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Free Reading

Free Reading: Letter Ring Game: Letter Sound Accuracy Activity

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A fun, unique version of the game "Ring Around the Rosie" that builds the students' accuracy in identifying letters, sounds, and words that begin with that letter. A link to printable letter cards is provided on this site as well.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Give Me Five; Letter Sound Accuracy Activity

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
An exciting game to build students' understanding and accuracy of producing words that begin with the same letter. Students sit in a circle and the teacher says the sound of the letter. One student must pass a bean bag around the circle...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Egg Carton Game; Letter Sound Accuracy Activity

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A small group game to build students' abilities to identify letters and their sounds. A student shakes an egg carton, opens it to see where a chip landed, and says the letter and its sound.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Connect 4 Words: Letter Sound Accuracy Activity

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A reading game based on "Connect 4" that will build student's abilities to say the name and sound of a letter and find a word beginning with that sound.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Tic Tac Toe; Letter Sound Accuracy Activity

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A letter sound version of Tic Tac Toe that learners play with partners. Before they can take their turn, they must draw a letter and give three words that begin with that letter. Their partner must give them a thumbs up before they can...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: "You're a Liar!" a Letter Sound Accuracy Game

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A small group game using cards with letters of the alphabet on them. The object is to place cards face down in a pile in alphabetical order. Based on an old card game called "I doubt it." This site has a link to a Letter card site for...
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St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Wh, Qu, Th Lesson

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "wh", "qu", and "th" in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Catch a Sound: Letter Sound Accuracy Activity

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A quick alphabet game for the whole class. Young scholars stand in a circle and throw a beanbag to each other. When they catch it, they must say a word that begins with the letter given. Continue this in alphabetical order.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: "I Spy" Letter Sound Accuracy

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Use this game of "I Spy" to help students build their accuracy of letter identification! Can be student- or teacher-led.
Interactive
Free Reading

Free Reading: Letter Baseball: Letter Sound Fluency Game

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
An exciting letter "baseball" game where students "bat" by giving a word that starts with the letter that the teacher holds up. This site includes a link to letter cards to print.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Beginning Consonant Sound Concentration Game

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a concentration game that focuses on hard and soft g/c consonant sounds. It can be used a class activity or a center.
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St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Digraphs and X Lesson

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "x" or digraphs. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see...
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Kidsource OnLine

Kid Source: Beginning Reading and Phonological Awareness

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Key to learning how to read is the ability to identify the different sounds that make words and to associate these sounds with written words. There are 44 phonemes in the English language, including letter combinations such as /th/,...
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Ingles Mundial

Ingles Mundial: Work (El Trabajo) Pronunciation

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Extensive site focusing on Spanish-speaking ELL. This section practices sound recognition. It contrasts "th" (vocalized) & "th" (not vocalized). Great interactive listening comprehension exercises reinforce teachings. There is also a...
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: First Letters

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart will assist students in recognizing all initial consonant and short vowel sounds (a-z, ch, sh, th) in speech and writing; to identify and write correct initial letters in response to the...
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HotChalk

Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Consonant Digraphs

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
What is a digraph? The objective of this lesson plan is that students will be able to recognize and use consonant digraphs in sentences and speech.
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Other

Tampa Reads: Phonemic Awareness and Consonant Digraphs Worksheets

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Focus on the important skills of identifying where in a word a given sound appears, and on learning four consonant digraphs vital to learning to read (ch, sh, th, and wh).
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Cornell Lab of Ornithology: Northern Shoveler

For Students 9th - 10th
This competent site features an abundance of facts, photos, and sounds of th Northern Shoveler. A menu of topics includes: cool facts, description, range, habitat, food, behavior, reproduction, and conservation status.
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Curated OER

Northern Shoveler, Male, Breeding Plumage

For Students 9th - 10th
This competent site features an abundance of facts, photos, and sounds of th Northern Shoveler. A menu of topics includes: cool facts, description, range, habitat, food, behavior, reproduction, and conservation status.
Graphic
Curated OER

Cornell Lab of Ornithology: Northern Shoveler

For Students 9th - 10th
This competent site features an abundance of facts, photos, and sounds of th Northern Shoveler. A menu of topics includes: cool facts, description, range, habitat, food, behavior, reproduction, and conservation status.
Graphic
Curated OER

Northern Shoveler, Female

For Students 9th - 10th
This competent site features an abundance of facts, photos, and sounds of th Northern Shoveler. A menu of topics includes: cool facts, description, range, habitat, food, behavior, reproduction, and conservation status.
Graphic
Curated OER

Cornell Lab of Ornithology: Northern Shoveler

For Students 9th - 10th
This competent site features an abundance of facts, photos, and sounds of th Northern Shoveler. A menu of topics includes: cool facts, description, range, habitat, food, behavior, reproduction, and conservation status.