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Florida Center for Reading Research

Alphabet Borders

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Help young scholars name the letters of the alphabet. They use the provided alphabet border and letter cards to take turns saying and finding various alphabet letters. This simple game can be extended by having learners focus on the...
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Curated OER

Animated Alphabet

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students explore English by completing an interactive language history activity. In this word recognition lesson, students discuss word formations and the phonetic relationship between letters. Students identify the origin of individual...
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Curated OER

Alphabet Mix Up

For Teachers K - 1st
In this language arts worksheet, students are to fill in the missing letters. The entire alphabet is presented in lower case letters, with blanks for several missing letters.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Fluency: Letter Recognition, Speedy Alphabet Arc

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
On your mark, get set, match! Learners use a complete set of letters, matching each to its outlined letter on an arc. As they choose letters, they name them aloud. For added difficulty, another arc is missing most of its letters to...
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Curated OER

Alphabet Reference Sheet

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
For this alphabet letters worksheet, students trace the 26 uppercase and lowercase alphabet letters 8 times each, print each letter 10 times each and then trace the letters that form each sentence on each worksheet.
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Curated OER

Pasta Names

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Helps learners recognize alphabet letters by having them glue dry pasta over their names. Scholars use a card with their names printed neatly, then decorate it with noodles while saying each letter they make. 
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonics: Letter Recognition, Lettercritter

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This is a fun idea to get your scholars practicing their ABCs! They assemble an alphabet caterpillar, printing lowercase versions below each uppercase letter. They practice writing the lowercase letters using dry-erase markers and say...
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Curated OER

The Recycle Alphabet

For Teachers 1st
First graders recognize words associated with recycling. For this environmental lesson, 1st graders go through the alphabet and think of words associated with recycling that start with a letter. Students create a recycling ABC book.
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Easter Egg Alphabet Fun

For Teachers K - 1st
In this alphabet worksheet, learners trace letters inside Easter eggs, then write missing letters in those eggs with none. Eggs and letters are sequential and form the alphabet.
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Curated OER

School Activities

For Teachers 1st
First graders place some specific types of objects (e.g., shoes, favorite food) on concrete graphs and pictographs. They listen and respond to others in a variety of contexts (e.g., pay attention to the speaker; take turns speaking in a...
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Curated OER

Alphabet Poems

For Teachers K - 1st
Develop fluency with a variety of works. Help kindergartners use multiple strategies to understand text and decoding. They will create an alphabet poem book on Kid Works 2 to illustrate and write their own poem. In the end, they will...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonics: Letter-Sound Correspondence, Medial Phoneme Spin

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A collaborative activity challenges young scholars to match medial graphemes and phonemes. Pairs take turns spinning the spinner, naming the letter, and saying its name. They choose from a stack of cards with the same medial sound.
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Curated OER

Alphabet Madness

For Teachers K - 1st
Starting with letter "A", call out each letter of the alphabet, and a corresponding word or phrase that begins with that letter. The teacher can expound on the word/phrase to create an image and to promote movement.
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Curated OER

Practicing Sight words

For Teachers K
Review sight words with readers. They will look over their sight words and come up with sentences for each of them. They also review the alphabet and identify unfamiliar words.
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Curated OER

Say Aaaah

For Teachers K - 1st
Using letter boxes and a series of activities, young learners will identify the /o/ sound. Give them the fun tongue twister before having them manipulate letters in the letter box, and then read In the Big Top. Can your learners...
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Curated OER

Amazing As

For Teachers K - 1st
Help young readers recognize the short vowel /a/ in written and spoken language. Through matching and listening activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /a/ from other phonemes. Learners associate the phoneme with its letter...
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Curated OER

Alphabet Vocabulary

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore the biodiversity that exist on the prairie. Through reading or listening to books, they keep track of vocabulary words associated with the prairie on an 'Alphabet Poster'.
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Film English

Missing U

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Explore the relationship between U and I with a video and related activities. First, pupils have some fun with the alphabet and discuss text message language. Next they practice coming up with words that have the same sound a I and...
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Illustrative Mathematics

The Geometry of Letters

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Use the alphabet as a tool for teaching your class about geometric figures. Break apart capital letters into line segments and arcs. Classify angles as right, acute, or obtuse. Identify parallel and perpendicular lines. An excellent...
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Curated OER

Super Spanish & English!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students practice the Spanish alphabet using an interactive website. A video explaining adaptations for ESL students and classroom instructional strategies is included for this excellent elementary lesson.
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Curated OER

Make a Word: Long U by Starfall

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Young scholars explore language arts by participating an on-line grammar activity. In this letter U lesson, students discuss the uses for the letter U in the English language and the different sounds that can be made from the vowel....
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Alphabet Floor Game: Lowercase Letters

For Teachers K - 1st
In these lowercase letters worksheets, students cut out the feet pattern printed with the alphabet lowercase letters a-z. Students place the feet on the floor and step on each letter in alphabetical order.
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Alphabet Books

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students work with a partner from a different grade level to brainstorm, draft, edit, illustrate and publish alphabet-themed books. They take turns reading the books to each other and conference with a teacher to review their work.
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Curated OER

Connecting Letters and Memory

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Elementary students with mild to moderate mental disabilities use a variety of tools to connect letter sounds to images. They use flash cards, posters, and writing while saying to connect letter image to phonemic equivalent. Then, they...