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Beginning and Ending Sounds

For Teachers 1st
First graders practice the beginning and ending sounds of words. In this phonological awareness lesson, 1st graders use picture cards for one syllable words and pronounce each word. Students match other picture cards with the same...
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Perfectly Popping

For Teachers K - 1st
Students identify p in spoken words and the written letter the represents it. The story, Hop on Pop by Dr. Seuss is read the the class. They then have to circle pictures that have the p sound in them. This assessment is done after...
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Dr. Seuss Rhyming

For Teachers K
Students complete activities with the book Green Eggs and Ham. In this rhyming lesson, students read the book and focus on the rhyming words. They try teacher made green eggs and ham and write a rhyme describing where they would or would...
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Hop on Pop - Short 'o'

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice the alphabetic significance of the letter /o/ along with its awareness of phonemes in spoken words. They assess on construction paper the phrase, "We like to hop on top of Pop who's on top of a hot rock" written on it...
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Variation on Making Words

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars copy the letters ABEDREF onto their strip of paper and cut the ltters out.
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Made You Mad

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explore the phoneme for the vowel-consonant-silent e grapheme. They recognize the silent "e" at the end of words and practice speaking them. Students say words, spell them, and say tongue twisters with the vowel...
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Shake With A

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Use letter boxes and letter tiles (d,a,y,l,p,w,k,f,r,i,t,s,b,c,I) to help your class distinguish between the sounds for short vowel a and long vowel a. They are introduced to the vowel patterns that comprise long vowel sounds, with a...
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The Everyday Red

For Teachers K - 1st
Pair a hand motion with the /e/ sound so young learners remember it better! This plan has the class open their "creaky door" whenever they hear the /e/ sound. They'll learn a tongue twister and read the short story Red Gets Fed,...
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Fishing For F's

For Teachers K
Students discriminate initial sounds of words and categorize words based on the initial sound. They generate ideas and topics for writing and use prewriting and drafting strategies to formulate text.
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Snail

For Teachers Pre-K - K
S is for snail. Use this worksheet to help your young readers learn the letter s. This simple coloring worksheet is great for youngsters who are learning the beginning letter s sound. They can practice saying the s sound and coloring...
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Long Vowel U Sounds

For Students 1st - 3rd
This worksheet is straight-forward and easy to follow. Have your young learners look at the words below and place them in the correct category. Does the word have the ew letter combination or a u and silent e combination? For you very...
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-ake Words

For Students K - 2nd
Learners try to find rhyming words in the crossword puzzle provided. Ten words rhyming with bake are hidden somewhere in the puzzle; can your young learners find them? Consider having them use highlighters instead of pens to make it a...
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Circle The Words

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
In this initial consonant worksheet, students read 25 words. Students circle the words that start with l, m, p, or r. Then students answer 6 questions about the words.
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My Short U Book

For Students K - 1st
Pictures help young learners remember new, unknown vocabulary. Show them this picture book and have them review the words that accompany each picture. Consider creating pictures for the five words on the last page. 
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Beginning Letter

For Teachers Pre-K - K
In this initial consonant worksheet, students analyze 9 pictures of common objects. From 3 choices of beginning consonant letters, students circle the correct choice.
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Beginning Letters

For Teachers Pre-K - K
In this initial consonant worksheet, learners analyze 9 pictures of common objects. From a list of 3 choices, students circle the beginning letter of the word.
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Beginning Consonants

For Teachers Pre-K - K
In this initial consonant worksheet, young scholars analyze 9 pictures of common objects. From a list of 3 choices, students circle the beginning letter of the word.
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Correct Beginning Letter

For Teachers Pre-K - K
In this initial consonant worksheet, students analyze 9 pictures of common objects. From a list of 3 choices, students circle the beginning letter of the word.
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Spelling Assessment

For Teachers 3rd
In this spelling worksheet, 3rd graders solve three riddles. Each riddle contains three clues for two pictured words. The first two riddles refer to words with the same vowel sound. The third requires students to apply the same spelling...
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Short

For Students K - 1st
In this short a word families learning exercise, students answer 6 fill in the blank questions where they look at a picture and finish each word with the word families an, at, or ag.
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Vowel Digraphs - Long i or Long e

For Students 1st - 2nd
Do you hear the long /i/ or the long /e/ sound? Kids read through 11 examples and decide which of the two sounds is used. Example words include die, flies, and shield. Correct the spelling error (sheild) before distributing...
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Letter L

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this beginning sounds worksheet, students say the name of the 9 objects pictured and then identify those that begin with the letter L by circling them.
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Pictures That Start With Letter J

For Teachers Pre-K - K
For this letter J worksheet, students analyze 12 color pictures of common objects. Students circle the pictures of words that start with the letter J.
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Letter K

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this beginning sounds worksheet, students say the name of the 9 objects pictured and then identify those that begin with the letter K by circling them.