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Crater Creation
After looking at the back of a quarter featuring Oregon terrain, learners distinguish between fiction and non-fiction and identify the beginning, middle and end of a story. First, they listen to legends that describe the creation of...
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Martin Luther King Jr.
After listening to a story about Martin Luther King Jr., first graders answer questions about the text. They discuss the importance of the illustrations, identify the beginning, middle, and end of the story, and complete a writing...
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Reintroduce /t/
Use these strategies to connect letter pronunciation, sound, word examples, and recognition, focusing on the letter t. Emerging readers examine the letter and listen to you say the /t/ sound. As you explain how to do it, they try...
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Story Openings
What a terrific exploration of writing! This resource focuses on how to write a great beginning for a narrative piece. It is a thoughtful and helpful look at this topic.
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Kindergarten Skills Unit 4
Fifteen lessons make up a unit that focuses on letter-sound correspondence. Beginning readers examine letters and their sounds. Scholars complete a review, an engaging activity, watch teacher modeling, and practice concepts. Lessons are...
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Kindergarten Skills Unit 6
Throughout 15 lessons, scholars explore four and five-sound and rhyming words, closely examining initial and final consonant sounds, and begin reading the text independently. Each lesson follows a similar routine; an introduction to...
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Kindergarten Skills Unit 10
A six-week unit wraps up kindergarteners' skills practice in beginning reading skills. Twenty-nine lessons focus on long vowel sounds and 11 tricky high-frequency words. Scholars participate in warm-up activities, introductions to sounds...
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First Grade Skills Unit 1
First graders participate in skills practice with 32 lessons focusing on sound-spelling correspondence—sound combinations, consonant digraphs, double letter sounds, tricky spellings, and words. Lessons begin with a warm-up, review and...
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Second Grade Skills Unit 1: The Cat Bandit
For twenty-two lessons over five weeks, scholars practice sound-spelling correspondence, spelling patterns, tricky words, and reading decodable text. Assessments aid in small group formation and gauge comprehension. Lessons begin with a...
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Second Grade Skills Unit 3: Kids Excel
The unit offers second graders skills practice in tricky spelling and words, grammar—nouns and punctuation, reading decodable texts, and writing a personal narrative. Lessons begin with a warm-up and go into a concept review, word work,...
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Second Grade Skills Unit 4: The Job Hunt
Second graders practice skills, including spelling, grammar, and reading. Pupils examine vowel sounds and tricky words, nouns, and verbs. They begin the writing process by drafting a persuasive letter and decoding texts.
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Writing: A Lesson Plan on Beginnings
Students rewrite the beginning of a story. In this writing instructional activity, students read stories from Spooky South by S.E. Schlosser in order to gain exposure to different ways to begin a story. Then, students chose one of the...
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Varying Sentence Beginnings
In this sentence beginnings worksheet, students provide their own beginnings for the sentences given to them. Students do this for 10 sentences.
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It Begins with an A Activity Card
For this reading worksheet, students respond to the book It Begins with an A by completing an activity card at home with a parent. Students cut out the 4 pictures and paste them in the correct space with the riddle clue. Example: It...
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Beginning and Ending Sounds
First graders practice the beginning and ending sounds of words. In this phonological awareness instructional activity, 1st graders use picture cards for one syllable words and pronounce each word. Students match other picture cards with...
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Word Search Puzzle: Phonics--Words That Begin With bl
In this words that begin with bl worksheet, students find and circle/highlight twelve words in a word search puzzle that begin with bl.
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Word Search Puzzle: Phonics--Words That Begin With cl
In this words that begin with cl worksheet, students find and circle/highlight twelve words in a word search puzzle that begin with cl.
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Word Search Puzzle: Phonics--Words That Begin With ch
For this words that begin with ch worksheet, students find and circle/highlight twelve words in a word search puzzle that begin with ch.
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Word Search Puzzle: Phonics--Words That Begin With br
In this words that begin with the letters BR learning exercise, students locate and circle/highlight twelve words in a word search puzzle that begin with the letters BR.
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Word Search Puzzle: Phonics--Words That Begin With FR
In this words that begin with FR worksheet, students find and circle/highlight twelve words in a word search puzzle that begin with FR.
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Word Search Puzzle: Phonics--Words That Begin With PR
In this words that begin with PR worksheet, students find and circle/highlight twelve words in a word search puzzle that begin with PR.
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Word Search Puzzle: Phonics--Words That Begin With sh
For this words that begin with sh worksheet, students find and circle/highlight twelve words in a word search puzzle that begin with sh.
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Word Search Puzzle: Phonics--Words That Begin With th
In this words that begin with th worksheet, students locate and circle/highlight twelve words in a word search puzzle that begin with the letters th.
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Word Search Puzzle: Phonics--Words That Begin With spr and str
In this words that begin with spr and str worksheet, students find and circle/highlight twelve words in a word search puzzle that begin with the letters spr and/or str.
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