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Sight Vocabulary: Word Shapes
In this vocabulary worksheet, 1st graders read the sentences and complete each one using the word shapes. Students complete 10 sentences using the word bank.
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Shamrock Spelling
Review spelling skills by learning about the history of shamrocks. Learners use a picture of a shamrock to practice spelling three letter words. One letter goes on each shamrock leaf. It is a way to engage your kinesthetic learners.
Pyro Innovations
Get into Shape
Shapes are so fun! Little ones explore, identify, and create shapes using tangrams or pattern blocks. The activity is intended to stimulate critical thinking while engaging learners through play and shape identification. Each child will...
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Guide Words in a Dictionary
Second and third graders match the five pairs of guide words to the words in a list that should appear on the same page in a dictionary. They look at a second set of five pairs of guide words and circle the word (from three choices) that...
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Vocabulary: Categorize Important Vocabulary Words and Describe Their Features
Just like sports, different words have different features that help us understand or spell them. Learners categorize various sports based on their similarities and differences, then they use that strategy to categorize various words....
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Easily Confused Words: Lead and Led
Although not quite as confusing as their, they're, and there, many people have difficulty with lead, lead (the toxic metallic), and led. Review these basic sentences with your third and fourth graders, and have them complete the short...
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Matching Word Shapes: Basic 1
In this word recognition instructional activity, 1st graders match basic words from a word bank to their shapes. They place the words in, of, I, and, the, and was in the rectangles and boxes at the top of the page.
WakeGOV
Plastic Sight Words
Plastic math? Have young learners count and name the number of plastic items in their centers. Kindergartners match sight word cards to the number of plastics in a given group, while learning that plastics come in all different shapes,...
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'EW' Word shapes
In this 'ew' words worksheet, students spell words containing 'ew' by filling in the word shapes. Students spell 15 'ew' words and use the word box for help.
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Shape of a Word Spelling
An interesting way to think about how to teach students to spell is presented here. The learners are instruced to look at the "shape" of the word they are trying to spell to see if it looks like the right one. The days of the week are...
K5 Learning
Liza's First Spelling Bee
Learners read about Liza's first spelling bee before answering six reading comprehension questions. Skills include identifying similarities, making inferences, drawing conclusions, and answer questions based on explicit information in...
Annenberg Foundation
Geometry 3D Shapes: 3D Shapes
Explore vocabulary related to three-dimensional shapes. An instructional website describes the characteristics of different geometric solids. Learners can use an interactive component to view nets, faces, vertices, and edges of common...
24x7 Digital
TeachMe: 1st Grade
Let your eager learners practice their basic arithmetic and spelling skills with this fun interactive resource! For any primary grade teacher with access to an Apple mobile device, this is a must-have application.
Student Handouts
Misspellings and More Mischievous Mishaps Worksheet
Keep your spellers and punctuators in tip-top shape with some practice with commonly misspelled words. Learners choose the correct option from two choices and then rewrite each sentence.
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My Spelling Words #97
In this spelling activity, students practice reading and writing each of the spelling words listed. Then they write the correct word in the corresponding word shape shown for each.
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My Spelling Words: Spelling List #178
In this spelling worksheet, learners practice reading and writing 12 one-syllable words. Next, they fill in shaped boxes using the spelling words. This one-page worksheet contains 24 questions.
Starfall
Cookies
In this language arts activity, learners participate in a reader's theater about cookies and five subtraction problems and examine words in a word bank that fit into word shape grids. Students then trace a sentence using those words.
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Scrambled Spelling Words
In this spelling worksheet, students unscramble the letters in ten words to spell long A spelling words. Students fit the words into configuration boxes. The spelling list is not available on this page but is not needed to complete this...
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Animals Letter Shapes
Add some excitement to a basic life science worksheet by using this simple word puzzle! Scholars read 8 definitions and write the correct animal-related vocabulary word in the boxes provided. The boxes for each definition show the...
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Find the Pictures
There are hidden pictures here, but scholars must find the rhyming words to uncover them. They follow directions by coloring in only the shapes that rhyme with a given sound. Although the pictures aren't that well hidden, this puts a fun...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Manipulating, What's Left?
Scholars subtract initial phonemes from given picture word cards to create new words. Feet becomes eat, and shelf becomes elf.
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Missing Letters
Complete these rhyming words. There are multiple potential objectives in this phonics worksheet. Each of these CVC words is missing a first letter. Spellers complete the word along with its rhyming parter and draw a picture of the second...
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Shapes, Colors, and Sizes Spelling Quiz
In this spelling quiz worksheet, students study the four multiple choice options for the shape, color, and size words. Students then write the letter of the correctly spelled word in the blank.
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Find the code
In this spelling words worksheet, students insert letters according to the code of shapes given to them. Students solve the code and answer the riddles from the code at the bottom.