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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 include birthdays, family...
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Blending Bunnies
Students use the short /a/ sound to blend letters and form words. They use enlarged copies of bunnies with different letters written on them. They combine the "bunnies" to spell words with the short /a/ sound, and then read the words...
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Letter Hunt
Students search for and find certain letters, blends, or vowel combinations in words, sentences and paragraphs. They investigate how these letters, blends or combinations are used in "every day" writing.
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Igga Bigga
Students explore consonant digraphs in written words and use them in their own sentences. They work with /th/, /sh/, and /ch/ digraphs. Students read The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything and identify words with the...
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Word and Letter Practice #5
In this word and letter practice worksheet, students name given letters, say sounds, read simple sentences, and practice sight words and blending.
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Uggy the Umbrella Went Up, Up, Up!
Students explore the short /u/ sound. They practice making the sound, noticing how their mouths move to make the sound. They recite tongue twisters with short /u/ words and practice writing the letter 'u'. With a partner, they read...
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Word and Letter Practice #10
In this word and letter practice activity, students say letters and sounds of letters, practice reading simple sentences and sight words, then say names of pictures and say the beginning sound of each.
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Guided Reading: Flora's Box
Young readers consider text-to-self connections. Learners discover the text-to-self connection as they read Flora's Box by Tina Althaide. They practice high frequency words, prepositions, and 1:1 correspondence.
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Sounding Out Accuracy
Students examine sounding out words. In this language arts lesson, students practice sounding out words. Students sound out each letter in the word and blend the sounds to create a word.
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Initial Blend "sl"
In this initial blend worksheet, students say the blend "sl," then bracket the sound in 5 words describing pictures. One example is completed for students.
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Initial Blend "-st"
In this consonant blends instructional activity, students read 6 illustrated words that contain the blend "st". Students draw a bracket around the "st" in each word.
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Initial Blend "Sw"
In this initial consonant blends learning exercise, students say the name of six labeled pictures that begin with "sw". Students bracket the "sw" in each word. Example: (sw)irl.
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The Day I Tried to Cook
First graders read a short story on cooking. Then they respond to questions based on interest and practice writing.
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Letter Recognition
In this letter recognition worksheet, students say the given letters and the sounds aloud. Students also say the four sentences aloud.
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Red Gets Fed
Students practice with the strategy that letters represent phonemes and spellings map out phonemes in spoken words. They work on the phoneme sounds of /a/ and e=/e/ in correspondences with reading. Each student also recites the tongue...
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The Tell-Tale Heart
Here's the perfect resource for anyone using Edgar Allan Poe's famous short story the "Tell-Tale Heart." The packet includes five worksheets that provide skills practice exercises focusing on spelling with consonant blends, words with...
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Sleeping Beauty: Initial S Clusters
In this consonant cluster activity, students read through the sections for the 'sleeping beauty' poem. Students then cut out the strips of the story and rearrange them so the poem is in order.
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Phonemic Awareness Infusion
Learners comprehend how to produce these pronuciation features, recognize the various blends of two and three letter consonant sounds, hear the sounds, produce them correctly when thinking about it, and practice correct pronuciation to...
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Language Acquisition
Detailing the stages of language, sound, word, and grammar acquisition for babies, this presentation is a great addition to a lecture that focuses on how the English language is developed in small children. Additionally, the slideshow...
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Phonics: Onset and Rime, Word Maker Game
Scholars use a set of onset and rime cards to construct and write various simple words. Pairs take turns pulling cards from a bag and blending the onset card with the rime card to create a word. They record the onset, the rime, and the...
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A Tisket-A-Tasket, Let?s Make a Flower Basket!!!
First graders practice blending words with the phonemes /i/ and /e/. Working with a specific groups of letters, 1st graders create words using the vowels i and e. they decode those words and read them repeatedly to increase fluency.
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The See-Saw: How to Blend
First graders listen as the word "cat" is sounded out spreading out all the sounds contained. They discover the meaning of blending using the word "cat" and then changing the consonants to make new words. They then figure out new words...
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Hunter Model 2
Students produce the long sounds in the initial position of words making silly soup.
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School-Home Links: Vowel Blends
In this vowel blend instructional activity, students study two pictures of words with the 'oi' blend and write the name of the words on the blanks. Students then look in a magazine for more 'oi' words and write them in the given blanks....