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Shh, Do Not Wake the Baby!

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students explore the /sh/ digraph and how it is a blending of the /s/ and /h/ sounds. They use letterbox manipulatives to spell 'sh' words and identify /sh/ words as they read a story. They 'fish' for 'sh' words to practice writing at...
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Introduction to Dr. Seuss

For Teachers 1st
First graders look at slides on the SMART Board of different facts about Dr. Seuss and then create a class bar graph of their favorite Dr. Seuss books. In this Dr. Seuss lesson plan, 1st graders review and list facts that they learned...
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How Do You Get to School?

For Teachers K
Students, through a literature based assignment, explore basic modes of transportation and examine how different things move at different speeds.
Interactive
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English Exercises: Questions

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this online interactive English activity, students respond to 19 fill in the blank questions that require them to use questions appropriately. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Do They Rhyme?

For Teachers K
Students pick out words that rhyme. In this lesson on rhyme, students listen to the teacher read the poem "My Robot Does My Homework" by Kenn Nesbitt and pick out words that rhyme.
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She Ships Shells to the Shore

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify the digraph /sh/ in written and spoken language. After a brief discussion the independent and combined sounds of the phonemes /s/ and /h/ students practice identifying initial and final placement of the new digraph...
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Shhhhh

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify the digraph /sh/ in written and spoken language. After a brief discussion of the independent and combined sounds of the phonemes /s/ and /h/ students practice identifying initial and final placement of the new...
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Can you cry like a baby?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice the strategies of phonemes and spellings maps to sound out new words. They work on the short vowel /a/ sound with a sentence strip with "Allie the Alligator sat on a mat eating apples," on it and the book, "Cat in the...
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Spelling and Thinking/ Short a

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Learners participate in a lesson plan that is concerned with the usage of spelling words that has the short "a" sound. They read the words in list form. Students also write the words in the "an" and "ad" word families.
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A's Baseball

For Teachers 1st
First graders distinguish between short vowel a and long vowel a. They are introduced to the vowel-consonant-e pattern that changes short vowel sounds into long vowel sounds. They practice reading words with the vowel-consonant-e pattern.
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"Favorite Fairy Tale Characters"

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders enter the results of their survey on a spreadsheet. They construct a bar graph showing the results.
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Pen pals

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Pupils explore the idea that where you live affects the way you view the world. They get to know people as individuals breaks down stereotypes.
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Clouds

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students discover how clouds form. They use the internet to read about the formation of clouds. They work together in groups to create their own clouds. They identify and label the four cloud types.
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Investigating Motion

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Learners determine velocity using the slope of a time distance graph. They investigate a motion cart using a CBR unit and a TI 83 calculator setup. Using the graph generated, they calculate velocity.
Interactive
Curated OER

English Exercises: Passive Voice

For Students 4th - 6th
In this passive voice worksheet, students fill in blanks in sentences with the correct present simple, present perfect, future simple and past simple passive, then join sentences correctly.
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The Big City

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students explore structures in a big city.  In this big city lesson, students become familiar with vocabulary about big cities through songs graphs, and hands-on art. Students practice phonic sound /M/.
Interactive
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Alpha Pig's Paint by Letter

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A paint-by-letter interactive game where students match the letter on a color palette to the letter on a picture in order to paint the picture. Three levels of difficulty allow students to match capital letters, lower-case letters, or a...
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Beginning Sounds

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Match beginning sound to the correct picture.
Lesson Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Initial Sound Memory Game: A Pre Reading Game

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A teacher-led activity that helps young scholars learn to isolate initial sounds of words. Students match pictures according to the initial sounds of the words that the pictures represent.
Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: Uppercase & Lowercase Letter Matching

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Play a game by dragging the lowercase letters to their matching upper case letters in order to get all the colors back in the picture.
Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Make a Word: Ip

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Play interactive game building IP words. Also practice identifying initial sounds and matching pictures. Short I words: zip, rip, dip, sip.
Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Make a Word: An

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Play interactive game building AN words. Also practice identifying initial sounds and matching pictures.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Beginning Letters

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is good to use toward the beginning of first grade or the end of kindergarten. It has children look at pictures and match the beginning letter with the pictures. A pretest and posttest is...
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Letter E

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] These activities include matching words and pictures, blending short vowel e, action words, and a story structure activity.