Scholastic
Reading Success Mini Books: Word Families
Engage children in learning about rhyming words with this printable book on the -ing word family. Including six words with supporting pictures, young learners practice reading and writing the words before adding their own word and...
ReadWriteThink
Word Recognition Strategies Using Nursery Rhymes
As a class, scholars read the poems, Humpty Dumpty, Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater, and Jack and Jill, in order to identify words with the same ending sound. Using their rhyming skills, learners brainstorm additional words from word...
Curated OER
Word Family List
For this word family worksheet, students read 16 words that end with "aw." Words include claw, draw, flaw, withdraw, and jigsaw.
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I Can Read! Sight Words Set #16
Now, there, of, and say are the sight words in focus in a printable packet in which you can use all, or some, of the activities to reinforce your early readers' sight word proficiency.
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Word Families 1
In this AT, AN and AP word families worksheet, students read aloud 16 words and then write them underneath the word families that they belong with.
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Poetry & Word Families
Students study a word family before listing rhyming words in that family. They use the words to begin developing lines of poetry. They continue writing poetry individually and finally, they illustrate their work using graphic software.
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Word Family List
In this word family worksheet, students read 17 words that end with "-ake." Words include bake, brake, cake, rake, quake, and wake.
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Word Family Arrows
Students identify correct word families. In this word families educational game, students practice matching words to the correct word family.
Literacy Connects
Activities to Build Phonological Awareness
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 and...
Curated OER
Word Lists
In this Language Arts worksheet, students read three lists of three to six letter words. The words are categorized according to their word family.
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English--"Humpty Dumpty"--Identifying Rhyming Words
In this rhyming words activity, students read Humpty Dumpty and begin recognizing rhyming words. Students unmix a mixed up batch of words by putting the words in 3 word family columns and list each one underneath one of the families....
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Build a Word
Students explore new words through letters or letter groups. In this lesson about words, students use index cards to build new words. Each index card contains one letter or letter group. Students utilize different strategies like...
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Making Words
Learners create a list of words from a list of letters in a longer word or a collection of given letters. After completing the list, students recognize word families, words that rhyme, words that have the same base word, and words that...
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Syllables
How many syllables? This practice worksheet starts with a brief introduction on segmenting words, encouraging kids to say words aloud. They categorize 12 words into lists based on number of syllables: one, two, or three. Next, scholars...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
We’re a Family: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 3)
Teach your English language learners how to talk about their families with three weeks of lessons. Over the course of the thematic unit, learners pick up new vocabulary so that they can talk about families and relationships, clothing,...
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Words With Short A Sound
While just a series of slides with lists of words containing the short A sound, this resource would be a handy tool in a kindergarten or first grade classroom. You could use this resource as a quick review of this sound. This...
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Dr. Seuss - Make Time for Rhymes
Read the story Green Eggs and Ham to practice phonemic awareness, rhyming, and writing skills with emerging readers. They will match oral words to printed words, create a graphic organizer, and the use rhyming words in an original...
Kelly's Kindergarten
August Daily Activities
You'll feel more than prepared for the start of the school year with this collection of daily activities for the month of August! From filling in numbers on a calendar or coloring patterns to solving addition and reading comprehension...
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The Purple Cow
Students read and discuss the poem, The Purple Cow. In this poetry lesson plan, students discuss the rhyming words in the poem and why this piece of literature is silly or unusual.
Make Take Teach
7 Syllable Types - Classroom Posters
Review r-controlled words, open and closed vowels, and dipthongs with a set of classroom posters. Each page features one concept with a colorful illustration, an explanation, and a list of applicable words.
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Identify the Element of Line
Students explore the element of "line." In this beginning art lesson, students listen to the book Harold and the Purple Crayon, then describe the types of lines Harold drew. Students identify straight lines, jagged lines, curvy lines,...
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Making Words - With A Twist
Learners take a scrambled word and try to make other words using all of the letters. They form words out of playdough as well.
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Applying Phonetic Principles
Young readers develop their phonetic skills by using a nifty tool called a word pocket. They use the tool to help them organize individual letters that they have at their desks to spell entire words and to construct beginning and ending...
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Really Useful List of 100 Plural Nouns in English
In this language arts worksheet, students analyze a list of 100 nouns which do not follow the usual rule of adding an -s to make a plural. Students fill in the blanks of the chart and make irregular plurals. Example: tooth (teeth).