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Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury: April Eighth, 1928: Narrating from an 'Ordered Place'?
High schoolers analyze a character of Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury to catch a glimpse of a family and the changes they, and the Old South, undergo. The use of time as it relates to the structure of the plot is covered in this...
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Word Family Jamboree
Students explore rhyming words, beginning and ending sounds. In this word family lesson, students identify beginning and ending sounds. Students draw pictures of words and use phonetic spellings to write stories. Students use Dr. Seuss...
Reading Resource
/ue/ Word List
The final resource in a series of 16 phonemic awareness activities, designed to develop the awareness skills needed to detect the vowel sounds in words, features the /ue/ sound. Kids identify and highlight the /ue/ sound in a list of 13...
Curriculum Corner
Summer Build-a-Word Puzzles
Help beginning learners build words from sounds right before summer with a set of build-a-word puzzles. The 17-page packet comes with 45 beach-themed word puzzles.
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Fun Fonix
Who says you can't have fun while learning to read? This collection of matching, tracing, and spelling worksheets engages beginning readers as they develop an understanding of consonant digraphs.
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Beginning Reading Design: Blending Boats
Students study how to blend the sounds together in words with the CVC form. They use letter cards and the books, "Tin Man Fix-It," and Dr. Seuss', Green Eggs and Ham. They work with /m/ words to blend the sounds together to read words....
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Brown Bear Phonics
Students listen to Brown Bear, Brown Bear and imitate the style of Eric Carle in writing a sentence. In this writing lesson, students use the beginning and ending sounds of words to write an Eric Carle type sentence. Students create...
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Practicing Letters k and l
Let's get to know the lowercase letters k and l. Scholars become familiar with both in this visual matching instructional activity. After tracing and printing each letter, they add them to an incomplete alphabet. Then, they draw lines...
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Reintroduce /a/
What does the letter a sound like? Scholars practice with letter sound correspondence by honing their pronunciation of the /aaa/ sound. Use these helpful tips to explain how to make this sound if needed. Then, they brainstorm words that...
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Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Manipulating, Phoneme Swap
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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Alphabet Tic-Tac-Toe
Use online resources to aid young readers' phonemic awareness. They will look at various sources to practice letter-sound relationships. They also are assessed using a rubistar rubric. Quite a few resources are given for this lesson.
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Man's Search For Meaning: Writing Assessment (Final Multi-Genre Project)
Conclude a study of Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning with a research project that asks readers to investigate what various religions and philosophies believe is the meaning of life. The resource packet includes a list of...
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Ending Consonants
In this phonics worksheet, students color the pictures that ends with the sound of the letter at the beginning of each row. There are 5 questions.
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The Letter C- Sound and Printing Practice
In this phonics and printing practice worksheet, student say the sound of Cc at the beginning of words as they name the pictures on one side of the worksheet, and say the ending sound of Cd as they name pictures on the right side of the...
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Long Vowels - Long A
In this long A sound worksheet, 1st graders say the word pictures and circle one letter or group from each column for the beginning, middle, and final sounds. Students write the words on the blank lines. Students then write the sentence...
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Short Vowel Sounds: Listening Exercise
In this CVC pattern words learning exercise, learners examine eight pictures, say the name of each picture, and use the provided letters to spell the words. Pupils also write a sentence using as many of the eight words as they can.
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Learn-to-Read Pumpkin Patch
Students practice identifying and pronouncing the short letter "u" sound. In this phonetic awareness lesson, students access the Starfall.com website and follow the directions on the screen to reinforce the short "u" sound. Students can...
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Spelling Words With "OW"
In this recognizing beginning and ending sounds in words worksheet, students view pictures, say their names, and fill in the beginning and ending sounds of the ow words. Students write 7 words.
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Diphthongs Oi or Oy
In this diphthongs learning exercise, 1st graders add the beginning and ending sounds to finish the spelling of the words with 'oi' and 'oy.' Students print 6 words.
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Chrysanthemum Sound Boards
Students listen and match sounds such as rhyming, beginning, ending and vowel sounds to build phonemic awareness.
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Letter Sounds
In this letter sounds worksheet, 1st graders focus on initial, middle, and ending consonant sounds. Students complete 7 multiple choice questions, selecting the sounds for each placement in the word and writing the completed word on the...
Ken Baker
Phonemic Alliteration Lesson Plan
Old MacDonald had a ... dragon? A shared reading of this funny take on the classic children's song engages beginning readers as they learn about phonemes and alliteration.
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Practicing Letters e and f
Which of these words begins with the letter e? Scholars become familiar with lowercase letters e and f by visually matching. After tracing each letter, they draw lines from the letter to images beginning with the same sound. Encourage...
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Practicing Letters a and b
Start out your alphabet practice right using this phonics and printing worksheet. Pre-readers begin by tracing and printing lowercase letters a and b and adding them to an incomplete alphabet at the bottom. They connect each letter to...