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ABC Café Alphabet Matching Game

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Glue the first two pages provided here to a folder of piece of card stock to create a private table at the ABC Café. Included in the materials are 26 food items that each start with a different letter of the alphabet, every letter of the...
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Introduce Vocabulary: Kindergarten ABC (Rogers)

For Teachers K - 1st
As kindergartners are learning the alphabet, expand their vocabulary in the process using Jacqueline Rogers' book Kindergarten ABC. Each page features a letter and various objects for scholars to locate in the picture, and they focus on...
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Introduce Vocabulary: Into the A, B, Sea (Rose)

For Teachers K - 3rd
As budding readers learn about the ocean, they'll get practice with the alphabet and new vocabulary words (cling, nab, prey, slumber, and thrive) in context. Read Deborah Rose's book Into the A, B, Sea, which includes a glossary in the...
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Practicing Letters q and r

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Youngsters drill their alphabet skills, honing in on lowercase letters q and r. They trace and print each letter before connecting it to images with the same initial sound. They also complete the alphabet by adding these two letters....
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Lowercase and Uppercase #1

For Students Pre-K - K Standards
Practice with uppercase and lowercase letters using this matching worksheet. There are several letters here and scholars match the ones that make the same sound. The trick is that the matching pairs are between capitals and lowercase...
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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...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Fluency: Letter-Sound Correspondence, Letter Flash

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Scholars work in pairs to drill and practice alphabet sounds, keeping track of their progress on a chart. Working one at a time, each partner flips letter cards, saying the sound and letter. If they get it correct, it goes in the YES...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Letter Recognition: Tap Stack

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Practice letter recognition using this fun alphabet game! Focusing on a suggested six target letters, this partner activity has learners saying and recognizing letter names as quickly as possible. Using a randomly chosen letter as the...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonics: Letter Recognition, Lettercritter

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This is a fun idea to get your scholars practicing their ABCs! They assemble an alphabet caterpillar, printing lowercase versions below each uppercase letter. They practice writing the lowercase letters using dry-erase markers and say...
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Practice with Letters: Q-R

For Students K - 1st
Get those pencils moving! Learners examine capital letters Q-X, first observing how the magic pencil prints each one. Then, they get a chance to trace a letter, following the arrows. Finally, it's time to try on their own! There is...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonics: Letter Recognition, Clip-A-Letter

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Young scholars show what they know about the alphabet. With two circles—one surrounded by capital letters and one with lowercase—pupils use clothespins to match letters, case to case or the opposite. 
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Printing Practice: Letters Y and Z

For Students K - 1st
Catch the tail end of alphabet printing practice with this Y and Z activity. For each, learners examine the correct form, and trace a gray outline. Then, they practice on their own in the space provided. More handwriting lines are...
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Printing Lowercase M

For Students Pre-K - 2nd
Watch the magic pencil! Beginning printers practice lowercase m, first examining how the magic pencil writes it. Consider creating a "magic pencil" for your class, and inviting willing participants up to demonstrate proper handwriting...
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Lowercase U

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Looking for a printing practice worksheet that synthesizes through spelling? This worksheet is a great practice tool for scholars new to printing the letter u. They first watch the "magic pencil," then try on their own. Consider creating...
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Tracing the Letter e

For Students Pre-K - 1st
It's the most commonly occurring letter in the English alphabet! Scholars practice their printing in this tracing activity focused on the lower-case e. They then trace letters to finish four CVC words, and add an "e" to finish four CVC...
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ABC Maze

For Students K - 2nd
In this ABC maze, students begin with the letter a and trace their way through the maze by finding the letters in alphabetical order. An answer key is included for this one-page instructional activity.
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Chicka Chicka Boom Boom ABC Prints

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students practice the alphabet. In this ABC lesson, students read Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and identify the letters of the alphabet in the story. Students then make ABC prints using sponges.
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ABC Uppercase Trace

For Students K - 1st
In this tracing letters worksheet, students identify the uppercase letters A, B, and C and trace the given examples for each letter.
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Animal ABC Book

For Teachers K - Higher Ed
Students in class choose a letter of the alphabet and uses the Enchanted studying web site to pick which animal they copy and paint for their letter. Students copy animal printout and paint or color it.
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Memory Game with a Smile

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students take it in turns to say two letters and then they turn the corresponding cards around to see if the pictures/words on them match. If they do, student who has found the pair wins 1 point.
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Letter Lane

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Click on each letter of the alphabet to learn about things that start with that letter. You will be lead to outside resources on that topic.
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Walker Art Gallery: Big Art Alphabet

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Learn your alphabet by finding objects in famous works of art.
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Uen: Abc Fun

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this differentiated lesson, teachers will engage students in working with letters and their sounds. Word-making (low level), word making with several letters (middle level), and word generating with random single letter pulling are...
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Media Line: Interactive Resource for Television Industry

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a multimedia information center for journalists working (or hoping to work) in television. Great visuals and reader-friendly copy.