Florida Center for Reading Research
Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Blending, What's My Word?
At a listening station, learners listen to a pre-recorded script; they follow the directions and number each picture on their picture chart corresponding to the segmented phonemes they hear.
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Rhyming Words: Ball and Wall
Preschoolers and kindergartners can identify the pictures that do not rhyme with the lead image. They say each of the four words and then find the image that doesn't belong. In addition, they trace the words ball and wall.
Student Handouts
Vocabulary Word Circles
Pupils take a well-rounded approach to the traditional vocabulary chart with this graphic organizer, which prompts students to include a sentence, antonym, definition/synonym, and picture for each vocabulary word.
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Say it, Write It- Picture Identification- Short u Words
In this picture identification/ short u word worksheet, students say the name of each black line picture. They write the short u word three times on the lines to the right of the picture. They see 7 pictures including a tub, a bug, and a...
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Letter A Word Search
Here's a great way to practice handwriting and word recognition. In this letter identification lesson, learners identify eight words with pictures to help them learn vocabulary and reading skills as they use lowercase letters to complete...
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Phoneme Identification with Sound-it-Out Chips
Looking for a tangible way to help emerging readers identify phonemes? You've found it! They use chips without letters to segment single-syllable words into first, middle, and last sounds. As you say each sound, scholars place a chip on...
Kelly's Kindergarten
Kelly's Kindergarten: H Words
Help your hardy learners with a handy worksheet! Kindergartners review a series of pictures, and cut out the correct ones to glue onto the worksheet. They then write the word.
Do2Learn
Days and Weather Picture Cards
Weather happens everyday. Print these color weather cards onto card stock, laminate them, and use them in a daily weather forecasting routine that practices calendar skills and daily weather identification.
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Matching Animal Names and Pictures
In this early childhood reading worksheet, students cut out the 6 animal pictures and paste them onto the appropriate animal words.
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CVC Words
Students create CVC words with picture identification. In this phonics lesson, students look at pictures and come up the correct CVC word that matches. Students will work with their teacher and their peers.
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Home Living / Daily Living: Safety Terms
Being able to recognize safety signs in your environment is a great start to staying safe. Kids with severe to moderate disabilities work to recognize and identify safety terms and signs. They use flashcards and decreasing prompts to...
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Souper Wheelies: Recipe Activity
Your special education class can use this simple recipe for more than just cooking. They'll find correctly spelled words, put words from the recipe in ABC order, circle the correct measurement, and identify items that are in recipe by...
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Setting the Tone with Figurative Language
Explore figurative language with your secondary class. Extending a language arts unit, the instructional activity prompts middle schoolers to examine how an author's word choice establishes a story's tone, possibly using metaphors,...
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Farm Animals Word Scramble
In this farm animals word scramble worksheet, 2nd graders see and say farm animal names. Students then unscramble the letters under each picture and write the name of the animal on the line provided.
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Picture Word Book
Students create a book. In this vocabulary and word identification lesson, students make a book by gluing pictures on construction paper, then the teacher writes words in the book to label each picture.
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Tree Identification
Students list four ways to identify trees. In this tree identification instructional activity, students use tree identification techniques such as leafs, bark, wood grain, soil type, and climate to create tables and graphs.
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Kitchen Appliances and Utensils: Home Living / Daily Living
There are so many different types of tools we use in the kitchen, everyday. Help your special needs learner discover how to recognize, identify, and use various kitchen utensils and appliances. Using picture cards and drill prompting,...
Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk, University of Texas at Austin
Lesson 8 - Open Syllables
Just like scholars plug something in to close a circuit, they must plug a consonant onto a word to make closed syllables. Help learners distinguish between open and closed syllables with a series of activities that emphasize open...
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Three Letter CVC Words
In this picture/word recognition instructional activity, students add letters and trace the vowels that are given to create words. They see black line pictures above each word that has the CVC spelling pattern. They see items such as a...
Super Teacher Worksheets
Solid Figures
In the hustle and bustle of everyday life it's easy to forget that geometric shapes are everywhere in the world around us. As they complete this shape identification worksheet, young mathematicians realize that many common real-life...
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Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf
In this Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf instructional activity, students watch a video of Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf and complete multiple choice, true and false, fill in the blank, and picture identification activities....
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3 Exercises for Kindergarten Children
In this picture identification worksheet, students look at pictures of Disney characters and choose whether they are for girls or boys, choose the correct word, and count the items. Students complete 3 activities.
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Vowels Sounds-Picture Identification
In this vowel activity, students look at pictures and descriptions, writing the names beneath, then read descriptions and draw a matching picture. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Furniture 1
In this identifying the pictures of furniture online/interactive worksheet, students view pictures and click on the "What is this?" pop up to choose the correct answers. Students choose 9 multiple choice answers.