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K12 Reader

Will You Stay and Play?

For Students 1st Standards
Start off your day with a study of -ay words. Pupils can practice long a with -ay words by reading the brief poem included here. After they read, class members answer three reading comprehension questions right on the page.
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Curated OER

Introduce /A/

For Teachers K
Students say the sound for the letter a, reviewing the position of the mouth and voice box. In this phonics activity, students brainstorm other words that begin with the /a/ sound and choose the letter from a set of 12, continuing...
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Curated OER

Reintroduce /A/

For Teachers K
Pupils review the sound /a/. In this phonics instructional activity, students practice the sound, touching their voice box to make sure "it is on." Pupils say the sound when the teacher points to the letter among a set of 12.
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Curated OER

Can you cry like a baby?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice the strategies of phonemes and spellings maps to sound out new words. They work on the short vowel /a/ sound with a sentence strip with "Allie the Alligator sat on a mat eating apples," on it and the book, "Cat in the...
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Curated OER

Word Family Jamboree

For Teachers K
Students explore rhyming words, beginning and ending sounds. In this word family lesson, students identify beginning and ending sounds. Students draw pictures of words and use phonetic spellings to write stories. Students use Dr. Seuss...
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Curated OER

the Little Red Riding Hood

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students respond to the story of Little Red Riding Hood. In this Red Riding Hood instructional activity, students retell and discuss story elements.  Students practice phonic sounds.  Students role play, make predictions, use picture...
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App
ABCya

Word BINGO

For Students Pre-K - 4th
Practicing sight words is all fun and games with this app! Users hear, read, and spell words off the Dolch Word List. But that's not all! Players also get to create their own avatar, collect BINGO bugs, view their scores, and more within...
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Curated OER

The Pony Song

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students sing "Three Little Pigs", the "Pony Song", and "The Animal Blues" in this elementary school music lesson. National and State Standards are addressed. Assessment rubric is included for grading and student evaluation.
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Curated OER

Animals

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students identify the names of animals in Spanish. Using plastic models, they point, touch and view the animal. They practice counting and stating the color of the animal as well. They make the sounds their favorite animal makes.
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Curated OER

The Best Pet

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners listen to the story , Pet Show, and discuss the variety of animals that were in the show. The class recalls the animals and practice sounding out the names. Then they decide which animal should receive the best of show ribbon.
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Curated OER

Mice Squeak; We Speak

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Students create a poster.  In this vocabulary instructional activity, students use vocabulary words such as squeak, creak, squeal, squawk and quack to identify the sounds and noises of each word.  Students come up with rhyming words and...
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Curated OER

Ordinal Positions in a Sequence

For Teachers K
Students study ordinal positions through class reading and discussion, complete an Animal Parade activity sheet and Internet activity to demonstrate knowledge about ordinal positions with 100% accuracy, and play a math computer game.
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Curated OER

Chug Choo Choo

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify the digraph /ch/ in written and spoken language. After a brief discussion of the independent and combined sounds of the phonemes /c/ and /h/ students practice identifying initial and final placement of the new...
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Curated OER

Izzy the Insect

For Teachers K - 1st
Students recognize the short vowel i in written and spoken language. Through listening activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /i/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify them...
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Curated OER

ABC Bingo

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice recognizing letters and phonemes. After the instructor reads a book emphasizing the sound each letter makes, students play letter recognition games. Through matching and listening games, they recognize the letter from...
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Curated OER

PBS Kids Go Buster Buffalo Round-Up

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders visit Rapid City, South Dakota, and Jackson Hole, Wyoming in these two episodes of Buster. They examine the Lakota people in South Dakota to see what it means to persevere. They sing songs and study idioms. They brainstorm...
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Curated OER

Nosferatu Expression and Diminished Chords

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore how to construct and play diminished triads and half and whole diminished chords on the keyboard. They create appropriate sounds to accompany sections of the movie "Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horrors." Students discuss the...
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Curated OER

Baby Sally is Upset Again!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Pupils, assessing how to read and write, join together grapheme's and the phonemes that make up words. They practice recognizing in oral and written form the vowel /a/. The book, "Matt and Rags," is introduced to the students in this...
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Desert Discoveries

Nocturnal Navigators

For Teachers 3rd
Young biologists take a look at some of the unique ways that nocturnal animals survive in the dark. After reading a terrific student handout which is embedded in the plan, learners work together to answer questions about what they have...
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Curated OER

Character Attributes in Writing

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders analyze the importance of characters in fiction writing and performances.  In this theatre lesson, 3rd graders identify the important characteristics of a fictional character and how to portray a character through many...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Let’s Look Around!: Challenge Activities (Theme 3)

For Teachers 1st Standards
Let's Look Around! is the theme of a unit that offers a plethora of challenge activities. Enhance your scholars' learning experiences and reinforce concepts with activities such as writing a book about farm animals, an imaginary place,...
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K5 Learning

Rhyming Animals

For Students 2nd Standards
Second graders read an informational text passage on animals, as well as a poem that incorporates rhyming words. Then, 2nd graders answer questions based on what they read. 
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K5 Learning

Musical Instruments to Play

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Bring some music to your language arts lesson with a reading comprehension activity. Learners read an informational passage about different musical instruments before answering a series of comprehension and vocabulary questions.
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Perkins School for the Blind

Let's Pretend

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Playing pretend with real objects or concepts is a wonderful way for learners to make object-to-action connections, as well as practice daily living skills. Learners with visual and intellectual disabilities use a wide variety of real...

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