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Word Search Puzzle: Phonics--Words That End With -CT

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
In this words that end in -CT worksheet, students locate and circle/highlight twelve words in a word search puzzle that end in -CT.
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Word Search Puzzle: Phonics--Words That End With -MP

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
In this words ending in -MP worksheet, students find and circle/highlight twelve words in a word search puzzle that end in -MP.
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Word Search Puzzle: Phonics--Words That End With -ng

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
In this words that end with -ng worksheet, pupils find and circle/highlight twelve words in a word search puzzle that end with -ng.
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On-Level Small Group Phonics Lesson: ea /e/

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars explore /e/. In this phonics lesson, students decode words with "ea" representing the short e sound. Young scholars read sentences and a short book that includes "ea" word practice.
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Word Parts and Suffixes

For Teachers 1st
First graders complete a worksheet. In this word parts lesson, 1st graders brainstorm words with the same endings and discuss which words the suffix "s" can be added to. Students complete a worksheet.
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Compound Words

For Teachers 1st
First graders read newspaper articles and locate compound words. They break the words into two parts, then draw pictures of the two words.
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Beginning and Ending Consonants

For Teachers K - 1st
Young readers explore consonant sounds. In this beginning phonics lesson, learners fill in a beginning/middle/end vertical column chart with the sounds they hear in the pictured object. Practice spelling CVC words.
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Vowel Sounds

For Teachers 4th
This plan aims to increase the reading proficiency of your fourth grade class. While no materials are provided, a list of activities to practice are included. Various activities include creating songs for short vowel sounds, using cue...
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Slim Pig

For Teachers K - 1st
Beginning readers study the short /i/ sound. First they determine how the mouth moves when they say the target words in a tongue twister. They complete letterbox activities by making words with the short /i/ before reading What Is It and...
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Compounding the Problem

For Teachers K - 4th
Pupils sharpen their dictionary skills and their understanding of compound words in this plan. Tailor it to the grade level you teach by honing in on specific skills. For older learners, the plan suggests providing a word and having them...
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Sing Your Way Through Phonics Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars recognize and spell sets of words with r-controlled vowels. They become familiar with r-controlled spelling patterns.
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ABC It's as Easy as 1-2-3!

For Teachers Pre-K - K Standards
Help readers explore initial letter sounds. They will choose a letter of the alphabet and create a page for a classroom "ABC" book. They will write down various words that begin with their assigned letter and draw a picture to go in the...
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Sight Word Soup

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students explore language arts by completing a vocabulary activity. For this sight words lesson, students discuss the commonly used words that are seen often in writing and define 10 new words each week. Students utilize flashcards,...
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Sing Your Way Through Phonics Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore how to recognize and spell sets of rhyming words. They become familiar with short vowel spelling patterns.
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Beginning Consonants

For Teachers 1st
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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Here's an Instant Activity for March 3, 2008

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Here are some good spelling activities for 'ou' words. First and second graders complete an oral spelling activity with their teacher and then an Instant Activity worksheet. and spell 'ou' words.
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Little Words Are Hiding Inside!

For Teachers 1st
First graders practice finding smaller words inside larger ones. In this spelling lesson, 1st graders write smaller words that they find in larger ones. They look at words such as water and write a list of words within. They use the...
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Musical Chair Review

For Teachers K - 1st
Students play a simple game designed to reinforce letter names, sounds or sight words. They walk in a circle as music plays, and stop in front of a chair when the music stops. Each chair has a letter or sight word that the child must...
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Chompin' on Chewing Gum

For Teachers K - 1st
Students complete a variety of activities related to the /ch/ consonant digraph. As a class they recite a Ch tongue twister, then trace and write the letters ch. Students then listen to word pairs and identify the words containing the...
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Here's an Instant Activity for September 6, 2004

For Teachers 2nd
What are the words that use the silent e? With this resource, youngsters complete a teacher-led activity for spelling words with silent e sounds. They then complete a worksheet that adds suffixes s, ed, or ing to words that end in silent e.
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Teaching Pronunciation

For Teachers Higher Ed
Using repetition, students communicate with the instructor by isolating the phrase or words to promote better pronunciation.
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Method for Teaching the Blending of Sounds: Train Technique

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars explore the blending of individual sounds to make words and, using visuals and manipulatives, equate this process to the hooking up of railroad cars to make a train. They link individual letters/sounds to make short words.
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Short A Words

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students study the short "a" sound. In this word study lesson, students brainstorm words that begin with a short "a" sound and are given a picture of the word. Students play an online game to reinforce the concepts taught.
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The Icky Sticky Frog

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners practice the strategy of phoneme awareness in order to identify phonemes with vocal gestures in spoken words. They blend letters and sounds together utilizing the phoneme /i/ by symbol and letter representation and listen as the...