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Mouse Mess
Scholars practice rhyming and phonemic awareness using trade books and poetry. They will listen to the book Mouse Mess several times throughout the week, identifying rhyming words, and matching words that begin with the same sound. Then...
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Letter Sounds
Young scholars orally say the sounds of the letters A, G, H, L, N, R, W, and J at the beginning of words when given a list of words that start with these letters. They use at least two of these words effectively in a sentence. Students...
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Alphabet Poems
Develop fluency with a variety of works. Help kindergartners use multiple strategies to understand text and decoding. They will create an alphabet poem book on Kid Works 2 to illustrate and write their own poem. In the end, they will...
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Animated Alphabet
Students explore English by completing an interactive language history activity. In this word recognition activity, students discuss word formations and the phonetic relationship between letters. Students identify the origin of...
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Chicken Soup With Rice
Complete a variety of activities related to the Maurice Sendak's book Chicken Soup With Rice. Readers identify the months of the year, identify words starting with the letter J, explore online illustrations created by Maurice Sendak, and...
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Beginning and Ending Consonants
Young readers explore consonant sounds. In this beginning phonics lesson, learners fill in a beginning/middle/end vertical column chart with the sounds they hear in the pictured object. Practice spelling CVC words.
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Eehh?" is for Eleven Elephants
Pupils complete a variety of activities related to the short /e/ sound. As a class they recite a tongue twister, then trace and write the letter E. Students then listen to word pairs and identify the word containing the short /e/...
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Marvelous Monsters!
Students complete a variety of activities related to the letter M. As a class they recite a tongue twister and identify the words containing the letter M. Next, students trace and write the Letter M, listen to the book "My Monster Mama...
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Writing With Dolch
Middle schoolers increase their skills in word attack, fluency, and spelling of words and research and find information on topics from the Internet. They then use the Quick Cam with the computer and will increase cooperative skills in...
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To Make a Cake you must say /A/
Here is a great way for learners to practice identifying sounds made by both short and long vowels. This lesson stresses the a_e=/A/ correspondence along with letterboxes. They read their spelled words, whole text selection and...
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Reintroduce "ee"
Students explore phonics by participating in a word sound activity. In this repeating vowels lesson, students identify the sound that is made from the letters "ee" and words in which the consecutive vowels appear.
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VCe Rule Accuracy
Explore word structure by participating in a vowels and consonants activity with young readers. They will read words their teacher points out in class and pronounce them correctly. Then they identify the words they say which have a...
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VCe Rule Fluency
Explore English by identifying word structures. Learners find many words that end with a vowel, consonant, and then an e. The class will participate in a word flash card game in which they correctly pronounce vowel-consonant words.
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What Do You See at the Pond?
With What Do You See at the Pond?, young readers explore pond life and practice reading strategies. Learners first make predictions and then read the simple story independently. After a second read-through with a partner, kids come...
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Phonics Instruction: Long Vowel Sound, Silent E
Students explore language arts by participating in a class word identification game. In this phonics instructional activity, students read several words in class and identify the different sounds between short and long vowel words....
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Introduce -ed = /d/, -ed = /t/ Words
First graders explore word structure by participating in a phonics activity. In this word ending instructional activity, 1st graders discuss the -ed endings to many words and practice sounding out words with that ending. Students...
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Discovering the Milky Way
What do you call a tiny collection of galaxies? A puny-verse! Young scholars graph data gathered by scientists studying Cepheids. They attempt to identify a relationship between the variables through standard and logarithmical...
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Phonics and Vegetable Books
Students participate in phonemic awareness and phonics activities and develop a list of vegetable vocabulary words. They break up words into beginnings and endings, and trace and write the letter s. Students then create a Vegetable...
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ESOL Competencies: Telephone Communication
Help, there's an emergency! Adult English language learners need to know how to express concern and call for help in an emergency. Provide them with this comprehensive list of vocabulary and lead them through the exercises given....
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Formal versus Informal Language
Engage in an activity that focuses on the concepts of formal and informal language use. Middle and high schoolers compare and contrast each style by using a Venn diagram that includes some examples. They read and hear a passage of lyrics...
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The Cow That Went Oink
Learners complete a variety of activities related to the book The Cow That Went Oink. They role-play the various animals from the story, write a letter to a farm animal in the book, identify syllables of story words, and create an...
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Introduce "ur"
Young scholars explore language arts by participating in a word sound activity. In this letter combination lesson, students discuss the sound "ur" makes and the types of words it appears in. Young scholars identify the sound as the...
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Introduce -ar
Students explore phonetics by participating in a pronunciation activity. In this word sound lesson, students discuss the sound "ar" and identify words that commonly use the sound. Students listen to their teacher say words and identify...
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Reintroduce "Ur"
Students explore word structure by participating in a word sound activity. In this vocabulary identification lesson, students discuss the sound that is made by the letters "ur" and in what words this sound is found. Students listen as...