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Alphabet Scavenger Hunt

For Students K - 2nd Standards
Hunt through your classroom or around your school's campus for items that begin with every letter of the alphabet! Learners can record the words on this page, which lists the alphabet and provides lines to write on.
Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Alphabet Borders

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Help young scholars name the letters of the alphabet. They use the provided alphabet border and letter cards to take turns saying and finding various alphabet letters. This simple game can be extended by having learners focus on the...
Activity
Lakeshore Learning

Alphabet Sounds Teaching Tubs

For Teachers Pre-K - K
A hands-on activity brings the alphabet to life in your kindergarten! Fill tubs with items that begin with the same letter or end with the same sound, and let kids make the connections between the items. 
Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Fluency: Letter Recognition, Speedy Alphabet Arc

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
On your mark, get set, match! Learners use a complete set of letters, matching each to its outlined letter on an arc. As they choose letters, they name them aloud. For added difficulty, another arc is missing most of its letters to...
Printables
Kiz Club

Alphabet Floor Game

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Hop from one letter to the next with this alphabet practice game! Each foot-shaped piece includes one letter of the alphabet inside of it. Kids can step along the alphabet or use their feet to spell simple words.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Writing Worksheets

For Students K - 1st
Here are 26 templates for writing worksheets that permit learners to practice printing each letter of the alphabet, and complete other activities such as counting, drawing, coloring, recognizing letters, matching number and name,...
Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonics, Letter-Sound Correspondence: Letter Bag

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
An activity focuses on final sounds sorting. Scholars pull objects out of a bag, identify what letter sound the object ends with, then draw the picture under the appropriate column.
Unit Plan
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

A World of Animals: Challenge Activities (Theme 10)

For Teachers K Standards
Animals are the theme of this series of challenge activities. Extend scholars' learning opportunities by writing personal narratives and book reports, creating picture and alphabet books, and drawing scenes from stories read aloud.
PPT
Language Resources UK

Greetings & Alphabet

For Teachers 4th - 10th
Teach your class how to meet and greet in Spanish. The presentation prompts language learners to say buenos dias to five classmates and then to exchange names with five classmates. After the conversation activity, pupils learn the...
Activity
Curated OER

Alphabet Scavenger Hunt

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young learners use the provided worksheet to locate and record the names of 26 items that begin with letters of the alphabet. As an extra challenge, scavengers hunt the objects in alphabetical order.
Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Recognizing Letters

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Boost letter recognition with an activity that challenges young scholars to match a plastic letter to one printed on a card. 
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Pasta Names

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Helps learners recognize alphabet letters by having them glue dry pasta over their names. Scholars use a card with their names printed neatly, then decorate it with noodles while saying each letter they make. 
Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Segmenting and Blending, Picture Slide

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A hands-on activity challenges young scholars to name a picture, segment its phonemes, then blend those sounds to make the word. 
Lesson Plan
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Illustrative Mathematics

The Geometry of Letters

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Use the alphabet as a tool for teaching your class about geometric figures. Break apart capital letters into line segments and arcs. Classify angles as right, acute, or obtuse. Identify parallel and perpendicular lines. An excellent...
Activity
PBS

Using Symmetry to Create Corporate Logos

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
Young mathematicians investigate the use of symmetry in graphic design. After first learning about reflection, translational, and rotational symmetry, children use this new knowledge to identify symmetry in letters of the...
Activity
PBS

Dear Pen Pal

For Teachers 1st - 6th Standards
Explore cultures from around the world with an engaging pen pal resource. Through a series of classroom activities and written correspondence, children learn about the favoritec pastimes, schooling, geography, and weather that is...
Lesson Plan
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Binary Basics

For Students 9th - 12th
Back to the (binary) basics. The resource provides a simple overview of binary code and gives two different activities to introduce it to elementary and middle school learners. Classmates write and decode messages to each other in binary...
Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network (UEN)

Balanced Diet

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders investigate the concept of a balanced diet and how the food pyramid is organized. They conduct research using the links included in the instructional activity. They differentiate the parts of the pyramid while looking at...