Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk, University of Texas at Austin
Lesson 5 - R-Controlled Syllables
Put on your pirate hat and get ready to teach r-controlled syllables. Learners practice using words that contain ar, or, er, ir, and ur. Instructors model how to decode words to isolate vowel teams, as well as combine r-controlled sounds...
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Sounding Out CVCE Words
First graders explore vowels and consonants by participating in a flash card activity. In this phonetics lesson, 1st graders discuss the difference between short and long vowels and identify them within a story told to them by their...
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Adopt An Insect
This lesson plan combines a creative building activity with analyzing a butterfly photograph and using problem solving to complete the puzzle. It blends art and science very well. Students will learn and enjoy the process. The extension...
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Phonics Jeopardy Grade Two
This phonics review PowerPoint provides second grade students with an interactive review of phonics. Playing a "Jeopardy" game enables students to review concepts such as long vowels, blends and digraphs. This is an interactive and fun...
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Caterpillar Jumps
In this phonics worksheet, students participate in a class game which reinforces the phonetic sounds and blends. The full color caterpillar pieces on this page are laminated and the head is placed on the carpet with the children sitting...
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Phonics Diagraph
This simple presentation is designed for very young readers who are just starting to learn their consonant blend sounds. Pictures of a shark, a chicken, a whale, and a moth help introduce these blends.
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The "C" Sound
In this phonics worksheet, 1st graders will focus on the sound of the letter c. Students will read six words and copy them on the lines provided.
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Mixed Initial Clusters (2)
In this phonics worksheet, students study the pictures and then write in the correct initial cluster for each picture. Students then make a sentence containing 'g' clusters and one for 'p' clusters.
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Letter Fans (Can Customize)
Create a set of letter fans for your learners based on the letters or blended sounds that you're working on in your class. The printable allows you to customize the particular letters on the fan, making the activity applicable to any...
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Phonics and Decoding Strategies for Struggling Readers Using Core Knowledge Poem
Students complete multiple activities to help them hear sounds, syllables, and spell words with vowel patterns, digraphs, or blends. In this word sounds lesson, students use letter tiles, sort words cards, analyze poems, and play a bingo...
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Rhyming Words - Exercise 13
In this online interactive phonemes practice activity, learners examine 4 words that are missing letters. Students fill in the blanks with the appropriate consonants to consonant blends to complete them. Learners may check their answers.
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Rhyming Words - Exercise 18
For this online interactive phonemes practice worksheet, students examine 4 words that are missing letters. Students fill in the blanks with the appropriate consonants to consonant blends to complete them. Students may check...
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Exploring Sounds
Students identify the "sh"sound with the help of the Florida quarter. Students place the sounds placement within words with this kinesthetic activity. Students share various examples of consonant blends on the board.
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Blending Butterflies
Students create camouflage butterflies. In this camouflage lesson plan, students read about the different types of camouflage. Each student in the class chooses a spot in the classroom and creates a camouflaged butterfly. They hang up...
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Spelling words
In this spelling learning exercise, students copy their spelling words containing 2 beginning consonants, st words, adding s, and adding ing. Students copy 24 words.
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Creating Rhyming Words
In this creating rhyming words worksheet, students substitute initial consonants to create rhyming words, then check their answers and continue to the next one.
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Rhyming Words – Exercise 54
For this online interactive phonemes practice worksheet, learners examine 4 words that are missing letters. Students fill in the blanks with the appropriate consonants to consonant blends to complete them. Learners may check their answers.
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The Wh Spelling
Review the wh sound with your class. This series of slides shows a picture of an object that begins with this sound and displays the word above. It is a quick and easy way to discuss this topic. It could be used as a review during a...
Horticultural Society of New York
Dress Up Your Salad
Salad dressings use a variety of different ingredients, but it's important to have a healthy balance of greens to create a delicious mix. Young chefs examine five types of herbs including chives, basil, dill, parsley, and thyme to...
Cornell University
Garden Math
Young scientists must put their math caps on and figure out what fraction of each flower is in a raised flower bed. They must problem solve to simplify the fractions, and then graph the amount of flowers that are in different flower beds.
K12 Reader
Import/Export
The reading passage here uses the example of the American colonies to introduce imports and exports. After reading the text, class members respond to five questions, which require pupils to find facts in the text and form opinions...
K12 Reader
What’s Your Angle?
Start out with angles by asking your pupils to read this reading passage. Class members will learn about degrees, right angles, acute angles, and obtuse angles and then respond to five questions about the text.
Freeology
Birthday Chart
Happy birthday! A fun birthday chart keeps track of the birthdays in your class. A colorful grid includes all 12 months of the year, as well as bright pictures of balloons, party hats, and gifts.
Free Reading
Letter Cards
Turn spelling practice into a game with this letter card template. Including domino-sized cards for all of the upper- and lower-case letters, as well as common digraphs, this resource can be used in a variety of ways and is a...
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