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phoneme awareness
Students focus on the sound of the /ch/ digraph before recognizing it in both written and spoken words. They study the poster that says "Chugga Chugga Choo Choo!" to find they /ch/ phonemes. They write the letters before identifying...
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"Aaaaaaa...a Fast Crab! "
Students participate in an emergent literacy lesson that focuses on the skill of phonemic awareness. The phoneme chosen is the letter "a". They need to correlate the sound to the letter.
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Short Vowels
In this short vowels worksheet, 1st graders listen for the short vowel sounds by saying the picture word slowly and listening for the sounds. Students circle one letter from each column for the beginning, middle, and final sound....
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Icky, Sticky!!
Students participate in an emerging literacy instructional activity that focuses on the skill of phonemic awareness. The phoneme of choice is the letter "i". Students need to recognize the letter in correlation to its sound.
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Creaky Door e
First graders observe as the letter "e' is shown on the overhead projector and discuss the letter's name and what sound it makes. They compare the letter's sound to a creaky door and practice making the /e/ sound. They try saying the...
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I Think I Can
Students identify the digraph /ch/ in written and spoken language. Students practice the production of the /ch/ sound through tongue twister. They identify the initial and final placement of the digraph /ch/ by reading a story to a partner.
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Red Fish-Blue Fish Make a Wish
Students to read and pronounce words correctly. They investigate the letters that stand for phonemes so that spellings map out the phoneme sequence in spoken words. Students attach sounds to appropriate letters. They have some sounds...
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Ugly Umbrellas
First graders make the /u/ sound together and repeat a sentence that contains several /u/ words until they become familiar with it. They raise their hand to tell which word contains the /u/ sound and then use letterboxes to spell words...
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Little Pig
First graders discover that letters are used to write words and that they have different sounds. They pronounce the word, "pig" emphasizing the /i/ sound. They say a tongue twisters that features the /i/ sound in each word. They then...
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"Easy E Street"
Students investigate how the same letter can make more than one sound. It is also important for students to understand that the correspondences can be spelled and pronounced differently. This lesson will review e=/e/ and introduce ee=/E/...
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Here Comes the Choo Chooooooo!!
Students practice exercising the phoneme/digraph that makes the /ch/ sound. They drill on the tongue twister, "Charles chatted while he waited on his chance to win a check," and encounter Elkonin boxes along with the book, "Chad Checks,"...
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Icky Sticky Tin Man
Students recognize the short vowel i in written and spoken language. Through listening and matching activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /i/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and...
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Shelly the Shell
First graders identify the digraph /sh/ in written and spoken language. Students practice the production of the /sh/ sound through word practice and stories. They identify the initial and final placement of the new digraph /sh/ using a...
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Shelly Shark Goes Shopping
Students identify the digraph /sh/ in written and spoken language. Students practice the production of the /sh/ sound through words and tongue twisters. They identify the initial and final placement of the new digraph /sh/ through...
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Fish, Fish, Fish
Pupils identify the digraph /sh/ in written and spoken language. After a brief discussion the independent and combined sounds of the phonemes /s/ and /h/ students practice identifying initial and final placement of the new digraph /sh/...
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What's Behind the Creaky Door?
First graders are introduced to the concept that letters stand for the mouth moves that we make when sounds are made. They practice making the /e/ sound and compare it to the sound a creaky door makes and then try saying the tongue...
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Cry Baby
Learners 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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Sally the Silly Snake
Students practice identifying letters and their corresponding phonemes to become solid fluent readers. They focus on the grapheme and phoneme associated with the upper and lowercase letter of S. Each student makes the sound that the...
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Silly Snake
Students practice recognizing and sounding out the letter S. They listen to the alphabet song, "Sea Shell," by Amy Lowell, and view a large picture of a snake in the shape of the letter S. Each student points out other objects found in...
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What's Up Doc?
Students demonstrate the /o/ sound by opening up their mouth and saying, "Ahhhhh". They try saying a tongue twister that contains the /o/ phoneme; repeating it two times together. They then practice writing the letter /o/ so that it can...
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Icky Icky I
First graders review the letter "i" and use popsicle sticks and cotton balls to make upper and lower case "i's". Volunteers make the capital and lower case "i" on the board and then the class discovers the short sound that letter "i"...
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Open Up and Say /o/
First graders listen to a variety of words to see if they can recognize the /o/ sound. They use letterboxes and letters discovering that each mouth moves gets its own box practicing forming words with the /o/ vowel sound. They then read...
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Elephants Enjoy Eating Eggs
Pupils recognize the short vowel e in written and spoken language. Through listening and matching activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /e/ from other phonemes. Students practice using the phoneme and letter in words by writing...
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Say Aaaaa for Apple
Students say words by blending sounds and phonemes. They decode words in order to read and identify and understand the letter a. This phoneme /a/ is one of the short vowels that are needed to read and write. They will show example of...