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Marvelous Monsters!
Students complete a variety of activities related to the letter M. As a class they recite a tongue twister and identify the words containing the letter M. Next, students trace and write the Letter M, listen to the book "My Monster Mama...
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Mama, Do You Love Me?
Students complete a variety of activities related to the /m/ sound. As a class, they recite a tongue twister, and play the "I Spy" game for the letter M. Students then listen to the book "Mama, Do You Love Me?" and identify words in...
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Doctor : Open Wide And Say /o/
Students complete a variety of activities related to the short /o/ sound. As a class they recite a tongue twister, then trace and write the letter O. Students listen to a list of words and identify the words containing the short /o/...
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Ch Ch Ch Ch ....Here Comes the Train!
Students complete a variety of activities related to the digraph /ch/. As a class they recite a tongue twister, then listen to different words and identify the words containing /ch/. Students then listen to the book "Chicka Chicka Boom...
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Say Aaaah
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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Icky Sticky Fingers
Practice recognizing the short vowel /i/ in written and spoken language. Introduce the target sound with a fun tongue twister about Lizzy the lizard. Through matching and listening activities, learners discriminate the vowel sound /i/...
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Under the Umbrella
The unicorn uses Uncle's underwear! Practice saying this tongue twister with your young learners to illustrated the /u/ sound. After comparing pairs of similar words (like cut and cat) and their sounds, learners will read Fuzz and...
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Tick-Tock Goes The Clock
Pupils examine the letter 't'. Through instruction and modeling they explore the sound the letter makes, how to make the sound with their mouths, how the letter is written, etc. They say tongue twisters with the /t/ sound in them. They...
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Droopy Dog says....
Learners study the /d/ sound by making the sound and determining where their tongue is when the make it. They repeat a tongue twister while emphasizing the /d/ sounds. Next, they identify the sound in words as the teacher uses a puppet...
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Henry Howls
Let's learn the letter h! Elementary learners will hear the sound, learn a catchy tongue twister, and identify the sound in different words the teacher says. After some writing practice, read A House for Hermit Crab, by Eric Carle,...
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"The Scary Letter...aaaaaaaaaa!!!"
Students study the /a/ using the hand gesture and 'aaa' sound as if they were seeing a ghost. Next, they recite a tongue twister and make words using letter boxes using different numbers of phonemes. Next, they read "Pat's Jam" out loud...
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Everybody Get Ready
Learners identify and spell words containing the short /e/ sound. They rehearse a fun tongue twister which contains words emphasizing the short /e/ sound. They then read Red Gets Fed as a class. Have your group clap every time they hear...
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And a Baby Cries
Students model the sound a baby makes when it cries, saying "aaaaa". They say the word "rat" stretching out the vowel sound and look at a tongue twister for the /a/ sound; repeating it together as a class. They then practice making the...
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A-Okay
Students complete a variety of activities related to the long /a/ sound and the a_e vowel correspondence. As a class they recite a tongue twister, and spell words containing the /ae/ correspondence using letter manipulatives. Students...
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"Aaaaaa!!!!" It's Okay, Baby!!
Your kindergarten or first grade class works on recognizing the /a/ sound in spoken words. Use the fun tongue twister to help remember the target sound, and practice writing the letter a. Then have them write words that use this target...
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Slim Pig
Beginning readers study the short /i/ sound. First they determine how the mouth moves when they say the target words in a tongue twister. They complete letterbox activities by making words with the short /i/ before reading What Is It and...
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Chompin' on Chewing Gum
Students complete a variety of activities related to the /ch/ consonant digraph. As a class they recite a Ch tongue twister, then trace and write the letters ch. Students then listen to word pairs and identify the words containing the...
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Slippery Sammy the Seal
Students examine the letter 's'. Through instruction and modeling they explore the sound the letter makes, how the letter is written, words that contain the letter, etc. They say tongue twisters with the /s/ sound in them. They read...
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Sneaky S
Students examine the letter 's'. Through instruction and modeling they explore the sound the letter makes, how the letter is written, words that contain the letter, etc. They say 's tongue twisters and even make S-shaped cookies.
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Patti the Pig Pops Popcorn
Students explore the letter 'p' and the /p/ sound. Through instruction and modeling they practice writing uppercase and lowercase p's. They say 'p' tongue twisters. They identify 'p' words as they are read aloud from a story. They write...
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Mmmm...Mommy Made Muffins!
Students explore phonemes. They explore phonemes in spoken word contexts. Students discuss the phoneme /m/. They learn a tongue twister to help them recognize /m/. Students read "Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon and identify the phoneme /m/...
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Hhhh, I'm Getting Sleepy!
Students complete a variety of activities related to the /h/ sound. As a class they recite a tongue twister, then trace and write the letter H. Students then view pictures and identify the pictures that contain the /h/ sound, and...
Jackson Public Schools
Summer Reading Activities
Provide parents with the tools they need to bridge the summer learning gap with this collection of fun activities. Whether it's creating an alphabet poster with illustrations for each letter, playing a game of sight word concentration,...
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Sssssssss
Students experience the strategy of phoneme recognition to recognize /s/ in spoken words, including plurals, and in writing. They encounter the book Summer Fun by Lucy Lawrence and the tongue twister "Miss Sam saw a sneaky slimy snake in...