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Core Knowledge Foundation

First Grade Skills Unit 2

For Teachers 1st Standards
Nineteen lessons make-up a four-week-long unit that explores long vowel sounds, nouns, and 11 high-frequency words. Lessons scaffold information to gain confidence in reading a decodable text and answering questions. Routines include...
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Core Knowledge Foundation

Kindergarten Skills Unit 10

For Teachers K Standards
A six-week unit wraps up kindergarteners' skills practice in beginning reading skills. Twenty-nine lessons focus on long vowel sounds and 11 tricky high-frequency words. Scholars participate in warm-up activities, introductions to sounds...
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Organizer
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McGraw Hill

Phonics Teachers Resource Book

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Looking to improve your classes literacy program? Then look no further. This comprehensive collection of resources includes worksheets and activities covering everything from r-controlled vowels and consonant digraphs, to the different...
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PPT
Curated OER

Which Phoneme are we Going to Learn Today?

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Phonemes are the focus of this colorful and engaging presentation. Learners are exposed to a variety of phonemes, and are invited to construct words using them. A fun game of phoneme Bingo appears on one of the slides, and other...
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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Advanced Phonics: Variant Correspondences, Homophone Bingo!

For Teachers 4th - 5th Standards
Phonics doesn't just have to be a daily routine for class members. Spruce up their phonemic awareness with an exciting game of Bingo! Young grammarians select cards, locate their matching homophones, spell the pairs, and identify how...
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Interactive
Arcademics

Coconut Vowels

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Scholars show what they know about vowel digraphs with a quick coconut-themed learning game. Players fill in the blanks of falling coconuts to make words with a double vowel spelling pattern. 
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Interactive
Arcademics

Turtle Dash

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Vowel digraphs are the focus of a turtle-themed learning game. Players race against three others, filling in the blank space of words with a double vowel spelling pattern. 
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Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk, University of Texas at Austin

Lesson 15 - Soft G and Soft C

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
The names Cindy and Carrie start with the same letter, but have very different sounds. The 15th of 17 word recognition lessons focuses on the soft C sound found in Cindy and the soft G sound found in Gene. Direct instruction starts with...
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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonics: Variant Correspondences, Fishing for Vowel Digraphs

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
After teaching vowel digraphs, reinforce the concept with an activity! Young scholars fish from a pile of 60 cards to match words with the same sound. Featured vowel digraphs include ea, au, aw, ow, oa, ai, ay, and ee.
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Lesson Plan
American English

Welcome to the Color Vowel Chart

For Teachers 4th - 12th Standards
Focus English language learners' attention on word stress and phrase stress with a pronunciation chart that breaks the sounds into moving and non-moving vowel sounds. The chart tool uses colors and key words to indicate where to put the...
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Activity
University of Texas

Essential Reading Strategies for the Struggling Reader

For Teachers K - 5th Standards
Beneficial for beginning readers, struggling readers, and those in need of review, a set of language arts activities is a great addition to any foundational reading unit. Focusing on phonological awareness, fluency, instructional...
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Unit Plan
National Institute for Literacy

Making Sense of Decoding and Spelling

For Students Pre-K - 3rd Standards
Go over digraphs, vowel sounds, and affixes with a series of decoding and spelling lessons. Each lesson guides learners through a different reading and phonics skill, building on the lesson before, and challenging them with each step.
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Unit Plan
Texas Center for Learning Disabilities

First-Grade Intervention

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Learning how to read is a big challenge for young learners, but this series of lessons provides them with the extra support they need to succeed. With each lesson following the a clearly outlined format, children are introduced to new...
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Printables
Helping Dyslexia

Vowel Sound Posters

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Adorn your walls with these posters to support your pupils as they learn various vowel sounds and digraphs. Each poster includes a focus sound (the ai digraph, for example), a large image paired with a word that demonstrates that sound,...
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Worksheet
Kiz Club

Pie Tie

For Students K - 2nd Standards
What do a pie and a tie have in common? The ie digraph, of course! Invite your learners to practice these two rhyming words with these cards. Once cut out and glued together, kids can practice spelling these words and matching up the...
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K12 Reader

Feel the Green Grass

For Students 1st Standards
This poem may make your learners yearn for summer, but it will also help them practice the ee digraph. Pupils read the short poem, which includes many examples of the ee digraph, and respond to three reading comprehension questions.
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Worksheet
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K12 Reader

The Coat Got Soaked on the Boat

For Students 1st Standards
This silly story of a family, their pet goat, a coat, and boat will capture your pupils' attention as they work on the long /o/ sound, the oa digraph, and reading comprehension.
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Activity
Jumpstarting Journeys

Vowel Digraph Activities for au and aw

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
It can be awfully hard teaching young children how to read, but this phonics resource will make the job a little easier. Focusing on the au and aw vowel digraphs, this collection of engaging activities teaches beginning readers how to...
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Workbook
Essential Skills Software

Worksheet Set: Super Phonics Level 2

For Students Pre-K - 2nd Standards
Supercharge beginning readers phonics skills with this extensive collection of worksheets. With exercises on long and short vowels, consonant blends, rhyming words, word endings, and much more, this resource is a primary grade teacher's...
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Curated OER

The oo Sound

For Students K - 1st Standards
These letter sets all make the /oo/ sound; learners sort single-syllable words into four spelling patterns, writing each. This visual worksheet has all the words inside a moon and the various spelling patterns inside stars. Scholars get...
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PPT
Curated OER

ai Sound

For Teachers K - 1st
Here is a well-designed presentation for young readers on the ai vowel blend sound. Nice photographs, graphics, and text are embedded in the slides along with lots of examples for practice.
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Worksheet
K5 Learning

The Parade

For Students 1st Standards
Parades are a joy to watch and learn about. Class members read about a child who attended a parade with her mother and brother, match past tense verbs from the reading, identify and fill in blanks for sight words candy, clowns, and...
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K12 Reader

Ride a Broom to the Moon

For Students 1st Standards
Your class can practice words that contain the long oo sound. Cool! Learners read a short poem that includes many examples of the oo digraph and then respond to three reading comprehension questions.
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K12 Reader

Look at the Good Wood

For Students 1st Standards
Practice the oo digraph with a quick text and related questions. The short poem includes plenty of examples of the digraph. After reading, learners respond to the three reading comprehension questions.