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Chuga Chuga Choo Choo

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify the digraph /ch/ in written and spoken language. After a brief discussion of the independent and combined sounds of the phonemes /c/ and /h/ students practice identifying initial and final placement of the new...
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Shiny Shoes

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify the digraph /sh/ in written and spoken language. After a brief discussion of the independent and combined sounds of the phonemes /s/ and /h/ students practice identifying initial and final placement of the new...
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Chug Choo Choo

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify the digraph /ch/ in written and spoken language. After a brief discussion of the independent and combined sounds of the phonemes /c/ and /h/ students practice identifying initial and final placement of the new...
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Choo, Choo, words that say /Ch/!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars identify the digraph /ch/ in written and spoken language. After a brief discussion of the independent and combined sounds of the phonemes /c/ and /h/ students practice identifying initial and final placement of the new...
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Mmmmmm Mmmmmm Yum!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students engage in an emergent literacy lesson that focuses on phonemic awareness. The importance of the letter to sound relationship is stressed in the lesson. The letter "m" is the target phoneme for students to master.
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Buzzing Bees

For Teachers 1st
First graders engage in a lesson on phonemic awareness. They practice skills that are considered essential for good reading to occur. The skills of letter recognition and corresponding the letter to its phoneme are taught.
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"Poppy P"

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students engage in a lesson of emerging literacy that focuses on phonemic awareness. The phoneme for the letter "p" is chosen for the lesson and students must acquire the skill of letter recognition also.
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The Door is Creaky E

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars observe the prop of a door to demonstrate the sound of the phonemic sound of the letter "e". Then they drill and practice the sound with the teacher. The essential importance of the skill of phonemic awareness is stressed...
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Icky, Sticky!!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students participate in an emerging literacy instructional activity that focuses on the skill of phonemic awareness. The phoneme of choice is the letter "i". Students need to recognize the letter in correlation to its sound.
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Ew!!! It's Icky Sticky!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Learners engage in an emergent literacy lesson that focuses upon the skill of phonemic awareness. The phoneme sound for the letter "i" is used with a tongue twister to build this important reading skill.
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Yellowish Fish

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students engage in an emergent literacy activity in order to obtain the skill of phoneme awareness to become better readers. They practice blending different phonemes in order to eventually form words.
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Kindergarten Phonics

For Teachers K
Students are introduced to the letters and phonemes for C, L, N, P, T, and A. They identify each letter in its upper and lowercase forms. Students differentiate the letters from each other and practice identifying objects and pictures...
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"Eeehh What was That?"

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice phoneme awareness by making the sounds represented by letters with the /e/ sound. They study the tongue twister "Everybody saw Eddie the Eskimo Enter the Elevator on the Elephant" and "Red Get's Fed" to assist them...
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Baaa Baaa Black Sheep have you any Wool?

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students participate in a discussion covering the concept of phonemic awareness. They practice how letters make sounds that are combined to form written and spoken words. The teacher instructs the class by modeling the correct way to...
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"Ehh?" Says Grandpa Edward"

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students engage in an emergent literacy lesson that focuses on phonemic awareness. This lesson plan helps students to identify the correspondence e=/e/ by recognizing the sound of an elderly person ¿¿¿eh?¿¿¿ throughout words.
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What doe the doctor say?

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students must explore the phoneme awareness. They must decode many different correspondences. Students explore the o sound by illustrating the concept using memorable tools used in by showing the o sound in spoken and written words.
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Build Fluency /A/

For Teachers K
Students are introduced to the letter "A" and play a game to reinforce the printed and sound recognition of the letter "A."  In this letter "A" lesson, students observe the teacher model the letter card game. Students participate in...
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Phonics lesson for "sh"

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify words with the "sh" pattern. They participate in phonemic awareness, decoding, blending, spelling patterns, and dictation exercises. As the assessment portion of the lesson, they may write a story using words...
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ABC Book of Tongue Twisters

For Teachers K - 8th
Students construct sentences using alliteration. In this phonemic awareness lesson, students listen to a read aloud such as Some Smug Slug and identify alliteration. Students write their own sentences using alliteration.
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Hungry, Hungry Harry

For Teachers K - 1st
Students study the /h/ sound as the sound you hear when you breath into your hand. They write the letter before drawing a picture of something that begins with the letter /h/. Next, they listen to Joanne Partis', "Hungry Harry," raising...
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Picture Dictionary

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students create picture dictionaries to encourage the development of letter-sound recognition. In this alphabet project, students cut out pictures from magazines and glue them onto tagboard, and then write the name of the picture below...
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Phonics- Y as /igh/ or /ee/

For Teachers 1st
First graders discover vowel /y/. In this phonics lesson, 1st graders will use Fancy Nancy, Poison Ivy Expert, to generate a list of words with vowel /y/. Students will sort the words according to the vowel sound.
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Rhyme Time

For Teachers K
Students discover rhyming words. In this rhyming lesson, students read A Giraffe and a Half. Students examine rhyming words from the story. Working in small groups, students create rhymes in response to a prompt from the teacher.
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BL to the Ends (blends)

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students examine word blends. In this word blends lesson, students investigate common word blends. Working in pairs, students analyze words containing blends and generate a word list.