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VCe Rule Accuracy

For Teachers K - 1st
Explore word structure by participating in a vowels and consonants activity with young readers. They will read words their teacher points out in class and pronounce them correctly. Then they identify the words they say which have a...
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VCe Rule Fluency

For Teachers K - 1st
Explore English by identifying word structures. Learners find many words that end with a vowel, consonant, and then an e. The class will participate in a word flash card game in which they correctly pronounce vowel-consonant words.
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Made You Mad

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the phoneme for the vowel-consonant-silent e grapheme. They recognize the silent "e" at the end of words and practice speaking them. Students say words, spell them, and say tongue twisters with the vowel differences. ...
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Some Spelling Rules

For Teachers Higher Ed
This presentation offers up some of the trickier rules of the English language when it comes to spelling. For example, one slide goes over the "i before e, except after c," rule. The rest of the slides present examples like this one and...
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Beginning Reader: Mike Flies Kites

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners review the /i/ sound before studying the i_e=/I/ correspondence. They listen for the /I/ sound in word pairs, make words in letterboxes, and recognize the silent e. Next, working in pairs, they read "Kite Day at Pine Lake." As...
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IIII---L-lll-ke---IIII-ke-and-M-IIII-ke

For Teachers K - 1st
Students recognize the letter combination i_e by reading and spelling words with letter boxes in this lesson. They say a tongue twister which emphasizes the long /i/ silent /e/ combination. They then listen the story "Kite Day at Pine...
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Bantam Books

The Tempest: Chalk Talk

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Discussion doesn't always need to be spoken. Before you begin The Tempest by William Shakespeare, have kids connect their ideas and experiences to central questions of the play with a silent discussion activity. Once they have...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Isolating, The Last Sound Is...

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Partners work with real objects as they practice final phonemes. Here's how it works: Partner A silently chooses an object and sounds it out, determining the final phoneme and saying the sound aloud. Partner B examines the group of...
Worksheet
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Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury

For Students 7th - 8th
Included here is a cloze passage taken from Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury. Copy the included sheet, and have learners read the passage silently. Then, read the passage aloud once. To assess their memory, have pupils complete as many...
Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness: Onset and Rime, Quick Pick

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
What does it begin with? In this engaging phonics game, small groups study onset and rime using picture cards. Groups take turns as one player draws three cards from an overturned pile, placing them face-up on the table. They silently...
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Reintroduce an Irregular Word

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Some words are tricky. Can your scholars quickly recognize irregularly spelled words? Write the word was on the board (or any irregular word you'd like to practice), touching each letter as scholars segment the phonemes....
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Fun With Fluency

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Practice reading with fluency by blending words together. To start, prepare flash cards with pseudowords on them (words that can be pronounced but have no real meaning), and work with the class to sound out the words using known...
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Identifying and Generating Rhyming Words, Body

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Can you tell which words rhyme? Choose a body part as a starting word (i.e. head) and begin saying words to see if learners can identify those that rhyme. Does red rhyme with head? Continue giving examples, some...
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Home Spelling Practice: Words With More Letters Than Sounds

For Students 5th - 6th
For this spelling worksheet, students study a list of 20 words, each with a silent letter. Students write each word one time on the lines.
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The End of Shopping as We Know It

For Teachers 2nd - 11th
Students explore trends in consumerism. For this current events lesson, students examine e-commerce as they browse selected websites to learn more about the phenomenon.
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Dubois and Washington Venn Diagram

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Pupils compare and contrast the visions of W.E.B. Dubois and Booker T. Washington. In this African American history instructional activity, students read biographies about both men and create a Venn diagram about the men.
Worksheet
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My Spelling Words-- Spelling List #142

For Students 1st - 2nd
For this spelling worksheet, students learn to spell 12 words. The words are the short vowel words and also the same words with the silent e ending which change them to long vowels. Students write the words and use them in a short...
Worksheet
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My Spelling Words-- Spelling List #145

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this spelling worksheet, students learn to spell 12 words. Some have short vowels and others have the silent e ending with a long vowel. Students use 2 words in a sentence and alphabetize the list.
Worksheet
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My Spelling Words-- Spelling List #121

For Students 1st - 2nd
For this spelling worksheet, students learn to spell 6 short vowel words and the 6 long vowel words made when a silent e is added. Students use 2 words in a sentence and alphabetize the list.
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Lesson 21

For Students K - 2nd
In this trace and write worksheet, students trace and write words that contain the the long a sound and a silent e. Students trace and write 10 words.
Worksheet
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Long Vowel U Sounds

For Students 1st - 3rd
This worksheet is straight-forward and easy to follow. Have your young learners look at the words below and place them in the correct category. Does the word have the ew letter combination or a u and silent e combination? For you very...
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Ponyboy, What's a Theme?

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders seek supporting proof of major conflicts and themes in the novel, The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. They utilize a worksheet imbedded in this plan which has them identify the conflict in each chapter of the book.
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Starfall

Sky Ride

For Students 1st - 2nd
For this long /i/ sound instructional activity, students circle the words with the long /i/ sound and then write each word in the blank to match the picture.
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Phonics: Words with More Than One Syllable (CV/C) Rule A

For Teachers 3rd
Knowing basic phonics rules can help learners increase their reading accuracy, pronunciation, and spelling. Third graders practice breaking or chunking words based on the cv/c syllable rule. They take note of where to break each word,...

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