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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Tap and Say an Activity for Segmenting Words

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
You can add a phonemic awareness activity to your phonics lessons each day and it will only add a few extra minutes to your lessons. You also don't need to buy expensive manipulatives for your students to use. There are lots of low-cost...
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Starfall

Starfall: Zac the Rat

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Beginning readers can listen as they read-along with this wonderfully animated story about Zac, a rat who gets into quite a jam. Students can click on a word and it will show them how to blend the phonemes to pronounce it. It is an...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: What's the Secret? Oral Segmentation Accuracy Activity

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this activity, the teacher says three words and has the students identify the common sound. This site includes a link to a Word List Generator.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Rhyme Around Baseball Activity

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
An exciting version of baseball to build fluency in creating rhyming words. The classroom is divided into two teams; when one team is up to bat the first student is given a word family such as -at. They must create a rhyming word and...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Phoneme Segmenting: Say and Slide Phonemes

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students work with a partner to count phonemes in picture cards. All materials are included.