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Curated OER

Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Manipulating, Name Changes

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Set up a listening center, record the provided script, and see how well your class can manipulate phonemes based on the instructions you've provided. This center-based activity builds the phonological awareness and phoneme manipulation...
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Activity
Curated OER

Phonological Awareness, Phoneme Manipulating, Phoneme Position Sort

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Scholars make new words out of old ones by manipulating phonemes. Pupils mix and match initial, medial, and final phonemes to change words like cap into cup or head into bed.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Manipulating, Phoneme Swap

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Reading readiness can be a fun skill to foster. Scholars manipulate phonemes to change one word into another. They pick picture cards, say the object's name on the card, then change the final phoneme to create a new word. They then find...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Manipulating, Word Change

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Once your scholars know their letter sounds and recognize them in words, have them try making new words by manipulating phonemes. Pupils are given a word change picture board and a stack of word pictures. They pick a card and place it...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Manipulating, What's Left?

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Scholars subtract initial phonemes from given picture word cards to create new words. Feet becomes eat, and shelf becomes elf.
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Curated OER

Call it "Macaroni"

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Who knew there were so many fun educational opportunities featuring pasta? Scholars read a brief informational text about the history of pasta (note that "macaroni" is spelled two different ways, so address this if kids are reading...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

"Using Manipulatives and/or Technology to Solve Math Problems" by Cooking Dinner

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students explore math functions by preparing a meal. In this food measurement lesson, students examine a recipe for a meal and alter the size of the recipe based upon the amount of servings needed. Students utilize manipulatives to...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

A Remainder of One: A Math-Manipulative Lesson

For Teachers K - 5th
Students listen to the reading of the book "A Remainder of One" and use math manipulatives to recreat "bug squadrons".
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Arkansas Department of Human Services

Caps for Sale

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Bring to life a class reading of the children's book Caps for Sale with this printable set of manipulatives. Color, laminate, and cut out these pictures of the peddler, his caps, the tree, and the monkeys, using them act out the story as...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Watermelon Number Cards

For Students Pre-K - 2nd
Use these festive watermelon number cards as a math manipulative in with your youngsters. Laminate and cut out a set for each student to use throughout the year, or just use one classroom set for math stations. Although there isn't a...
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Lesson Plan
Newseum

Photo Ethics: Diversity

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
With the advent of photo manipulation software, it is possible to digitally edit a photograph in a way that is virtually undetectable. The question asked of young journalists in this lesson is whether such manipulation is ethical. Groups...
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Worksheet
T. Smith Publishing

Fraction Manipulatives

For Students K - 2nd Standards
Photocopy these coloful disks onto cardstock, laminate, and then cut out to use as manipulatives when teaching your class about wholes, halves, thirds, and fourths. It is always so helpful to practice math concepts with hands-on...
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Curated OER

Mass Manipulation

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students make a chart of the media's manipulation techniques and examples of them while watching and listening to a video tape of past news events.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Photo Forgery

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students inspect examples of manipulated photos and explore the technology and issues behind doctored photos. They hold an in-depth discussion about the responsibility of the photojournalist and news editor to show true photos.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Language with Linguistic Legos

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students visualize and manipulate sentences as building blocks, and, given a key, use Legos™ to demonstrate how to construct sentences of variety (simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex).
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Endangered Species

For Students 9th - 12th
In this geography learning exercise, students identify how to manipulate data on a range of endangered species. They create a bar graph of endangered animals from Africa, Asia, Australia, North America, or South America. Students use a...
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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Sound Changes

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Looking for an auditory approach to phoneme manipulation? You'll find everything you need here for an independent practice activity to get youngsters changing initial, medial, and final phonemes to create new words. They begin with a...
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All Our Days

Duplo/Lego Tower Pattern Busy Bag

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Turn young learners into pattern detectives with this fun hands-on activity. Using the included set of cards showing different block towers, children replicate each pattern with their own manipulatives while attempting identify...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Sound Blending Lesson Plan

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Mr. Snowman wants to help emerging readers understand compound words, so he segments some familiar words to help them see that they are made of two distinct words. Learners repeat the words, both segmented and blended, and observe them...
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Unit Plan
Curated OER

"The Wind" by James Reeves

For Teachers K - 2nd
Inntroduce primary learners to essential critical reading strategies with an activity based on James Reeves' poem, "The Wind."  Learners listen as the poem is read, first as a riddle, and then re-read with the title visible. The class...
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Ohio Resource Center

Clouds

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Get your little readers moving with a fun lesson about Eric Carle's Little Cloud. After reading the book together, they engage in a series of locomotor and manipulative activities to illustrate how different elements of the story would...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Vocabulary: Finding the Meaning of Words in Context in The Boy Who Loved Words

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Here is a lesson plan that invites learners to engage in a kinesthetic activity that allows them to physically move and manipulate words in order to think about ways to understand vocabulary in context. After that activity is complete,...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Subtracting Whole Numbers

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders practice subtracting numbers by using a visual aide.  In this number sense activity, 2nd graders complete whole number subtraction problems by utilizing manipulative cubes to visualize the equation.  Students complete a...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Teaching Numbers

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
By participating in a series of activities, pupils explore how to manipulate numbers in ESL.

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