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Free Reading

Free Reading: Finish My Sentence: Oral Blending Accuracy Activity

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this classroom activity, the instructor creates a list of simple sentences that include a three or four letter word that the students are asked to blend. The instructor says the sentence and asks the student to help blend the letters...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Picture Hunt Activity: Phoneme Manipulation

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This activity uses the students' favorite classroom book as a resource. The instructor says We are going on a Picture Hunt! and then asks the class where an object is in the picture, but leaves out the first letter sound when asking.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Amplify Education, Inc.: Introduce Reading Connected Text

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
An exciting introduction to reading! The instructor writes a simple, one-line story on the board from literature, and the students learn to sound out the words.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Listen for My Sound. A Phoneme Segmenting Activity

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A simple, yet effective activity to teach students to identify the same sounds in different words. The teacher says a word and the students give a thumbs up or thumbs down. This site also includes a Word Generator list link as a resource.
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Reading Basics: Sounds of Speech

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Sounds of speech are the sounds that make up our oral language. Children must understand how speech sounds work to be ready for instruction in reading and writing. To learn more about sounds of speech, browse the articles, parent tips,...
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Consonant Blends and Digraphs

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this Lesson students will look at the pictures and use Activotes to choose the correct blend.
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School Express

Schoolexpress.com: Phonics Blends Worksheets

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Phonics Blends is a great way to demonstrate the use of letter and picture association. The student must identify the first two letters of the picture given and then write them on the line provided.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Word Swat a Word Sound Recognition Game

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A classroom game to help students create new words from a particular word family. The class is divided into two teams; the first student in each line is given a flyswatter and must go to the board and "swat" the correct letter that...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Syllable Walk; A Syllable Identification Game

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A fun, active game to learn all about syllables! Students line up on one side of the room and take one step for each syllable in the word that the instructor says.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Wacky Wipe Offs a Phenome Segmentation Activity

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
An activity incorporating Dr. Seuss's "Fox in Socks" book, and dry erase boards and markers. Reading the book, students identify CVC-pattern words. Writing a selected one down on their boards, they are able to substitute letters to make...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Segmenting and Blending Words

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this activity, students will learn how to segment words. Then students will play a segmentation game that utilizes Elkonin boxes and markers.
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Rock ’N Learn

Rock 'N Learn: The Bell Has Rung: Ung

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards
This printable consonant blends worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will add form -ung consonant blend words that will complete a paragraph. An answer key and lesson...
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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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Starfall

Starfall: Dune Buggy

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Learn the long U sound in English while paging through this read-aloud story about a day at the dunes. Great graphics, unlimited repetition, and learner controlled.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Amplify Education, Inc.: Words Separated Into Phonemes

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This page contains audio clips of words separated into phonemes. The audios give the word and then the word separated. There is a link to the Phonological Awareness activities page that utilizes this sound page. The sounds are pronounced...
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Other

Fonetiks: Phonics Practice

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This English pronunciation guide is useful for young English speakers, as well as English language learners of all ages. It offers practice in reading, pronunciation, and writing of vowels and consonants and of vowel and consonant...
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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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Free Reading

Free Reading: Syllable Slap! Segmenting Syllables

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A higher level activity that helps students develop fluency in identifying open and closed syllable words.
Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Word Machines: Short A

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this interactive, student learn to pronounce and produce rhyming words containing the short A sound. Using the word maching, students can change the beginning or the ending sounds to make new words which are then clearly pronounced.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: 1st Grade Act. 08: Then and Now

For Teachers K - 1st
This lesson engages students in understanding the concepts of "past" and "present" events. Students will sort objects and discuss to reinforce segmentation and blending skills.
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School Express

Schoolexpress.com: Phonics Worksheets

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site provides a variety of creative worksheets which will aid in the teaching of phonics. Areas covered are blends, consonants, vowels, and digraphs.
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Printable Reading and Phonics Games

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site includes 15 different phonics and reading games to download, laminate, and cut out. Includes games for phonics blends; "When two vowels go walking;" ee; ir, ur er; tion, etc.
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Ofcn: "The Blending Slide" Sounding Out Cvc Words

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A kindergarten/first grade lesson plan for sounding out consonant vowel consonant words. Students and teachers will benefit from this hands-on activity.
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Owl and Mouse Educational Software: Learn Letters

For Students 3rd - 5th
This site provides three Freeware programs to help students learn the letters of the alphabet and letter-sound correspondence. Students need to be able to use a mouse to manipulate the images on the site. Instructions for downloading the...

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