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Connect the Rhymes
If your budding readers are new to rhyme, this is a visual way to give them practice. They examine familiar sets of objects, matching them to their rhyming partners by drawing a connecting line. Practice left to right skills by asking...
Star Date
Modeling the Night Sky
Dramatize the stars and planets as they become a visual representation of the solar system in this activity. Young astronomers track and simulate various constellations as they orbit the Earth to learn the position and motion of...
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Greetings and Introductions
Students recite common forms of courtesy, greetings and leave takings appropriate to the time of day. They practice identiying the differences in forms of address for age and rank. Pupils are each given a copy of the "Greetings and...
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"Lions and Tigers and Bears-Oh MY!"
Students explore the characteristics of an animal. What do all animals need to live and can what we expect to accomplish by studying about animals. They keep a science journal daily.
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We Flew With a Baboon
More vowels? Elementary schoolers recognize how vowel patterns change a short vowel sound into a long vowel sound. With an emphasis on the /oo/ that makes the long U sound, kids identify the phoneme and letter combination through...
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Letter V Words and Pictures
In this letter V words and pictures worksheet, students study the V words and their pictures. Students match the words with their pictures from the choices: violin, van, vase, and vine.
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Letter R Words and Pictures
For this letter R words and pictures worksheet, students study the R words and their pictures. Students then draw lines matching the words to the pictures from the choices: rose, ring, rabbit, radio, and rhino.
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Beginning Consonant Sound Matching
In this beginning consonant sounds worksheet, learners match pictures of common objects with the first letter of the word. There are 6 pictures on this page.
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What Begins with the Letter E?
In this letter recognition worksheet, students draw lines to match pictures that begin with the short vowel sound of the letter E or e to a box labeled as such. They choose between 6 pictures that include an elephant, eggs, and a bird.
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Let's Go to the Farm
Students explore corresponding letters of the alphabet with the corresponding phonemes using farm animals. They create a classroom word wall of the items they saw on a trip to the farm or zoo. Students create pictures to go along with...
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Short 'e'
First graders 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 identify...
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Winter Secret Message Puzzle
In this winter secret message puzzle worksheet, learners solve the secret message by matching the pictures and letters in the code and writing the winter phrase.
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S, T, U Spell Match Up
In this spelling worksheet, students match the pictures with the word endings and write in the missing letter to spell the word correctly.
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Letter Xx
In this letter Xx worksheet, students study the various illustrations and color the pictures that begin with the letter X. Students color the two pictures of the x-ray and the xylophone.
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Spring Fun Literacy Centers
Looking for spring-themed literacy centers? Look no further because here is a resource packed full of literacy skills practice, including spring verbs, ABC order, spring synonym match, spring phrases, abbreviation match, and a sentence...
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Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Isolating, The Last Sound Is...
Partners work with real objects as they practice final phonemes. Here's how it works: Partner A silently chooses an object and sounds it out, determining the final phoneme and saying the sound aloud. Partner B examines the group of...
1 plus 1 plus 1 equals 1
I Can Read! Sight Words Set #13
Take the first steps to reading fluency with a set of language arts activities. Kids work on the sight words pretty, ran, so, and out with tracing worksheets and matching games.
Spanish-4-You
Coloring Book for Kids in Spanish Lesson 1: Greetings
Introduce your class to basic salutations in Spanish and English with a group of activities and exercises. The materials, which can be put together as a packet, include coloring pages, a matching activity, a fill-in-the-blank exercise,...
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Icky Sticky Fingers
Practice recognizing the short vowel /i/ in written and spoken language. Introduce the target sound with a fun tongue twister about Lizzy the lizard. Through matching and listening activities, learners discriminate the vowel sound /i/...
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Amazing As
Help young readers recognize the short vowel /a/ in written and spoken language. Through matching and listening activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /a/ from other phonemes. Learners associate the phoneme with its letter...
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Decomposing Numbers Step-By-Step
Here are two addition-related exercises. However, bear in mind, the explanations are featured below each of them. Use this as an all-class warm up, revealing the explanations if and when you see fit. First, examine the four sets of...
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Splendid Sounds
In this short vowel sounds learning exercise, students match pictures that have short vowel sounds in them to the letters they contain. Students match 5 pictures to 5 short vowels.
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The Scary, Creaky Door
Learners recognize the short vowel e in written and spoken language. Through listening and matching activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /e/ from other phonemes. Students identify the phoneme and letter in pictures using a...
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Present Perfect
In this present perfect instructional activity, students put words in the past participle, complete sentences, match sentences with pictures, and more. Students complete 4 activities.