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The Suffix- Y- Practice Sheet
In this suffix worksheet, students change nouns and verbs to adjectives by using the suffix "y." Students then change words the end with a short vowel and consonant to adjectives using "y." Finally, students practice the concept on 25...
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Phonics and Vegetable Books
Students participate in phonemic awareness and phonics activities and develop a list of vegetable vocabulary words.  They break up words into beginnings and endings, and trace and write the letter s.  Students then create a Vegetable...
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Vocabulary Building Activity: Short e
In this short e vocabulary learning exercise, 3rd graders respond to 21 questions by filling in the blanks with the correct word or letter illustrating their knowledge of the vowel short e.
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Ned's Red Guitars
In this phonics practice activity, learners examine 10 words that have "ea" in them. Students color the guitars with the long e sound red and those with the long a sound gray.
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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,...
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International Phonetic Alphabet
For this international phonetic alphabet worksheet, students write words that have the short e vowels sound and short u vowel sound in them. Students write as many words as they can think of.
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I Scream for Ice Cream!
Young scholars determine that correspondences appear differently in different words. They discover the difference between long and short vowels and that these correspondences are spelled and pronounced differently.  They review the i=/i/...
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Comparative and Superlative Adjectives
Who is the tallest person in your family? Are you taller than your siblings? Intermediate language learners can read over and review comparative and superlative adjectives on the first page before they jump to page two for the exercises...
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Ee is for Egg
In this literacy worksheet, learners use the letter E in various contexts to increase letter recognition and spelling skills for related words.
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Rainbow Spelling: A Kinesthetic Approach to Encoding
Have your young learners interact with phonemes through this tactile plan! Each learner will have a colored mat where they connect different phonemes to create words. The best part is that they can self-correct easily as they spell! 
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“THE LORAX” by Dr. Seuss
Few children's books convey the message of conservation as well as Dr. Seuss' The Lorax. Read the story aloud, emphasizing the interconnectedness of plants and animals in an ecosystem and discussing different ways people can help...
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Beginning and Ending Sounds
First graders practice the beginning and ending sounds of words. In this phonological awareness activity, 1st graders use picture cards for one syllable words and pronounce each word. Students match other picture cards with the same...
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Ee is for Eggs
Students learn to write upper and lower case DeNelian letters Ee for this printing practice worksheet. Students trace several examples, write letters, color, and count eggs.
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Beginning, Middle, or End?
Here's a worksheet to help students become familiar with where to find words in a dictionary. Students whether the each of the 15 flower related words would be found at the beginning, middle or end of the dictionary. 
 
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Say What?
Students explore phonemes in spoken words. They discuss the /e/ (short e) correspondence. Students read "Red Gets Fed." They learn a meaningful letter symbol for the /e/. Students identify /e/ sound in both spoken and written words.
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Division of Syllables
Study diphthongs in the Spanish language. This resource contains a lot of information, so consider printing one for each learner to reference and walking them through it as a class. There is a short exercise at the bottom of the page to...
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First Day of School
Primary learners complete pre reading, writing, during reading, and interdisciplinary activities for the book First Day of School. They will  complete journal entries, answer short answer questions, have discussions, and much...
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The Creaky Door says /e/
Students explore the short /e/ sound, and identify the short /e/ in writing.  Students read fun sentences from the board which emphasize the short /e/.  They stretch out the /e/ sound every time they come to it while reading.  They then...
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E-E-E-E-Extra E-E-E-E-Effort
Students listen to a tongue twister emphasizing the short e sound.  They practice writing the letter e and attaching different words with that sound to it.  They listen to a book about a dog that enhances the letter e.  They write a...
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What's Behind the Creaky Door?
First graders are introduced to the concept that letters stand for the mouth moves that we make when sounds are made. They practice making the /e/ sound and compare it to the sound a creaky door makes and then try saying the tongue...
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Taking a Cruise To U=/u/
Students complete a variety of activities related to the short /u/ sound.  As a class they recite a tongue twister, then spell different words containing the short /u/ using letter manipulatives.  Students then read the book "Bud the...
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Home Spelling Practice: Long I, Long O
In this spelling worksheet, students learn to spell a list of 20 words. All contain the sound of long O or long I. Students write each word one time on the lines.
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Sounds of Y
In this sounds of y practice activity, students discover that y can be a consonant or a vowel as they respond to 6 questions.
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What Do Seals Eat?
Learners recognize the ea=/E/ correspondence in spoken and written words.  They participate in a group letterbox instructional activity.  In groups of two, they practice reading with each other, taking turns reading one page at a time,...