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Phonological Awareness: Onset and Rime, Sound Detective
Play letter sound detective with your class, and snoop out sounds, onsets, blends, and rhyme. In pairs, children take turns choosing a card from the pile; as they sound out part of the word, their partner attempts to figure out which...
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Phonological Awareness: Onset and Rime, Quick Pick
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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Stackers Game for word fluency
Students create three letter words and decode for fluency and accuracy. For this fluency lesson, students use alphabet tiles to build words with the CVC pattern and read the word aloud. Students alternate turns by stacking one new tile...
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Sounding Out CVCE Words
First graders explore vowels and consonants by participating in a flash card activity. In this phonetics lesson, 1st graders discuss the difference between short and long vowels and identify them within a story told to them by their...
Starfall
Make a Word—Long /o/
In this literacy activity, students write the words that are part of this activity. They write a new sentence and draw a picture for it.
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Home Spelling Practice: Grade 4: Silent Consonants
In this spelling worksheet, students learn to spell a list of 20 words that have silent consonants. Students write each word one time. There are at-home spelling activities listed that students may complete.
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Home Spelling Practice: Silent Consonants: Grade 6
In this spelling worksheet, students learn to spell a list of 20 words that have a silent consonant. Students write each word one time. There are additional at-home suggestions.
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Spelling: 7th Grade Suffixes and Silent E
In this 7th grade home connection spelling practice worksheet, 7th graders examine 20 spelling words that feature suffixes. Students write the words 1 time each.
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Smart Board Syllable Activity
Students divide words, using syllable division rules. They divide two and three syllable words. They follow Orton-Gillingham rules and use the first three division rules.
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Words with Silent Letters
Third graders recognize that some words have silent letters. In this spelling lesson, 3rd graders write words with silent letters dictated by the teacher. Students work in groups to arrange the words by their silent letters.
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VCe Rule Accuracy
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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Home Spelling Practice: Words With More Letters Than Sounds
In this spelling learning exercise, 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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-LE at the End of a Word
In these spelling activity worksheets, students complete several activities that help them learn to recognize and spell words that end in 'le.' Students complete 3 activities.
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Word Building
In this long vowel worksheet, 1st graders will focus on the long o sound. Students will study 6 pictures and choose the beginning, middle, and end sound for each before writing the words on the lines provided.
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Sky Ride
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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Phonological Awareness - Phoneme Segmenting and Blending, Treasure Chest
Working in pairs, scholars use picture cards to practice segmenting words into phonemes and blending phonemes into words. When a peer answers correctly they place a penny in a treasure chest. Incorrect responses make the card go back in...
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Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Isolating, The Last Sound Is...
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...
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Fun Fonix: O the Words from the Readings
In this phonics worksheet, students demonstrate their knowledge of the concept by responding to 4 multiple choice questions. Students read a short passage then circle the words from the readings.
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Fun Phonics
In this word recognition learning exercise, 2nd graders answer 4 questions after being given clues. Students must choose the correct word from a given word bank to correctly answer each question.
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Say It. Write It or Make Sentences: Long O Words
In this long O instructional activity, students say the name of 6 pictures. Students write the word on the primary lines and use it in a sentence. All words have long O sound.
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Phonics: Long U
In this long u worksheet, students look at six pictures, pronounce each one, connect the letters that spell each picture and then write the word two times on the lines provided.
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Words with More Letters Than Sounds
In this spelling activity worksheet, students write the spelling words on the lines that contain silent sections. Students find the 20 words in other sources.
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Taking a picture Walk
First graders use question words to answer comprehension questions. In this reading strategies instructional activity, 1st graders use picture cues and predict events in a story. Students use context clues to understand unfamiliar...
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Treasure Chest
Segmenting and blending phonemes helps budding readers understand words. Use this strategy in an engaging game where partners test each other's auditory processing using familiar words. Using picture cards and a chart (included),...