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Bless You
Students practice recognizing the phoneme /a/ in spoken and written words as well as by symbol. They interact with the book, "The Cat Nap," from Educational Insights and the Dr. Seuss book, "ABC's Book." Each student also plays a memory...
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Silent-Letter Word Fluency
First graders play a word card game to study words with silent letters. In this word sounds lesson, 1st graders say the words on the cards as fast as possible. Students continue to shuffle the cards and practice saying the words.
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Aaa-aaa-aaa-choo!!
Students study the /a/ sound by mimicking the sound one makes when they sneeze. Next they work with a tongue twister, which they recite while stretching out the initial short a sound. Next, they practice writing the letter and read "A...
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Go Fish
Students recognize the short vowel a in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /a/ from other vowel phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation in a story...
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Icky Sticky
First graders the /i/ sound by practicing the way the mouth moves while making the sound while saying "icky, sticky." They write the letter "i" using both upper and lower case letters, make words using letterboxes, and write about a...
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Batter's Up
Students recognize the short vowel a in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /a/ from other vowel phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify...
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Eerie Exits
Students recognize the short vowel e in written and spoken language. Through matching and listening activities, they discriminate the short vowel /e/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and...
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The Cat Ate My Apple
Students recognize the phoneme for the short vowel a in written and spoken language. Through a variety of activities, they discriminate the short vowel /a/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter...
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Hop on Pop - Short 'o'
Students practice the alphabetic significance of the letter /o/ along with its awareness of phonemes in spoken words. They assess on construction paper the phrase, "We like to hop on top of Pop who's on top of a hot rock" written on it...
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Mrs. Perkins' Dolch Words: #16 Picture / Phrase Match
Learners practice word recognition skills. In this dolch sight word lesson, students arrange sight words to the appropriate picture or phrase cards that match.
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#14 Riddles
Young scholars listen to riddles and identify Dolch sight words in the riddles. In this sight words lesson, students listen to riddles and guess the sight word for the riddle. Young scholars solve sight word riddles.
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Introducing Phonemic Awareness Using Oral and Written Instruction
First graders demonstrate their ability to read with fluency, accuracy, and comprehension through phonemic awareness. They use a color-coding system to master the long and short vowel sounds and develop their skills in listening and...
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Vocabulary Skills 2
In this vocabulary skills worksheet, pupils fill in the blanks in 12 sentences by selecting the appropriate words to complete the sentences.
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Word Wall Words
Students practice recognizing sights words. In this literacy lesson, students recognize and read 200 sight words, use combinations of words to make sentences, use words to fill in basic sentences, successfully pass spelling tests with...
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Dolch Words: #5 Compound Words
Students explore the concept of compound words. In this compound word instructional activity, students use dolch word cards to create compound words.
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Mrs. Perkins Dolch Words: #10 Create a Story
Students write their stories. In this sight words and writing lesson, students examine a list of 20 teacher-provided dolch words and use them to write their own stories. Students share their stories with their classmates.
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Silent-letter Word Fluency
First graders practice reading. In this fluency building activity, 1st graders practice quickly saying words that have a silent letter in them. They work in small groups to read a group of word cards as quickly as they can. This activity...
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Sounding out fluency, Relay Race
Students practice reading. In this fluency building lesson, students participate in a relay race to quickly sound and read word cards. They work in small groups to accurately sound out and say three word cards before it is another team...
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Reintroduce -er
Young scholars explore phonetics by participating in a pronunciation activity. In this word sound activity, students identify words in the English language which contain the "er" sound. Young scholars play a class game in which the...
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Growing Gold
First graders explore a folktale from India. In this folktale instructional activity, 1st graders read the tale, Growing Gold and discuss facts about India. Students construct the national flag of India from construction paper. Students...
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Letter Recognition Flash Games for Kids
Students explore the alphabet by completing an on-line letter identification activity. In this phonetics activity, students utilize the website www.literarycenter.net and listen to word sounds as they identify the spelling of the...
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Give Us A Clue
Learners practice the vowel phonemes ow/ou, oy/oi, ar/a/al, oo/u, air/are/ear, or/ore/oar/war, aw/au/augh/al, ir/ur/er, ear/eer/ere in a game with two to four players. They extend their practice over and over to identify the phonemes in...
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Peter The Butterfly
Students complete an interdisciplinary unit chronicling the life cycle and movement patterns of the butterfly. Through language arts, mathematics, and science activities, students identify various types of butterflies and document the...
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Give the Dog a Bone
Learners listen as the /sh/ sound is modeled and discover the sound as it appears in the words "sheep", "fish", and "ship". They then play a secret game with a magic code placing the correct dog with its bone. Once all the words are...