Curated OER
Consonant Blends Blended with Short Vowels
Here is a simple, yet effective lesson on consonant blends. Young readers watch as the teacher demonstrates voiced phonic sounds, unvoiced phonic sounds, and voiced vowel sounds. They practice rhyming consonant blends and trigraphs.
K12 Reader
The Man Has a Can
Add this -an word resource into your plan for the day! Kids can read the poem, which includes several -an words to practice with, and then answer the three included reading comprehension questions.
K12 Reader
Will You Stay and Play?
Start off your day with a study of -ay words. Pupils can practice long a with -ay words by reading the brief poem included here. After they read, class members answer three reading comprehension questions right on the page.
Texas Center for Learning Disabilities
Second-Grade Comprehension-Based Intervention
Help your youngsters find meaning in the text they read with this series of five intervention lessons. Offering explicit, step-by-step instructions for walking children through shared readings of leveled books, these...
Super Teacher Worksheets
Long and Short Vowel Sounds
Long and short vowels have never been quite so colorful! Learners use an intricate key to color a grid of words based on the vowel sound they hear. Red is the long a sound, light blue is the short u sound, etc. By the time they've...
Curated OER
Word Family Jamboree
Students explore rhyming words, beginning and ending sounds. In this word family lesson, students identify beginning and ending sounds. Students draw pictures of words and use phonetic spellings to write stories. Students use Dr. Seuss...
Curated OER
Word Sort ----at
In this rhyme worksheet, students see 16 full color cards and word labels for the rhyme pattern ---at. This is an independent center activity and there are directions for sorting, writing, and classifying.
Curated OER
Vocabulary Building: Words with "OR"
In this spelling words with the "or" pattern worksheet, students write words using definition clues, unscramble letters, and write sentences using the words or, for, more, before, and color. Students write fifteen short answers.
Curated OER
Spelling Connections Grade 2
For this spelling worksheet, students read ten sentences with a scrambled word in bold type within them. Students unscramble the word so it would make sense within the sentence. All words have the "or" spelling pattern.
Curated OER
Cluster VC Words (2)
In this word work activity, students work with words that have the VC spelling pattern. They write the names for 6 pictures using the blank lines below them. They fill in the missing sounds to make 9 more four letter words.
Curated OER
Here's an Instant Activity for September 6, 2004
What are the words that use the silent e? With this resource, youngsters complete a teacher-led activity for spelling words with silent e sounds. They then complete a worksheet that adds suffixes s, ed, or ing to words that end in silent e.
Curated OER
Here's an Instant Activity for March 3, 2008
Here are some good spelling activities for 'ou' words. First and second graders complete an oral spelling activity with their teacher and then an Instant Activity worksheet. and spell 'ou' words.
Curated OER
CVC Words - Medial Sounds
In this phonics worksheet, students fill in the missing sound for each picture. Students follow a consonant-vowel-consonant pattern to complete each word.
Curated OER
CVC Words - Initial Sounds
In this phonics worksheet, students study each picture and then fill in the missing sound for each word. Students follow a consonant-vowel-consonant pattern.
Curated OER
CVC Words - Final Sounds
For this phonics worksheet, students study each picture and fill in the missing sound for each word. Students follow the consonant-vowel-consonant pattern.
Curated OER
CVC Words - Final Sounds
In this phonics learning exercise, students study each picture and then fill in the missing final sound to complete the word. Students follow the consonant-vowel-consonant pattern.
Curated OER
CVC Words - Initial Sounds (2)
In this phonics activity, students study each picture and then fill in the missing initial sound to complete the word. Students follow the consonant-vowel-consonant pattern.
Curated OER
CCVC Words (1)
For this phonics worksheet, students study the pictures and then spell out the word for the picture. Students then fill in the missing letter to make the words in the second set. Students follow the patter of CCVC.
Curated OER
Learning Phonics Worksheet: Consonants and Vowels 2b
For this alphabet sounds worksheet, 1st graders color all the squares that contain consonants yellow and color all the squares with vowels blue. Once colored, a specific letter can be seen from the color pattern and students write that...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Person to Person: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 4)
Authors use many strategies when writing stories. A series of extra support lessons breaks down those strategies, as well as key grammatical and phonics-based concepts to support struggling learners. The last of three lessons offers...
Curated OER
The Drum
Students complete a variety of activities related to the folktale from India, "The Drum." They listen to the story and answer comprehension questions, construct a coffee can drum, and complete a phonics and matching worksheet.
K12 Reader
Long Vowels
Keep things short and sweet for your young learners with a simple long vowel instructional activity. Presented with four long vowel words with the vowels missing, children must correctly identify and write in the letters...
Kelly's Kindergarten
April Daily Resources
Spring has sprung in your classroom! An entire month of activities relating to spring prompts learners to color, draw, write, and work on phonics.
Curated OER
Here's an Instant Activity for November 5, 2001
Third graders practice spelling ou words. For this phonics and spelling lesson, 3rd graders brainstorm words using the 'ou' spelling pattern. Students review compound words and brainstorm compounds words. Students complete the 'instant...