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Free Reading

Free Reading: Catch a Sound: Letter Sound Accuracy Activity

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A quick alphabet game for the whole class. Young scholars stand in a circle and throw a beanbag to each other. When they catch it, they must say a word that begins with the letter given. Continue this in alphabetical order.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Sound Spaghetti; Letter Sound Accuracy Game

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A great game to teach students how to sound out words. Each student picks a piece of long paper out of the teacher's basket and pronounces the letters on it.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Connect 4 Words: Letter Sound Accuracy Activity

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A reading game based on "Connect 4" that will build student's abilities to say the name and sound of a letter and find a word beginning with that sound.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down? Letter Sound Accuracy Game

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
An exciting activity for the whole class to practice listening for a specific letter sound. When they hear a word with the sound they are listening for they give it a thumbs up; if it doesn't have the sound, they give it a thumbs down....
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Name Game, a Phoneme Substitution

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A quick activity to reinforce the students' ability to recognize different sounds. When calling children to line up or go to lunch, substitute the letter or sound of the day for the first letter of the child's name. Till, Tuzy, Tob, and...
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Laus Dnet: Kinder. Word Lesson Alphabet Potluck Feast [Pdf]

For Teachers K Standards
Students will create a class book (PDF) modeled after the book Potluck, by Anne Shelby, to identify the beginning sounds of words and the letter of the alphabet representing that sound (phonemic awareness). Contains links to step sheets...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: We Saw Him at the Zoo

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson plan, the mentor text utilized is Deborah Guarino's book, Is Your Mama a Llama?, with the focus of sentence fluency. Each student will think of an animal that that has the same initial sound as his/her name. Using the...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: 1st Grade Act. 05: Chrysanthemum Sound Boards

For Teachers 1st
This lesson plan involves having students listen to sounds and match sounds. Students will match rhyming sounds, beginning sounds, ending sounds or vowel sounds.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Phonemic Awareness With Technology

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This lesson allows students to use the Internet to manipulate words by changing initial sounds. Students will use computer skills while learning how to change words by changing the initial sound.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Spotting Sounds All Around

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This is both a hands-on and technology based activity where students can apply their knowledge of letter/sound relationships while incorporating the use of classroom technology. This Language Arts activity will allow for the students to...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: What Do You Hear?

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Celebration words can be used to help students review and practice beginning sounds. This lesson will help students recognize and produce the initial sound of a given word. Included are an assessment checklist, videos of the lesson in...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Match That Pie

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Knowing the relationship between written letters and spoken sounds will help children recognize words accurately and automatically. In this lesson, children practice matching letters with initial sounds.
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Read Works

Read Works: Vocabulary in Context Kindergarten Unit: Using Sound and Picture Cues

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson uses Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Ehlert to teach learners to use picture cues and initial word sounds to identify unknown words. Ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and independent...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: A Z: Learning About the Alphabet Book Genre

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Contains plans for at least seven 20- to 30-minute sessions about alphabet books. In addition to student objectives and standards, these instructional plans contains links to PDF handouts and links to sites used in the lessons as well as...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: /C/ Like Columbus

For Teachers K Standards
A historical figure helps students recognize a specific initial sound, the hard /c/.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Amplify Education, Inc.: Switch the Sound Activity, Phoneme Substitution

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A classroom activity to help the student determine what is different about a one syllable word. The teacher says a word, then changes one sound in the word, and asks the learners what is different.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Treasure Box Game, Segmenting Syllables

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A classroom game designed to build accuracy skills in students' abilities to identify syllables. The teacher prints picture cards (this site links to the site for pictures) of one-, two-, or three-syllable words. Students pull a picture...
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Writing Fix

Writingfix: Alliteration Potluck

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson plan, Potluck by Anne Shelby, is used as a mentor text for word choice. The content focus of the instructional activity is to highlight alliteration. Each student will use alliteration in a sentence as the student include...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Growing Readers and Writers With Help From Mother Goose

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Contains plans for short, daily minilessons that use nursery rhymes to teach basic reading skills. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as assessment and...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: 1st Grade Act. 07: Seven Fat Cats

For Teachers 1st
With the aid of Joy Cowley's Seven Fat Cats as a shared text, 1st graders will listen and match the sounds (rhyming, beginning, ending, and vowel.)

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