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St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Initial Blends Lesson

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this beginning reading module, the instructor introduces words with initial consonant blends. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see words sounded out,...
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St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Blends (Ending, Part 2) Lesson

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate blends in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see words...
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St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Blends (Ending, Part 1) Lesson

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate blends in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see words...
Unit Plan
St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Lessons 79 83 Review

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this beginning reading module, the instructor reviews how to pronounce words that incorporate "the", "se", "ea", "ear", and other patterns. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can...
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St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Short a Quiz

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site is an interactive quiz to assess knowledge of words that incorporate short /a/ in them. The quiz is designed to follow the "Reading Bear: short a" lesson.
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St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Short a Lesson

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate short /a/. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see words...
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St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Long E Lesson

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate long /e/ in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see...
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St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: 3 & 4 Syllables Lesson

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate three or four syllables in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out...
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St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Ing Lesson

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "ing" ending words. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see...
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St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Old, Olt, Ow Lesson

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "old", "olt", and "ow" to form words with the long /i/. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students...
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St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Ar Lesson

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "ar" in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see words...
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St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Oy, Oi Lesson

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "oy" or "oi" in them.Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see...
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St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Oy, Oi Quiz

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site is an interactive quiz to assess knowledge of words that incorporate "oy" or "oi" in them. The quiz is designed to follow the "Reading Bear: oy, oi" lesson.
Unit Plan
St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Ai Lesson

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "ai" in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see words...
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St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Ay, Air Lesson

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "ay" or "air" in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words,...
Unit Plan
St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Lessons 31 43 Review: "Oy, Oi" to "Ay, Air"

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this review unit module for emergent readers, the instructor reviews how to pronounce words that incorporate "oy", "oi", "ay", and "air" in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can...
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Six Syllable Types

For Teachers 1st - 6th Standards
Six written syllable-spelling conventions are used in English spelling. The conventions are useful to teach because they help students remember when to double letters in spelling and how to pronounce the vowels in new words. The...
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Auburn University

Auburn University: The Letterbox Lesson

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
What is the rationale behind the "Letterbox Lesson?" This site reveals how learners must understand the phoneme sequence in words in order to decode them. Come and learn more.
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Hopelink

Hopelink: Reading Lesson Idea: Dealing With Long Words

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Don't let long words intimidate. Here students learn to break up long words into syllables.
Lesson Plan
Hopelink

Hopelink: Reading Lesson Idea: R Controlled Words

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Practice reading and pronouncing words that have a vowel followed by the letter R.
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Other

Tampa Reads: Phonemic Awareness and Consonant Digraphs Worksheets

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Focus on the important skills of identifying where in a word a given sound appears, and on learning four consonant digraphs vital to learning to read (ch, sh, th, and wh).
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Other

Advanced Phonics Activities Free Reading

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
A great site to find lessons to use for teaching advanced phonics and word families.
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Rock ’N Learn

Rock 'N Learn: Splendid Sounds

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This printable worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will match each short vowels to the picture that begins with it. An answer key and lesson extension are included.
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Rock ’N Learn

Rock 'N Learn: Hay Day Long Vowel a (Ay)

For Students K - 1st Standards
This printable vowels worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will view pictures and write words that will solve riddles that use long /a/ and contain the /ay/ vowel digraph. An...