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Vowel Digraph Activities for au and aw
It can be awfully hard teaching young children how to read, but this phonics resource will make the job a little easier. Focusing on the au and aw vowel digraphs, this collection of engaging activities teaches beginning readers how to...
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Diphthongs Au and Aw
In this aw and au words worksheet, 1st graders add the beginning and ending sounds to finish the spelling the aw and au words. Students write 7 words.
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At Dawn Dipthongs (au) and (aw)
In this diphthongs au and aw activity, learners read a story and fill in the 7 spaces with words from the word bank. All missing words have the aw or au diphthong. Students then illustrate the story.
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Vowel Digraphs: au and aw
In this vowel digraph worksheet, students print "au" and "aw," circle words that match pictures, circle words that have the letters "au" and "aw," and write 3 words for each digraph.
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aw and au words
In this pronunciation and vowel activity, students practice unscrambling seventeen words that involve the aw and au sounds in words.
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Word Picture Match
In this Language Arts worksheet, students write the word that goes with each picture. Words include claw, fawn, sauce, vault, and autumn.
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Reintroduce /au/
Practice decoding au words with your first and second graders. They state the sound of au when the teacher points to the corresponding letter combination, and remain silent when any other letter combination is displayed. Complete this...
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The or Sound
Before using this vowel sounds crossword activity, be forewarned that the pronunciation here is based on British English, and will be confusing for American English speakers. Learners focus on the /or/ sound, examining five spelling...
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At Dawn
In this identifying the diphthongs au and aw learning exercise, students use words in a word box to complete sentences and draw an illustration from the short story. Students complete 7 answers.
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Introduce /aw/
Students investigate letter combinations focusing on /aw/. In this letter combination lesson, students examine /aw/ as letters that go together and make a sound. They look at images and sort items by whether they contain the /aw/ sound...
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Vowel Digraphs: ay, ai, au, aw, oa, ow
In this two-letter vowels worksheet, students complete 15 words by writing in the correct digraph: "ay," "ai," "au," "aw," "oa" or "ow." Students practice printing these digraphs.
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Phonics: Variant Correspondences, Fishing for Vowel Digraphs
After teaching vowel digraphs, reinforce the concept with an activity! Young scholars fish from a pile of 60 cards to match words with the same sound. Featured vowel digraphs include ea, au, aw, ow, oa, ai, ay, and ee.
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Vocabulary Building: -aw, -au Words 3
In this recognizing -aw and -au words worksheet, students write from dictation, unscramble, and create sentences using the words paw, straw, August, taught, law, and crawl. Students write eighteen answers.
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Diphthongs
In this au and aw diphthongs practice worksheet, students examine 12 pictures, say the name of each word, and select the correct spelling for each word.
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The "aw" Phoneme
In this phoneme worksheet, students match "mixed up" words with their correct pictures, then sort spellings, looking for the aw, au, augh and al patterns.
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Reintroduce /aw/
Young scholars are reintroduced to the letter combination 'aw' and its sound. In this instructional activity on the 'aw' letter combination, students practice reciting a mix of 12 letter combinations on the board and take turns...
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Daily Lesson Plan for a Struggling Reader
Strategy-based programs that are executed with consistency are the best for achieving growth in any learner with a learning disability. Here is a seven-step lesson plan that is highly structured and is intended to help learners with...
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Phonics: Forming New Sounds
In this phonics activity, students practice 2 new sounds, "aw" and "au" by reading silly sentences. Students circle the two letters that make the sound and write a sentence using "aw" words. Worksheet is designed to be signed by students...
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7 Syllable Types - Classroom Posters
Review r-controlled words, open and closed vowels, and dipthongs with a set of classroom posters. Each page features one concept with a colorful illustration, an explanation, and a list of applicable words.
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Practice with Diphthongs
In this diphthongs worksheet, students complete a crossword puzzle with 12 words that contain the diphthongs "aw" and "au". A word bank is provided.
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Get Reading Right
In this get reading right learning exercise, learners in teams combine as many letters together as they can to come up with as many English words as they can by only using the letters in the boxes shown.
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Language Tutorial
Fourth graders practice using vowel teams and pronunciations. In this language lesson, 4th graders complete visual, auditory, and phonemic drills, review spellings of words, and echo dictated words. Students also read chorally and...
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Vowels, Reading Fluency
Third graders practice identifying words with the short o vowel sound. They use the strategy will reading a page from The Hare and the Tortoise. They read the passage while focusing on increasing their reading fluency and practice...
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Give Us A Clue
Students practice the vowel phonemes ow/ou, oy/oi, ar/a/al, oo/u, air/are/ear, or/ore/oar/war, aw/au/augh/al, ir/ur/er, ear/eer/ere in a game with two to four players. They extend their practice over and over to identify the phonemes in...