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Starfall

Starfall: Make a Word: En

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Create words using short vowel E. Identify beginning sounds using pictures to build words.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Phonics Lesson: The Ir, Er, and Ur Girls

For Teachers K - 1st
This phonics lesson plan will introduce the ir, er, and ur girls, but will focus on the /er/ sound. Students will learn that when found together the letters e and r make the /er/ sound instead of two separate sounds. Students will have...
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Writing Fix

Writingfix: Alliteration Potluck

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson plan, Potluck by Anne Shelby, is used as a mentor text for word choice. The content focus of the lesson is to highlight alliteration. Each student will use alliteration in a sentence as the student include his/her name, a...
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Starfall

Starfall: Y Can Be a Vowel

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Discover how and when the letter "y" can act as a vowel. This site features an audio and video component exploring this topic. Students and teachers will benefit from this entertaining resource.
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Hopelink

Hopelink: Reading Lesson Idea: Dealing With Long Words

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Don't let long words intimidate. Here students learn to break up long words into syllables.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Reading/writing About Whales Using Fiction and Nonfiction Texts

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Young scholars will have a whale of a good time in this instructional activity in which they use fiction and nonfiction texts to write a letter to an online scientist.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Mail Time! An Integrated Postcard and Geography Study

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Contains plans for five cross-curricular lessons that teach about geography, reading, and writing by having students send postcards to relatives and asking them to send postcards back. In addition to objectives and standards, this...
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Read Works

Read Works: Vocabulary in Context Kindergarten Unit: Using Sound and Picture Cues

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson uses Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Ehlert to teach students to use picture cues and initial word sounds to identify unknown words. Ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and independent...
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: The Exciting Ee

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart focuses on recognizing the letter Ee, learning both long and short /e/ sounds, and writing Ee.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Onset Rhyme

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A one page flipchart that has an activity for students to create words. Have students move initial letters to appropriate endings to create words.
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Starfall

Starfall: Make a Word: Long I

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Given the letter I with a blank before it and a list of letters from which to choose, students make words to match given pictures. Audio and graphs make this page really kid-friendly. When finished, the game moves on to new letter...
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Starfall

Starfall: Make a Word: Long U

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Given the letter U with a blank before it and a list of letters from which to choose, students make words to match given pictures. Audio and graphs make this page really kid-friendly. When finished, the game moves on to new letter...
Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Make a Word: Ink

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Interactive word game uses picture cues. Make a word by dragging the letter tiles to spell each short vowel word.
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PBS

Pb skids.org: Arthur

For Students Pre-K - 1st
An entire learning module of Arthur! Anything Arthur you've ever needed or wanted you can find here. Topics include an Arthur newsletter, e-cards, an Elwood City map, sign design, letters to Arthur, about face, song book, coloring pages,...
Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Make a Word: Et

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Interactive word game that matches pictures to short vowel ET words. Build short vowel words using picture cues. Word list: jet, pet, wet, net.
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St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Ie, Ui, U Lesson

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "ie", "ui", and "u" to form words. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound...
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St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Lessons 68 73 Review

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this beginning reading module, the instructor reviews how to pronounce words that incorporate"a_e", "e_e", "ing", and other patterns. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to...
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St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Lessons 84 88 Review

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this beginning reading module, the instructor reviews words that incorporate "ie", "ui", "u", "3 syllables", "4 syllables", and more. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to...
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St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Ed Quiz

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site is an interactive quiz to assess knowledge of "ed" suffix. The quiz is designed to follow the "Reading Bear: ed" lesson.
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St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Ge, Dge, Etc. Lesson

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "ge", "dge", etc. Students will choose to sound out words, see words sounded out, see words with pictures with and without sounds, and see...
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian in Your Classroom: Introduction to the Nature Journal [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Smithsonian in the Classroom presents "Introduction to the Nature Journal." Teachers can download this comprehensive teaching package in which students will practice and develop their skills of writing observations and making hypotheses....
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Other

Teaching Ideas: Fifty Alternatives to the Book Report

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Just as the title claims, here are fifty different ways to respond to a book. Most can be adapted to all grade levels.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: The Take Away Game: Onset Rime Segmenting

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A classroom activity led by the instructor. The student is given a spoken onset and rime, and learns to remove the onset and state the remaining rime.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: High Frequency Word Concentration

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart students match the high frequency words in a concentration game format. I use this as a center activity.

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