Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
All Together Now: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 1)
All Together Now is the theme of this series of extra support lessons. The collection aids the instruction of blending sounds and reading high-frequency words through writing and reading sentences. Support also engages pupils in...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Let’s Count!: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 5)
In a themed series of lessons and activities, beginner readers are given extra support in reading through chants, games, and practice worksheets.
Curated OER
The Wh Spelling
Review the wh sound with your class. This series of slides shows a picture of an object that begins with this sound and displays the word above. It is a quick and easy way to discuss this topic. It could be used as a review during a...
Curated OER
Beginning Reading Design: Blending Boats
Students study how to blend the sounds together in words with the CVC form. They use letter cards and the books, "Tin Man Fix-It," and Dr. Seuss', Green Eggs and Ham. They work with /m/ words to blend the sounds together to read words....
Curated OER
Segmenting and Blending Words
Students are introduced to the concept of segmentation and blending of words. As a class, they are shown various words and are asked to determine the amount of letters and sounds in each. To end the lesson, they participate in a...
Curated OER
Beginning and Ending Sounds - Lesson 1 of 2
Stamp, slap, and clap! Emergent readers demonstrate their awareness of the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds in spoken, short vowel, single-syllable words with a stamp/slap/clap activity. After identifying the letters and sounds of...
Curated OER
Reading Bugs
Review the phonemic sounds of the alphabet letters before examining how to blend letter sounds to make a word. During this teacher-modeled lesson, learners make word bugs out of three phonemes that blend together. As an assessment, read...
Scholastic
Digraph sh
Shhhh! Listen up to learn about the sh digraph. With the materials provided here, kids will have the opportunity to hear, say, write, and read this particular digraph many times.
Curated OER
Initial Consonant Clusters -1
In this literacy worksheet, students find the words to complete the crossword puzzle. They are focusing on the concept of consonant clusters.
Curated OER
Initial Blend "Tr"
In this initial blends worksheet, students say the word for each pictures and bracket the 'tr' initial blend for each word. Students complete 5 activities.
Curated OER
Chuggin' Choo Choo
For this consonant digraph CH activity, students circle the word in three train sets that begin with the same sound as check and then circle the word in three train sets that end with the same sound as match.
Curated OER
Recipe: Initial Digraphs R
In this initial digraphs worksheet, students unscramble the phrases that use words with initial r digraphs. Students create a Halloween recipe using the phrases.
Curated OER
Word Match: Initial Digraphs with R
In this initial digraphs worksheet, students finish the potion poem using the initial r digraph words. Students cut out the r words and paste them to complete the poem.
Texas Center for Learning Disabilities
First-Grade Intervention
Learning how to read is a big challenge for young learners, but this series of lessons provides them with the extra support they need to succeed. With each lesson following the a clearly outlined format, children are introduced to new...
Curated OER
Consonants Blended with Vowel Digraphs and Endings
First graders explore words. In this blending syllables lesson, 1st graders practice voiced and unvoiced phonic sounds. They follow the teachers lead in practicing various sounds and then try to come up with cvvc words.
Curated OER
Sleeping Beauty: Initial S Clusters
For this consonant cluster worksheet, students read through the sections for the 'sleeping beauty' poem. Students then cut out the strips of the story and rearrange them so the poem is in order.
Curated OER
Poem: Initial Blends
In this initial blends learning exercise, students read the poem and use the words with the initial blend sound of 'l' to help them complete the poem. Students then recopy the poem onto a sheet of paper and illustrate it.
Curated OER
Starting or Ending Blends- "th, qu, or wh"
In this beginning or ending blend worksheet, 1st graders examine 12 black line pictures. They draw a circle around the proper beginning or ending blend under each picture. They choose between "th, qu or wh."
Starfall
Jake's Tale
In this literacy instructional activity, students look at pictures, circle their long /a/ name from a word bank, and write it.
Curated OER
Phonics Short Vowels
For this phonics worksheet, students study each picture and then circle the pictures with names that have short U sounds. Students put an 'x' on the pictures with names that have short E words.
Curated OER
Blending Bumper Cars
First graders practice blending words with the consonant-vowel-consonant pattern. Given a card with a decodable word part, 1st graders add an initial consonant sound and blend the sounds to read the new word. They practice reading a...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Phonological Awareness: Syllables, Syllable Say
Counting syllables can be fun when it's done with a friend. In pairs, learners say words as their partner counts the syllables they hear.
Curated OER
Short Vowel Words
In this phonics practice worksheet, students examine 6 pictures and identify each picture by writing the short vowel words for each of them on the lines provided.
Curated OER
Short Vowel Words 2
In this phonics practice worksheet, students examine 6 pictures and identify each picture by writing the short vowel words for each of them on the lines provided.