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Breaking News English: OPEC Urged to Increase Oil Production

For Students 5th - 10th
In this English worksheet, students read "OPEC Urged to Increase Oil Production," and then respond to 1 essay, 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.
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Breaking News English: Shuttle Discovery Launches Successfully

For Students 5th - 10th
In this English worksheet, students read "Shuttle Discovery Launches Successfully," and then respond to 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.
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Breaking News English: Spain Legalizes Same Sex Marriage

For Students 5th - 10th
In this English worksheet, students read " Spain Legalizes Same Sex Marriage," and then respond to 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.
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Breaking News English: Indian Heat Wave Kills 200

For Students 5th - 10th
In this English worksheet, students read " Indian Heat Wave Kills 200," and then respond to 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.
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Breaking News English: Kenya's First Lady Runs Amok

For Students 5th - 10th
For this English worksheet, learners read "Kenya's First Lady Runs Amok," and then respond to 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.
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Can You Hear the Sound?

For Teachers K - 1st
Students recognize the short vowel e in spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /e/ from other short vowel phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify the...
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The Not-So-Scary Creaky Door!

For Teachers K
Students recognize the short vowel e in spoken language. Through listening activities, they discriminate the short vowel phoneme /e/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify the...
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Rocking Chair

For Teachers K - 1st
Pupils recognize the short vowel e in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /e/ from other vowel phonemes. Students associate the /e/ with its letter representation and identify the...
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Vowel Sounds and Spellings

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this vowel worksheet, students complete multiple choice questions, selecting the word that comes next in a rhyming sequence. Answers and explanations are given.
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"Eddie the Excited Elephant"

For Teachers 1st
First graders recognize each letter in the alphabet and the phoneme it makes. They recognize phonemes in spoken words and their corresponding letters or spelling maps and distinguish phonemes in their oral contexts.
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Grandpa Ed

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Pupils engage in an emergent literacy lesson that focuses on phonemic awareness. For practice they become more comfortable with a short vowel phoneme, which can often be the most difficult to identify, by learning it in isolation.
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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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A Seal Who Loves Peaches and Cream

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students decode correspondence in order to become better, fluent readers. When the letters e and a are put together they make the E sound. They become more fluent readers through listening for a correspondence in speech, in text, and...
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Reading Scavenger Hunt

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this scavenger hunt worksheet, students practice several reading skills by hunting for the words listed on their clipboard worksheet.
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Special Place

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students observe and describe a "special place" chosen along a nature trail. In this habitat observational skills and writing lesson, students take a walk on a nature trail and choose a spot to sit and meditate. Students complete a...
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The Pink Pig

For Teachers K - 1st
Students identify the short /i/ sound in spoken words and the letter symbol in this lesson. They say a tongue twister emphasizing words with the short /i/ sound. They then read the story "Liz is Six" and identify the words with the...
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What Did You Say?

For Teachers K - 1st
Students recognize the short vowel E in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /e/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and read pseudo...
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Ellen the Elephant

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young scholars build their sight vocabulary. They study the short vowel correspondence e. They practice pronouncing the /e/ phoneme when shown the grapheme e in written words. They read e = /e/ and write words that contain the e...
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A Race to Place

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students 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 spelling words with the vowel-consonant-e pattern.
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Icky, Icky, Sticky!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars explore phonemes in spoken words as well as their corresponding graphemes in written words. They practice the short vowels /i/ and /e/. Students perform activities to practice sounds. They identify pictures with a...
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O No!

For Teachers 1st
First graders distinguish between short vowel a and long vowel O. They are introduced to the vowel-consonant-e pattern that changes short vowel sounds into long vowel sounds. They practice spelling words with the vowel-consonant-e pattern.
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The Old, Creaky Door

For Teachers K - 1st
Students recognize the short vowel e in written and spoken language. Through matching and handwriting activities, they discriminate the short vowel /e/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation...
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Which Letter Comes First?

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
In this literacy worksheet, students find the pictures that correlate to the words and they also decide which letter to begin the spelling of each word.
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Wash Your Hands...they are icky sticky!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Learners engage in an emergent literacy lesson that focuses on phonemic awareness and they practice corresponding the letter "i" to its long or short sound. This type of recognition has been found to be essential to reading development.