Unit Plan
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Let’s Count!: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 5)

For Teachers K Standards
In a themed series of lessons and activities, beginner readers are given extra support in reading through chants, games, and practice worksheets.
Worksheet
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Write Your Own Poem Letter R

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this word blends learning exercise, students use one of the given blends to make up rhyming pairs. Students use the pairs to make silly sentences and a rhyming poem. Students think of other rhyming words for their poem.
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Make Your Own Poem: Initial S Clusters

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this initial s activity, students first use s blends to make rhyming pairs, use the rhyming pairs to make silly sentences, then make pairs of rhyming sentences and finally a poem.
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Write Your Own Poem Letter L

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this word sounds learning exercise, students use one of the l blends to make rhyming pairs. Students use the words to then make sentences and then two lines that rhyme. Students finish by thinking of more rhyming words for their poem.
Worksheet
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Spelling-"The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate The Wash"

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this spelling activity, students complete a word search to find a set of 10 words from The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash. All words have the "ou" or "ow" blends.
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Introduction to Dolch Words

For Teachers 1st
First graders are introduced to Dolch words. In this reading improvement lesson, 1st graders use Dolch words to review beginning and ending sounds, consonant blends and sight words.
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Charlie Chose Cheese

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify the digraphs in written and spoken language. After a brief discussion of the combinations of /c/ and /h/ that comprise th /ch/ digraph, 1st graders practice identifying initial and final placement of the digraph...
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Choo, Choo, words that say /Ch/!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students identify the digraph /ch/ in written and spoken language. After a brief discussion of the independent and combined sounds of the phonemes /c/ and /h/ students practice identifying initial and final placement of the new digraph...
Unit Plan
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Person to Person: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 4)

For Teachers 5th Standards
Authors use many strategies when writing stories. A series of extra support lessons breaks down those strategies, as well as key grammatical and phonics-based concepts to support struggling learners. The last of three lessons offers...
Activity
Michigan Department of Education

Family Fundamentals for Summer Learning

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
Just because it's summertime, doesn't mean that learning has to stop. Support children with continuing to develop their reading fluency with this extensive collection of literacy activities.
Unit Plan
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Friends Together: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 4)

For Teachers K Standards
Enjoy this thematic friendship unit compiled with ESL lessons to develop strong language development while listening, speaking, looking, and moving. Class members participate in activities covering topics like making friends, asking for...
Unit Plan
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Down on the Farm: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 8)

For Teachers K Standards
Down on the Farm is the theme of this series of ESL lessons designed to support reading, speaking, and listening skills. Over three weeks, your learners will have the opportunity to sing songs, play guessing games, create masks,...
Unit Plan
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Let’s Count!: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 5)

For Teachers K Standards
Counting is the theme of this compilation of ESL lessons. Through listening, speaking, and moving, your young learners take part in a variety of activities to enhance their English proficiency such as making menus and books,...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Family Time: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 5)

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Support English language development with a family-themed unit consisting of a series of lessons designed to get your scholars moving, looking, speaking, writing, and listening. Conversation topics...
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Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk, University of Texas at Austin

Lesson 7 - Letter Combinations

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Individually, letters have their own sounds, but when combined with other letters, those sounds completely change. Introduce letter combinations with a lesson that asks learners to search for combinations in familiar words and use oral...
Lesson Plan
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Beginning and Ending Sounds

For Teachers 1st
First graders practice their letter and word recognition skills. In this initial and final sounds lesson, 1st graders participate in a classroom activity that requires them to blend phonemes into spoken words and sound out multisyllable...
Lesson Plan
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Phonics lesson for "sh"

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify words with the "sh" pattern. They participate in phonemic awareness, decoding, blending, spelling patterns, and dictation exercises. As the assessment portion of the lesson, they may write a story using words...
Lesson Plan
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Blending Fiction and Nonfiction to Improve Comprehension and Writing Skills

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners explore a content area by reading both fiction and nonfiction texts on the topic. They do more research online about the topic. After comparing the texts, they create their own written original work, using both narrative and...
Lesson Plan
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Choo Choo Train

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Learners identify the digraphs in written and spoken language. After a brief discussion of the combinations of /c/ and /h/ that comprise th /ch/ digraph, students practice identifying initial and final placement of the digraph /ch/ in...
Worksheet
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Write the Words with sl, sn, sp, sw Beginnings

For Students 2nd
In this early literacy instructional activity, 2nd graders cut out 8 pictures which begin with either sl, sn, sp, or sw. They glue the picture in the proper column and write the word on an elementary line directly under it.
Worksheet
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Beginning and Ending Sounds for Grade 2

For Students 2nd
In this beginning and ending sounds for grade 2 worksheet, 2nd graders look at the picture and fill in the beginning and ending letters, not interactively, for 6 pictures;  pictures can be changed and answers are available online.
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Reader Rabbit 1

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders participate in a reading lesson in order to improve phonics skills. They generate the short vowel sound in CVC pattern words. Students blend beginning consonant, short vowel sound and final consonant into words.
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Letter Slide

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners are taught how to blend sounds into words. They share experiences about sliding boards. They keep a list of the words they have made and use the words to create sentences or experience stories.
Lesson Plan
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Adult ESOL Lesson Plan-Phonemic Awareness Infusion

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students focus on the articulation of /r/ and /l/ consonant sounds while practicing the sounds and usage within reading passages. Students also examine the parts of a medicine label and interpret important medical information.

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