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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...
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Phonemic Awareness: Blending
First graders listen closely as their teacher sounds out a variety of words, one phoneme at a time. They then practice blending sounds to create words on their own. Tip: While you sound out words have your class write down each phoneme...
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Vocabulary Instruction: Identify and Sort Common Words into Categories
Kids learn about the concept of nouns. They practice identifying nouns by sorting words into categories. As the teacher holds up each word, the class reads it in unison, then they take turns identifying it as a noun or non noun word....
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Phonics Instructional Routine: Blending Sounds in Short Words
Students strengthen their reading of new words with phonics and blending sounds in short words. They interact with word cards with short letter sounds like sit, mat, fit, etc. Each student also assesses magnetic letters to physically...
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How Tiger Got His Stripes
How did the tiger get its stripes? Kindergartners read a Vietnamese folk tale, "How the Tiger Got His Stripes," retold by Rob Cleveland, and work through several reading comprehension and literary analysis activities.
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The Magic Apple
A fun and delicious lesson plan can help your kids learn about plural nouns and story sequencing. After reading The Magic Apple by Rob Cleveland, kids match pictures to story segments and add s to nouns to make them...
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Anansi Goes to Lunch - Pre-Kindergarten
In a multidisciplinary lesson plan, you will focus your instruction around the West African folktale, Anansi Goes to Lunch by Bobby and Sherry Norfolk while your little learners sing songs, play games, participate in a grand...
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Phonics: Decoding Words in Connected Text
Introduce your little ones to the wonders of phonemic decoding. They practice along as you sound out simple cvc words in the context of a sentence.
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Phonics Instruction: Letter Sound Correspondence
The letter m is the first letter in many of my favorite words. It has the best /m/ sound ever. Get your little ones excited about letter m with this super simple, super short lesson plan. They work with the teacher to practice saying,...
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Phonics lesson for -ar
First graders identify words associated with the -ar sound. They read sentences and compose a story that include words with the -ar sound. The assessment portion of lesson involves students in spelling words with the
-ar pattern.
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Phonics- Y as /igh/ or /ee/
First graders discover vowel /y/. In this phonics lesson, 1st graders will use Fancy Nancy, Poison Ivy Expert, to generate a list of words with vowel /y/. Students will sort the words according to the vowel sound.
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Phonics lesson for "sh"
First graders identify words with the "sh" pattern. They participate in phonemic awareness, decoding, blending, spelling patterns, and dictation exercises. As the assessment portion of the lesson, they may write a story using words...
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Five Part Phonics: Blends
First graders participate in a variety of activities that feature the consonant blend 'st'. They read "Stan the Squid" and "Stella Started for the Station", answer comprehension questions for the stories, manipulate beginning sounds and...
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Move the Sounds
Use cut out letters to make beginning sounds, blends, and word families that ultimately make new words. Learners move around physically as they hold the letters to make the specified blend or word. Assessment suggestions are included.
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Short 'A' and Phoneme Blending
Have your class explore the short /a/ sound. They will pronounce isolated consonant and short /a/ sounds and then blend the sounds to make a word. An assessment sheet is provided.
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Brown Bear Phonics
Students listen to Brown Bear, Brown Bear and imitate the style of Eric Carle in writing a sentence. In this writing lesson, students use the beginning and ending sounds of words to write an Eric Carle type sentence. ...
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SWOOP Reading
First graders read fluently. In this phonics lesson plan students practice reading strategies for fluency. They write a response in their journal about the book read in class.
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“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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Phonemic Awareness Instructional Routine: Isolation
This phonemic awareness activity would be great for morning meeting or circle time. Teacher calls out a word, s/he identifies the final phoneme. The class then take turns saying other simple or cvc words that also have the same ending...
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Lyddie: An Instructional Unit Resource Guide
Katherine Paterson’s young adult novel Lyddie is the foundation of a differentiated instruction unit that not only explores the rise of industrialization and labor but women’s rights issues as well. After learners read the novel, they...
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Beginning Letter Sounds
Students practice working with beginning letter sounds. In this phonics lesson, students state the letter sound that their name starts with, read a book about beginning letter sounds and complete a worksheet.
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Why Koala Has A Stumpy Tail
First graders read the story Why Koala Has A Stumpy Tail and complete language arts activities with it. Students have discussions, read, write, spell, and act out the story.
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Enormous Turnips
First graders complete activities with the story The Great Big Enormous Turnip by Alexel Tolstoy. In this language arts lesson, student view the story as a Cloze passage and work with a partner to fill in the blanks. They check to...
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A Tale of Two Frogs
Ribbit ribbit! Hop through a series of activities based on A Tale of Two Frogs. Kids read the Russian folktale and answer reading comprehension questions before working on phonics exercises, tracing dotting lines to make a path...