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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

If You Were Katy: Let's Play a Game

For Teachers K - Higher Ed
Students simulate sound effects from Katy and the Big Snow. They read and discuss Katy and the Big Snow, create sound effects for the objects in the book and practice sounding out beginning sounds for words. After sounding out the words,...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

R-Controlled Vowels: Beginning Sounds

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this r controlled, beginning sounds vowel worksheet, students circle the letters that spell the word seen in a picture, then write the words.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Word and Letter Practice #10

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this word and letter practice activity, students say letters and sounds of letters, practice reading simple sentences and sight words, then say names of pictures and say the beginning sound of each.
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Activity
PBS

Dear Pen Pal

For Teachers 1st - 6th Standards
Explore cultures from around the world with an engaging pen pal resource. Through a series of classroom activities and written correspondence, children learn about the favoritec pastimes, schooling, geography, and weather that is...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

CVC Words - Initial Sounds

For Students K - 1st
In this phonics worksheet, students study each picture and then fill in the missing sound for each word. Students follow a consonant-vowel-consonant pattern.
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Activity
Spelling Words Well

Letter Lane

For Teachers K - 2nd
Dinosaur, fox, bone, mushroom. Emergent readers practice the beginning consonants sounds of b, d, f, and m with an activity that asks them to identify the images featured on a colorfully illustrated game board.
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Activity
Curated OER

Alphabet Scavenger Hunt

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young learners use the provided worksheet to locate and record the names of 26 items that begin with letters of the alphabet. As an extra challenge, scavengers hunt the objects in alphabetical order.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Word and Letter Practice #8

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this word and letter practice worksheet, students name and say sounds of letters in sets, practice reading simple sentences and sight words, and say the beginning sounds of names of pictures.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Word Bank Think Pack- Letter A Words

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this word bank letter A words worksheet, students use the card as a reference for A sight words. They add words of their own to the list.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Elephant Eggs

For Teachers K - 1st
Study the short and long sounds of the letter e. Learners will practice words and tongue twisters using both the short and long vowel /e/. They use letter boxes and letter tiles to spell words containing the target sound. To close the...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Discover the Secret Word!

For Students K - 1st
In this phonics worksheet, students analyze 6 pictures and say the names out loud. Students circle the beginning letters, then solve a code with the answers.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Buh! and Duh!

For Teachers K - 1st
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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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Picture Dictionary

For Teachers Pre-K - K
In this picture dictionary worksheet, students match a picture to its initial letter. The pictures represent a duck, an elephant, a cat, and a butterfly.
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Activity
University of Florida

Phonological Awareness: A Sound Beginning

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Choose from a variety of phonological activities to complement a reading lesson. The guide goes through the basic components of good phonics instruction focusing on sound types, levels of phonological awareness, assessment methods, and...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Beginning Consonants

For Students K
In this alphabet instructional activity, students focus on the beginning consonant sounds of words. Students study 5 rows of pictures and circle the picture that begins with the letter that is shown for each row.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Learn-to-Read Pumpkin Patch

For Teachers K - 1st
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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Worksheet
Curated OER

Beginning Consonants

For Students K - 1st
In this consonant worksheet, students say and trace letters. They also color pictures that begin with the letter. All consonant letters of the alphabet are represented in five pages, with an answer sheet for each page. There are...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Make a Word: Long U by Starfall

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students explore language arts by participating an on-line grammar activity. In this letter U lesson, students discuss the uses for the letter U in the English language and the different sounds that can be made from the vowel. Students...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Beginning Consonants 2

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this beginning consonants worksheet, students respond to 5 questions that require them to select the pictures of the words with that begin with each the listed consonants.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Animal Words That Begin With "A"

For Students K
In this animal words that begin with "a" learning exercise, students look at 3 animal pictures, then color the one that starts with the letter "a".
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Equations Analysis Test Song Title

For Students 4th
In this probability learning exercise, 4th graders figure words to a song using the beginning letters. There are 10 different letters to decipher with an answer key.
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Read Expressions in Which Letters Stand for Numbers II

For Teachers 6th Standards
Reading and writing take on a whole different meaning in math class. Young mathematicians learn to read verbal phrases by focusing on operation words. They write equivalent algebraic expressions for both mathematical and contextual...
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Unit Plan
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

A World of Animals: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 10)

For Teachers K Standards
Animals are the theme of this series of English language development lessons. Scholars take part in grand conversations about woodland, jungle, and grassland animals. They also go on picture walks, read poems and high frequency words,...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

ABC Foods

For Teachers K - 1st
In this food worksheet, students cut out pictures of different foods and paste them on the plate which corresponds to the beginning letter in its name.