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Vowel Digraph Activities for au and aw
It can be awfully hard teaching young children how to read, but this phonics resource will make the job a little easier. Focusing on the au and aw vowel digraphs, this collection of engaging activities teaches beginning...
University of Pennsylvania
The Reading Road
Practice r-controlled vowel sounds and words with a series of phonics activities. Ranging from straightforward instruction sheets to a fun rhyming story about video games, the exercises will interest all of your learners, regardless of...
Curated OER
Practice Book O
Whether you need resources for reading comprehension, literary analysis, phonics, vocabulary, or text features, an extensive packet of worksheets is sure to fit your needs. Based on a fifth-grade curriculum but applicable to any level of...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Family Time: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 5)
Provide extra support with a unit that follows a teach, blend, guided practice, and practice/apply routine to reinforce reading, grammar, vocabulary, and writing skills. Reading and writing lessons include supporting details,...
Curated OER
Using the Sounds of Words Reading Task
Young readers demonstrate phonemic awareness in words and blends, and recognize 100 high-frequency words. Use a nursery rhyme to point out rhyming words, and change the words by putting a new letter at the beginning. Each learner will...
Curated OER
VCe Rule Accuracy
Explore word structure by participating in a vowels and consonants activity with young readers. They will read words their teacher points out in class and pronounce them correctly. Then they identify the words they say which have a...
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VCe Rule Fluency
Explore English by identifying word structures. Learners find many words that end with a vowel, consonant, and then an e. The class will participate in a word flash card game in which they correctly pronounce vowel-consonant words.
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Reintroduce /x/
What words end with /x/? Unite several alphabet concepts as scholars learn all about the letter x. After identifying it, they listen to you pronounce the /x/ sound and try it themselves (use these tips to explain how you do this)....
Helping Dyslexia
Chain Words
Kindergartners and first graders create a chain of word cards with this fun activity. Participants read the word on the right side of a card, and match the word to the corresponding picture on the left side of another card....
Curated OER
Phonics and Vegetable Books
Students participate in phonemic awareness and phonics activities and develop a list of vegetable vocabulary words. They break up words into beginnings and endings, and trace and write the letter s. Students then create a Vegetable...
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End Blends Write and Draw
In this word end blends worksheet, students read a group of words with ending blends, observe pictures of the words, write the words under the pictures, and draw a picture to show end blends mp and nd. Students complete seven end blends...
Curated OER
End Blends
In this writing worksheet, students write the words of 6 pictures. The words are provided to the students in a word box. Students also draw pictures using 2 of the words.
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Ending Clusters 'nd'
In this phonics worksheet, students study the pictures and then fill in the missing end sounds for each word. Students then complete the missing 'nd' sounds for the other set of words without pictures.
Rock ’N Learn
Missing Instrument Beginning Consonant G Ending Consonant X
In this phonics activity instructional activity, 2nd graders follow directions to color a picture. They color yellow the words that have the same beginning sound as queen and color red the words that have the same ending sound as fox.
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Making Words
Students add letters to teacher provided endings to make new words. In this phonics lesson, students learn to make new words using word families. A sample worksheet is provided and a rubric
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Ending Sounds
Use this resource to review consonant blends and ending sounds. Learners can look at these series of sounds, such as -ct, and come up with words that contain these endings. Since there are no clear instructions in the presentation,...
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Reading Simple Words
Explore the ending -ear with this resource. Learners can read and spell a list of words containing this sound. This presentation could be augmented to provide a richer experience. It could be used as a whole group or center activity.
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Phonics: Build-a-Word With U
In this build-a-word worksheet, students look at six pictures, connect the letters that spell each picture and then write the word connected on the lines provided.
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Phonics: Short E
In this short E worksheet, students say what each of the nine pictures are, trace and write in the e in each of the nine words and then read out loud each one.
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Fun Phonics: Trace and Match, Letter "a"
In word recognition and printing practice activity, students trace 7 words. Students then match the traced words to the appropriate pictures. An example is included.
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Phonics: Vowel U
In this vowel u worksheet, students trace several times, read, write each word once, find and circle the words bug, bus, cup, mud and gum.
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Phonics: Mid Vowel O
In this mid vowel O worksheet, students trace and write six, three lettered words and then draw a line from the word to its actual picture on the right of the worksheet.
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Phonics: Long O With a Silent E
In this long o with silent e worksheet, students pronounce twelve pictures and determine if they have a long or short o in them. Students circle their answers.
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Phonics: Long I With Silent E
In this long i with silent e worksheet, students read four passages and then circle the words from the passages that resemble the pictures shown to the right.