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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Teaching Word Recognition [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
From the magazine, Teaching Exceptional Children, Sept/Oct 2003 issue, this article explains two different strategies for helping students with word recognition through blending and analogizing.
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Education Place

Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Word Recognition Skills and Strategies

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Included is a brief article outlining the skills that readers, all educational levels, use when they identify printed words. This site contains background material only and no related activities.
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Other

Reading and Writing Project: Oral Reading Benchmark [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Reading and Writing Project provides a benchmark document for oral reading to help assess students word recognition and comprehension abilities.
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Auburn University

Auburn University: How Children Learn to Read Words

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
How do children really learn to read words? This resource offers insight into this complicated but exciting journey of putting sounds and words together to learn the joy of reading. Come and discover more.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Sight Word Spelling Lesson Plan

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson young scholars explore with movement and creativity to make words come alive! Using sight word flashcards, students use their bodies to spell out simple sight words.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Irregular Word Activities

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This extensive site has links to games and activities that teach students to read 30 high-frequency irregular words. There are over 20 activities and games at the bottom of the site in additional to sequenced irregular word activities....
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Free Reading

Free Reading

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This free reading intervention site is geared toward students grade K-3, with literacy activities and lessons/ideas links. The site includes teaching tools and activities. See the link at the bottom to "About FreeReading" for a list of...
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Fun Brain

Fun Brain: What's the Word? Alphabet (Easy)

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this vocabulary game for beginning readers, students click on the words that fit the picture. A link to other games is available.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Literacy Achievement Academy, Kindergarten: Additional Resources

For Students K
This is a collection of links to teacher resources for teaching literacy to kindergarteners. It includes reading comprehension, word recognition, vocabulary, fluency, differentiated instruction, and using assessment data.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Literacy Achievement Academy, Grade 1: Additional Resources

For Teachers 1st
This is a collection of links to teacher resources for teaching literacy to 1st graders. It includes reading comprehension, word recognition, vocabulary, fluency, differentiated instruction, and using assessment data.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Alphabet and Word Recognition With Phonics

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students are actively engaged with this interactive flipchart that prompts the students to use the eraser, pen, highlighter, and arrow tools along with a link to a website that continues to build on the...
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Goodwill

Gcf Global: Reading Activity: Word Explorer

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Students choose a category to see a list of related words and then choose a word they would like to explore. Includes pronunciations, definitions, pictures, and video demonstrations of each word.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: The Big Green Monster Teaches Phonics in Reading and Writing

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A big green monster helps students build their reading fluency and word recognition skills through choral reading, literacy center activities, and writing stories.
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DLTK

Kid Zone Language Arts: Dolch Word Lists and Flashcards

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site offers Dolch words lists and flashcards from pre-K to third grade.
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Auburn University

Auburn University: Teaching Letter Recognition

For Teachers Pre-K - K Standards
How can you teach your students letter recognition? This site offers insight into this necessary pre-reading skill set. Come and explore this informative resource.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Reading to Learn Academy, Grade 5 Additional Resources

For Students 5th
This website provides links to teacher resources to effectively teach reading to learn skills. These include topics for all learners and ESL learners. Learning resources for Word Study and Recognition, Fluency, Vocabulary, Comprehension,...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Reading to Learn Academy, Grade 4 Additional Resources

For Teachers 4th
This website provides links to teacher resources to effectively teach reading to learn skills. These include topics for all learners and ESL learners. Learning resources for Word Study and Recognition, Fluency, Vocabulary, Comprehension,...
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Arcademics

Arcademics: Kitten Hop

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards
Jump your cat to the yarn ball that has the correct word.
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Other

Quiz Tree: Sight Words: Pre Primer Chart

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students' have access to a pre-primer chart that provides an audio of each word when clicked.
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Word World: Dog's Letter Pit

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Play a game with Dog by clicking on his to help him jump into a letter pit and then clicking on the letters that make up each sound of a spoken word.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Winter Fun Guess the Covered Word

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This one page flipchart is a fun way to learn and read winter words. Students will guess the covered word activity from the Month to Month Phonics book.
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Phonemic Activities

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Come and learn more about these awesome phonemic activities for the preschool or elementary classroom.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Literacy Achievement Academy, Grade 2: Additional Resources

For Teachers 2nd
This is a collection of links to teacher resources for teaching literacy to 2nd graders. It includes reading comprehension, word recognition, vocabulary, fluency, differentiated instruction, and using assessment data.
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Austin Independent School District

Austin Independent School District: Phonological Awareness Activities [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
A series of ready-to-print cards filled with ideas and activities to increase students' recognition and understanding of rhyme and rhythm.