Worksheet
Curated OER

Rob and Rod Rat

For Students K - 1st
In this phonics beginning consonant r worksheet, learners read a short story and identify the words that begin with the letter r. Students also color a picture following the coloring instructions.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Short Vowels

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this phonics practice worksheet, students examine 5 pictures and identify each picture by writing the short vowel words for each of them on the lines provided.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Short Vowel Words

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this phonics practice worksheet, students examine 6 pictures and identify each picture by writing the short vowel words for each of them on the lines provided.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Short Vowel Words 2

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this phonics practice worksheet, learners examine 6 pictures and identify each picture by writing the short vowel words for each of them on the lines provided.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Beginning letters

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this beginning letters worksheet, students write the beginning letters for 3 letter words by looking at their pictures. Students complete 5 words.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Sight Words Practice

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Just cut along the dotted line and you've got sight word flashcards! Intended for new readers, these 2 and 3-letter words will become familiar the more your learner sees them. There are tweleve words in all. Be sure to shuffle you...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Phonics: Decoding Words in Connected Text

For Teachers K
Decoding words in connected text can make emergent readers really feel like they are great readers. They work as a class to sound out simple cvc words located in super short sentences. Tip: Extend this activity by having a variety of...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Letter Sound Fluency

For Teachers Pre-K - K
How fast can you go? Test scholars' letter sound recognition with a timed game. Using letter cards of all the letters you've learned so far, learners take turns flipping cards and correctly saying the letter sound. Model this first,...
Unit Plan
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Look at Us!: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 1)

For Teachers K Standards
Start off your young English language learners with this packet of materials, which covers three weeks of instructions. After completing the unit, kids will have practiced the letters K through Z, read several story books, talked with...
Unit Plan
Core Knowledge Foundation

Third Grade Skills Unit 2: Rattenborough’s Guide to Animals

For Teachers 3rd Standards
An animal-themed unit focuses on third-grade skills. Scholars practice spelling patterns, prefixes, suffixes, and grammar concepts—nouns, verbs, adjectives, subjects, predicates, and sentences. Assessments gauge proficiency.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Sounding Out CVCE Words

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore vowels and consonants by participating in a flash card activity. In this phonetics lesson, 1st graders discuss the difference between short and long vowels and identify them within a story told to them by their...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Write CVS Words

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this writing a complete sentence worksheet, students observe pictures of cvc words and write complete sentences about the pictures using correct cvc pattern words and prepositions. Students write 4 sentences.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Short Vowel Sounds

For Students 1st
In this short vowel worksheet, 1st graders will focus on reading CVC words. Students will study 6 pictures and choose the correct word from the word box to write on the dotted lines beneath each picture.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Short Vowel Movements

For Teachers K - 1st
Students use gestures to recognize the short vowel sounds.  In this cvc lesson, students use a cue to recognize the vowel sound.  Students practice various words with the cues. 
Activity
Lakeshore Learning

Alphabet Sounds Teaching Tubs

For Teachers Pre-K - K
A hands-on activity brings the alphabet to life in your kindergarten! Fill tubs with items that begin with the same letter or end with the same sound, and let kids make the connections between the items. 
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Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk, University of Texas at Austin

Lesson 2 - Consonant-Vowel-Consonant Words

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Closed syllable words contain short vowel sounds. A phonics lessons introduces readers to consonant-vowel-consonant words. Guided instruction introduces the words with a series of dictation activities, and then learners practice reading...
Worksheet
Heidi Songs

Penguin Word Families

For Students K - 1st
These silly penguins are just asking to be colored in! Similar to paint-by-numbers, kids color in these penguins based on the words written on the drawing. They color in anything in the -it family black and the -in family orange.
Printables
Twisty Noodle

Animal Missing Letters Book

For Teachers K - 2nd
Practice spelling and word recognition with a list of animals. Each animal shows a picture and name of the animal with one letter missing. The letters vary from consonants to vowels, and is a great spelling exercise.
Unit Plan
University of Texas

Alphabetic Understanding, Phonics, and Spelling

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Have your youngsters reading in no time with with collection of literacy activities and lessons. Starting with a basic understanding of the alphabet, this unit progressively builds students' phonemic awareness and ability to decode...
Unit Plan
National Institute for Literacy

Making Sense of Decoding and Spelling

For Students Pre-K - 3rd Standards
Go over digraphs, vowel sounds, and affixes with a series of decoding and spelling lessons. Each lesson guides learners through a different reading and phonics skill, building on the lesson before, and challenging them with each step.
Unit Plan
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Nature Walk: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 2)

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Walking in nature is the theme of a unit designed to support English language development lessons. Scholars look, write, speak, and move to explore topics such as camping, woodland animals, instruments,...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Nature Walk: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 2)

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Reinforce concepts such as long vowels, spelling patterns, sound clusters, double-final consonants, and syllables with a nature-themed unit. Through a series of extra support lessons, learners compare and contrast using a...
Worksheet
Nosapo

Word Family

For Students K - 2nd Standards
What do a man, a can, and a fan have in common? They are all in the same word family! Young readers practice adding the first letter or letters to each word within a particular word family.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Reading: Consonant Vowel Consonant Words

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this recognizing words with the consonant vowel consonant pattern worksheet, students read a phrase and illustrate it, identify the phrases that identify the pictures, identify the sentences that correctly describe the pictures, and...