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Second Grade Skills Unit 4: The Job Hunt

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Second graders practice skills, including spelling, grammar, and reading. Pupils examine vowel sounds and tricky words, nouns, and verbs. They begin the writing process by drafting a persuasive letter and decoding texts.
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Spelling Workbook: Phonics Patterns

For Students K - 2nd Standards
Set your pupils straight with spelling and sounds by using these materials for practice. Included here are three booklets and workbooks that cover just about any sound or blend you could think of!
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Icky Insect Is In Icky Sticky Ink

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Practice the strategy of letter-sound correspondence when identifying the short vowel /i/ sound in written and spoken words. The teacher recites the tongue twister "Icky insect is in icky sticky ink," while listeners repeat. Letter boxes...
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Alphabet Sideshow

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students practice sound and recognition of letters in alphabetical sequence. They gain an understanding of letter sounds and order. They create a slide show with graphics and text. They present their slide show to the class.
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Swimmy Swim Swiftly

For Teachers K - 1st
Students examine the letter 's'. Through instruction and modeling they explore the sound the letter makes, how the letter is written, words that contain the letter, etc. They listen to a story and identify words with the /s/ sound by...
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Using Folk Tales: Vowel Influences on the Letter G

For Teachers K - 1st
Students recognize and identify words with hard and soft g sounds. They also categorize words beginning with the letter g by their sound. The folk tale Jack and the Beanstalk is read and then students are asked to name words in the...
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Marvelous Muffins!

For Teachers K - 1st
Students study the letter "m" in written and spoken words by making the sound, reciting a tongue twister, and writing the letter. They identify the sound in words and in Laura Joffe Numeroff's book, "If You Give a Moose a Muffin". Next,...
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Literal Meaning of Reading

For Teachers K - 1st
Students demonstrate literal meaning of a fiction book. For this reading comprehension lesson, students listen to the book, If You Give a Mouse a Muffin and practice the "m" sound during the read aloud. Students answer questions about...
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Letter Combination Fluency

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore language arts by participating in a word structure activity. In this phonics lesson, students utilize flash cards with specific letters on them which can be combined with other cards to create words. Students practice...
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Letter Recognition - o

For Students 1st
In this letter recognition worksheet, 1st graders examine 15 words in a box at the top of the page. They circle the words that begin with o. They read about the sounds that o makes, and examine 5 black line pictures before coloring the...
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Dd Letter Recognition

For Students 1st
In this letter recognition worksheet, 1st graders circle the words that begin with the letter d out of the 15 words shown in a box at the top of the page. They circle the pictures that start with the letter D and then color the 2 pictures.
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Sound Search (Elementary, Reading/Writing)

For Teachers K - 2nd
Pupils 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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I Spy The Letter M!

For Teachers K - 1st
Students identify the grapheme and phoneme for M. They practice writing the letter M and through listening activities, discriminate the phoneme /m/. They associate the phoneme /m/ with its letter representation and identify it in various...
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Beginning Sound Qu

For Students K - 1st
In this sound/letter worksheet, students practice tracing and writing upper and lower case Qu. Then students identify pictures than begin with this sound.
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Where is the Sound of - j ?

For Students K - 1st
In this word and letter recognition learning exercise, students examine 7 pictures and words. Students identify whether they hear the "j" sound as "juh" or "ge" sounds as they identify and print those words with the "juh" sound.
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Introduce silent-letter words

For Teachers 1st
First graders practice reading words that contain a silent letter. In this silent letter words lesson plan, 1st graders look at words on the board such as lamb, sock, and knee and practice reading them without pronouncing one of the...
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Word and Letter Practice #6

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this words and letters practice worksheet, students practice naming letters and practicing sounds of given sets of letters, read simple sentences, and practice saying the beginning sound of words that name pictures. 
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Where is the Sound of K?

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this letter k worksheet, learners say picture words, and circle the first k to the left if they her the /kuh/ sound at the beginning of the word, or the "ck" to the right of the picture if they her the /kuh/ sound at the end of the word.
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Review letters and words: 4

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this reviewing letters and words instructional activity, students say the letters, say the words, name pictures, and more. Students complete 6 exercises total.
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Word and Letter Practice #8

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this word and letter practice worksheet, learners name and say sounds of letters in sets, practice reading simple sentences and sight words, and say the beginning sounds of names of pictures.
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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 instructional activity, students utilize a pencil for the first time and identify the proper grip for writing. Students...
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Review words and letters

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this reviewing words and letters worksheet, students review the letters m, s, r, and t, circle the words beginning with t, name the pictures, and ask questions. Students complete 4 exercises total.
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Word and Letter Practice #2

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this words and letters practice worksheet, students practice naming letters and practicing sounds of given sets of letters, read simple sentences, and practice sight words. 
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Beginning Sound of the Letter D

For Students 1st
In this beginning letter worksheet, 1st graders practice printing one row of upper case D's, and another of lower case d's. They look at 9 black line pictures, name them, and write the letter "d" under each picture that begins with the...

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