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Frog and Toad: Rhyming Words

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this rhyming worksheet, learners match words in a column with those from a word box. There are 10 words total, all with short vowel sounds.
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ESL Writing Practice #2

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this ESL writing practice worksheet, students practice tracing and writing a set of 10 words that contain 3-4 letters and the short vowel sound. A reference web site for additional activities is provided.
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Word Recognition

For Students K - 1st
In this word recognition worksheet, students read words with a short vowel sound.  Students draw a line to match the 5 words to the correct picture that is shown.
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Make a Word: Long U by Starfall

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students explore language arts by participating an on-line grammar activity. For this letter U lesson, students discuss the uses for the letter U in the English language and the different sounds that can be made from the vowel. Students...
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The Big Hit

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students are introduced to the phonetic sound associated with the short letter "i" and listen to a story which includes words with this sound. In this the big hit starfall lesson, students build sound letter accuracy. Students also...
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Ned's Red Guitars

For Students 1st - 2nd
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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Peg The Hen

For Students K - 2nd
In this literacy instructional activity, students cut out the parts of the story and then put them in the correct order to reconstruct and color the book.
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Make a Word _ub

For Students K - 2nd
In this literacy instructional activity, learners trace the words that end with -ub. They write the words and create an illustration for a sentence.
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Open Up and Say /o/

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore letters and phonemes. They discuss the phoneme /o/. Students recognize /o/ in both spoken and written words. They discuss the shape their mouths make when saying /o/. Students learn a tongue twister to help them identify...
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Around the World with Bud the Sub

For Teachers 1st
First graders review the recently taught vowel /o/. They then form the sound for /u/ telling whether it is a closed or open vowel sound and repeat it several times together. They practice a /u/ tongue twister saying it together and...
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Open Up and Say /o/

For Teachers 1st
First graders listen to a variety of words to see if they can recognize the /o/ sound. They use letterboxes and letters discovering that each mouth moves gets its own box practicing forming words with the /o/ vowel sound. They then read...
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Say Ah . . . OK, Doc

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young scholars distinguish between letters that stand for phonemes that deal with the short /o/ sound. They study how spellings map out the phonemes in oral language in order to be able to read and write words. Each student practices...
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Pictures Associated With the Letters Ee

For Students 1st
In this vowel E instructional activity, 1st graders view eleven pictures, circle the pictures that begin with an E and then cross out the pictures that do not begin with the letter E.
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Trucks and Community Workers

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify community helpers and their roles. In this transportation lesson plan, 1st graders complete a series of lessons integrating technology and literacy. Students decode sounds of short u, c/s/ and g/j/ words and...
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Eehh?" is for Eleven Elephants

For Teachers K - 1st
Students complete a variety of activities related to the short /e/ sound. As a class they recite a tongue twister, then trace and write the letter E. Students then listen to word pairs and identify the word containing the short /e/...
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Excellent E!

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore the short /e/ sound. They practice making the sound and recite an 'e' tongue twister. They practice writing the letter e and use Elkonin letter boxes to spell e words. In groups, they read stories and identify short /e/...
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Extra, Extra Read all about E!

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars examine the letter 'e'. Through instruction and modeling they explore the sound the letter makes, how the letter is written, etc. They recite tongue twisters and use letterboxes to write 'e' words. They pick out short /e/...
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"Ca...Ca...Ca...Caterpillar Blending"

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners improve blending skills. They produce many individual short utterances and mouth moves (phonemes) into one long utterance (words) and create their own blending caterpillar. They draw a picture of a caterpillar with three...
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Spelling: Code Words

For Students 2nd - 3rd
For this spelling code worksheet, students use a key with shapes and alphabet letters to decipher the missing words in 11 sentences. There is a word bank to help. All are short A vowel words.
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The Very Quiet World of Silent Letters 2

For Students 3rd - 4th
For this recognizing silent letters in words worksheet, students read groups of words, identify the silent letter in each group of words, and write the vowel or consonant. Students write 6 short answers.
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Ah Ah Ah! Don't Do That!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students become familiar with the alphabetic principle that letters stand for phonemes and spellings map out the phonemes in spoken words. They focus on identifying the short /o/ sound in spoken words and the tongue twister "Oscar Otter...
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The Long and Short of It - Geometry

For Teachers 1st
First graders use appropriate vocabulary to compare the measurement of the animal he/she is drawing.
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Letter Hunt

For Teachers K - 1st
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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Building a Sentence

For Teachers 1st
First graders echo a sentence targeting a vowel selected by the teacher and shown on a sentence strip. In this sentence building activity, 1st graders put the cut up sentence strip back into correct order, repeating the sentence....

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