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Curated OER

Produce Rhyming Words

For Teachers K - 1st
Have fun creating rhymes! Your class will read the familiar nursery rhyme Three Little Kittens and list rhyming words. They then use the story as a template to develop their own rhymes.
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Curated OER

Spelling: Onset and Rime

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders make words. In this onset/rime instructional activity, 2nd graders change the first sound of a word (the onset) to create a new word. This instructional activity also reinforces student knowledge of vowel sounds.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Find the Pictures

For Students Pre-K - K Standards
There are hidden pictures here, but scholars must find the rhyming words to uncover them. They follow directions by coloring in only the shapes that rhyme with a given sound. Although the pictures aren't that well hidden, this puts a fun...
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Curated OER

Introduce Onset-Rime Blending

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Mico (or your favorite puppet) helps emergent readers recognize words from segmented phonemes. Explain to learners that he struggles with pronouncing words and needs their help. Model how Mico segments sounds in single-syllable words....
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Unit Plan
Colorado Unit Writing Project

Fun with Phonemic Awareness

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
The phonemic awareness activities in this packet are designed to help kids develop skills in rhyming, syllabication, blending onsets and rimes, and beginning and ending sounds. Well worth a place in your curriculum library.
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Curated OER

Rhyming With Pictures and Words

For Teachers K
Students investigate rhyming words. In this literacy instructional activity, students evaluate word pairs to discover rhymes. Students use a picture deck to rhyme words supplied by the teacher.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Friends Together: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 4)

For Teachers K Standards
Friendship is the theme in this series of extra support lessons. With a variety of resources (practice worksheets, letter, word, punctuation and picture cards), young readers gain knowledge of initial consonants v and h, blending short...
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Activity
Florida Department of Education

Phonemic Awareness

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Build your library of strategies and activities for teaching phonemic awareness with the ideas provided in this resource. Described here are five different activities to try out with your class.
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Curated OER

Word Center

For Teachers K - 2nd
Construct spelling words through a Making Words activity. Learners create words at various levels using onsets, rimes, suffixes, long and short vowels, and word families. They write words as they create them and compare the words with...
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Unit Plan
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Look at Us!: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 1)

For Teachers K Standards
Support struggling learners and focus on the alphabet with the three weeks of activities and materials provided here. Each day, learners review some letters and practice others in depth. They work on rhyming, practice new words, and...
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Activity
University of Florida

Phonological Awareness: A Sound Beginning

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Choose from a variety of phonological activities to complement a reading lesson. The guide goes through the basic components of good phonics instruction focusing on sound types, levels of phonological awareness, assessment methods, and...
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Unit Plan
University of Texas

Alphabetic Understanding, Phonics, and Spelling

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Have your youngsters reading in no time with with collection of literacy activities and lessons. Starting with a basic understanding of the alphabet, this unit progressively builds students' phonemic awareness and ability to decode and...
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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Kindergarteners and first graders alike are engaged as they learn the initial sounds of objects by taking turns flipping cards to form a long train. This complete and ready-to-print activity helps young ones build the basic foundations...
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Rhyme Time

For Teachers K
Students listen to a variety of stories and identify rhyming words. They sequence events in the story and generate rhymes of their own. They sort words by rhyming families and write rhymes of their own.
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Curated OER

Instant Spelling Activity: 1st Grade

For Teachers 1st
First graders practice their spelling skills. In this spelling lesson plan, 1st graders explore onsets and rimes as they complete an activity regarding double letters.
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Curated OER

You've Got a Wocket Where?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students identify rhyming word pairs, apply generalizations about the principle of onsets and "rimes," and create and classify multiple lists of words, both real and nonsense, based on given rhymes.
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Curated OER

Using the Sounds of Words Reading Task

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young readers demonstrate phonemic awareness in words and blends, and recognize 100 high-frequency words. Use a nursery rhyme to point out rhyming words, and change the words by putting a new letter at the beginning. Each learner will...
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Curated OER

Animated Alphabet

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Learners explore English by completing an interactive language history activity. For this word recognition lesson, students discuss word formations and the phonetic relationship between letters. Learners identify the origin of individual...
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Curated OER

Learn-to-Read Pumpkin Patch

For Teachers K - 1st
Students practice identifying and pronouncing the short letter "u" sound. In this phonetic awareness lesson, students access the Starfall.com website and follow the directions on the screen to reinforce the short "u" sound. Students can...
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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonics: High Frequency Words, Word Baseball

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Scholars play high-frequency word baseball, pretending to be a pitcher and a batter. Players take turns choosing baseballs with high-frequency words printed on them. If they read the word correctly, they move to the next base until they...
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Curated OER

Making More Words With "at"

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore phonetics by identifying words with one specific sound. In this rhyming words activity, students discuss the sound "at" and the many words that contain the same sound. Students utilize index cards to participate in a...
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Curated OER

The Lorax

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders, while working in groups, identify five sets of words that rhyme in order to write and illustrate a storybook using rhyming words through a journal entry. They assess proper grammar, spelling, and punctuation in their...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Make a Word: Long U by Starfall

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students explore language arts by participating an on-line grammar activity. In this letter U lesson, students discuss the uses for the letter U in the English language and the different sounds that can be made from the vowel. Students...
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Curated OER

Rhyming Objects

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Young scholars explore language arts by reading Dr. Seuss stories in class. In this word play instructional activity, students identify the rhymes in both Dr. Seuss and Nursery Rhyme stories. Young scholars utilize flash cards with...

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