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Move the Sounds

For Teachers K - 5th Standards
Use cut out letters to make beginning sounds, blends, and word families that ultimately make new words. Learners move around physically as they hold the letters to make the specified blend or word. Assessment suggestions are included.
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Fraction Spelling

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
An interesting take on spelling practice is included here! Emerging spellers take their weekly spelling list and create a three-column chart. In the first column, they write the word itself. In the second column, they write how many...
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"Where in the West" Guided Reading Lesson

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students complete a vocabulary chart, review proper/common nouns, discuss and review comparative adjectives and make "self to text" connections before reading. In this language arts lesson, comprehension questions are completed during...
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Pitch-er Perfect

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students investigate music and what causes the pitch of a sound.  In this sound properties lesson, students listen to a story about animals and the instinctual pitch they have in their voice and how musicians have that as well.  Students...
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Lily And Miss Liberty- Lesson 7 - Liberty Enlightening the World- Vocabulary - Word study pages 48-56

For Students 4th - 5th
In this vocabulary word study, learners complete vocabulary work from Lily and Miss Liberty, Lesson 7- "Liberty Enlightening the World", pages 48-56. They study the phonograms: igh, ng, oa, ch, ed, oo, or, and ar. There are no directions...
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Applying Decoding, Vocabulary, and During Reading Strategies

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Apply reading strategies to boost phonemic awareness. While reading a provided informational text, learners use decoding, vocabulary, and a graphic organizer to strengthen their overall reading ability. Handouts and the reading passage...
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Decoding Strategies

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Young readers apply decoding strategies to identify unknown words. In this reading lesson, they read the Preamble and practice using decoding strategies. Small groups rotate to five charts that have questions regarding the Constitution...
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Word Origins

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Understanding a word's etymology can really help with decoding and building vocabulary skills. Readers compare and contrast words of similar origins but with different difficulty levels. They focus on prefixes, suffixes, and affixes....
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The Cream Cake Mystery - Seeing Patterns

For Teachers K - 6th
A great language arts lesson designed for emerging readers awaits your class. Rhyming words are the focus. Learners play an interactive learning game on the computer that helps them to understand words that rhyme. As with all of these...
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Guess Which Word?

For Teachers K - 12th
Students listen to clues to a mystery word. They use phonics and language skills to figure out a mystery word.
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Here's An Instant Activity for April 7, 2003

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders practice their spelling skills with soft syllable endings. In this spelling lesson plan, 5th graders complete soft syllable interaction activity with their teacher. Students then write 16 le-ending and ly-ending word pairs...
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The Fly Swatter Game

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Learners are placed in small groups to participate in the "Fly Swatter Game" to reinforce phonetic sounds of letters.
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The Art of Simple Machines

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students investigate the inventions of simple machines in our past and how they affect us today.  In this engineering lesson, students discover who Rube Goldberg was and his ideas about complicated machines performing very simple tasks....
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Art and Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students examine the writing process by describing a piece of art.  In this art analysis instructional activity, students examine a painting in a museum and write a story describing the painting to someone who has never seen it before....
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Here's and Instant Activity for October 20, 2008

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students complete spelling activities for words with or and ore spellings. In this spelling lesson, students find antonyms for the 'or' words in the first exercise. Students find synonyms for the second exercise.
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Word Review Card Activity

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Pupils play a card game where they match the meaning of the word to the word or its prefix/suffix. They listen for the teacher to call out the definition and, with two players facing off, the first one to slap the correct card wins! Kids...
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Building Vocabulary with Word Fun

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students discover palindromes. In this vocabulary skills lesson, students participate in 3 palindrome activities that require them to read and create number and word palindromes.
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Alphabet Organizer

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Students practice organizing their vocabulary words in an online organizer tool. In this vocabulary lesson, students read a text and take notes. Additionally, students organize their vocabulary words into an online "Alphabet Organizer"...
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Bitsboard - Education, Games, and Flashcards for Learning Reading, Spelling, and more

For Students K - 8th
Learn everything from sight words to French vocabulary with this versatile study app. While the material that comes pre-loaded on the app is mostly based on learning how to read and spell, the app has the potential to be useful for any...
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Lights, Camera, and Action!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
These activities center around acting out a play to help create fluent readers who use expression and emotion. As readers work through the play the first time, they also practice decoding strategies. In small groups of four, they then...
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Vocabulary through Text

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Explore word meanings. Sixth graders identify examples of words with affixes while listening to the story Paul Bunyan by Steven Kellogg. They participate in the game "Pass the Parts" and practice separating given words into their root...
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Meet The Artist

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students investigate art history by researching a particular artist.  In this biographical lesson, students are given a brief summary of a artist's life and are assigned to create a report on the person.  Students create an outline based...
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Put Your Face on the Map

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Young scholars investigate topography and contour lines by examining a human face.  In this mapping lesson, students create a plaster cast of a face and create a map of the contours of the face one centimeter at a time.  Young scholars...
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Pass the Poetry

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Learners read various poems daily.  In this poetry lesson, students are exposed to poetry each day in a variety of ways.  There are several ideas on how to incorporate poetry into the classroom on a daily basis as well as a list of...

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