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Ride That Bike
Students complete a variety of activities related to the /ie/ correspondence. As a class they recite a tongue twister, then spell words containing the' /ie/ grapheme using letter manipulatives. In pairs they read the book "Di and the...
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Language Tutorial
Fourth graders practice using vowel teams and pronunciations. In this language lesson, 4th graders complete visual, auditory, and phonemic drills, review spellings of words, and echo dictated words. Students also read chorally and...
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Beginning Sounds: 2 Letter Vowels
In this beginning sound worksheet, students say picture words and guess which given letters make the beginning sound. Students circle letters that make the middle and final sound, then spell the word in the space provided.
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Making Singular Nouns Plural
Third graders complete worksheets and participate in interactive activities to classify plural words based on their singular form.
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Food Dictionary - Harvest Festival
Students explore healthy foods and dictionary organization. Students create a list of healthy foods. They construct their own food dictionary, with illustrations. Students model how a dictionary page should be filled with a picture,...
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Culture Universals Lesson Plan
Students perform research on specific cultures. They write a short paragraph on each of the universals and explain how each universal relates to their home culture.
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Looking Good
In this Language Arts instructional activity, students write 7 words for each different vowel sound. For example, under "ai" students could write, "pain" and "rain."
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Memory Game with a Smile
Students take it in turns to say two letters and then they turn the corresponding cards around to see if the pictures/words on them match. If they do, student who has found the pair wins 1 point.
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The Nesting Habits of Folders
Students create an organized web of nested grade level folers. Within each grade level folder, they create a Language Arts/Social Studies folder and a Math/Science folder. All folders be color coded.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Spelling Words With Ei and Ie
The page focuses on the rules and examples for spelling words with "ei" and "ie" including the "I Before E Except After C" rule and the "I before E, Except after C, unless it sounds like A, as in neighbor or weigh" rule. L.9-10.2c Spelling
English Club
English Club: Spelling Rules
This EnglishClub tutorial provides rules for spelling words. Spellings related to using -ei-, -ie-, -ible, -able, -er, -est, -ed, -ing, -ly, and -s are featured. These are followed by a link to a large set of spelling quizzes.
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Make, Take, & Teach: Long I Vowel Sound Word List [Pdf]
Use this list to master the letter combinations which create the long i sound in English words.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Spelling Rules
[Free Registration/Login Required] Help students to investigate and learn spelling rules for -ie and learn exceptions.
Other
Donna Young: Spelling Rules Words With Ie or Ei
Rules and examples for correctly spelling words with ie or ei.
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Speakspeak: Spelling: Changing Y to Ies, Ied, Ier
A few rules and examples help students understand when and how to change words which end in -y, for plural nouns, verb forms, adjective and adverb forms.