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Alabama Learning Exchange

Phonics lesson for -ew and -oo

For Teachers 1st Standards
First graders identify letters and sounds associated with -ew and -oo sounds. Each learner receives a stack of cards containing these sounds, and they must determine whether the word uses the -ew or the -oo sound. This could easily...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phoneme Split and Say

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
Little ones are provided with all the tools needed to begin segmenting phonemes. There are twenty Elkonin box picture cards, five blank Elkonin box cards, and full instructions on how to help pre-readers practice splitting and saying...
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Curated OER

What Do You See at the Pond?

For Teachers K - 2nd
With What Do You See at the Pond?, young readers explore pond life and practice reading strategies. Learners first make predictions and then read the simple story independently. After a second read-through with a partner, kids come...
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Curated OER

Consonants Blended with Vowel Digraphs and Endings

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore words. In this blending syllables lesson, 1st graders practice voiced and unvoiced phonic sounds. They follow the teachers lead in practicing various sounds and then try to come up with cvvc words.
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Curated OER

Initial Consonant Clusters

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this literacy activity, students look for the words that correlate to the pictures that are listed. They are all words that are consonant clusters.
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Curated OER

Initial Blend "Fr"

For Students 1st - 2nd
For this initial blends worksheet, students say the word for each picture and bracket the 'fr' initial blend sound for each word. Students complete 5 examples.
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Curated OER

Initial Blend "Tr"

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this initial blends worksheet, students say the word for each pictures and bracket the 'tr' initial blend for each word. Students complete 5 activities.
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Curated OER

Blending Bumper Cars

For Teachers 1st
First graders practice blending words with the consonant-vowel-consonant pattern. Given a card with a decodable word part, 1st graders add an initial consonant sound and blend the sounds to read the new word. They practice reading a...
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Curated OER

Spelling words

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this spelling learning exercise, students copy their spelling words containing 2 beginning consonants, st words, adding s, and adding ing. Students copy 24 words.
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Curated OER

Write Your Own Poem 'ill'

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this rhyming words worksheet, students complete four activities that help them learn consonant blend words using the 'ill' sound. Students make rhyming words using the blend, and make a silly sentence and poems with the words.
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Curated OER

Initial Blend "Spr"

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this initial blends worksheet, students identify the word for each picture and bracket the 'spr' sound for each word. Students complete 5 examples.
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Curated OER

Beginning and Ending Sounds

For Teachers 1st
First graders practice the beginning and ending sounds of words. In this phonological awareness lesson, 1st graders use picture cards for one syllable words and pronounce each word. Students match other picture cards with the same...
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Curated OER

Beginning and Ending Sounds for Grade 2

For Students 2nd
In this beginning and ending sounds for grade 2 worksheet, 2nd graders look at the picture and fill in the beginning and ending letters, not interactively, for 6 pictures;  pictures can be changed and answers are available online.
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Curated OER

Chuggin' Choo Choo

For Students 1st - 3rd
For this consonant digraph CH activity, students circle the word in three train sets that begin with the same sound as check and then circle the word in three train sets that end with the same sound as match.
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Curated OER

Introduce an Irregular Word

For Teachers K
Students study language. In this fluency lesson, students discover how to say a variety of irregular words (e.g. was). They work as a class or in a small group with the teacher as he or she introduces the words on the board or an index...
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Starfall

Jake's Tale

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this literacy instructional activity, students look at pictures, circle their long /a/ name from a word bank, and write it.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Family Time: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 5)

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Provide extra support with a unit that follows a teach, blend, guided practice, and practice/apply routine to reinforce reading, grammar, vocabulary, and writing skills. Reading and writing lessons include supporting details,...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Family and Friends: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 4)

For Teachers 1st Standards
Family and Friends is the theme of a unit offering extra support lessons. Follow each lesson plan's teach, blend, guided practice or practice/apply routine to reinforce concepts such as clusters, responding to reading, drawing...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Around Town: Neighborhood and Community: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 3)

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Neighborhood and community is the theme of a unit comprised of extra support lessons. Following practice pages and a teach, blend, guided practice, practice/apply routine, the series of lessons provide additional reinforcement...
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Curated OER

Initial R Blends

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this initial blend worksheet, students say picture words slowly, listening for the initial, middle vowel and ending sounds, then write the word that names each picture.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Word a Day

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Learners create a word bank of sight words. Each student creates his/her own personal word bank, and creates pictures to illustrate the word.
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Curated OER

Sleeping Beauty: Initial S Clusters

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this consonant cluster worksheet, students read through the sections for the 'sleeping beauty' poem. Students then cut out the strips of the story and rearrange them so the poem is in order.
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Curated OER

Phonics on the Farm

For Students K - 2nd
In these eight recognizing the phonetic sounds in picture words worksheet, students observe pictures of farm animals and color the ones that have the specified /c/ , /d/, /p/, /h/, /m/, /g/, /sh/, or /ch/ sounds. There are five pictures...
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Curated OER

Hunter Model 2

For Teachers K
Students produce the long sounds in the initial position of words making silly soup.