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

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...

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...

For 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.

In this suffixes activity, students 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.

In this name the picture worksheet, 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.

In this final phoneme learning exercise, 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.

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.

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.

In this initial L blend worksheet, 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.

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.

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...

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...

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.

In this suffix worksheet, 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.

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...

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...

Students 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 words....

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...

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...

Students 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...

Learners 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...

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...

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.