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Making Sense of Decoding and Spelling

For Students Pre-K - 3rd Standards
Go over digraphs, vowel sounds, and affixes with a series of decoding and spelling lessons. Each lesson guides learners through a different reading and phonics skill, building on the lesson before, and challenging them with each step.
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Beginning Sounds-What sound does each picture begin with?

For Teachers K
Students view a multimedia presentation to identify beginning sounds.  In this phonics lesson, students recognize beginning sounds.  Students navigate a website for addition phonics sounds.
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Phonetic Skill 4

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In these phonetic skills worksheets, students complete several activities that help them learn to recognize phonetic patterns in words. Students complete 6 activities.
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Aaaaaaa! Let's Ride the Roller Coaster

For Teachers K - 1st
Students complete a variety of activities related to the short /a/ sound. As a class they recite a tongue twister, then trace and write the letter A. Students then listen to word pairs and identify which word in each word pair contains...
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Words with More Letters Than Sounds

For Students 2nd - 3rd
For this spelling activity worksheet, students write the spelling words on the lines that contain silent sections. Students find the 20 words in other sources.
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Sound Boxes

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students explore language fluency by identifying word segments. In this word structure instructional activity, students utilize words from their vocabulary instructional activity, dissect them into syllables and sound out their...
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Lick Your Icky Sticky Fingers

For Teachers K - 1st
Students complete a variety of activities related to the short /i/ sound. As a class they recite a tongue twister, then spell different words containing the short /i/ sound using letter manipulatives. Students listen to the book "Liz...
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Icky, Icky, Sticky!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students 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 particular...
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Beginning Sounds

For Students Pre-K - 1st
For this early childhood beginning sounds worksheet, students learn to recognize beginning letters of words as they look at the pictures of the ball, goat, money, octopus and zebra on the page and then draw a line to the letter each item...
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Beginning Sounds Worksheet

For Students Pre-K - K
In this early childhood beginning sounds worksheet, students learn to recognize beginning letters of words as they look at the pictures of the duck, giraffe, fan and whale on the page and choose from the letters in a box associating the...
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Beginning Sounds

For Students Pre-K - K
In this early childhood beginning sounds worksheet, students learn to recognize beginning letters of words as they look at the pictures of the elephant, lion, octopus and sun on the page and choose from the letters in a box associating...
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Consonants Blended with Long Vowels and Endings

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Learners practice vowel and phonic sounds. In this grammar lesson, students practice rhythm, rhymes, voiced phonic sounds, unvoiced phonic sounds and voiced vowel signs. Learners brainstorm words with the cvce patterns.
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Word Wonders

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Young scholars read passages and use phonics and context clues to self correct themselves while reading. For this reading lesson, students complete a worksheet which is embedded in the plan which has them choose the correct word to...
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Sight Words - Word Search

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this sight words activity, students look at the list of sight words (at, big, can, funny, get, help, me, we) and locate them within the word search puzzle.
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Sight Words - Word Search

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this sight words instructional activity, students look at the 8 sight words: fly, for, here, is, look, that, they, and what. Students find the words in the word search puzzle.
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Paint Pails

For Students 1st - 2nd
For this phonics practice instructional activity, learners examine 10 words. Student color the buckets with the words that have the long a sound green.
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Chuggin' Choo Choo

For Students K - 2nd
For this word recognition instructional activity, learners examine 6 rows containing 3 words each. Learners identify the word in each row that begins with the consonant cluster ch or ends with consonant cluster ch.
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Picnic Party

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this consonant digraphs activity, students examine 10 words and identify those that end with the digraph ck. Students find the identified words in a picture and color them.
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Ann and Abe

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this long A and short A vowel sounds activity, learners examine 19 words in a coloring puzzle and color the short A sound words gray and long A sound words blue.
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Picture It

For Students K - 3rd
In this beginning consonant p instructional activity, students answer 5 problems that require them to unscramble letters to form CVC words.
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Right on Target

For Students 1st - 2nd
For this r-controlled words activity, students examine 7 sets of letter and unscramble them to form "ar" words. Students then match the 7 words to the matching pictures.
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Long Vowel Words #4

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this long vowel worksheet, students read and color a set of 8 words with long vowel sounds. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Color and Read Long Vowel Words #4

For Students K - 2nd
In this long vowel worksheet, students read and color words with the long e sound, 8 words total. The worksheet has a reference web site for additional activities.
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Ending Digraphs

For Students 1st - 2nd
For this digraph worksheet, students look at pictures and print their names on lines provided; the ending digraph is given to students for each pictures. Worksheet has a web site reference for additional activities.

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