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"Ssss...Goes Sammy the Slithering Snake"
Students practice recognizing the phonemes/grapheme's in /s/ sounds in words. They also practice viewing the representation of the letter symbol s and the picture of Sammy the Snake. The tongue twister "Sammy the sneaky snake slithered...
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Hurry Home, Henry!
Students practice letter recognition of /h/ in spoken and written words. They listen for the phoneme, repeat it and participate in meaningful hands-on activities to help master the letter H. Students encounter the book, "Hungry Harry,"...
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"Fast As Fast Can Be..."
Students practice strategies on becoming better fluent readers by repeated readings and by becoming phonemically aware of reading whole sentences with expression and emotion. They read the books, "The Skeleton on the Bus," "Don't Worry,"...
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Miss Millie the Moose
Students complete a variety of activities related to the letter M. As a class they recite a tongue twister with the assistance of a moose puppet, then trace and write the letter M. Students then listen to the book "If You Give a Moose...
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Chompin' on Chewing Gum
Students complete a variety of activities related to the /ch/ consonant digraph. As a class they recite a Ch tongue twister, then trace and write the letters ch. Students then listen to word pairs and identify the words containing the...
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No Title
Students listen to rhyming words from the story "Peanut Butter and Jam" by Angela Shelf Medearis and create their own peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with a partner. They match a series of four rhyming words with a key that's provided...
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E-e-e-e-eggs in Be-e-ed???????
Students practice techniques and strategies to form a solid foundation of phonemic awareness with the vowel sound of e=/e/. They explore the correspondence between the written letters and their phonemes through the book, "A New Bed," by...
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Totally Tubular Blending
Students practice a wide variety of techniques and strategies to strengthen their blending skills to form words and read. They read "A Cat Nap" and interact with different colors of inner tubes with the letters "a, c, b, d, f, l, m, p,...
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Roll the Dice
Learners practice recognizing and blending letters together to create new and unique words in the process of decoding text. They play a game where they roll dice to help blend a variety of words together and create new ones to analyze...
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Under the Umbrella
Students complete a variety of activities related to the short /u/ sound. As a class they recite a tongue twister, then trace and write the letter U. Students then listen to a list of words and identify the words containing the short...
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Chicka-Chicka-Boom-Boom
Young scholars review the "ch" digraph in this activity. Students identify words that have the "ch" sound, and practice writing the digraph. Young scholars then listen to the story "Chicka-Chicka-Boom-Boom" and identify the words in the...
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Grade 1 Phonics- Short a
Work on the short /a/ in phonics lessons. Recognize and identify "Aa," name the letter "A," know the short /a/ sound, rhyme using short /a/ word families, decode basic short consonant-vowel-consonant words and transfer wisdom of the...
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Pigs Love Pink Pancakes
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?
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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Can You Rhyme?
First graders combine locomotive skills and rhyming skills to learn about rhyming pairs. They actively participate in the learning process.
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Short "E" Searching
Students engage in a instructional activity 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
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
Pupils use gestures to recognize the short vowel sounds. In this cvc lesson, students use a cue to recognize the vowel sound. Pupils practice various words with the cues.
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Long A Words
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
In this long u word worksheet, learners 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
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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Spelling 6:Review Spelling and Rhyming Words
In this spelling review worksheet, intended for home use, 4th graders copy twenty words from the given and create original rhyming couplets.
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Letter Sounds
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!!
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...