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Spelling Words Well
Slip It In!
Bad, bid, bed. Jib, jab, job. Kids practice building short-vowel words with a game that challenges them to provide the missing short vowel in the provided word card.
Poetry4kids
How to Write a Tongue Twister
Betty Botter and Theophilus Thistle provide models for willy writers to wrestle words into tricky tongue twisters.
Texas Center for Learning Disabilities
First-Grade Intervention
Learning how to read is a big challenge for young learners, but this series of lessons provides them with the extra support they need to succeed. With each lesson following the a clearly outlined format, children are introduced...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Family Time: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 5)
Support English language development with a family-themed unit consisting of a series of lessons designed to get your scholars moving, looking, speaking, writing, and listening. Conversation topics...
Curated OER
Spelling Rule: v-c, double the consonant before adding -ed or -ing
Apply the spelling rule about adding suffixes to words ending with a vowel followed by a consonant with your class. Spellers read the rules and examples, observe words with suffixes, and write the root words. They write 6 answers.
Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk, University of Texas at Austin
Lesson 7 - Letter Combinations
Individually, letters have their own sounds, but when combined with other letters, those sounds completely change. Introduce letter combinations with a lesson that asks learners to search for combinations in familiar words and use oral...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Off to Adventure!: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 1)
Give language skills a boost with a series of ESL lessons in an Off to Adventure! themed unit. Using a speak, listen, move, and look routine, scholars enhance proficiency through grand conversation and skills practice....
Jolly Learning Ltd
Jolly Phonics Actions
A fun worksheet from Jolly Phonics is a great way to teach kids about the alphabet and blended sounds. The worksheet prompts kids to move and make sounds according to the letters, such as puffing out candles for the letter P, or...
Curated OER
Pronunciation of Initial /s/ Consonant Clusters
Students comprehend how to produce these pronuciation features, recognize the various blends of initial /s/, hear the sounds, produce them correctly when thinking about it, and practice correct pronunciation to be comprehended by others.
Curated OER
Introducing Phonemic Awareness Using Oral and Written Instruction
First graders demonstrate their ability to read with fluency, accuracy, and comprehension through phonemic awareness. They use a color-coding system to master the long and short vowel sounds and develop their skills in listening and...
Curated OER
Vowel Detective
Who doesn't love playing detective? Get out those magnifying glasses because your class has to snoop to determine which vowels have gone missing. They are presented with a beginning and ending consonant, it's up to them to determine...
Curated OER
Vowel Combinations
In this vowel combinations practice worksheet, students respond to 20 questions that require them to unscramble consonants with the provided vowel combinations of oi, oy, ou, and ow.
Curated OER
Initial Consonant Cluster
In this grammar worksheet, students read and identify squ- words and then, recognize that sq (and q) are always followed by u. They also read a story and highlight all the words that begin with squ. Finally, students complete a crossword...
Curated OER
Build A Word With "o" as the Short Mid Vowel
In this short "o" build a word worksheet, 1st graders look at 6 black line pictures before finding the letters that spell the name of each. They say the name, choose the letters including the middle "o", and write the name of the item on...
Curated OER
Phonics: Short Vowel U
In this phonics short vowel U worksheet, learners look over six pictures, pronounce each one, find the actual word from the word box and then write the actual word for each picture on the lines provided. Students put an X on the picture...
Curated OER
Short Vowel Words
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.
Curated OER
Short Vowel Words 2
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.
Curated OER
Fill in Missing Consonant Blends and Digraphs
In this phonics worksheet, students look at a picture and fill in the missing consonant blend or digraph. Worksheet has a total of 6 pictures of everyday objects.
Curated OER
Missing Consonant Blends and Digraphs
In this phonics worksheet, students look at pictures and fill in the missing consonant blend or digraph. All pictures are of common objects, 6 total.
Curated OER
Missing Consonant Blends and Digraphs
In this phonics worksheet, learners look at pictures and fill in missing consonant blends or digraphs. All pictures are of common items, 6 total.
Curated OER
Lewis and Clark: Reliving the Journey
Second graders explore Meriweather Lewis and iam Clark. They explore their contributions to history, and what their significance is in a timeline of Vermillion, South Dakota history.
Curated OER
OU and OW
In this vowel/consonant blending worksheet, students circle in two boxes all the pictures that make the sounds of OU and OW and then choose which sounds complete eight words. Students fill in the blanks with their appropriate choices.
Curated OER
Fun Fonix: Say it. Trace and Write in the A. Read it.
For this phonics worksheet, 1st graders respond to 9 questions by saying the word represented in the picture, tracing and writing an "a" in the space provided (middle of each word), and reading the newly formed word.
Curated OER
The Pronunciation of Regular Verbs in the Past Exercise
Give your class experience with pronunciation. This activity has learners place the given verbs ending in /-ed/ into columns based on the final sound, then state the rules for pronunciation. This is a more advanced activity and is very...