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Emergent Literacy: Open Up and Say Aaaah!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students, through modeling, explore how to make the short /o/ sound. They practice /o/ sound tongue twisters and recognize the sound in written form as the letter 'a'. They practice writing the letter 'a'. They pick out the /o/ sound...
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Things That Make You Say Aaaa!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students discuss how to identify the a=/a/ in spoken words. They discuss a meaningful representation for the sound and a letter symbol. They identify the /a/ sound in words. Students read a story and blink their eyes when they hear the...
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Aaaaa! A Monster!

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners complete a variety of activities as they examine the letter 'a' as it makes the short /a/ sound. Through instruction and modeling, they explore the sound the letter makes and how the letter is written. They recite tongue...
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Aaaaaaaaaa!!! You Scared Me!

For Teachers K - 1st
Pupils practice the letter A sound in its different foms. They study a tongue twister that encompasses the letter A sounds. They use letterboxes and bags of letters to sound out different words with the a sound. They listen to a book...
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Alikizam...There's Apple Jam!

For Teachers K - 1st
Students complete a variety of activities as they explore/review the letter 'a' as it makes the short /a/ sound. Through instruction and modeling, they explore the sound the letter makes and how the letter is written. They recite tongue...
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Long Vowel A

For Students 1st - 2nd
For this vowels worksheet, students recognize the long vowel A. Students look at one word containing the long vowel A and then look at six other words with their pictures circle the ones that have the long vowel A.
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Adam's Apples

For Teachers K - 1st
Students examine the /a/ phoneme in both written and spoken words. They practice finding the /a/ in words, watch how their mouths move when making the sound, and write the letter. Next, they differentiate the sound in words, listen to a...
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Vocabulary Building Activity: OO

For Students 2nd
In this double vowel learning exercise, 2nd graders write seven vocabulary words out as they are called out, unscramble seven words and use each one in a complete sentence. Students work with the words too, food, soon, foot, good, look...
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Hickory Dickory Dock

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars pick out the sounds and -ck written in words. They are taught how to correctly say the sound with their mouth and read Hickory Dickory Dock. Words with the ck sound are underlined for the student's to notice. As an...
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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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A? Speak up, I can't hear you!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners become phonemically aware of various sounds that make up written words. This lesson focuses on the vowel correspondence a_e=/A/. They decode the long a mouth moves in words as well as practice spelling the words themselves.
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Introduce /N/

For Teachers K
Students explore the alphabet by participating in a pronunciation activity. For this letter identification lesson, students discuss the sound made by the letter "N" and words that begin with the letter. Students practice sounding out the...
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Cookie Crisp Howl

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students are introduced to the vowel pattern that produces the /oo/ sound in words. Through matching, listening, and spelling activities, students recognize the phoneme /oo/ and it's placement in words. They write a message using words...
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Chewy, Chewy Chocolate

For Teachers K
Students practice writing, sounding out, and identifying words with the /ch/ digraph. Students listen as the teacher says a tongue twister filled with /ch/ digraph words. They then listen to "Chip Gets a Dog" and raise their hand...
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"-at" Turkeys

For Teachers K
Students practice spelling by creating a model turkey.  In this vocabulary instructional activity, students utilize fake feathers and foam letters to spell words on a fake turkey body,  Students read the book Ten Fat Turkeys,...
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Introduce /B/

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students demonstrate how to pronounce the letter "b" sound. In this sound fluency lesson, students practice saying the "b" sound orally and repeat words that contain the letter "b." Additionally, students demonstrate the differences...
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If You Were Katy: Let's Play a Game

For Teachers K - Higher Ed
Students simulate sound effects from Katy and the Big Snow. They read and discuss Katy and the Big Snow, create sound effects for the objects in the book and practice sounding out beginning sounds for words. After sounding out the words,...
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Do They Rhyme?

For Teachers K
Students pick out words that rhyme. In this instructional activity on rhyme, students listen to the teacher read the poem "My Robot Does My Homework" by Kenn Nesbitt and pick out words that rhyme.
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Introduce /K/

For Teachers K
Students explore language arts by participating in an alphabetical letter writing activity. In this letter "K" lesson, students practice sounding out the letter in class and pronouncing unfamiliar words which start with the letter K....
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Introduce sh-

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore phonetics by participating in a pronunciation activity. In this word sound lesson, students identify words in the English language which contain the "sh" sound. Students practice saying the words and the individual "sh"...
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Syllables

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this syllables instructional activity, learners observe words broken into syllables, count the syllables, and write the number of syllables on the lines in front of the words. Students write nine answers.
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Long Vowel O

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this long vowel o practice worksheet, students examine 6 picture and word pairs. Students identify the words that have the long o sound.
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PHONEMIC AWARENESS INFUSION

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed Standards
Pupils practice and utilize phonograms (word families) found in the patterns of frequently used words. They assess strategies to assist them in dividing long words as well as to develop their phonemic awareness to new vocabularies....
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For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this early childhood reading words worksheet, students sound out 5 letter combinations and then read the words with the consonant cluster. Students identify 5 words that begin with tr.