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Ick, That's Sticky
Students recognize the short vowel i in written and spoken language. Through listening activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /i/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify the...
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Eek, It's a Spider
Students recognize the short vowel e in written and spoken language. Through listening and matching activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /e/ from other phonemes. Students identify the phoneme and letter in words while reading a...
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Letter Ee
In this letter e worksheet, students pronounce short e picture words and trace and print the lower case letter e. Students complete two activities.
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Vowel Change of Short E
In this language arts worksheet, students look for the pattern for changing the vowel "E" into the right form for writing the words in the Latin language.
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Hooty Hoo
Students recognize the short vowel o in written and spoken language. Through matching and listening activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /o/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and...
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Hop Scotch
Students practice a variety of techniques and strategies to assess the letter sound of o=/o/. They encounter Elkonin Boxes to assist them with their task as well as the tongue twister "Oliver had an operation in October, and Oscar gave...
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Home Spelling Practice: Long I, Long O
In this spelling worksheet, students learn to spell a list of 20 words. All contain the sound of long O or long I. Students write each word one time on the lines.
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Segmenting and Blending Words
Students are introduced to the concept of segmentation and blending of words. As a class, they are shown various words and are asked to determine the amount of letters and sounds in each. To end the lesson, they participate in a...
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Gus the Duck
In this spelling learning exercise, students fill in each sentence with the correct word or letter. The practice of using the right kind of sentence structure is done.
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Aaaaa! The Letter A!
Students study the short a vowel in written and spoken words by saying "Aaaa" while examining the way the mouth moves when making the sound. They recite a tongue twister emphasizing the /a/, listen for the sound in a list of words, and...
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Sing Your Way Through Phonics Lesson Plan
Students explore how to recognize and spell sets of rhyming words. They become familiar with short vowel spelling patterns.
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Picture the Word
This is an excellent way to make onset and rime visual for beginning readers. They examine CVC-word picture cards that are all missing the first letter. Using plastic letters (or whatever you have), they complete each word and record it...
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Icky Insect Is In Icky Sticky Ink
Practice the strategy of letter-sound correspondence when identifying the short vowel /i/ sound in written and spoken words. The teacher recites the tongue twister "Icky insect is in icky sticky ink," while listeners repeat. Letter boxes...
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Phonics lesson for -ick family
Kindergarteners and first graders develop phonemic awareness for words that contain -ick. Each learner gets a stack of cards with different -ick words, highlighting the target sound as they review each one.
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Reading Bugs
Review the phonemic sounds of the alphabet letters before examining how to blend letter sounds to make a word. During this teacher-modeled lesson, learners make word bugs out of three phonemes that blend together. As an assessment, read...
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Astonishing "A"
Young learners gain phonemic awareness with this quick activity. First, point out what sound you’re focusing on today: /a/. Then spell basic words that use this sound, like fat, bat, cat, etc. As a culminating activity, the whole...
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Spelling Words for Plants Can't Jump
In this spelling words for Plants Can't Jump learning exercise, 1st graders write 6 high frequency and 10 spelling words, then fill in the blanks with letters and words, and read sentences over a period of 4 days with parental help.
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Long "u" With Silent "e" Reading Activity
In this writing and spelling worksheet, students circle pictures of long "u" with silent "e" words that are included in 3 short paragraphs. They complete 3 examples.
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Gus the Duck
For this daily activities activity, students cut out the short book Gus the Duck, read each page, and then color each page appropriately for visual authenticity.
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Ii
In this alphabet awareness instructional activity, students circle each picture that begins with the long or short /Ii/ sound and then make an x on each picture that does not begin with the /Ii/ sound.
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Make a Word: Long U by Starfall
Students explore language arts by participating an on-line grammar activity. In this letter U lesson, students discuss the uses for the letter U in the English language and the different sounds that can be made from the vowel. Students...
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Say It Connect It
In this spelling worksheet, 1st graders will focus on spelling CVC words. Students will study 6 pictures and choose the correct letters for the beginning, middle, and ending sounds before writing the complete word on the lines provided.
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Wash Your Hands...they are icky sticky!
Students engage in an emergent literacy lesson that focuses on phonemic awareness and they practice corresponding the letter "i" to its long or short sound. This type of recognition has been found to be essential to reading development.
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Name That Picture
Second graders look at a small outline picture in this name-the-picture worksheet before choosing the CVC word that names it. They complete 16 examples by circling the correct word.