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Introducing Phonemic Awareness Using Oral and Written Instruction
First graders demonstrate their ability to read with fluency, accuracy, and comprehension through phonemic awareness. They use a color-coding system to master the long and short vowel sounds and develop their skills in listening and...
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Bo Knows "O"
Pupils are introduced to the vowel-consonant-e patter that changes short vowel sounds into long vowel sounds. They distinguish between the short vowel o and long vowel o. Students practice reading and spelling words with the...
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It's Time to Open Wide for O
Students recognize the short vowel o in written and spoken language. Through listening and decoding activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /o/ from other phonemes. Students match the phoneme and letter in words they read on index...
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Blending Bumper Cars
First graders practice blending words with the consonant-vowel-consonant pattern. Given a card with a decodable word part, 1st graders add an initial consonant sound and blend the sounds to read the new word. They practice reading a...
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Words that start with the letter I - Alphabet Recognition
For this alphabet recognition worksheet, students read 15 words then circle the words that begin with the letter I. Next, students look at 4 pictures then circle and color the pictures that begin with the letter I.
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Wild for Watermelon
In this multiple skills worksheet, young scholars identify long and short vowel sounds in words and sequence the life cycle of a watermelon. Students write 14 answers.
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Grandma’s Puppy
Read, copy, write, and draw; these are the four to dos when your early readers get hold of this instructional activity. First, scholars read a short story about a child and her grandmother's dog. Readers then practice copying...
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Vowel Sounds - Short O Sounds
In this short o sounds worksheet, 1st graders use the alphabet and number code box to help them spell out the words. Students use the word bank to help them spell the short 'o' sound words.
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EA Words
Students determine if the "e" sound is long or short in words. In this language arts lesson, students practice discriminating between the long and short "e" sounds by practicing with word cards that are embedded in the lesson. This...
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Short Vowel Word Search
In this language arts worksheet, students find the words that have short vowels while listening to words like "that." The focus is upon sight word recognition.
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Picture Match
In this short vowel picture match worksheets, 1st graders will draw a line from the word bank to match the correct picture. All of the short vowels are represented.
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Punch in the Stomach
Students recognize the short vowel U in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /u/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify...
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Read, Trace, and Color
In this printing words worksheet, students trace four words that have short vowels. Students color the pictures that illustrate each of the words.
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Uh, Uh, Oh, It's U
Students recognize the short vowel u in written and spoken language. Through matching and listening activities, they discriminate the short vowel /u/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and...
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Appetizing Apples
Pupils recognize the short vowel a in written and spoken language. Through listening activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /a/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify the...
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The Whining Child
Students recognize the short vowel u in written and spoken language. Through matching and listening activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /u/ from other phonemes. Students identify the phoneme and letter in words and pictures.
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Eek, It's a Spider
Students recognize the short vowel e in written and spoken language. Through listening and matching activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /e/ from other phonemes. Students identify the phoneme and letter in words while reading a...
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Frog and Toad: Rhyming Words
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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To Make a Cake you must say /A/
Here is a great way for learners to practice identifying sounds made by both short and long vowels. This lesson stresses the a_e=/A/ correspondence along with letterboxes. They read their spelled words, whole text selection and...
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Phonics lesson for -ew and -oo
First graders identify letters and sounds associated with -ew and -oo sounds. Each learner receives a stack of cards containing these sounds, and they must determine whether the word uses the -ew or the -oo sound. This could easily...
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Bright Mice
Kindergarten through second graders explore the long i sound. In this phonics instructional activity, they read The Mother's Day Mice, sing "Farmer in the Dell," and play I Spy with long i in order to explore the target sound....
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Fun Fonix: Say it. Find it. Write it. X it.
In this phonics worksheet, students respond to 6 questions by saying the word represented in the picture, finding the word from the wordbank at the bottom of the page, writing the word, and placing an X over the word in the wordbank.
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Short e, Long e Spelling Activity
In this spelling activity worksheet, students rewrite the words with short e and long e sounds on the lines. Students spell 20 words.
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Home Spelling Practice: Grade 2: Short A
In this spelling worksheet, students learn to spell a list of ten words. All contain the short A sound. Students write each word one time on the lines.