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Ah Ah Ah! Don't Do That!
Students become familiar with the alphabetic principle that letters stand for phonemes and spellings map out the phonemes in spoken words. They focus on identifying the short /o/ sound in spoken words and the tongue twister "Oscar Otter...
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Olly Octopus
Students recognize the short vowel o in written and spoken language. Through matching and listening activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /o/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation in...
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Emergent Literacy
Learners practice speaking and spelling words, and recognize and demonstrate understanding of sounds (phonemes) that each letter contains. Students focus specifically on letter S and its sound.
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Open Wide
Students recognize the short vowel o in written and spoken language. Through matching and listening activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /o/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation in...
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Up, Up and Away
Students recognize the short vowel u in written and spoken language. Through matching and listening activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /u/ from other phonemes. Students identify the phoneme and letter in words and pictures.
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Copycat, Copycat!
Students observe that sometimes the letter "c" is a copycat letter and sometimes acts like a "k" or an "s" like in the words "cat" and "race". They use Elkonin letter boxes and letters to spell words as they are called out by the...
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Wash Your Hands...they are icky sticky!
Students engage in an emergent literacy lesson that focuses on phonemic awareness and they practice corresponding the letter "i" to its long or short sound. This type of recognition has been found to be essential to reading development.
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/o/... I can't stop yawning!
Students investigate the phoneme, a meaningful representation, and the letter symbol for /o/ (short o). This lesson helps students recognize the /o/ in spoken words and begin to spell words with the assistance of letter boxes. Students...
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Apple
First graders recognize the short vowel a in written and spoken language. Through matching and listening activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /a/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation...
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Jake Makes Cake
Students distinguish between short vowel a and long vowel a. They are introduced to the vowel-consonant-e pattern that changes short vowel sounds into long vowel sounds. They practice changing words to long vowel sounds by adding an...
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I Am Tired
First graders recognize the short vowel o in written and spoken language. Through listening and matching activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /o/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation...
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Name Squares
Students examine the sounds the letters of their name make. They read Dr. Seuss' ABC Book and Mary Engelbreit's Put Em All Together. They practice writing the individual letters of their names in squares.
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Shhhhh, the Baby's Asleep
Students identify the digraph /sh/ in written and spoken language. After a discussion of the independent and combined sounds of the phonemes /s/ and /h/ students practice identifying initial and final placement of the new digraph /sh/ in...
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Sssssssss
Pupils experience the strategy of phoneme recognition to recognize /s/ in spoken words, including plurals, and in writing. They encounter the book Summer Fun by Lucy Lawrence and the tongue twister "Miss Sam saw a sneaky slimy snake in...
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Lesson One: Decoding Strategies
Review decoding strategies to read a chosen text. Readers tape themselves reading out loud, listen to the recording, and mark where they have misread words or phrases. They then discuss which words were misread and review how to correct...
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Cat on the Mat Guided Reading Lesson
Young learners participate in a guided reading lesson. They will read the book Cat on the Mat by Brian Wildsmith. The teacher helps provide the group with reading strategies, and provides more one-on-one support during independent...
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Skill Lessons – Prefixes and Suffixes
Sometimes the best way to understand a concept is to break it down. Young vocabulary pupils work with word parts in a hands-on activity that prompts them to connect flash cards with affixes to their root and base words....
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Picture Hunt: R Control O
Students use the r controlled o sound to sound out words and identify items and people in a picture. In this r controlled o lesson plan, students use the internet to complete their activity.
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Baby Sally is Upset Again!
Students, assessing how to read and write, join together grapheme's and the phonemes that make up words. They practice recognizing in oral and written form the vowel /a/. The book, "Matt and Rags," is introduced to the students in this...
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Sh Digraph
In this literacy worksheet, students create and spell the words correctly that coincide with the nine problems on the sheet with the "sh" digraph.
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Buh! and Duh!
Students examine the difference between the sounds that b and d make, and examine the difference in how they look when written. They repeat the sounds using tongue twisters that the teacher presents. Next, the write the letters on sticky...
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Short E Word Practice
For this short e word practice worksheet, students will cut and glue final letters to make short e words that begin with m, b, p, j, l , and w.
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The Cat in the Hat
First graders participate in an emergent literacy instructional activity 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...
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Reader Rabbit 1
Second graders participate in a reading lesson in order to improve phonics skills. They generate the short vowel sound in CVC pattern words. Students blend beginning consonant, short vowel sound and final consonant into words.