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Phonograms
In this phonics worksheet, students read four sentences and listen and look for the sound of the given letter. Students circle the singular phonogram in the sentence and draw a picture about each sentence.
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The Itsy Bitsy Pig
First graders recognize the short vowel I in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /i/ from other vowel sounds. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and...
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Scanning Worksheet: Latin
Introduce your Latin class to meter and the metrical pattern of an elegiac couplet. Have your learners practice identifying the syllables open to resolution in the two exercises provided. Answers are not included, but there is a helpful...
K12 Reader
Ride a Broom to the Moon
Your class can practice words that contain the long oo sound. Cool! Learners read a short poem that includes many examples of the oo digraph and then respond to three reading comprehension questions.
Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk, University of Texas at Austin
Lesson 9 - Contractions
Is it do'nt or don't? How about doesn't or does'nt? A lesson on contractions helps learners identify, form, and use contractions. Components within the plan include direct instruction on decoding and encoding contractions, as well as...
University of Texas
Essential Reading Strategies for the Struggling Reader
Beneficial for beginning readers, struggling readers, and those in need of review, a set of language arts activities is a great addition to any foundational reading unit. Focusing on phonological awareness, fluency, instructional...
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Iiizzy is Iiicky Sticky!
Students answer a series of questions about the different sounds that the letter I makes. They observe a picture about a girl and the letter I. They practice a tongue twister with the different sounds of I. They practice writing the...
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No Pain, No Brain!
Students complete a variety of activities related to the /ai/ digraph. As a class they recite a tongue twister, then spell different words containing the /ai/ digraph using letter manipulatives. Students listen to the book "The Long Long...
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Ohhhh Me, Ohhhhh My!
Students practice identifying phonemes and recognizing letters in written words to become fluent readers. They study the phoneme /O/ in the tongue twister, "Oh No, my Nose needs an operation in October." Each student also interacts with...
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Initial Sounds: O
In this word and letter recognition worksheet, students examine 6 words that are missing letters. Students fill in only the blanks with the letter o that should begin with the letter o. Picture clues are included. Students also practice...
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Initial Sounds: O
In this word and letter recognition activity, students examine 6 words that are missing letters. Students fill in only the blanks with the letter o that should begin with the letter o. Picture clues are included. Students also practice...
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Juggling Bugs
Young scholars examine the letter 'u'. Through instruction and modeling they explore the sound the letter makes, how the letter is written, words that contain the letter, etc. They say tongue twisters with the /u/ sound in them. They...
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Ike's Ice Cream is Icy
Learners recognize the short vowel i in written and spoken language. Through matching and listening activities, they discriminate the short vowel /i/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Family Time: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 5)
Support English language development with a family-themed unit consisting of a series of lessons designed to get your scholars moving, looking, speaking, writing, and listening. Conversation topics...
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The Big Hit
Students are introduced to the phonetic sound associated with the short letter "i" and listen to a story which includes words with this sound. In this the big hit starfall lesson, students build sound letter accuracy. Students also...
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Verbs Ending In "-y"
In this verbs worksheet, students analyze six pictures. From two choices of verbs ending in "-y", students pick the verb that fits the picture and write it on the line.
David Suits
“Wild Readers” Decoding Skills Lesson Plan
Set young readers on the path toward fluency with this phonemic awareness resource. Based on the award-winning children's book, Where the Wild Things Are, this lesson allows beginning readers to practice isolating...
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Read and Draw: oo and ue
In this vowel worksheet, students read about the "ue" and "oo" sounds, then read words that contain these sounds and draw their pictures in provided boxes. Worksheet contains links to additional activities.
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The Hole Story
In this filling in the blanks and sequencing learning exercise, learners use words from the word box to complete the sentences and number the pictures to show the order of events in the short story. Learners write 8 answers.
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All Day
For this identifying -all and -al words instructional activity, students use words from a word box to fill in the blanks in sentences and find them in a word search. Students write 12 answers.
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Picture Match
Students match pictures with words that have specific phonics connotations. In this picture matching lesson plan, students have groups of words with the same phonics sayings.
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EA Words
Students determine if the "e" sound is long or short in words. In this language arts lesson, students practice discriminating between the long and short "e" sounds by practicing with word cards that are embedded in the lesson. This...
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Icky Icky I
First graders review the letter "i" and use popsicle sticks and cotton balls to make upper and lower case "i's". Volunteers make the capital and lower case "i" on the board and then the class discovers the short sound that letter "i"...
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Itchy Iggy
First graders observe the letter /i/ and the sound that it makes watching their mouths as the sound is formed. They say the tongue twister displayed repeating it three times; the last time they stretch out the /i/ sound as it occurs in...