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Pigs Love Pink Pancakes

For Teachers K
Students explore the grapheme along with phoneme it represents. The teacher teaches letter reconginition by having the students write the letter and practice the sound. This helps studens investigate the letter faster (p). Students...
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Are You Here Today?

For Teachers K
Students recognize their own name in print and the names of their classmates. They use one to one correspondence to determine who has not checked in, completed their field, and if absent indicate that on the form. Students tally the...
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Short "E" Searching

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students engage in a lesson which uses resources from the PBS show, Between the Lions to help identify the sound "e" in words that are written, read and sung.
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On a Roll With Digraphs

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students practice building and spelling words with digraphs. After discussing what digraphs are and how they change the spelling and produnciation of words, they create a dice game and play by spelling words containing common digraphs.
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Short Vowel Movements

For Teachers K - 1st
Students use gestures to recognize the short vowel sounds.  In this cvc lesson, students use a cue to recognize the vowel sound.  Students practice various words with the cues. 
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Long A Words

For Students K - 1st
In this long a worksheet, students circle pictures whose names begin with the long A sound. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Long U Words

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this long u word instructional activity, students draw lines to match pictures to their long u word names. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Long E Word Match Up

For Students K - 1st
In this long e word worksheet, students match a set of 8 long e words to their corresponding pictures. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Letter Sounds

For Teachers K - 1st
In this phonics worksheet, students say the name of each object out loud. Students listen for the sound of the letter in the word. Students then sing the alphabet song and point to each letter while they sing.
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That Sneaky E!!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Introduce your class to the concept of vowel digraphs. They identify the digraph /ea/ in spoken language. After a brief discussion, they apply the rule for identifying and spelling words containing the /ea/ digraph. Because the...
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Correct Beginning Letter

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
In this basic spelling worksheet, learners look at a picture in a box and then select the correct beginning letter of the object in the box. They circle the right answer from the three options underneath the picture. There are 9 problems...
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The Beginning Consonant

For Teachers Pre-K - K
In this initial consonant worksheet, students read 3 words that have missing letters at the beginning. Students look at the picture clues and fill in the missing initial consonant, then color the picture.
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Phonics: Decoding Words in Connected Text

For Teachers K
Introduce your little ones to the wonders of phonemic decoding. They practice along as you sound out simple cvc words in the context of a sentence. 
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Phonemic Awareness: Isolation

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Teacher and class work together to build strong phonemic awareness. They say a series of words, isolate the initial phoneme, and say its sound. This instructional activity is super short but does have a decent extension activity suggestion.
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Phonics Instruction: Letter Sound Correspondence

For Teachers Pre-K - K
The letter m is the first letter in many of my favorite words. It has the best /m/ sound ever. Get your little ones excited about letter m with this super simple, super short lesson. They work with the teacher to practice saying,...
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Phonemic Awareness: Words

For Teachers K
I'm not sure what the purpose of this exercise is but I'm sure someone will find it useful. Learners repeatedly say a single sentence over and over with their teacher, then count each word in the sentence. They don't count phonemes or...
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Phonic Knowledge

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
This lengthy presentation gives young readers a lot of chances to practice sounding out vowel and consonant blends. There are 122 slides full of vowels, consonants, and actual words. For example, one slide has ay, the next slide has pl,...
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The Sneaky e

For Teachers 1st
Young readers are exposed to the vowel-consonant-e rule in reading. They see how, by adding an e to the end of a word, a vowel sound changes from a short sound to a long sound. This clear presentation should be helpful to your young...
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Consonant Blends Blended with Short Vowels

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Here is a simple, yet effective lesson on consonant blends. Young readers watch as the teacher demonstrates voiced phonic sounds, unvoiced phonic sounds, and voiced vowel sounds. They practice rhyming consonant blends and trigraphs.
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Final /-s/ and /-es/ Pronunciation

For Students 7th - 11th
Practice the pronunciation of the final /-s/ and /-es/ sound with this learning exercise. After reading information about and looking at charts of voiced and voiceless sounds, learners determine what the final sounds of plural words...
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Special Spelling Using S

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
In this spelling worksheet, students answer 10 questions about the letter s blends. Students must think of 5 words which begin with each combination.
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Peg and Hen

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students navigate a website to practice the short e sound.  For this short e sound lesson, students read a story on Starfall and complete practice with the short e sound.
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Five Part Phonics: Blends

For Teachers 1st
First graders participate in a variety of activities that feature the consonant blend 'st'. They read "Stan the Squid" and "Stella Started for the Station", answer comprehension questions for the stories, manipulate beginning sounds and...
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Here's an Instant Activity for March 3, 2008

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Here are some good spelling activities for 'ou' words. First and second graders complete an oral spelling activity with their teacher and then an Instant Activity worksheet. and spell 'ou' words.