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The Night Before Christmas
Learners, after reading and discussing the book, "The Night Before Christmas," explore, examine, and study about the letters of the alphabet and the sounds they make. They primarily assess the letter 'D' by inquiring which animals guided...
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The Kite is Key
Students recognize the phoneme /k/. Through listening and matching activities, students discriminate the phoneme /k/ from other letters and phonemes. They associate the phoneme /k/ with its letter representation and identify the phoneme...
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Teaching Language Arts with Sayings and Phrases
Students complete a unit to learn sayings and phrases that help them understand language art concepts. In this sayings and phrases lesson, students complete 11 lessons that use common sayings and phrases to teach language art concepts...
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R Is for Rabbit
In this handwriting worksheet, students practice tracing and writing uppercase and lowercase letter R six times a piece on the lines provided.
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Can You Slither Like a Snake?
Students explore letter-sound correspondences. They explore the letter s and the sound produced by the letter. Students explore how to write both the upper and lower case forms of the letter s. Students identify s in both written and...
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D'Nealian Cursive: Letter j
In this cursive practice learning exercise, students practice writing the lower case letter j multiple times on lines provided. Worksheet contains links to additional activities.
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Icky Sticky
First graders the /i/ sound by practicing the way the mouth moves while making the sound while saying "icky, sticky." They write the letter "i" using both upper and lower case letters, make words using letterboxes, and write about a...
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Sing Your Way Through Phonics Lesson Plan "Alphabet Letters"
Students recognize the capital letters of the alphabet.
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Handwriting: C is for Car
In this handwriting instructional activity, students trace and write the upper and lower case letter C. They trace a row of each letter, write a row on their own and practice writing the word 'car'.
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Handwriting: C is for Cabinet
For this handwriting worksheet, students trace and write the upper and lower case letter C. They trace a row of each letter, write a row on their own and practice writing the word 'cabinet'.
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Handwriting: C is for Cake
In this handwriting learning exercise, learners trace and write the upper and lower case letter C. They trace a row of each letter, write a row on their own, and practice writing the word 'cake'.
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Adopt a Manatee
First graders engage in a writing activity about manatees and use e-mail to contact representatives about important issues. This would be a very exciting, and meaningful lesson for a first grade writer!
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All About Me!
Students write about themselves. In this descriptive writing lesson, students view a PowerPoint for examples of descriptive writing and then write sentences describing themselves. Students use a computer program to type their sentences...
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Lowercase d
In this literacy activity, 1st graders practice forming the lowercase letter d. They use the examples as a guide for helping with letter formation.
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Living Letters
First graders physically form the letters of the alphabet in small groups. They move around demonstrating various locomotive skills, and form the letter that the teacher calls out.
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Buddy the Bee Bats Balls with the Letter B
Students recognize the /b/ sound in written and spoken words in this instructional activity. They say a tongue twister which contains words emphasizing the /b/ sound. They then listen to the story "ABC" by Dr. Suess (specifically the B...
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The Icky Sticky Indian
Students study the /i/ sound in both written and spoken words. They examine how their mouths move as they make the /i/ sound, recite a tongue twister, and write the both the upper and lower case 'i'. Next, they listen to a story while...
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Tt is for Tiger
In this literacy activity, learners look at the formation of the letter and practice creating it. Then they use the pictures to make cognitive connections and help with spelling.
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D is For Duck
For this D is For Duck worksheet, students trace and write 8 uppercase D's and 8 lowercase d's. The worksheet also includes a cartoon picture of a duck.
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Handwriting Letters Aa through Ee
In this handwriting practice instructional activity, students practice writing letters capital and lowercase letters first by tracing and then on their own. Each page is for a different letter and gives the correct formation of each...
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Cat Nap
Students identify and interpret the concept of the vowel /a/ and recognize it in words and illustrations. They also practice writing both upper and lower case A on writing paper. Finally, students name pictures and circle the pictures...
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Dog and Cat
Students role-play a story about a cat and dog, follow the assembly instructions to piece together finger puppets, and complete letter-writing practice.
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Cookies
In this reading activity, students collaborate to read or perform a three-character dialogue script. The short piece is about a mother who bakes cookies for a boy and a girl. Pupils go on to write letters, sentences, and count.
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Sammy Snake
Students identify the grapheme and phoneme for S. They practice writing the letter S and through listening activities, discriminate the phoneme /s/. They associate the phoneme /s/ with its letter representation and identify it in various...