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Short Vowel Movements

For Teachers K - 1st
Students use gestures to recognize the short vowel sounds.  In this cvc lesson plan, students use a cue to recognize the vowel sound.  Students practice various words with the cues. 
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The Beginning Consonant

For Teachers Pre-K - K
In this initial consonant worksheet, students read 3 words that have missing letters at the beginning. Students look at the picture clues and fill in the missing initial consonant, then color the picture.
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Fluency: High Frequency Words

For Teachers K
Boy, this lesson sounds like a high frequency blast. If you think that sounded sarcastic, it was. Learners watch as the teacher reads the high frequency word..... the! They read the word with the instructor over and over until they have...
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Phonics: Decoding Words in Connected Text

For Teachers K
Introduce your little ones to the wonders of phonemic decoding. They practice along as you sound out simple cvc words in the context of a sentence. 
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Phonemic Awareness: Isolation

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Teacher and class work together to build strong phonemic awareness. They say a series of words, isolate the initial phoneme, and say its sound. This lesson is super short but does have a decent extension activity suggestion.
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Phonics Instruction: Letter Sound Correspondence

For Teachers Pre-K - K
The letter m is the first letter in many of my favorite words. It has the best /m/ sound ever. Get your little ones excited about letter m with this super simple, super short lesson. They work with the teacher to practice saying,...
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Phonemic Awareness: Words

For Teachers K
I'm not sure what the purpose of this exercise is but I'm sure someone will find it useful. Learners repeatedly say a single sentence over and over with their teacher, then count each word in the sentence. They don't count phonemes or...
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Peg and Hen

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Learners navigate a website to practice the short e sound.  In this short e sound lesson plan, students read a story on Starfall and complete practice with the short e sound.
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Pepperoni Pizza

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Use this presentation as a way to review vowel sounds in a quick and easy way. The colorful graphics are inviting. It could be used in language arts center.
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Down in the Jungle

For Teachers K - 1st
Young readers should benefit from this basic PowerPoint which gives many examples of how the "at" sound can be used in a variety of words. A variety of consonants, and consonant blends, are put in front of the "at" sound to make many words.
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Making A Match

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students read a poem containing sight words, then match word cards to the sight words in the poem. In this language arts lesson plan, students draw pictures next to sight words on a worksheet embedded in the plan. A good instructional...
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List of Word Cards

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this sight words worksheet, students cut out and study 50 flashcards. The words are common sight words and follow no specific spelling pattern.
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Sounding out accuracy, Word Potato

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Learning to sound out CVC words can be fun, when you turn skills practice into a game. Kids play "Hot Potato" by passing a bucket filled with phonetically regular words on cards. When the music stops, students choose a word and sound it...
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Introduce "th"

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore language arts by participating in a pronunciation activity. For this word sound lesson, students discuss the sound made by the letters /th/ and identify words where that sound appears. Students participate in a game in...
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Beginning Sounds: Poem

For Teachers K - 1st
Students practice identifying beginning sounds. In this phonics instructional activity, students review different beginning sounds and read a poem. Students then work together to identify the words in the poem with their particular...
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Long Vowel Search and Sort

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars practice identifying long vowels.  In this vowel lesson, students read a story and find long vowel words that fit their pattern. Young scholars then sort their word under the correct long vowel pattern.
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Sounding out accuracy, Tic Tac Toe

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars practice word patterns while playing the game of tic tac toe. In this sounding out accuracy lesson, students work with a partner to pick a word from a pile of words. Young scholars then sound out the word from...
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Sounding out accuracy, Word Baseball

For Teachers K - 1st
Students practice sounding out words. In this phonics instructional activity, students play a baseball game, practicing sounding or stretching out words for accuracy.  Students read the word off the card and stretch it out.
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BL to the Ends (blends)

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students examine word blends. In this word blends lesson, students investigate common word blends. Working in pairs, students analyze words containing blends and generate a word list.
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Reintroduce /Q/

For Teachers K
Students explore the alphabet by participating in a letter identification activity. In this letter "Q" lesson, students identify the different sounds that can be made by the letter "Q" and words that begin with the letter. Students...
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Letter Sound Accuracy, Egg Carton Game

For Teachers K
Students explore phonetics by participating in a word sound game. In this letter identification activity, students review the letters of the alphabet and discuss the sound each one makes. Students view a video tutorial of an egg carton...
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Letter Sound and Letter Combination Accuracy, Sound Search Game

For Teachers K
Students participate in an activity to identify words with specific letter sounds or letter combinations. In this letter sound/letter combination lesson, students focus on three-letter sounds then identify words in a sound hunt...
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Sounding out accuracy, Bingo

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore language arts by participating in a class game. In this word sound lesson, students discuss the sounds that vowels make in words and identify the different vowels. Students utilize index cards with words on them to...
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Sounding out accuracy, Musical Chairs

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Here is a great spin on the classic game, Musical Chairs! Instead of fighting to get the last chair when the music stops, learners will need to read a CVC word to stay in the game. They walk around, whoever is near the word bucket when...