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Sounding out accuracy, Musical Chairs

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Here is a great spin on the classic game, Musical Chairs! Instead of fighting to get the last chair when the music stops, learners will need to read a CVC word to stay in the game. They walk around, whoever is near the word bucket when...
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Decoding DNA

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders complete their KWL charts from the first lesson of the unit as a review for the summative. Then they decode a secret message using the four basic components of DNA, adenine, cytosine, guanine and thymine.
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Phonics and Decoding Strategies for Struggling Readers Using Core Knowledge Poem

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
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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Introduce /N/

For Teachers K
Students explore the alphabet by participating in a pronunciation activity. In this letter identification instructional activity, students discuss the sound made by the letter "N" and words that begin with the letter. Students practice...
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Storytime

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students are given an age-and stage-appropriate passage. They each read the selection and students then demonstrate their comprehension by being asked questions. Once students have completed the reading, he or she is asked questions...
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A? Speak up, I can't hear you!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students become phonemically aware of various sounds that make up written words. This lesson focuses on the vowel correspondence a_e=/A/. They decode the long a mouth moves in words as well as practice spelling the words themselves.
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Faster, Faster!

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Young scholars practice reading faster, smoother and more expressively by exercising the strategy of reading and rereading text to become more familiar with word recognition. They participate in reading a page or two of "Pen Pals" to...
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Guess the Secret Code

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students practice blending sounds into words. After the instructor demonstrates blending phonemes to make words that can be read, students are divided into two teams for a word blending game. Given the initial and final sounds,...
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Cookie Crisp Howl

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Learners are introduced to the vowel pattern that produces the /oo/ sound in words. Through matching, listening, and spelling activities, students recognize the phoneme /oo/ and it's placement in words. They write a message using words...
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Isabelle the Icky Iguana

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice the sound and spelling of the short vowel /i/. They identify the short /i/ sound in spoken and written words. The tongue twister "Isabelle iguana is in her igloo," and "Tin Man Fix It," along with Elkonin letter boxes...
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The Ghost Says Boo

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Pupils are introduced to the vowel pattern that produces the /oo/ sound in words. Through matching, listening, and spelling activities, students recognize the phoneme /oo/ and its placement in words. They read a passage with words...
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The Big E!

For Teachers K - 1st
Students study the correspondence ea=/E/ by examining picture cards that show examples of items with the long "e" sound. They listen to a read aloud of Nancy Shaw's, Sheep Out to Eat before writing words that contain the "ea"...
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Blending Bumper Cars

For Teachers 1st
First graders practice blending words with the consonant-vowel-consonant pattern. Given a card with a decodable word part, 1st graders add an initial consonant sound and blend the sounds to read the new word. They practice reading a...
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Squigly's Special Message

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this puzzle worksheet, students solve 19 clues about a variety of topics. Students read the first column of each group of answers to reveal a special message.
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School-Home Links

For Students Pre-K - 1st
For this early childhood beginning sounds worksheet, students say the name for 15 pictures and, with the help of a caregiver, write the beginning sound of each word.
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Body Parts Decoder

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this body parts decoder learning exercise, students match letters and numbers codes to decipher the names of parts of the body. Students decode fifteen words.
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Code Fun

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this code fun activity worksheet, students decode a secret message using the symbol code key provided at the bottom of the worksheet.
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Spelling Connections: Grade 2: Spelling Words in Code

For Students 2nd - 3rd
For this spelling worksheet, students use the code key to decode the ten spelling words. This is a simple letter and number code.
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Use The Code to Write Spelling Words

For Students 5th - 6th
In this spelling worksheet, students use the code key at the top of the page to decipher 20 spelling words. Students write the words on the lines.
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Decode The Words

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this letter identification worksheet, students decode words by finding the letter that goes between the given letters, or if only one letter is given, they write the letter that comes before it. They complete 20 examples.
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Spelling Words In Code

For Students 6th - 7th
In this spelling worksheet, students use the code to write 27 spelling words. Students must double the final T or L before adding the ending on certain words.
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Symbol Code and Spelling Words

For Students 5th - 6th
In this spelling worksheet, students use a code key with picture symbols to decode ten spelling words. Students decipher each word and print it on the lines.
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Decode the Words #13 -Grade 7

For Students 7th
In this spelling skills activity, 7th graders decode 20 sets of numbers to spell their spelling words. A numerical-letter code is provided.
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Decode the Words #15 -Grade 7

For Students 7th
In this spelling skills worksheet, 7th graders decode 20 sets of numbers to spell their spelling words. A numerical-letter code is provided.

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