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Wade Swayed At the Masquerade
Students practice reading words with vowel patterns that change the sound of the vowel. After reviewing the short vowel sound /a/, they are introduced to the vowel-consonant-e pattern that changes the short vowel sound into a long vowel...
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Dear Zookeeper
First graders listen to the book, Dear Zoo. Working in groups, they develop a list of at least three zoo mammals. They write a letter to a zookeeper using four parts, which include a heading, body, closing and signature.
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Putting Writing Skills To Work
Tenth graders reinforce their knowledge of the format and elements of business letters by writing a request letter. A review of effective letter writing is provided prior to an independent assignment. This helps with scaffolding the...
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Egg Hunt Lesson
Fourth graders explore religious holidays by participating in an egg hunt. In this Easter lesson, 4th graders review the different U.S. states and capitols before completing a geography egg hunt activity. Students read geographic clues...
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Reintroduce /ou/
Students demonstrate how to pronounce the "ou" sound. In this sound fluency lesson plan, students review the letters that make the sound in the word "cloud" and then practice making the sound. Students identify the words on the board...
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Keyboarding Lesson - Type Reach
Pupils locate and type letters e, h, and o keys and practice a new technique: type reach. They review the home row with all letters learned.
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Make a Word
Students work in a group to develop words from letters they collect during the activity. The words can be general or from their weekly spelling list. They practice different locomotor skills while using scooters to move.
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Alphabet Line-up (Elementary, Language)
Students put the letters of the alphabet in the correct order. They practice working as a team.
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Rocket Alphabet
Students identify uppercase letters. They practice putting them in the correct order and writing them. They use rockets to capitalize the letters.
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Sheepish Ee
Students examine how "ee" makes the /E/ sound using Elkonin boxes and letter manipulatives. While reciting an e rhyme they practice saying the long /e/ sound before reading a story which contains long e words. Finally, they complete a...
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Scrabble Endurance
Students practice movement skills while working on their spelling. They review spelling words and practice the locomotor and non-locomotor skills involved.
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Landlord and Tenant Agreements
High schoolers practice filling out a rental agreement. They write a sample complaint letter to their landlord. They identify the parts of a letter.
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Suppressing Short O
Students complete a variety of activities as they explore/review the letter 'o' and the short /o/ sound. They recite short /o/ tongue twisters, practice writing the letter 'o', and listen to stories, identifying words with the short /o/...
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The Plain Train sat in the Rain
Learners study the ai=/A/ grapheme by reading "James and the Good Day" with a partner and discussing it. Next, they recite a tongue twister focusing on the ai=/A/ correspondence. They make words using their letterboxes and letters before...
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Musical Alphabet
Learners play a musical Alphabet game after listening to the book "Alphabet Letters" by Rolando Merino in this Language Arts lesson for early-elementary classrooms. The lesson includes an idea on how to evaluate student comprehension.
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Reintroduce /C/
Students view a letter card and pronounce words that begin with that sound. In this /c/ instructional activity, students look for letter /c/ randomly placed on a chart.
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Alphabet Antics
In this early childhood alphabet review worksheet, learners identify letters that follow specific letters in the alphabet as well as letters that come before specific letters. Students also place words in alphabetical order to reveal a...
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Legacy Of The Roman Empire
Students explore the Roman Empire. In this ancient Rome lesson, students watch "The Legacy of the Roman Empire," and discover details about Vindolanda, the Roman fort. Students compose letters from Roman soldiers at the fort that reveal...
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Finding F
Students complete a variety of activities as they explore the letter 'f'. Through instruction and modeling they examine the sound the letter makes, how the letter is written, etc. They recite tongue twisters and listen to 'One Fish, Two...
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Phonics Instructional Routine: Blending Sounds in Short Words
Students strengthen their reading of new words with phonics and blending sounds in short words. They interact with word cards with short letter sounds like sit, mat, fit, etc. Each student also assesses magnetic letters to physically...
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Reintroduce "Ur"
Learners explore word structure by participating in a word sound activity. For this vocabulary identification lesson, students discuss the sound that is made by the letters "ur" and in what words this sound is found. Learners listen as...
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The Rights of Bike Riders
Students write a letter to the editor of a newspaper about the bicycle helmet safety issue. They gather statistics about bicycle helmet use and discuss the statistics as a class and explain how to interpret the numbers accurately. They...
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The ABCs of Healthy Foods
First graders, after reviewing the food pyramid, look for fat, sugar, and salt in food.
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The Elf Project
Third graders research elves and create their own elf description which they use to write back to the first graders Santa letters.