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Spiders Are Fun
Students study facts about spiders using a number of literary forms, including stories, poems, and songs. They work with consonant sounds by matching pictures with the beginning consonant sounds. They design art projects that emphasize...
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Quack Attack
Students complete a variety of activities related to the short /a/ sound. As a class they recite a tongue twister, and write the letter A. Students listen to a list of words and identify the words containing the short /a/ sound, and...
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Words in the News Chile Peru Agreement
Students complete word work and pronunciation exercises. They read an online article, complete worksheets and an online quiz.
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Words With Short Vowel Sound of Letter A
In this language arts activity, students learn 6 words with the sound of short vowel A. Students write these words on the lines and then draw a van and an apple.
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Gulping Guppies
Students recognize the phoneme /g/. Through listening and matching activities, students discriminate the phoneme /g/ from other letters and phonemes. They associate the phoneme /g/ with its letter representation and identify the phoneme...
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Introduce an Irregular Word
Students study language. In this fluency lesson plan, students discover how to say a variety of irregular words (e.g. was). They work as a class or in a small group with the teacher as he or she introduces the words on the board or an...
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Vowels
Students discover that every word needs a vowel. They solve word puzzles using vowels. They complete worksheet by replacing the vowels in well-known proverbs. They create their own puzzles by removing vowels from selcted proverbs and...
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Printing Practice Worksheets- The Whole Alphabet
In this whole alphabet printing practice worksheet set, students follow numbered directional arrows to print both upper and lower case letters. They trace one row of the upper case letter, one row of the lower case letter, before...
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Veterans Day
First graders examine the history and significance of Veteran's Day. They discuss each of the military branches and how Veteran's Day was started, and write a thank you letter to a Veteran. Students copy the greeting and closing of the...
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Spelling Success: ends with el
Fourth graders come up with a word that ends with the "el" sound for every letter of the alphabet. In this spelling lesson plan, 4th graders use all 26 letters to come up with these words.
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Learning the ABC
In this alphabet activity, students make groups of letters, choose the correct letters, write words with certain sounds, and more. Students complete 4 activities total.
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Big, Bad, "B" and "D"
Students practice discerning between the letters D and B. Through hands on and listening activities, they recognize the difference between the commonly confused letters B and D. They practice writing both letters and correcting common...
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Let's Go to the Farm
Students explore corresponding letters of the alphabet with the corresponding phonemes using farm animals. They create a classroom word wall of the items they saw on a trip to the farm or zoo. Students create pictures to go along with...
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Alphabetical Order
Young scholars complete an online alphabet activity. In this alphabetical order lesson, students identify the list of words in alphabetical order. Young scholars discuss ordering using the alphabet and practice with the second set of...
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Dog and Cat
Students role-play a story about a cat and dog, follow the assembly instructions to piece together finger puppets, and complete letter-writing practice.
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Cookies
For this reading activity, students collaborate to read or perform a three-character dialogue script. The short piece is about a mother who bakes cookies for a boy and a girl. Pupils go on to write letters, sentences, and count.
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Free Printables: Large ABC Cards
In the alphabet worksheet, students cut out the large alphabet flash cards. There are 2 flash cards on each page and they have words and pictures that use the letter sounds.
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Instant Spelling Activity: 1st Grade
First graders practice their spelling skills. In this spelling lesson, 1st graders explore onsets and rimes as they complete an activity regarding double letters.
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Correspondence
Young scholars write a pen pal letter to narrate a special event in the life of a young person in the TL culture. In this pen pal lesson plan, students read and respond to letters by their classmates.
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ABC Safari
Students study the animals and their alphabet letter. In this animal alphabet lesson, students associate the animals with their letter and learn facts about the animals. Students may use the cards to classify animals by groups or play a...
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Mm Printing Practice Page
In this printing practice activity, students write 3 rows of upper case M, and 3 rows of lower case m's. They see the sentence, "M is for man." at the bottom of the page.
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Keep It Academic
Learners study various methods to learn about religion in the classroom. In this religion study lesson, students read and visit links to learn about various ways of teaching religion in schools. Learners learn the model world religion...
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Ethics Issues From Science Fiction
Students analyze ethics issues as they read science fiction works. For this science and ethics lesson, students read science fiction short stories of their choosing, investigate the ethics issues raised in the stories, and...
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Aboriginals
Students are read a book about aboriginal perspectives. They answer questions and practice words with the letter "g". They participate in math drills practicing their counting as well.