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Can you cry like a baby?
Students practice the strategies of phonemes and spellings maps to sound out new words. They work on the short vowel /a/ sound with a sentence strip with "Allie the Alligator sat on a mat eating apples," on it and the book, "Cat in the...
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I Can Read Fast, Smooth, and Expressively!
Students listen to the explanation of the words expressively, smoothly, and quickly as being keys to fluent reading. They review some of the vowel sounds and identify them in different words and listen to some passages from The Rainbow...
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Listen to the Pin Drop
Students practice reading silently. The class discusses the benefits of reading silently and several methods for reading silently, including cross checking and chunking. Working in groups, they silently read a leveled text and discuss...
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Aaah, I'm hungry
First graders 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 spell...
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Quiet Time
First graders practice making the /sh/ sound walking around the room, pretending to be in the library. They then try to say a tongue twister containing the phoneme and practice writing the letters s and h and identify the /sh/ sound in...
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The B Beat
Students recognize letter b in print and respective phoneme /b/ in spoken words, such as tongue twisters. Students then listen for phoneme in spoken words, and practice writing letter b.
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The Cat in the Hat
First graders participate in an emergent literacy lesson plan to gain skills essential for the beginning reader. They practice the phoneme of the day or letter "A". The sound and recognition of the letter is the focus of the lesson plan.
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The Squeaky Creaky Elevator
Students engage in an emergent literacy instructional activity in order to help develop the skills of letter recognition and corresponding sound of the phoneme. This is done with the use of a tongue twister using the phoneme of the...
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Icky Sticky Goo
Students identify the letter I and the /i/ sound that it makes. They practice reading the tongue twister together, shaking their hands when they hear the /i/ sound and draw out the /i/ sound in each word. Finally, students write a...
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Word Search Baseball
In this baseball word search worksheet, learners find 16 words in a puzzle which pertain to the sport of baseball. There is a word bank, and the puzzle is shaped like a baseball.
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Halloween Unscramble And Make a Sentence
In this Halloween worksheet students look at 10 scrambled words. Students decipher the words and then use each in a sentence. There are no graphics.
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Rhyming Reading
In this rhyming pictures learning exercise, students study the pictures and say them aloud. Students then circle the picture in each column whose name rhymes with the first picture.
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'At' Word Missing Letters
In this word building worksheet, students use the word box to complete the words with missing letters. All the words have 'at' in them.
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Vocabulary Elementary School
In this vocabulary activity, students answer 30 questions on two pages with varied vocabulary building exercises. Included are: similes, idioms, collective nouns and meaning matching. Note: Some vocabulary here is only standard in the UK...
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Homonyms: Fill-In-The-Blanks
In this homonym worksheet, students fill in blanks in sentences with the correct homonym, choosing from 2 given, 10 sentences total. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Nouns
For this nouns worksheet, students use the following nouns to complete the sentences: lance, optician, nutmeg, clown, pen, trumpet, eagle, hoe, mechanic, and stetson. Students then make a list of all of the nouns in the second set of...
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Vowel Sounds - Short Aa Words
In this short "Aa" worksheet, 1st graders use the number code and find the letters for each number to spell out the small words. Students spell 20 words.
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October Writing Journal
For this October writing journal worksheet, students are given a list of October daily writing prompts to choose from, and a fall-framed writing page on which to write.
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Read, Trace, and Color
In this printing words worksheet, students trace four words that have short vowels. Students color the pictures that illustrate each of the words.
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Story Titles Activity
In this story titles worksheet, students fill in blanks, completing story titles for given pictures, then write story titles of their own. One example is done for students.
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Initial Consonant B
In this initial consonant learning exercise, students write the beginning sound [b] of 5 words. One example is completed for students.
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Putting Sentences in Order
In this sentence order worksheet, students read the sentence examples in each box. Students order the sentences and write the sentence letters in order. Students complete 5 examples.
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Home Spelling Practice: Grade 2: Short A
In this spelling worksheet, students learn to spell a list of ten words. All contain the short A sound. Students write each word one time on the lines.
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Various words: 18
For this various words worksheet, students choose the correct answer based on number of years, prepositions, and completing sentences. Students complete 7 problems.