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Don't Wake the Baby - Phonics

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore beginning reading through the use of phonics. They practice making the /sh/ sound and create a list of /sh/ words. Students practice saying tongue twisters containing /sh/ sounds. They model writing the s and h...
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Sing Your Way Through Phonics Lesson Plan "What's That Sound?"

For Teachers K - 1st
Students practice pronouncing the correct consonant sound.
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Beginning and Ending Sounds

For Teachers 1st
First graders practice their letter and word recognition skills. In this initial and final sounds lesson, 1st graders participate in a classroom activity that requires them to blend phonemes into spoken words and sound out multisyllable...
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Beginning and Ending Sounds for Grade 2

For Students 2nd
In this beginning and ending sounds for grade 2 worksheet, 2nd graders look at the picture and fill in the beginning and ending letters, not interactively, for 6 pictures;  pictures can be changed and answers are available online.
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Phonics: Putting 2 Sounds Together

For Students 1st - 2nd
For this phonics worksheet, students practice reading "silly" sentences, circling two letters that make a new sound. Sounds are given at the beginning of the worksheet. Worksheet includes a related "fun" questions and is designed to be...
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Phonics- Y as /igh/ or /ee/

For Teachers 1st
First graders discover vowel /y/. In this phonics lesson, 1st graders will use Fancy Nancy, Poison Ivy Expert, to generate a list of words with vowel /y/. Students will sort the words according to the vowel sound.
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Beginning and Ending Sounds Springtime Bouquet: Short E

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this beginning and ending sounds worksheet, students fill in the letter blanks in each of the 7 words with the short e sound to make the 7 words match the pictures that go with them.
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Beginning and Ending Sounds: Springtime Bouquet

For Students K - 1st
For this vowel worksheet, students fill in the beginning and ending letters of 7 consonant-vowel-consonant words to complete the word. All words have the short vowel sound "u" in the middle.
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Spelling Success; Vowel Sounds

For Teachers 2nd Standards
There is a big difference between the words bit and bite. Learners begin to understand how to differentiate between short and long vowel sounds as they are given a word with a short vowel sound, and then are asked to add a letter to make...
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Beginning Reading Design: Blending Boats

For Teachers K - 1st
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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Short A Vowel Sound

For Students 1st
In this short a sound worksheet, 1st graders say the word for each picture and circle one letter from each column for the beginning, middle, and final sound. Students then write the word in the provided space. Students read a list of...
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Sounding out fluency, Relay Race

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners practice reading. In this fluency building activity, students participate in a relay race to quickly sound and read word cards. They work in small groups to accurately sound out and say three word cards before it is another team...
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Sounds of Yy

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this sounds of y practice worksheet, students discover that y can be a consonant or a vowel as they respond to 15 questions.
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Sounds of Y

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this sounds of y practice instructional activity, students discover that y can be a consonant or a vowel as they respond to 6 questions.
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Same Sounds

For Students 2nd - 3rd
in this sounds worksheet, students find the matching word that has the same underlined sound as the word in the beginning of the problem. Students complete 10 multiple choice questions.
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Sounding out accuracy, Bingo

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore language arts by participating in a class game. In this word sound activity, students discuss the sounds that vowels make in words and identify the different vowels. Students utilize index cards with words on them to...
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Using a Dictionary - Sounds

For Students 5th - 7th
In this research skills worksheet, students use a dictionary to answer the 4 questions on the worksheet. All of the questions have to do with word sounds.
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Spelling List 11: Sight Words, /j/ Sound of /g/, and Academic Vocabulary

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this spelling list worksheet, students practice spelling words that are sight words, j sound of g, and vocabulary. Students practice spelling 16 words total.
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Spelling List 10: Sight Words, /s/ Sound of /c/, and Academic Vocabulary

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this spelling list learning exercise, students practice spelling words that are sight words, s sound of c, and vocabulary. Students practice spelling 16 words total.
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What Begins With?

For Students K - 1st
In this reading activity, students discover the sounds of all the alphabet letters by making a book. Students cut and paste the picture which begins with the letter on the page.
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Blending Buddies

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners put word cards together and use the word parts to create correct words. In this phonics lesson plan, students practice pronouncing consonant blends and vowel sounds, demonstrating an awareness of beginning, middle, and ending...
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Practicing Letters k and l

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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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Decode and Write Words with More Than One Syllable

For Teachers K - 1st
Practice sounding out multi-syllable words with this scaffolded lesson. Learners decode words by segmenting them into phonemes and combining the sounds. Your lines are in bold here, but you can easily use this simply as an outline...
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Introduce /a/

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Start your alphabet study strong using these strategies combining pronunciation, recognition, letter sound, and word examples focused on the letter a. Scholars examine the letter shape and listen to you pronounce the /aaa/ sound. As you...