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Aches and Pains

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Being able to distinguish between short and long vowel /a/ sounds is an important skill for young readers. They are introduced to the vowel-consonant-e pattern that changes short vowel sounds into long vowel sounds. They practice reading...
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Spelling Activities

For Students 2nd - 4th
Use this list of spelling activities all year long to help your class spell each week's list of words! This list provides 12 different ways for class members to practice their spelling. Learners identify vowels, consonants, synonyms, and...
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Uh Oh!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Help your elementary learners distinguish between short and long vowel /o/ sounds. They are introduced to the vowel-consonant-e pattern that changes short vowel sounds into long vowel sounds. Then they practice reading and spelling words...
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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...
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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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Long Vowel Phoneme - i_e

For Teachers K - 2nd
The vowel/consonant/vowel combination of /i_e/ is one of the most common in our language. In this lesson, kindergarterners share the book, The Doctor's Line to gain practice in reading these kind of words. A brainstorm session...
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Long Vowel Phoneme - y

For Teachers K - 2nd
The long vowel phoneme /y/ is the star of this language arts lesson plan. Kindergarteners share the book, I Spy a Little Fly then brainstorm more words that end in /y/. Since so many of our words end in /y/, this would be a...
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Puzzle Page

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Who says your budding readers are too young for crossword puzzles? Scholars use visual clues instead of written ones to complete single-syllable words. They fill in the initial letter for each of six words, and a second letter for one of...
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Vowel-Consonant -e

For Students 2nd - 3rd
For this vowel and consonant spelling worksheet, students rewrite the vowel-consonant-e words on the lines. Students rewrite 20 words.
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Dr. Seuss’s ABC: An Amazing Alphabet Book Lesson

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Dr. Seuss's ABC Book is used to help young readers distinguish between the letters of the alphabet and their letter sounds. After a discussion reviewing the letters that are vowels and consonants, the book is read to the class. Then, the...
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Super Square

For Students K - 1st
In this grammar activity, students examine a 25 space grid which contains both vowels and consonants. They color the vowels green and the consonants purple. They answer the question, "Which letter is not in a small box because it can be...
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Divide and Conquer: Breaking Down Skills For Slowlearners

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars are introduced to skills to help them become better readers. With a partner, they use magazines to identify consonant pairs and participate in a game naming words that ends with consonants. As a class, they practice...
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Discriminating Phonemes

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Develop the fluency of beginning readers one sound at a time with this phonemic awareness lesson. Through a series of whole-class instruction, independent practice, and collaborative learning activities, children practice...
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Grade 1 Phonics- Short a

For Teachers 1st
Work on the short /a/ in phonics lessons. Recognize and identify "Aa," name the letter "A," know the short /a/ sound, rhyme using short /a/ word families, decode basic short consonant-vowel-consonant words and transfer wisdom of the...
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OU and OW

For Students K - 2nd
For this vowel and consonant blending worksheet, students circle each picture in two boxes that have the same sounds in them as house and clown. Students fill in the blanks of eight words with the appropriate multiple choice sounds of OU...
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School-Home Links: Putting Sounds Together

For Students 2nd - 3rd
For this sound blends worksheet, students read about the sound blends 'oi,' 'oy,' 'ou,' and 'ow.' Students then examine several pictures, say the names of the pictures, and write the letters on the line under each picture to make new...
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What Letter Do These Begin With?

For Students K - 1st
In this language arts learning exercise, students examine color pictures of common objects and write the initial vowel or consonant. There are 9 pages with 9 pictures on each.
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Phonics: Words with More Than One Syllable (CV/C) Rule A

For Teachers 3rd
Knowing basic phonics rules can help learners increase their reading accuracy, pronunciation, and spelling. Third graders practice breaking or chunking words based on the cv/c syllable rule. They take note of where to break each word,...
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ESL: Long Vowel Activity

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this ESL long vowel activity, students write words for pictures that contain a long vowel sound. Students may click on a sound icon to hear the word if necessary.  
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Phonics: Vowel U

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this vowel u worksheet, students trace several times, read, write each word once, find and circle the words bug, bus, cup, mud and gum.
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Phonics: Mid Vowel O

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this mid vowel O worksheet, students trace and write six, three lettered words and then draw a line from the word to its actual picture on the right of the worksheet.
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Learning Phonics Worksheet: Consonants and Vowels 2b

For Students 1st
In this alphabet sounds activity, 1st graders color all the squares that contain consonants yellow and color all the squares with vowels blue. Once colored, a specific letter can be seen from the color pattern and students write that...
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Vowel Exercise for the Vowel Chart

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this vowel worksheet, students place words into the correct column, using a vowel chart given in a web site address, transcribe phonetics into words and place on the chart, and match given words with vowel sounds.
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7 Syllable Types - Classroom Posters

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd Standards
Review r-controlled words, open and closed vowels, and dipthongs with a set of classroom posters. Each page features one concept with a colorful illustration, an explanation, and a list of applicable words.

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