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Sound Search (Elementary, Reading/Writing)

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students learn initial sound recognition by walking through the school and its grounds looking for items that begin with the same sound as their first name.
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First Letter Changes

For Teachers K
Students use the books of Eric Carle to change the first letter in a word to see a new word. In this phonics lesson plan, students change the beginning letters in poems and books.
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Word and Letter Practice

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this word and letter practice worksheet, students name letters, say sounds, read simple sentences, and practice a set of sight words. 
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Introduce Writing a Letter

For Teachers K
Students explore the process of writing by participating in an early writing activity. In this alphabet letter lesson, students utilize a pencil for the first time and identify the proper grip for writing. Students utilize their pencils...
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Patterns in Poetry: Part 2 -- Sound

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students understand a variety of poems listening for sound letter correspondence, rhyme scheme, assonance, and alliteration. For this language arts lesson, students practice listening and reading skills to complete patterns in...
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Where's My Name?

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Learners identify their name in print by picking it out of the group and attaching it to a picture of themselves. In this name lesson plan, students use print letters to focus on and identify their own name.
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Beginning Sound Qu

For Students K - 1st
In this sound/letter worksheet, learners practice tracing and writing upper and lower case Qu. Then students identify pictures than begin with this sound.
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Letter/Word Recognition Worksheet

For Students K - 1st
For this letter recognition worksheet, students identify the given letters and say the sounds of the letters. Students practice saying 28 sight words and 14 sentences.
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Chrysanthemum Sound Boards

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students listen and match sounds such as rhyming, beginning, ending and vowel sounds to build phonemic awareness.
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Beginning Sounds

For Students K - 1st
In this recognizing beginning sounds worksheet, students name the first pictures in the rows, look at the pair of pictures in the same rows, and circle the pictures with the same beginning sounds. Students circle six pictures with the...
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Common Sounds in Words

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this identifying one common sound in pairs of words, students write the letter in the box and fill in the three boxes with the corresponding graphemes for each phoneme. Students write 6 answers.
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Circle the Word That Has the Same Ending Sound as in the Picture

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this letter and word recognition worksheet, students examine 6 words and determine the ending sound in the name for each. Students circle the words that have the same ending sound as the pictures.
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Cows That Type Friendly Letters

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students engage in a lesson that introduces the parts of a letter. The lesson is taught using a powerpoint presentation with the purpose of integrating technology into instruction. Students create a letter and thinking map to challenge...
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What Letter Do These Begin With?

For Students Pre-K - K
In this initial consonant worksheet, students complete 9 pages with 9 questions on each page pertaining to initial consonant sounds. Students say the name of the picture and write the letter that starts each word.
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Animals and Initial Sounds

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore animals and initial sounds. They create a slideshow by clicking and dragging background pictures, letters, animal pictures and sounds to accompany each slide. Students search for animals whose name is the same sound...
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Phonics on the Farm

For Students K - 2nd
In these eight recognizing the phonetic sounds in picture words worksheet, students observe pictures of farm animals and color the ones that have the specified /c/ , /d/, /p/, /h/, /m/, /g/, /sh/, or /ch/ sounds. There are five pictures...
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Sounding Out CVCE Words

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore vowels and consonants by participating in a flash card activity. In this phonetics lesson, 1st graders discuss the difference between short and long vowels and identify them within a story told to them by their...
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1st Grade Grammar/Phonics

For Teachers 1st
In this grammar and phonics worksheet, 1st graders complete multiple choice questions about fill in the blanks to sentences, punctuation, letter sounds, and more. Students complete 15 questions.
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Oo is for Octopus

For Students K - 1st
Oodles of fun and opportunities for learning are overwhelming in this Letter O activity series, which features printing practice for letters and numbers, connect the docts, and lots of cute octopi for your learners to color.
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Second Grade Language

For Teachers 2nd
In this language arts worksheet, 2nd graders complete multiple choice questions about ending sounds, capitals, completing sentences, punctuation, and more. Students complete 25 questions.
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Letter M Cut and Paste

For Students K - 1st
In this letter M worksheet, students color the letter M pictures and then cut the pictures out. Students glue the pictures that start with the /m/ sound to the letter M.
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School-Home Links Sound Worksheet

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this beginning sounds worksheet, students say the name of each of the six pictures on the worksheet. Next the students have 5 sentences in which they choose a word from the box to complete each sentence.
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Beginning Sounds of A and B

For Students Pre-K - K
In this sounds instructional activity, students study 16 pictures, with blank boxes beneath. Students are to say each picture name, and mark the beginning consonant, A or B.
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Friends Together: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 4)

For Teachers K Standards
Friendship is the theme in this series of extra support lessons. With a variety of resources (practice worksheets, letter, word, punctuation and picture cards), young readers gain knowledge of initial consonants v and h, blending short...