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Match Uppercase and Lowercase- Letters K, L, M, N, and O
In this letter matching learning exercise, students draw lines to match upper and lower case examples of letters k, L, m, n, and o. This is Zaner-Bloser style.
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Confusable Letter Pairs
Students practice distinguishing between pairs of similar-looking lowercase letters, such as b and d, p and b, m and w, n and m. They distinguish between easily-confused letter pairs by reading and listening to a story that highlights...
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The ai Sound
There are multiple vowels that make the /ai/ sound within words; show your learners three of them in this spelling instructional activity. They look at some examples, then complete three sets of words by adding in the vowels to make this...
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Hula Hoop ABC Relays
Adding hula hoops to any activity can present a fun challenge. This worksheet explains how to conduct an activity that combines the recognition of capital/lowercase letters and a hula hoop relay. Outside on the playground, each student...
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Phonological Awareness: Onset and Rime, Sound Detective
Play letter sound detective with your class, and snoop out sounds, onsets, blends, and rhyme. In pairs, children take turns choosing a card from the pile; as they sound out part of the word, their partner attempts to figure out which...
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Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Manipulating, What's Left?
Scholars subtract initial phonemes from given picture word cards to create new words. Feet becomes eat, and shelf becomes elf.
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Connect the Rhymes
As your pre-readers begin to understand phonemes and rhyming, give them this practice learning exercise which has them matching rhyming pictures. For each of six images, they identify the corresponding image which has the same vowel...
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Phonological Awareness, Phoneme Manipulating, Phoneme Position Sort
Scholars make new words out of old ones by manipulating phonemes. Pupils mix and match initial, medial, and final phonemes to change words like cap into cup or head into bed.
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Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Manipulating, Word Change
Once your scholars know their letter sounds and recognize them in words, have them try making new words by manipulating phonemes. Pupils are given a word change picture board and a stack of word pictures. They pick a card and place it...
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Connect the Rhymes
Introduce your pre-readers to rhyming using this matching exercise! They examine two sets of images, connecting rhyming pictures with a line. All 10 words use the vowel sound i. Note that some of these images may be difficult for...
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Recognize Area Word Problems - Matching Worksheet
Don't let the title fool you on this one; there aren't any word problems here. Scholars examine five rectangles that have been partitioned into rows and columns, determining the area based on these equal square units. Units aren't...
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Sequence, Predict, Infer: Pink and Say
Practice sequencing with your 2nd graders via Patricia Polacco's Civil War book Pink and Say. Begin with a blindfold and a bag of mystery items. Connect their use of clues to identify what they can't see with the skill of making...
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Vowel Sound: i
As scholars become more comfortable with initial sound correspondence, introduce them to medial sounds. As they focus on the vowel sound /i/, youngsters examine a set of images and draw a line from the letter i to any with that...
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Ehhh...What'd you say?
Practice pronouncing and spelling words with the /e/ sound with spellers. They blend phonemes with spelling maps to master important representation and letter symbol of the short vowel /e/. They also make sock puppets and study the...
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Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Isolating, Phoneme Quest
In this phonics activity, little learners glue picture cards under the initial, medial, and final phonemes represented by the lead sound cards. An image of a shark broken into three parts represents the initial phoneme /sh/, the medial...
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What's Proper?
Learners practice using capital letters for proper nouns and adjectives. They play a matching game with word cards and correct paragraphs with incorrect capitalization, and edit their work with a partner.
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Drop and Say
This neat idea gets kids to use phonics and puzzle-solving skills. Pairs take turns picking picture cards from a pile, say the name of the object on the card, drop a letter to turn that word into a new word, then look for the new word on...
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Word Puzzle
Add some fun to rhyming using a word puzzle worksheet. First, learners match up single-syllable rhyming words. Then, they find all the words in a word search. This beginning reading activity only has words spelled horizontally from left...
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Uppercase and Lowercase Worksheet-- Q, R, S and T
In this letter matching worksheet, students draw lines to match upper and lower case examples of the letters Q, R, S and T. These are Zaner-Bloser style.
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Match the Rhymes
Explore CVC words with the vowel sound a to give pre-readers a grasp of rhyme. They draw lines from a van to surrounding pictures that rhyme (man, pan, fan, can). Then, leaners get printing practice by tracing the words van...
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The Enlightenment: Matching #2
Quiz your scholars on key figures of The Enlightenment using this matching worksheet. Ten descriptions and eleven answers are provided, which learners match with one left over. Figures include Francisco Javier Clavijero, Franz Josephy...
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Kelly's Kindergarten: L Words
Learn a lot with lists of letters! Park the correct trucks into their parking spaces with a worksheet that focuses on the letter L. After kids study the signs next to six parking spaces, they match the words on the trucks that include...
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My Family- Long I or Long E Sounds of Letter Y
Provide this awesome word packet to your young learners! Long vowel sounds are covered through coloring activities, writing activities, and matching activities. The long i and e sounds of the letter y are covered, and several word...
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Cursive Capitals Formation Chart
Make sure your pupils get all their curly-cues just right with a step-by-step reference page of uppercase cursive letters. The page breaks down each capital letter into one to four steps. See the materials tab for a matching reference...