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Spelling List 18: Sight Words, /or/ Sound, and Academic Vocabulary

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this spelling worksheet, students practice their spelling words that include sight words, or sound, and vocabulary. Students practice spelling 16 words.
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Spelling List 14: Sight Words, "-or-" Pattern, and Academic Vocabulary

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this spelling worksheet, students practice their spelling words that include sight words, -or pattern, and vocabulary. Students practice spelling 16 words.
Lesson Plan
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"There Is No K In Christmas"

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Do you hear a k in the word Christmas? It sounds like it, but it's really a ch that creates the same sound! Teach young learners this fun song, "There is No K in Christmas," and show them words that use ch to make the same /k/ sound. 
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Reading Resource

Tic-Tac-Toe

For Students K - 3rd Standards
Who can match three words first? Using a tic-tac-toe template, kids fill in nine words from their vocabulary word wall, and listen for the teacher to call out words that match their game boards. The first to get three in a row wins!
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Homophones and Homonyms

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
Whether or not your class has heard of homonyms, they'll herd together to complete a language worksheet! With examples of both homophones and homonyms, the worksheet prompts learners to come up with additional pairs of words that sound...
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Suffixes

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
Add additional meanings to root words! Scholars show what they know about suffixes and root words with a activity that challenges them to create words and complete sentences. 
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.
Organizer
Student Handouts

Alphabet Scavenger Hunt

For Students K - 2nd Standards
Hunt through your classroom or around your school's campus for items that begin with every letter of the alphabet! Learners can record the words on this page, which lists the alphabet and provides lines to write on.
Activity
Literacy Connects

Activities to Build Phonological Awareness

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd Standards
Begin your reading program each day with a mini lesson on phonological awareness using these engaging activities listed in the resource. Young ones will enjoy word families, clapping and counting syllables, identifying single sounds...
Activity
Smekens Education Solutions, Inc.

Introducing the 6 Traits to Students

For Teachers K - 8th Standards
Put together an English language arts unit on the six traits of writing with this helpful collection of resources. From fun songs to differentiated writing exercises reinforcing each of the traits, great ideas are provided for...
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Spell, Shoot, and Score

For Teachers K - 5th
Students practice spelling, writing, and shooting baskets. In this spelling lesson, students practice spelling. Students are divided into teams. Students are given a spelling word to write. If the word is spelled correctly, the student...
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Dolch Sight Word Booklet

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
First and second graders expand their vocabulary by reading a word recognition booklet.  In this English vocabulary lesson, learners utilize a booklet of 220 basic sight words which they read over everyday and are quizzed on the...
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Twisty Noodle

Animal Missing Letters Book

For Teachers K - 2nd
Practice spelling and word recognition with a list of animals. Each animal shows a picture and name of the animal with one letter missing. The letters vary from consonants to vowels, and is a great spelling exercise.
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Guided Reading with Elizabeti's Doll

For Teachers K - 2nd
Practice reading strategies using Elizabeti's Doll by Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen. Readers utilize decoding and comprehension strategies before, during, and after reading the story. A detailed list of text features, high frequency words,...
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Spelling Word Scramble

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this spelling activity, students unscramble three- and four- letter words. The list contains 15 words for each student to correctly spell. There is a link for the solution.
Lesson Plan
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Are You a Super Sign Speler or Speller?

For Teachers K - 6th
Why is spelling important? Develop your class' spelling skills. They examine examples of homonyms, heteronyms, and creative spelling. They also photograph misspellings in the real world in order to discover the importance of spelling...
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Dictionary Work

For Students 2nd - 3rd
Here is a handy one-pager useful for any spelling work. Learners write 10 words from their spelling lists in the first column. They find them in the dictionary and write the page number and guide words in the subsequent columns. I'd use...
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Dolch Basic Sight Vocabulary in Alphabetical Order

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this language arts worksheet, students learn 220 commonly used words on this Dolch Word List. The words are arranged alphabetically.
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Spelling Words with -og Word Family

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this spelling list worksheet, students trace and rewrite the six spelling words from the -og word family.
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Spelling List 28: Final Blend "-lt," and Academic Vocabulary

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this spelling worksheet, students practice their spelling words that include sight words, final blend -lt, and vocabulary. Students practice spelling 16 words.
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Spelling List 24: Final Diagraph "-th," and Academic Vocabulary

For Students 1st - 3rd
For this spelling worksheet, students practice their spelling words that include sight words, final digraph -th, and vocabulary. Students practice spelling 16 words.
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Spelling List 25: Final Diagraph "-ck" and Academic Vocabulary

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this spelling worksheet, students practice their spelling words that include final digraph -ck, and vocabulary. Students practice spelling 16 words.
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Latin Roots: spir, viv/vit, vid, vis

For Students 2nd - 3rd
Young readers rewrite the Latin root words on the blank lines and then mark the roots spir, viv, vid, vit, and vis in the 20 word list.
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Root Words

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learnersstudy root words. In this word study lesson, they identify the root words from several compound words. There are examples listed in this lesson plan.