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Max's Magic Magnets

For Teachers K - 1st
Pupils identify the letter and phoneme /m/ in written and spoken language. Students practice the production of the /m/ sound through tongue twisters and stories. They identify the initial placement of the letter and sound using a picture...
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Timmy the Turtle Goes Tick Tock

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners identify the letter and phoneme /t/ in written and spoken language. Students practice the production of the /t/ sound through tongue twisters. They identify the initial placement of the letter and sound using a picture worksheet.
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Champions Check

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify consonant digraphs in written and spoken language. After a brief discussion of the combinations of /c/ and /h/ that comprise the /ch/ digraph, 1st graders practice identifying initial and final placement of the...
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Miss Cheivous Snakes

For Teachers K - 1st
Students identify the grapheme and phoneme for S. They practice writing the letter S and through listening activities, discriminate the phoneme /s/. They associate the phoneme /s/ with its letter representation and identify it in various...
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Slithering Silly Snakes

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify the letter and phoneme /s/ in written and spoken language. Students practice the production of the /s/ sound through tongue twisters. They identify the initial placement of the letter and sound by creating a...
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Maggie's Merry Milkshakes

For Teachers K - 1st
Students recognize the phoneme /m/. Through listening and matching activities, students discriminate the phoneme /m/ from similar looking letters and phonemes. They associate the phoneme /m/ with its letter representation and identify...
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Got Gulp

For Teachers K - 1st
Students recognize the phoneme /g/. Through matching activities, students discriminate the phoneme /g/ from other letters and phonemes. They associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify the phoneme in various words...
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Pop Your P's

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars identify the letter and phoneme /p/ in written and spoken language. Students practice the production of the /p/ sound through songs and tongue twisters. They identify the initial placement of the letter and sound using a...
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Mmm, Mmm, Mmm

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Learners identify the grapheme and phoneme for M. They practice writing the letter M and through listening activities, discriminate the phoneme /m/. They associate the phoneme /m/ with its letter representation and identify it in various...
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Chug-a-Chug-a Choo Choo

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify the digraphs in written and spoken language. After a brief discussion on the combinations of letters that comprise digraphs, 1st graders practice identifying initial and final placement of the digraph /ch/ in words...
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Zigby Zigzags

For Teachers K - 1st
Students complete a variety of activities related to the /z/ sound. As a class they recite a Z tongue twister, then listen to the book Zigby Hunts For Treasure. Students identify the words in the book containing the /z/ sound, trace and...
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Wade Made Lemonade in the Shade

For Teachers K - 1st
Students complete a variety of activities related to the long /a/ sound. As a class they recite a tongue twister, and identify words that contain the long /a/ sound. Students spell words containing the long /a/ sound using letter...
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The Fish Said "Shhh"

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students identify the digraph /sh/ in written and spoken language. After a brief discussion of the independent and combined sounds of the phonemes /s/ and /h/ students practice identifying initial and final placement of the new digraph...
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Spelling words

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this spelling learning exercise, students copy their spelling words containing 2 beginning consonants, st words, adding s, and adding ing. Students copy 24 words.
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The Doubling Rule

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students practice the rule for doubling the final consonant of a word when adding a suffix. Through guided practice and class discussion, they identify the spelling patterns that require letter doubling. Students practice doubling by...
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Silly Sally

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify the grapheme and phoneme for S. They practice writing the letter S and through listening activities, discriminate the phoneme /s/. They associate the phoneme /s/ with its letter representation and identify it as...
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Initial "S" Clusters

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this initial consonant blends activity, students examine 7 words that begin with consonant blends that start with the letter S. Students then look at pictures and words with the initial blends missing and write the correct initial...
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School-Home Links:

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this early childhood reading words worksheet, students sound out 5 letter combinations and then read the words with the consonant cluster. Students identify 5 words that begin with tr.
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F Pictures for Sorts and Stuff

For Teachers 1st - 4th
For this word/picture recognition of letters Ff worksheet, students match up thirty pictures to thirty actual words that begin with the Ff sound.
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School-Home Links: Reading Words

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this early childhood reading words learning exercise, students sound out 5 letter combinations and then read the words with the consonant cluster. Students identify 5 words that begin with th.
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Letter Chase

For Teachers 1st
First graders are consonants or vowels. If a vowel is called out the vowels try to run to the base line and the consonants chase them and try to tag them. If a consonant is called out, the consonants run to their base line chased by the...
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Shaggy Sheba Shakes!

For Teachers K - 1st
Students study the /sh/ digraph in order to determine that when the letters are together in a word they make one sound. They use letter boxes, letter manipulatives with the sh taped together, and poem, "My Shaggy Dog." Using the...
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Aa is for Apple

For Students K - 2nd
For this printing worksheet, students form 11 upper and lowercase letter A's. Students color in pictures of words beginning with the letter and write two rows of A's on their own.
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Sneeze Cheese

For Teachers K - 1st
Students study the /ch/ digraph by thinking of the sound that is made when someone sneezes. They listen to a tongue twister while identifying how many times they hear the /ch/ sounds and make words using the Elkonin boxes and letters....