August House
Anansi Goes to Lunch - Pre-Kindergarten
In a multidisciplinary lesson plan, you will focus your instruction around the West African folktale, Anansi Goes to Lunch by Bobby and Sherry Norfolk while your little learners sing songs, play games, participate in a grand...
University of Texas
Essential Reading Strategies for the Struggling Reader
Beneficial for beginning readers, struggling readers, and those in need of review, a set of language arts activities is a great addition to any foundational reading unit. Focusing on phonological awareness, fluency, instructional...
Curated OER
Peg and Hen
Students navigate a website to practice the short e sound. For this short e sound lesson, students read a story on Starfall and complete practice with the short e sound.
Curated OER
Sounds of Yy
In this sounds of y practice worksheet, students discover that y can be a consonant or a vowel as they respond to 15 questions.
Rock ’N Learn
Shy Tyrone
In this long vowel I activity, students practice reading a short paragraph with several words in it stressing the long vowel I sound. Students cut out and color eight small pictures of words that contain the long vowel I in them and...
Curated OER
Lesson 5-Elaborate/Evaluate Too Loud, Too Close, Too Long
Students begin with an analysis of loudness. They estimate the loudness of common environmental sounds, and then use their knowledge of hearing and loudness to evaluate the risk of noise-induced hearing loss for fictitious individuals....
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Hidden Words
In this phonics practice learning exercise, students examine 5 pictures, record the long e word that represents each picture, and find the words in a word search puzzle.
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'U / magic e' Decoder
In this phonics word decoder worksheet, students use their problem solving skills and the decoder key to decode 15 sets of numbers in order to form 15 long u words.
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'O / Magic e' Decoder
For this phonics word decoder worksheet, students use their problem solving skills and the decoder key to decode 20 sets of letters in order to form 20 long o words.
Curated OER
Method for Teaching the Blending of Sounds: Train Technique
Students explore the blending of individual sounds to make words and, using visuals and manipulatives, equate this process to the hooking up of railroad cars to make a train. They link individual letters/sounds to make short words.
Starfall
Soap Boat
In this Language Arts learning exercise, students read a short book about a "soap boat." Students may practice reading it aloud and color in the illustrations.
Starfall
Make a Word—Long /o/
In this literacy activity, students write the words that are part of this activity. They write a new sentence and draw a picture for it.
Curated OER
From Vibration to Sound
Students observe a series of demonstrations to illustrate wave movement. In this sound wave lesson, students witness how objects create waves when dropped in a dish of water, use a rope and slinky to produce transverse and longitudinal...
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What A Day!
In this completing sentences learning exercise, students fill in the blanks with long o words and then circle those word pictures hidden in a scene. Students write 10 answers.
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Crazy Crossword
For this recognizing long i words crossword instructional activity, students use the word box of "ie" words and the across and down clues to complete the crossword puzzle. Students write 8 answers.
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"A" All Around
Spell and read words containing ai and ay. First and second graders identify vowel digraphs in written and spoken language. After a brief discussion on the combinations of letters that comprise digraphs, they practice reading and...
Curated OER
Poetry: The Most Compact Form of Literature
Introducing or need to review literary devices and terms for a study of poetry? Though text heavy, the explanations and examples of key poetic devices will provide learners with the vocabulary they need to discuss and craft poems.
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I'm Learning to Spell
In this long 'a' sound worksheet, students spell words with the long 'a' sound. Students write the missing letters to complete each word and then write the word on the lines. Students may use the word bank for help. Students also draw an...
Curated OER
What Do You See at the Pond?
With What Do You See at the Pond?, young readers explore pond life and practice reading strategies. Learners first make predictions and then read the simple story independently. After a second read-through with a partner, kids come...
Curated OER
A Historical and Educational Perspective on American Sign Language
Using Sign Language to Communicate with Your Special-Needs Students in the Classroom
Make Take Teach
7 Syllable Types - Classroom Posters
Review r-controlled words, open and closed vowels, and dipthongs with a set of classroom posters. Each page features one concept with a colorful illustration, an explanation, and a list of applicable words.
Acoustical Society of America
How Loud Is Too Loud?
How loud was that? Individuals build wheels displaying different sounds. Then, learners use the wheels to find the number of decibels the sound creates and how long they could withstand the sound before potential hearing damage.
Curated OER
Who Knows the Letter?
Help learners identify initial consonant sounds and letters that represent that sound. They indicate awareness of consonant sounds and letters by responding with a physical movement. They also sing using "Sing Your Way Through Phonics"...
Get Fluent
Get Fluent in French: Going on Holiday
Take a vacation into French with lots of vocabulary and plenty of activities. This collection of worksheets includes instruction as well as practice and invites French language learners to hone their translation skills.