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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: By Car, Train, or Bus! The Sounds of Language on the Go

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Come and check out this awesome pre-reading resource. This site offers examples of simple word games you can play with kids to increase their ability to recognize and use letters and sounds. Try these games the next time you're in the...
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Writing Fix

Writingfix: Alliteration Potluck

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson plan, Potluck by Anne Shelby, is used as a mentor text for word choice. The content focus of the instructional activity is to highlight alliteration. Each student will use alliteration in a sentence as the student include...
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Starfall

Starfall: Apple

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This lesson focuses on the short-vowel letter A sound. It includes a poem about apples, how to from the letter A caps and lower case, and pictures of other things beginning with an A.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Seven Selfish Shellfish

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This video segment from Between the Lions features a classic tongue twister: a type of wordplay that helps children tune their ears to language and the sounds within words. [0:29]
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Braingle

Braingle: Language Brain Teasers

For Students 9th - 10th
"Manipulate words and letters" with these "language brain teasers" that ask you to think about letters, anagrams, syllables, consonants, rhymes, and other topics that you talk about in English class. Try the brain teasers presented here,...
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Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: Games for Grammar Usage

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This article discusses games for learning grammar usage including classroom games like Invisible Grammar Guy, Rhyme That Word; how teachers can make their own games using online word search and puzzle makers; and online grammar game...
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A to Z Teacher Stuff

A to Z Teacher Stuff: Sheep in a Jeep Activities

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This online instructional activity focuses on Nancy E. Shaw's "Sheep in a Jeep." There are several creative activities that help students to determine what words rhyme with each other.
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Read Works

Read Works: Genre Kindergarten Unit: Tells a Story

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students learn that nursery rhymes tell a story and learn to retell that story in their own words. Texts are provided with free login.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: An I Pod Inspired Writing Lesson: Itsy Bitsy Math Songs

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This is a great writing lesson for math teachers. The picture book Take Me Out of the Bathtub by Alan Katz demonstrates his love of familiar songs and nursery rhymes by writing new lyrics that can be sung to them. For this assignment,...
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EL Education

El Education: A Is for a Bomb

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A is for 4 A-Bomb was written and illustrated by a sophomore student at West Platte High School. The student created this project as part of a world history investigation on the atomic bomb. After researching the impact of the bombs and...
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ESL4kids

The Efl Playhouse: Phonemic Awareness for Young Language Learners

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A group of ten simple activities easily incorporated into the course of a day to reinforce phonemic awareness.

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