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Michigan Department of Education
Family Fundamentals for Summer Learning
Just because it's summertime, doesn't mean that learning has to stop. Support children with continuing to develop their reading fluency with this extensive collection of literacy activities.
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100 Most Common Words
This is a list of the 100 most commonly used words. Each slide contains one word, and there are 101 slides. Flip through to build a sight word vocabulary, have learners come up with antonyms or synonyms, or use for spelling. This is one...
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Sounds and Letters
While just a series of slides with a consonant blend and long vowel combination on each, this presentation could be useful when covering spelling rules. Show learners a slide with the letter combination, and they can come up with a list...
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Initial Consonant Clusters
In this literacy instructional activity, students look for the words that correlate to the pictures that are listed. They are all words that are consonant clusters.
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Spelling and Thinking/ Short a
Students participate in a lesson that is concerned with the usage of spelling words that has the short "a" sound. They read the words in list form. Students also write the words in the "an" and "ad" word families.
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Bee a Good Reader
Being able to distinguish between the sounds for short vowel e and long vowel e is an important skill. Young readers are introduced to the /ee/ vowel pattern that makes the long vowel sound. They practice reading and identifying a...
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Teaching Strategies: The Word Wall: A Tool for Beginning Readers and Writers
Students participate in various activities through the school week involving the high-frequency words on their word wall in order to increase familiarity with reading and spelling the selected words. In this word wall lesson, students...
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Short Vowel Sounds
Pupils write down all short vowel sounds. They read their spelling words and attach them to each short vowel sound. They practice writing each spelling word under each short vowel sound that they have listed on their paper. They discuss...
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Theo and His Thirty Thirsty Brothers
Students recognize the digraph /th/ in both spoken and written words. They read and spell words containing /th/ digraph. They read "Changes in Seasons" by Eizabeth Sengel and make a list of the words containing /th/ digraph.
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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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"Loud Cows All Around"
Students practice with vowel digraphs and how letters can correspond with phonemes. The lesson consists of students learning the ou=/ow/ correspondence in which they will learn in both spoken and written words through reading and...
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Hh is for Helicopter
In this literacy instructional activity, class members look at the formation of the letter and practice creating it. Then they use the pictures to make cognitive connections to help with spelling.
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Rr is for Rain
In this literacy instructional activity, pupils look at the formation of the letter and practice creating it. Then they use the pictures to make cognitive connections to help with spelling.
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Tt is for Tiger
For this literacy activity, learners look at the formation of the letter and practice creating it. Then they use the pictures to make cognitive connections and help with spelling.
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Qq is for Question
In this literacy activity, class members look at the formation of the letter and practice creating it. Then they use the pictures to make cognitive connections to help with spelling.
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Digraph sh
Shhhh! Listen up to learn about the sh digraph. With the materials provided here, kids will have the opportunity to hear, say, write, and read this particular digraph many times.
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Puss in Boots/Jamil and the Clever Cat
Second graders read the story PUSS IN BOOTS identifying main characters, setting, and significant events. They then read the story JAMIL AND THE CLEVER CAT and compare it with the story PUSS IN BOOTS compiling a list of characters,...
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The Big Sneeze
Learners participate in a variety of shared reading and writing activities related to the book "The Big Sneeze" by Ruth Brown. They develop a list of farm vocabulary, sequence the events of the story on a graphic organizer, act out...
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Variation on Making Words
Students copy the letters ABEDREF onto their strip of paper and cut the ltters out.
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Long Vowels With Clifford
Learners recognize long vowel sounds by reading and listening to a story that highlights words with long vowel sounds. They then construct an original story. They use picture clues to aid comprehension, and match words with similar vowel...
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Fry's Fifth Hundred - Words 21 to 30
In this sight words worksheet, students read 10 sight words from Fry's list then trace each sight word 2 to 4 times. This would be a good worksheet to help students read and spell these words.
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Fry's Fifth Hundred - Words 71-80
In this sight words worksheet, students read 10 sight vocabulary words from Fry's list, then trace each word 2 to 4 times. This is a great activity to help students learn to read and spell sight words.
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CVC Cloze: Middle u
In this cloze activity worksheet, students use their reading comprehension skills to fill in the blanks in 10 sentences with CVC words that have the short u sound. Students list as many other CVC short u sound words as possible.
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CVC Word Review
In this CVC word review activity, students list CVC words in the "-an," "-ap," "-at," "-ed," "-en," and "-et" boxes on the graphic organizer. One example word is included in each of the boxes.