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Beginning Consonants
First graders practice with beginning consonant sounds, including identifying initial consonants and matching letter sounds to their corresponding letters. They recognize beginning consonant sounds by reading and listening to a story...
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Spelling: Code Words
In this spelling code activity, students use a key with shapes and alphabet letters to decipher the missing words in 11 sentences. There is a word bank to help. All are short A vowel words.
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Perimeter and Area
Students calculate the perimeter and area of given figures and lengths.
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Sammy Snake
Students identify the grapheme and phoneme for S. They practice writing the letter S and through listening activities, discriminate the phoneme /s/. They associate the phoneme /s/ with its letter representation and identify it in various...
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Can You Slither Like a Snake?
Students explore letter-sound correspondences. They explore the letter s and the sound produced by the letter. Students explore how to write both the upper and lower case forms of the letter s. Students identify s in both written and...
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Here's an Instant Activity for December 15, 2003
Students complete a spelling activity that helps them create and spell words. In this spelling lesson, students manipulate letters to make words and complete the worksheet by writing new words.
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Decoding
Students decode words containing r-controlled vowels. In this r-controlled vowel lesson plan, students use letter tiles to make words containing specific vowel patterns, and substitute letters to make new words, while the teacher writes...
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V is for Vase
In this printing the letter Vv worksheet, students learn to form both upper and lower case examples of letter Vv. Students look at the samples and then form their own letters on the lines. This is not DeNelian style.
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The "B" Sound
In this language arts worksheet, students learn the final consonant sound of letter B by printing 6 words on the primary lines that end with letter B. Students then draw a crab and a lion cub.
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T is for Train
In this printing practice worksheet, learners learn to form both upper and lower case letter Tt. Students look at the examples and then form their letters on the lines. This is not DeNelian style.
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Bears on Bicycles
In this letter B activity, students read a poem about bears on bicycles. Students count the number of words that begin with letter B.
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Nurturing Nature
Young scholars identify environmental problems and their causes. They explore some of the ways environmental problems are currently being addressed.
In groups students explore causes, possible prevention methods, and laws and...
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The "M" Sound: Man, Milk, Monkey
In this language arts instructional activity, students learn the beginning consonant sound of letter M by writing 3 words: man, milk and monkey. Students write these words 2 times and then draw a picture of a man and a monkey.
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Let Me Give You a Little Advice
Learners use proper writing conventions to write two friendly letters. They use the steps of the writing process to draft, revise, and peer edit. Students publish their letters. They write the first letter to a person who is going to...
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Engaging the Intuition in Statistics to Motivate
Motivation is key to learning. The author points out that it is important to engage intuition for aspects of statistics that pupils find counter-intuitive. Three strategies—using multiple representations, using intuitive analogies, and...
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Privacy Please: Protecting Your Identity
What are the different ways we are susceptible to identity theft? Impress the importance of protecting personal information and privacy with this resource, which includes an excellent video clip, discussion prompts, and worksheets for...
NASA
Einstein and His Times
Scholars research and present on the historical happenings of 1919. After sharing their findings, pupils debate about how Congress dealt with the moral issues of the time. The evaluation asks learners to write a persuasive...
Math Concentration
Acrobat 8 Lesson Plan Template
If you need a place to plan, print, and edit your weekly lesson plans, look no further than this helpful template. It not only includes a page for your plans, but also helps you set up a lesson planning system with a set of instructions...
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Snakes Are Silly
Students identify the grapheme and phoneme for S. They practice writing the letter S and through listening activities, discriminate the phoneme /s/. They associate the phoneme /s/ with its letter representation and identify it in various...
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ABC It's Easy as 1..2..3..
Students listen to an alphabet book. They explore initial sounds throught the creation of a classroom ABC book. This instructional activity requires a program application, "Pixie."
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Baby Brown Bears
Students identify the letter and phoneme /b/ in written and spoken language. Students practice the production of the /b/ sound through riddles and tongue twisters. They identify the initial placement of the letter and sound using a...
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Dribble The Basketball
Students recognize the phoneme /d/. Through listening and matching activities, students discriminate the phoneme /d/ from similar looking letters and phonemes. They associate the phoneme /d/ with its letter representation and identify...
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Go Fish
Students recognize the short vowel a in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /a/ from other vowel phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation in a story...
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It's Icky Sticky
Students recognize the short vowel a in written and spoken language. Through matching and listening activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /a/ from other phonemes. Students identify the phoneme and letter in pseudo words they decode.