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Irregular Word Fluency: Password
Utilize your learners' spare time by having a "password" that learners must recite before they enter or leave the classroom. As suggested here, provide an irregular word that your first graders are trying to develop. How efficient!
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Treasure Chest Game
Practice spelling rules in a creative manner. Learners practice reading and spelling words with the aw sound. They answer riddles to identify the words with this sound. It is a delightful way to explore this topic.
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Long A Word Matching Game
In this long a word learning exercise, students cut out words with long a in them and cut out the pictures they go with, and match them together. Students match 8 words with 8 pictures.
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Long E Words Matching Game
In this long e words instructional activity, students cut out long e words and the pictures they go with, and then match them up together. Students complete 8 matches.
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Matching Long U Words With Pictures
In this matching long U words with pictures instructional activity, students cut out 7 long U word cards and 7 picture cards, then place the matching picture beneath each word.
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Vocab-u-lous! Build a Fabulous Vocab: Words Beginning with SL
In this vocabulary worksheet, students select the best word to complete the sentence. They are challenged by the difficult words that contain a sl-blend.
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Vocabulary: Multiple Meaning Words in Context
Learners use context clues to define words with multiple meanings. After extensive practice with their teacher, learners read through six sentences, they then identify a word with a multiple meaning, and determine its meaning based on...
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Learning Words: Am
In this writing worksheet, students trace the word "am" in four sentences. They color the matching picture of each sentence. Sentences are in the form: I am a (noun).
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Word Origins
Have you ever studied historical words and found that they were deeply rooted in racism or prejudice? Select a long list of these words to have your class examine. What familiar roots do they have? Do they know when this word originally...
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Playing with Language
Try these parts of speech games and activities that will help your learners tackle using correct grammar.
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Lyddie: An Instructional Unit Resource Guide
Katherine Paterson’s young adult novel Lyddie is the foundation of a differentiated instruction unit that not only explores the rise of industrialization and labor but women’s rights issues as well. After learners read the novel, they...
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Jeopardy! The Eight Parts of Speech
Thrill your class with the daily doubles and increasing points of Jeopardy! Complete with sound effects and visual cues, the game focuses on parts of speech, including nouns, prepositions, and conjunctions. Each point square links to a...
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Phonics Teachers Resource Book
Looking to improve your classes literacy program? Then look no further. This comprehensive collection of resources includes worksheets and activities covering everything from r-controlled vowels and consonant digraphs, to the...
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Noisy Words 1-- Animal Noises
In this language arts worksheet, students explore onomatopoeia-- words that sound like what they mean. Students read 20 animal noises and write the name of the animal that makes each of the noises. Example: cock a doodle doo (rooster).
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Pre-Primer Sight Word Bingo 4
In this sight words instructional activity, students participate in a sight word bingo game where they match up the sight words away, blue, come, down, funny, jump, make, play, three and two to sentence strips on a game board.
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Pre-Primer Sight Word Bingo 2
In this sight words worksheet, learners participate in a sight word bingo game involving the sight words go, me, not, we, said, to, you, little, help and where. Students match the sight words to the words on their game board.
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Pre-Primer Sight Word Bingo
In this sight words instructional activity, students participate in a sight words bingo game involving the sight words a, and, I, it, is, in, the, big, look, and my. Students match the sight words to sentence strips to practice using...
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Pre-Primer Sight Word Bingo 3
In this sight words worksheet, students participate in a sight word bingo game involving the sight words can, find, for, here, one, red, run, see, up and yellow. Students match sight words to sentence strips to practice using sight words...
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What's in a Word?
Learners complete a unit on words, their origins, and their usage. They explore various websites, create a word ladder online, develop a list of anagrams, write a story using homonyms, and create a list of vocabulary words.
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High Frequency Words--Long "A"
In this high frequency words worksheet, students read and write the eight given words and use the words in sentences. The words focus on the long "a" sound.
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Bingo Game: -ER Words
In this recognizing words with -er endings activity, learners use Bingo cards to match the base word with the words with the -er suffixes. Students use 16 answers.
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Bingo: -ING Words
In this recognizing words with -ing endings worksheet, students use Bingo cards to identify base words with -ing endings. Students use 16 answers.
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Express Yourself Lesson Seed 3
If you're looking to set your class up for writing effective arguments, try out this idea. While originally created with freedom as a guiding idea, the activity could easily be adapted for other themes. As a class, create a chart of...
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Teaching Social Skills, Creating Successful Students “Following Instructions” and “Listening”
With the help from learning games and holiday-themed coloring pages, scholars learn the importance of listening carefully and following directions. Coloring pages celebrate Halloween and Thanksgiving. Learning games include...