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Abracadabra /a/ /a/ /a/

For Teachers K - 1st
Students recognize the short vowel a in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /a/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify the...
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"Ehhh" I can't hear you!

For Teachers K
Students practice writing, sounding out, and identifying words using the short "e" sound. They listen as the teacher reads a tongue twister emphasizing short "e" beginning sounds. The stuents then participate in an activity in which...
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The Creaky Door says /e/

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore the short /e/ sound, and identify the short /e/ in writing. Students read fun sentences from the board which emphasize the short /e/. They stretch out the /e/ sound every time they come to it while reading. They then...
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Growling Tiger Rrrrr

For Teachers 1st
First graders recognize the phoneme /r/. Through listening and matching activities, 1st graders discriminate the phoneme /r/ from similar looking letters and phonemes. They associate the phoneme /r/ with its letter representation and...
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Billy's Blue Ball

For Teachers K
Students explore the letter B, the /b/ sound, and identify the letter B in words. Students read a tongue twister emphasizing the /b/ sound. They then practice writing the letter /b/ while saying the sound. Finally, they complete an...
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Cracking Sticks

For Teachers K
Students explore the letter /k/ in this lesson, and identify the /k/ sound in words. They read a tongue twister emphasizing the /k/ sound, and discuss that two letters make the /k/ sound - c and k. They then practice writing k's and...
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Eddie the Egg

For Teachers 1st
First graders recognize the short vowel e in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /e/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify...
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An Icky Sticky Mess!

For Teachers K
Students complete a variety of activities related to the short /i/ sound. As a class they recite a tongue twister, and trace and write the letter I. Students then view flash cards and identify the pictures containing the short /i/...
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When You Don't Get What You Want

For Teachers K - 1st
Students recognize the short vowel u in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /u/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify the...
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I Hear a Baby Crying

For Teachers K - 1st
Students recognize the short vowel a in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /a/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify the...
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Munchy Munchy Macaroni

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore phonemes and letters. They examine the beginning sound /m/. They read "If You Give a Moose a Muffin." They listen for m words and discuss the shape their mouths make when saying the sound m. Students identify pictures...
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ABC Bingo

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice recognizing letters and phonemes. After the instructor reads a book emphasizing the sound each letter makes, students play letter recognition games. Through matching and listening games, they recognize the letter from...
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Summer Words in Alphabetical Order

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this alphabetical order instructional activity, students put the 8 words listed in alphabetical order. The instructional activity has a summer theme.
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Summer Words: abc order

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this alphabetical order worksheet, students put summer words into alphabetical order. Students put 8 summer words into alphabetical order.
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Prefixes Aplenty

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Introduce several new prefixes to your vocabulary lesson. After alphabetizing 19 prefixes, including pro-, geo-, and thermo, third graders use a dictionary to find one word that begins with each prefix. Extend the activity by having...
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N Is for Nut

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this handwriting worksheet, students trace and write the lowercase and uppercase letter N six times each on the lines provided.
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P Is for Pen

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this handwriting worksheet, students trace and write the lowercase and uppercase letter P six times each on the lines provided.
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Mm Printing Practice Page

For Students K - 1st
In this printing practice worksheet, students write 3 rows of upper case M, and 3 rows of lower case m's. They see the sentence, "M is for man." at the bottom of the page.
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Alphabetical Order

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this alphabetical order worksheet, students alphabetize 15 sets of 3 words each, writing the words on lines beside the word groups. Worksheet includes a link to additional activities.
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ABC Order

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this ABC order worksheet, students add one letter given to complete a set of words and write them in ABC order. A website reference is given for additional resources.
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Vowels and Consonants Maze

For Students 1st - 2nd
For this language arts worksheet, students recognize the difference between vowels and consonants by tracing a path through a maze. In this frog-themed page students follow the trail of consonants to the end of the puzzle, which shows a...
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Alphabetical Order Practice

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this alphabetizing worksheet, learners alphabetize groups of 3 words, 15 groups total. Worksheet contains links to additional activities.
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Learning to Hate Math

For Students 9th - 12th
Give your class a different kind of reading assignment with the text included here. Anne Miller's essay "Learning to Hate Mathematics" details a hatred of math that grew from early childhood and still haunts the author today. After...
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Letter-Sound Match Cut and Paste

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Develop beginning readers' understanding of letter-sound correspondence with this fun series of cut-and-paste worksheets. With each page focusing on four specific letters, children are able to practice isolating...