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Brown Bear Phonics

For Teachers K
Students listen to Brown Bear, Brown Bear and imitate the style of Eric Carle in writing a sentence.  In this writing instructional activity, students use the beginning and ending sounds of words to write an Eric Carle type...
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Phonics and Vegetable Books

For Teachers K
Students participate in phonemic awareness and phonics activities and develop a list of vegetable vocabulary words. They break up words into beginnings and endings, and trace and write the letter s. Students then create a Vegetable...
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Phonemic Awareness Infusion

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
Students explore and describe various kinds of work experiences and skills practicing the regular past tense -ed sounds. They practice pronouncing those sounds with verbs within their reading passages as well. In addition, they repeat...
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Beginning and Ending Sounds: Springtime Bouquet

For Students K - 1st
In this vowel worksheet, students fill in the beginning and ending letters of 7 consonant-vowel-consonant words to complete the word. All words have the short vowel sound "u" in the middle.
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Suffixes Beginning with Consonants

For Students 5th - 6th
In this suffixes instructional activity, learners add the correct suffix to the identified word in each of ten sentences. They write the correctly spelled form of the word after each sentence.
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Name That Picture

For Students 2nd
In this name the picture activity, 2nd graders look at a small outline picture before choosing the three letter word that names it. They complete 16 examples by circling the correct word.
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Final Phoneme "ll"

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this final phoneme worksheet, students "help a boy cross a swamp without getting eaten by crocodiles" by changing only 1 letter in a set of words so he can move to the next one; all words end with the phoneme ll.
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Ben's Bedroom

For Students K - 2nd
In this consonant B activity, students read ten words and circle each one that begins with the same sound as ball. Students then color in the picture with vibrant colors.
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Name That Picture

For Students K - 2nd
Second graders look at a small outline picture in this name-the-picture worksheet before choosing the CVC word that names it. They complete 16 examples by circling the correct word.
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Initial L Blends

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this initial L blend learning exercise, students say picture words, saying the beginning blend, middle vowel and final vowel sound, then write the word on a space provided. Students then practice reading sentences that contain the words.
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Initial Ss Blends

For Students K - 1st
In this beginning blends worksheet, students practice listening for the initial blends. They circle the correct sounds for the beginning blend - middle vowel - and final sound. They write the word that names each of 8 pictures.
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Spanish Grammar

For Teachers 3rd - Higher Ed
There are four ways to say "the" in Spanish: el, la, los, and las. This PowerPoint explains when it is appropriate to use either word, lists examples, as well as asks over thirty practice questions. Furthermore, this...
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Some Spelling Rules

For Teachers Higher Ed
This presentation offers up some of the trickier rules of the English language when it comes to spelling. For example, one slide goes over the "i before e, except after c," rule. The rest of the slides present examples like this one and...
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Double Jeopardy-Homophones

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders identify homophones as words that sound alike but have different meanings. They, given a pair of homophones, are to explain the meanings of the words using gestures, role playing, or drawing a picture with their partner.
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Adding "er" Practice Sheet: Adjectives

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this suffix activity, students change various words by adding the suffix "er" and writing the new words. Words end with e, y, and short vowel and a consonant.
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Using Hyphens

For Students 7th - 9th
Teaching grammar can be so difficult! Help your class master how to use hyphens correctly. The first page details different places one would use a hyphen. On the second page, learners are introduced to two practice activities. In the...
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Language Acquisition

For Teachers Higher Ed
Detailing the stages of language, sound, word, and grammar acquisition for babies, this presentation is a great addition to a lecture that focuses on how the English language is developed in small children. Additionally, the slideshow...
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Beginning Reading Design: Blending Boats

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars study how to blend the sounds together in words with the CVC form. They use letter cards and the books, "Tin Man Fix-It," and Dr. Seuss', Green Eggs and Ham. They work with /m/ words to blend the sounds together to read...
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Shelly Shark Goes Shopping

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students identify the digraph /sh/ in written and spoken language. Students practice the production of the /sh/ sound through words and tongue twisters. They identify the initial and final placement of the new digraph /sh/ through...
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Shhhhhh the Baby is Sleeping

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify the digraph /sh/ in written and spoken language. Students practice the production of the /sh/ sound through word practice and riddles. They identify the initial and final placement of the new digraph /sh/ using a...
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Baby Brown Bears

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars identify the letter and phoneme /b/ in written and spoken language. Students practice the production of the /b/ sound through riddles and tongue twisters. They identify the initial placement of the letter and sound using a...
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Shhh

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students identify the digraph /sh/ in written and spoken language. Students practice the production of the /sh/ sound through storiesand tongue twisters. They identify the initial and final placement of the new digraph /sh/ using a...
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Miss Cheivous Snakes

For Teachers K - 1st
Students identify the grapheme and phoneme for S. They practice writing the letter S and through listening activities, discriminate the phoneme /s/. They associate the phoneme /s/ with its letter representation and identify it in various...
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Writing With Environmental Print

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students develop literacy skills by exploring street signs, cereal boxes, and billboards. For this writing with environmental print lesson, students build word recognition in every day print. Students decode words and discover new words.