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Configuration Station
In this vocabulary worksheet, students analyze 5 words from a word bank. Students fit them into a puzzle, generate sentences, place them in alphabetical order and illustrate them.
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Jake's Tale
In this literacy instructional activity, students look at pictures, circle their long /a/ name from a word bank, and write it.
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Sing Your Way Through Phonics Lesson Plan
Students explore how to recognize and spell sets of rhyming words. They become familiar with short vowel spelling patterns.
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Picture the Word
This is an excellent way to make onset and rime visual for beginning readers. They examine CVC-word picture cards that are all missing the first letter. Using plastic letters (or whatever you have), they complete each word and record it...
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Rhyming Words
In this English worksheet, learners read a list of rhyming words. One list groups rhyming words with the long a sound. A second list groups words with the long o sound.
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Oooohhhh Nooo, My Nose!
First graders relate the long o sound to the sound you make when you finally understand something and say, "Oohhh". They practice the tongue twister for the day saying it together holding out the /O/ sound as it appears and practice...
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A? Speak up, I can't hear you!
Pupils become phonemically aware of various sounds that make up written words. This lesson focuses on the vowel correspondence a_e=/A/. They decode the long a mouth moves in words as well as practice spelling the words themselves.
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'Y' Long E Word Search
In this word search worksheet, students find the hidden 'y' words within the word search puzzle. Students use the word bank to help them locate the 16 words.
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Short Vowels: Read and Color
In this short vowel worksheet, students read words found inside a picture of a cow, then use a color key to color words with given short vowel sounds their assigned colors.
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Home Spelling Practice: Long A
In this spelling learning exercise, students learn to spell a list of 6 long A words with a silent E pattern. Students write the words one time. There are additional optional exercises.
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Spelling: Long A Words
In this spelling worksheet, students copy a set of 6 long a words. Parents are given suggestions to help students study and learn the words.
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'I Magic e' Words Word Search
In this phonics word search puzzle worksheet, students use their problem solving skills to find as many long I words as possible in the word puzzle. There is no word bank provided.
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Beginning and Ending Sounds
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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Short A Puzzle Game
In this short A puzzle game worksheet, students match 24 short A words with the pictures on puzzle pieces that the teacher has printed, cut and laminated.
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Long and Short Vowel A
In this long and short A worksheet, students read the words inside of ten teddy bears. Students color the long A words purple and the short A words brown.
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Long and Short Vowel U
In this long and short u worksheet, students sort pictures according to the long or short u sound found in each, writing the words under the appropriate heading. The worksheet has a reference web site for additional activities.
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Phonics Scramble Games: Correct the Spelling
After a lesson on vowel sounds and spelling, students identify four pictures and work on unscrambling the words below. Each word is three or four letters long (drum, sock, bug, dog).
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'Ay' Wordsearch
In this phonics word search puzzle activity, students use their problem solving skills to find as many -ay words as possible in the word puzzle. There is no word bank provided.
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7 Syllable Types - Classroom Posters
Review r-controlled words, open and closed vowels, and dipthongs with a set of classroom posters. Each page features one concept with a colorful illustration, an explanation, and a list of applicable words.
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Learn-to-Read Pumpkin Patch
Students practice identifying and pronouncing the short letter "u" sound. In this phonetic awareness lesson, students access the Starfall.com website and follow the directions on the screen to reinforce the short "u" sound. Students can...
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A-Okay
Learners complete a variety of activities related to the long /a/ sound and the a_e vowel correspondence. As a class they recite a tongue twister, and spell words containing the /ae/ correspondence using letter manipulatives. Students...
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Language: lesson 23
In this language arts worksheet, students complete activities such as reading, writing high frequency words, finding long o words, fill in the blanks, and short answers. Students complete 4 activities.
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CVC Cloze: Middle a
In this CVC cloze activity worksheet, students fill in the blanks in 10 sentences with CVC words that have the short a sound. Students also list as many other CVC words with the short a sound as possible.