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Short Vowels

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Learners will create a list of short vowel sound words and participate in computer phonics activities to practice. They will read an interactive storybook online. Next, they will complete words in order to better understand short vowel...
Workbook
Kathryn J. Davis

Abridged Short Vowel Spelling Workbook

For Students K - 2nd
Find 50 pages of worksheets to help emerging readers practice short vowel sounds using pictures, simple sentences, and word matching. They focus on CVC and two-letter words with short vowels. 
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Surprise!: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 2)

For Teachers 1st Standards
Surprise! is the theme of a unit covering such topics as consonants, blending, short vowels sounds, high frequency words, and number words. The unit's lessons also include teachable moments covering story structure, illustrations,...
Lesson Plan
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Short Vowel Sounds

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Pupils write down all short vowel sounds. They read their spelling words and attach them to each short vowel sound. They practice writing each spelling word under each short vowel sound that they have listed on their paper. They discuss...
Workbook
Essential Skills Software

Worksheet Set: Super Phonics Level 2

For Students Pre-K - 2nd Standards
Supercharge beginning readers phonics skills with this extensive collection of worksheets. With exercises on long and short vowels, consonant blends, rhyming words, word endings, and much more, this resource is a primary grade teacher's...
Unit Plan
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

All Together Now: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 1)

For Teachers 1st Standards
All Together Now is the theme of this series of ESL lessons. Provide support to your language learners through games, role play, stories, and discussions all about greeting others, giving commands, telling about themselves, and...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Family and Friends: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 4)

For Teachers 1st Standards
Family and Friends is the theme of a unit offering extra support lessons. Follow each lesson plan's teach, blend, guided practice or practice/apply routine to reinforce concepts such as clusters, responding to reading, drawing...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

A World of Animals: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 10)

For Teachers K Standards
Provide extra support with this collection of animal-themed lessons. Early readers gain proficiency in high frequency words are and he, practice blending short vowel sounds, and substitute initial and final phonemes while...
Lesson Plan
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Suppressing Short O

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students complete a variety of activities as they explore/review the letter 'o' and the short /o/ sound. They recite short /o/ tongue twisters, practice writing the letter 'o', and listen to stories, identifying words with the short /o/...
Lesson Plan
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Open Wide and Say Ahh

For Teachers K - 1st
Students recognize the short vowel o in written and spoken language. Through matching and listening activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /o/ from other phonemes. Students identify the phoneme and letter in words and pictures.
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Ouch! I have a booboo

For Teachers 1st
First graders recognize the short vowel o in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /u/ spelled ou from the short vowel /u/ spelled u. Students associate the phoneme with its letter...
Lesson Plan
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Mr. Cloak Loads his Boat with Oats

For Teachers 1st
First graders distinguish between the sounds for short vowel o and long vowel o. They are introduced to the vowel patterns that comprise long vowel sounds, with a particular emphasis on /oa/. They practice reading and identifying a...
Lesson Plan
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Building a Sentence

For Teachers 1st
First graders echo a sentence targeting a vowel selected by the teacher and shown on a sentence strip. In this sentence building activity, 1st graders put the cut up sentence strip back into correct order, repeating the sentence....
Worksheet
Starfall

Oo is for Octopus

For Students K - 1st
Oodles of fun and opportunities for learning are overwhelming in this Letter O activity series, which features printing practice for letters and numbers, connect the docts, and lots of cute octopi for your learners to color.
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Hungry Ollie Octopus

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners recognize the short vowel o in written and spoken language. Through matching and listening activities, they discriminate the short vowel /o/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and...
Lesson Plan
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Say Ahh Went the Doc

For Teachers K - 1st
Students recognize the short vowel O in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /o/ from other vowel sounds. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify...
Lesson Plan
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Olly Olly Oxenfree

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars review short vowel sounds. They complete a variety of activities as they discover how to say the short /o/ sound, write the letter 'o', and pronounce words with the short /o/ sound. They read stories with short /o/ words...
Worksheet
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The Hole Story

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this filling in the blanks and sequencing learning exercise, learners use words from the word box to complete the sentences and number the pictures to show the order of events in the short story. Learners write 8 answers.
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Open Up and Say /o/

For Teachers 1st
First graders listen to a variety of words to see if they can recognize the /o/ sound. They use letterboxes and letters discovering that each mouth moves gets its own box practicing forming words with the /o/ vowel sound. They then read...
Unit Plan
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Silly Stories: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 1)

For Teachers 2nd
Kids who need extra support with the concepts in the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt thematic unit on silly stories, will benefit from this packet packed with skill builders, activities, exercises, and practice sets.
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Hot Rod

For Teachers K - 1st
Students complete a variety of activities related to the short /o/ sound. They spell different words containing the short /o/ sound using letter manipulatives, and with a partner read the book "Big Top." With their partner they count...
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Spinning Short Vowel Game

For Teachers 1st
First graders, in pairs, use spinners to experiment with different combinations of letters. They combine letters and determine whether they have produced a word or not. They construct and record words choosing letters from designated tiles.
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Open Wide at the Dentist, "Aaaahh"

For Teachers K - 1st
Study the /o/ in both written and spoken words by reciting a tongue twister and making words using Elkonin letterboxes. Next, write a message about frogs using /o/ words. Finally, listen to a short book talk on "Doc in the Fog" before...
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Let's Read and Read!

For Teachers K
Students discover how to hold their mouths to form the /o/ sound and that it may be hidden in different words. They say /o/ and then repeat a tongue twister that contains many /o/ words and practice writing it on primary lined paper....