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ABCya

Ab Cya: Monster Mansion Letter Match

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Monster Mansion Letter Match is a fun educational game for kids to practice matching capital and lowercase letters. Click on the windows of the Monster Mansion to reveal the friendly monsters inside and match the uppercase to lowercase...
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Auburn University

Auburn University: Teaching Letter Recognition

For Teachers Pre-K - K Standards
How can you teach your students letter recognition? This site offers insight into this necessary pre-reading skill set. Come and explore this informative resource.
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ABCya

Ab Cya: Letter Bubble Alphabetical Order

For Students Pre-K - K
Letter Bubble: Alphabetical Order is a fun educational game for kids to practice putting the letters of the alphabet in order. Children can play with letter names or letter sounds and must pop bubbles to release letters on the correct...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Upper and Lower Case Match Up

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This technology-based lesson plan has students navigate Internet sites to assist them with learning the letter names and sounds. Students also use slideshow presentations to identify letter matches and learn beginning sounds.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Songwriting for Beginning Letter Sounds

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A great resource for teachers. This lesson plan uses songs and singing as a guide for young scholars in learning letter names and beginning consonant sounds. Students in first and second grade can extend this lesson by creating new...
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Starfall

Starfall: Letters of the Alphabet

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This site features activities for the letters of the alphabet. Students have an opportunity to click on a letter and hear a story about that letter.
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Super Why: Letter Sounds Worksheet [Pdf]

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
An excellent resource for teaching beginning letter-sound correspondence. Student must identify the object in the picture and circle the letter that begins the word.
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SMART Technologies

Smart: Capital Letters Names

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this activity provided by SMART, students will identify where a capital letter is required in a sentence regarding names.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Teaching Concepts of Letter and Word

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
A great resource for teachers introducing the concepts of "letters" and "words" to early elementary students. Uses the names of the students themselves as a starting place in learning these concepts. Great site.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: My Name Is a Word and Is Made Up of Letters

For Teachers Pre-K - K Standards
Students will discover that names are made up of letters and will be able to identify their name and write it in a sentence. This lesson includes links to an Alphafriends video, pictures of student work, and videos of the lesson in action.
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Other

Teacher.org: Beginning Sound Match

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This lesson will allow young scholars to practice both writing names and identifying beginning sounds for common item names.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: What's Your Name? (U)

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This video segment from Between the Lions uses a fun hip-hop song about names to highlight the /uh/ sound that the letter "u" makes and to boost phonemic awareness: an understanding of the sounds within words.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Student of the Day: Create Sound/letter Understanding With Names

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
A recurring lesson plan focused on understanding letters and sounds. Each session lasts ten to twenty minutes with one session for each student in the class. Each student has a turn at being the Student of the Day and other students...
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Chateau Meddybemps

Chateau Meddybemps: Fun With Letters

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This interesting site has a variety of activities and games to use in the classroom or at home to teach letter recognition, phonics, and beginning writing skills. Learn about individual letters at the Alphabet Soup Cafe, create an...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Give Me Five; Letter Sound Accuracy Activity

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
An exciting game to build students' understanding and accuracy of producing words that begin with the same letter. Students sit in a circle and the teacher says the sound of the letter. One student must pass a bean bag around the circle...
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Google

Google for Education: Factorials With Names

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students investigate how many unique arrangements of the letters in the name Bryant are possible as an introduction to factorials. Bryant can be replaced by any name, keeping in mind that if there are any repeated letters some of the...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Connect 4 Words: Letter Sound Accuracy Activity

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A reading game based on "Connect 4" that will build student's abilities to say the name and sound of a letter and find a word beginning with that sound.
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Illuminations: Name Letters

For Students 9th - 10th
Crack the code and can determine the cost of your name. Use this activity to practice solving systems of equations.
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TES Global

Tes: When Do We Use Capital Letters? Poster?

For Students 2nd - 9th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Capitalization rules are provided on this visually-appealing poster. Students will find reminders about capitalizing the pronoun I, beginnings of sentences, names, abbreviations, and abbreviations.
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Read Works

Read Works: Letter From Camp

For Teachers 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text in which a boy named Alex writes a letter to his family to tell them about his experiences at summer camp. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Playing Name Bingo With

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Contains plans for two lessons of get-to-know-you activities that use a Name Bingo Game to help young scholars break the ice with each other. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used...
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Google

Cs Education at Google: Cs First: Animate a Name

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Teaches basic computer science concepts using the programming language Scratch. For this activity, students using coding to animate the letters in a name.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Area of Names

For Teachers 3rd
Creating names with block letters students calculate area of irregular shapes. This activity also make a real world application to the popular video game Minecraft.
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Illuminations: State Names

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Students use multiple representations to display how many times the letters of the alphabet is used in a state name. Concepts explored: stem and leaf, box and whisker plots, histograms.

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