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More Letters Than Sounds
This spelling practice, appropriate for fourth graders, is a neat and useful worksheet to assign as homework. For all 20 words, there are more letters than are heard when read out loud.
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The Loud Trout Shouts!
Students practice the strategies of phonemes and digraphs dealing with the correspondence "ou"=/ow/ in both spoken and written words. They listen as the book The Napping House by Audrey Wood is read to them and then they interact with...
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Shhh!
Students practice identifying and spelling words containing the /sh/ digraph. They listen as the teacher says different words, and identify those with the /sh/. They then complete a worksheet with pictures and write the words under the...
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Consonant Sounds /z/, /zh/
In this consonant sounds activity, students spell the consonant /z/ and /zh/ sound words on the blank lines. Students spell 20 words.
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Shhhhelly Shhhhrimp
Students read and spell words via alphabetic insight that letters stand for phonemes and spelling. They map out the phonemes in spoken words. This lesson will help students identify the letters s and h, along with the sound...
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Crusade Anagrams
In this anagram instructional activity, students rearrange the words in each section to spell words related to the Crusades. Students complete 8 examples.
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CVC Words - Medial Sounds (3)
In this phonics worksheet, students study the pictures and then fill in the missing medial sounds for each word. Students also find the medial sounds for the nine words.
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CVC Words - Final Sounds (2)
In this phonics worksheet, students study the pictures and fill in the missing sound in each word. Students choose a final sound to make the nine words without pictures.
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VWXYZ Code!
In this language arts worksheet, students substitute letters for numbers to spell words. Space is left above the words so students may draw an illustration of each word.
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Bryce Canyon National Park: Hoodoos Cast Their Spell (64)
Students explore the natural wonders of this once remote area in Utah and explore how it became a popular tourist destination in the early 20th century. They examine how the region was used by Mormon settlers, scientists and the government.
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Opinion Writing
It's no secret that children can be very opinionated, but rather than fight against this natural tendency, embrace it with this primary grade writing project. After a shared reading of a children's book about...
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Kindergarten/First Grade Phonics
Get involved with phonics by recognizing one particular letter. Learners name a letter, know it by sound, decode basic CVC words and use the letter in writing. A variety of options are given to the your learners: making a letter collage,...
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Accordion-Book Summary
Introduce your young readers to the book review. Groups of writers practice the basic steps of writing a book report and complete an Accordion-Book Summary activity. The lesson includes book report basics and directions to make...
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Ways Twitter Makes You a Better Writer
Practice being concise. Exercise your vocabulary. Improve your editing skills. The contention in this instructional activity is that by imposing a 140 character limit, the Twitter format actually helps improve writing skills. And of...
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Writing Process-- Revision and Editing
As guided practice, class members work together to revise a model persuasive paragraph. Then they practice independently with their own writing. The included rubric looks at prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, nonfiction text...
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Truly Amazing Mammals
Explore the world of amazing mammals with your kids with special needs. Each child identifies one mammal from a previous lesson and writes a short paragraph on that mammal. This lesson states that it is intended for all levels, but not...
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Willy the Super - Ant
For this reading worksheet, students learn to distinguish between the words "want" and "what" by reading a story about a super-ant. Students read or listen to the story and draw 7 cartoons to show events in the story. In each cartoon box...
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Color Tiles
In this word shape worksheet, students use the color word key to help them fit the word inside the tiles. Students spell the words ebony, purple, chartreuse, yellow, red, mahogany, maroon, turquoise, amber, and pewter.
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Parts of the Body
In this human body vocabulary worksheet, students unscramble the human body part vocabulary words. Students spell 16 words and then write 10 sentences using the words from the list.
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Introduction to Electricity
In this electricity worksheet, students complete a word search, identify correct spelling of 16 vocabulary words, and complete 6 word puzzles about electricity.
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Brown Bear Phonics
Students listen to Brown Bear, Brown Bear and imitate the style of Eric Carle in writing a sentence. In this writing lesson plan, students use the beginning and ending sounds of words to write an Eric Carle type...
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Numbers to Ten (2)
In this written numbers to 10 worksheet, students spell out each number from 0 to 10, find each number and then circle each number in a word search puzzle.
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What's it Worth?
In this reading worksheet, learners spell 5 pictures using scrabble letters. All words end in -eep. Students also add up the score of each word.
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Red Gets Fed
Young scholars practice with the strategy that letters represent phonemes and spellings map out phonemes in spoken words. They work on the phoneme sounds of /a/ and e=/e/ in correspondences with reading. Each student also recites the...