and let kids make the connections between the items.
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Beginning Blends "dr" and "fr"
In this consonant blends worksheet, students study and sound out the words for 12 pictures. Students choose the beginning consonant blend that correctly begins each word.
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Phase 5 - Tricky Words 2
This simple presentation shows learners examples of tricky words, or, words that have unusual letter combinations. Words such as, laughed, different, friends, and mouse are shown. Learners read the words as they appear on the screen.
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Lesson 11 BL Group
Three different groups work simultaneously in this lesson. One group works on sight word review by holding up common words on flashcards and passing them around in a circle. Another group reviews word blending by pulling graphemes out of...
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Consonant Clusters Activity Sheet 4A
In this initial consonant blends worksheet, students complete a word search puzzle where they look for 8 different words with the initial consonant blend of "pl", "cl", "gl", or "fl".
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Initial Blends
In this consonant clusters worksheet, students fill in the missing initial blends for the words. Students fill in cr, gr, fr, pr, tr, and dr to make each word match the picture. Students find nine different words.
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BL to the Ends (blends)
Students examine word blends. In this word blends lesson plan, students investigate common word blends. Working in pairs, students analyze words containing blends and generate a word list.
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Consonant Blend bl
In this consonant blend activity, learners recognize bl consonant blend words, add bl to complete words, and use them to complete sentences. Students write eighteen bl consonant blend words.
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Blending with Frog and Toad
Students apply word analysis and vocabulary skills to comprehend selections by reading and interpreting a variety of literary words. They then make predictions about the story and identify blends within the English language.
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Guided Reading: Flora's Box
Young readers consider text-to-self connections. Learners discover the text-to-self connection as they read Flora's Box by Tina Althaide. They practice high frequency words, prepositions, and 1:1 correspondence.
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Phonics: Onset and Rime, Say It Now
Pairs use onset and rime cards to make as many words as possible by blending the onsets with the rimes.
Kelly's Kindergarten
Kelly's Kindergarten: Words that End in T
From hat and hut to rat and cat, youngsters review consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words that end in the letter t. They first cut out and paste provided images, and then categorize them based on their end sound (i.e. /at/ /et/ /ot/ and...
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School-Home Links: Putting Sounds Together
For this sound blends worksheet, students read about the sound blends 'oi,' 'oy,' 'ou,' and 'ow.' Students then examine several pictures, say the names of the pictures, and write the letters on the line under each picture to make new...
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Sl Word Search
In this sl words word search worksheet, 1st graders will find and circle sixteen words containing the sl blend. Words vary in difficulty from sly to sleigh and slender.
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Sp Word Search
For this sp word search worksheet, 1st graders will find and circle fifteen words containing the sp blend. Words vary in decoding difficulty from spin to space.
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sk Words
In this consonant blends worksheet, students respond to 18 fill in the blank and short answer questions that require them to identify and use words have the "sk" sound