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Phonological Awareness: Onset and Rime, Rime House

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Are you covering onset and rime with budding readers? Here, learners examine six "rime house" work boards, each with an image at the top. Working with a partner, they segment each top image's onset and rime. Then, they pick cards and...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Matching, Phoneme Go Fish

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Go fishing for initial sounds with this engaging phoneme game! Similar to the card game Go Fish, pairs use picture cards and try to match initial sounds. They set aside any pictures that are a match and ask their partner for specific...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Segmenting, Phoneme Closed Sort

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Build phonological awareness with an activity that challenges learners to sort picture cards based on the number of phonemes each has.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonemic Awareness: Phoneme Segmenting, The Phoneme Game

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Early readers play a board game to practice segmenting phonemes. Players determine how many spaces to move by choosing a picture, saying the object's name on the card, then counting the phonemes they say.
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Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Matching, Final Phoneme Memory

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Try to match the final sounds in this memory game! Learners place all 24 cards upside down and take turns flipping them to see if the final phonemes match. If they do, remove them; if not, put them back. Partners play until all cards...
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Phonics: Encoding and Decoding, A Digraph A Word

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Learners view a series of images, then choose digraphs, consonants, and vowels to spell out the object's name on each card.
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Phonics: High Frequency Words, Word Bowling

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Go bowling for high-frequency words! Partners take turns drawing bowling ball cards and read the word printed on them. If the learner is successful, they record their score on a scorecard.
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Vocabulary: Word Meaning, Undercover Meanings

For Teachers 4th - 5th Standards
Support young scholars with studying new vocabulary using this foldable resource. By cutting and folding the included template, learners can record definitions, examples, and a sentence for four different words.
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Fact Versus Opinion

For Teachers K - 1st
Is that a fact or an opinion? Learners explore the difference using this pocket chart activity during which partners read statement cards and determine whether they are facts or opinions.
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Comprehension: Text Analysis, More Incredible Inferences

For Teachers 4th - 5th Standards
Reinforce inference skills with a learning game! Scholars read scenarios on cards and match them to a written inference on the triangle. The first pupil to match all their inferences wins!
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Comprehension: Text Analysis, Fiction and Nonfiction Find

For Teachers 4th - 5th Standards
Scholars analyze fiction and nonfiction text and fill in a worksheet detailing the text's title, genre, and reason for its classification.
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Vocabulary: Word Meaning, Dictionary Cube

For Teachers 4th - 5th Standards
Scholars work together to define words and answer questions using a dictionary cube.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Alphabet Borders

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Help young scholars name the letters of the alphabet. They use the provided alphabet border and letter cards to take turns saying and finding various alphabet letters. This simple game can be extended by having learners focus on the...
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Recognizing Letters

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Boost letter recognition with an activity that challenges young scholars to match a plastic letter to one printed on a card. 
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Phonics: Letter Recognition, Alphabet Tiles Name Sort

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Beginning readers practice identifying alphabet letters using upper and lower case letter tiles. Each class member is given a T-chart, letter tiles, and a name card. They then separate the letter tiles in their name from those not in...
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Fluency: Letter Recognition, Speedy Alphabet Arc

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
On your mark, get set, match! Learners use a complete set of letters, matching each to its outlined letter on an arc. As they choose letters, they name them aloud. For added difficulty, another arc is missing most of its letters to...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Fluency: Letter-Sound Correspondence, Letter Flash

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Scholars work in pairs to drill and practice alphabet sounds, keeping track of their progress on a chart. Working one at a time, each partner flips letter cards, saying the sound and letter. If they get it correct, it goes in the YES...
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Phonological Awareness: Syllables, Clapping Names

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Scholars practice identifying and counting syllables. Images of classmates are cut out and placed on a chart. Learners clap and count the syllables in each child's name. They finish by writing the number of syllables under the...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness: Sentence Segmentation, Sentence Graph

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Young scholars segment sentences while they listen to a series of sentences. Using a graph, pupils make a mark for each word they hear. Learners listen to each sentence three times; once to listen, once to mark, and once to check their...
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Phonological Awareness: Onset and Rime, Guessing Game

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
An activity challenges scholars to show what they know about onset and rime. Learners choose from a stack of picture cards and give onset and rhyming clues to see if their partners can guess the word they are holding.
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Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Matching, Sound Maker - Sound Smacker

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Scholars sort words based on their initial phonemes. They choose cards, say their names, and match the initial phoneme to the one posted on one of the sorting bins. If the initial sound matches, they put the card in the sound maker bin,...
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Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Segmenting, Phoneme Hopscotch

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Your class will love playing phoneme hopscotch! Scholars choose a card, say the name of the object on the card, break the word into phonemes, count the phonemes, then hop that many spaces on the hopscotch mat. Super fun!
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonics: Onset and Rime, Say It Now

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Pairs use onset and rime cards to make as many words as possible by blending the onsets with the rimes.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonics: Onset and Rime, Change-A-Word

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Kids use their phonological know-how to identify and segment onset and rime blends. Double rime picture cards (cat and hat) are chosen, then matched to onset cards that make each word, such as the k sound for a cat and the h sound for a...

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