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Spelling With Double Letters
Students practice spelling words with double letters. In this spelling lesson, students read a rhyme chorally and identify the words with double letters. Students complete a instant activity worksheet to practice spelling their words...
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Picture This: A Book Full of Patterns!
Students create pattern books. In this math patterns lesson, students create various patterns using manipulatives. Students take digital photographs of the patterns and create books.
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Build a book
In this build a book worksheet, students follow directions on how to build a book. Students use markers, tape, paper, and follow 12 directions.
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Compound Word Books
In this compound word worksheet, students read the titles of books that give them clues to a compound word that they are to write on the line. Students write 8 compound words and write 2 more words with the letters given to them.
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Swat The Spot
Students practice beginning letter/sound association. In this beginning letter/sound activity, students listen to a reading of Potluck by Anne Shelby while identifying the sounds that are associated with the beginning letters of words in...
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Wrapping Up the School Year
Students complete a variety of writing and yearbook activities to complete the school year. They write a letter to the student that will sit in their desk the next school year, and a letter to their next year's teacher. As a culminating...
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Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
Students read a story. In this alphabet lesson, students read the story Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, name the letters in the story, and discuss the differences between upper and lower case letters.
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Let's Get Critical!
Students write a letter to a classmate recommending a favorite book and brainstorm ways in which a person would encourage others to read a book, focusing on specific elements of novels.
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Nadia's Hands
Students locate the parts of a book and respond to a read aloud of that book. In this literacy lesson, students participate in an interactive read aloud of Nadia's Hands in which they locate the cover and title of the book. They discuss...
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Miss Millie the Moose
Students complete a variety of activities related to the letter M. As a class they recite a tongue twister with the assistance of a moose puppet, then trace and write the letter M. Students then listen to the book "If You Give a Moose...
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Writing a Political Leader
Learners investigate politics by writing a formal letter. In this U.S. Government lesson, students discuss political issues they would like to address and research their topic using the Internet. Learners locate an appropriate political...
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What Begins With?
In this reading worksheet, students discover the sounds of all the alphabet letters by making a book. Students cut and paste the picture which begins with the letter on the page.
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The Art of Persuasion
Students write a persuasive letter. In this persuasion lesson, students listen to the story Dear Mrs. LaRue: Letters from Obedience School and discuss the vocabulary and parts of a persuasive letter. They write their own letter to...
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B Sound in the Initial Position
Students listen for letter sounds. In this phonics lesson, students read A Basket Full of Surprises, brainstorm items that start with the B sound, and complete a comprehension activity where they identify words with and without B...
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Under the Umbrella
Students complete a variety of activities related to the short /u/ sound. As a class they recite a tongue twister, then trace and write the letter U. Students then listen to a list of words and identify the words containing the short...
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What Begins With Bb?
First graders match letter sounds to pictures they represent. In this matching letter sound lesson plan, 1st graders use the computer program Kidspiration to match the letter sounds to the corresponding pictures. This can be used for 1...
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A System of Rules
Students write letters, create models, create a photo display, and make charts about the rules that a state has. For this rules lesson plan, students learn about and make different displays of how states come up with rules, change them,...
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Writing and Research with a Manatee Theme
Students use Internet research methods to find information about manatees. They write a story about a manatee, told through the manatee's eyes, and also a letter to an environmental group, thanking them for what they do to protect the...
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Aa is for Alligators
Students listen to books about alligators. In this alligators reading lesson plan, students recognize the letter A, in upper and lower case. Students color, or cut and color, based on skill level a picture of an alligator. Students...
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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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Phonemic Awareness
In these phonemic awareness activities worksheets, students demonstrate beginning sounds, and short a words. In these drawing, fill in the blank, matching, and cut and paste worksheets, students answer twenty-six words.
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A Teeny Alphabet Book
In this tiny alphabet book worksheet, students cut out, color, assemble and staple a tiny alphabet book with uppercase letters A-F. Students look for examples in each picture that begin with each alphabet letter illustrated.
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UP, UP, UP And Away with the Letter U
Students practice developing phoneme awareness to identify the letter /u/ in spoken words as well as in its vocal gesture through various exercises. They assess phonemes through a letterbox lesson and the book, "Fuzz and the Buzz," by...
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Penguin Alphabet Book
In this early childhood language arts worksheet, students color 10 penguin letter pages featuring the 26 uppercase and lowercase letters. Students assemble the pages to make their own alphabet books.