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Phonics Blend Learning Cards

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd Standards
Blend letters into different sounds using a series of posters on blended phonics sounds. It includes 36 pages of posters, including 18 sounds with accompanying pages with examples of words.
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Teaching Economics Using Children's Literature: The Giving Tree

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Shel Silverstein's The Giving Tree is a great way to cover multiple concepts in an elementary school classroom. Throughout this instructional activity, they learn about economic principles such as scarcity and goods, science principles...
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Father's Day Acrostic

For Students K - 3rd
Fantastic? Friendly? Funny? What adjective will your youngsters choose for the first letter in father as part of this great Father's Day acrostic worksheet? 
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Letter E Recognition

For Students K - 2nd
In this alphabet letter E worksheet, students recognize that the 3 words that name each picture all start with an E. Students fill in the blank in each word with an E and then color the pictures.
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Letter Patterns

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders look at the number patterns we get from letters and numbers. They keep track of the numbers involved by drawing up a table of values. It's important here to look for the pattern and see how the number of tiles changes from...
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Letter R Recognition

For Students K - 2nd
Recognizing letters is a crucial skill for young learners to acquire. Learners recognize that the words that name each of the 3 pictures all start with an R. Students fill in the blank in each word with an R and then color the pictures.
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Printing the Letter F

For Students K - 2nd
In this alphabet letter F worksheet, students trace the uppercase and lowercase alphabet letter F 3 times and then write the letters 5 times a piece on the lines provided. Good, basic practice for young learners.
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Printing the Letter Q

For Students K - 2nd
In this alphabet letter Q worksheet, students practice tracing the uppercase and lowercase letter Q 3 times and then 5 times on their own on the lines provided. Good, basic practice for young learners.
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Letter Q Recognition

For Students K - 2nd
Recognizing letters is a crucial skill for young learners to acquire. Learners recognize that the words that name each of the 3 pictures all start with an Q. Students fill in the blank in each word with an Q and then color the pictures.
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Letter F Recognition

For Students K - 2nd
Recognizing letters is a crucial skill for young learners to acquire. Students recognize that the words that name each of the 3 pictures all start with an F. Students fill in the blank in each word with an F and then color the pictures.
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The Letter Dd

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students explore the concept of the letter Dd.  In this letter recognition activity, students are engulfed with items, movement, and music that begin with the letter Dd.  Students create crafts that help them learn and...
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Edit a Friendly Letter

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this friendly letter editing worksheet, students read a letter to "Miss Green," looking for and correcting all errors found in the body, salutation, closing and address of the letter.
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Friendly Letter Edit

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this letter editing worksheet, students recopy a 2 paragraph letter to "Francis" from a friend, correcting all spelling, punctuation and capitalization errors. 
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D'Nealian tracing

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this D'Nealian tracing worksheet, students trace the letters of the alphabet in the D'Nealian form. Students trace 26 pages of letters and words.
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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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Reintroduce Soft-G

For Teachers K
Students are reintroduced to the soft letter "G" and identify appropriate letter sounds in words. In this soft letter "G" instructional activity, students identify the two sounds the letter "G" can make. Students practice saying the two...
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The Write Stuff to Get the Job

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Young scholars conduct Internet research to determine how to properly create a cover letter, resume and follup-letter. Students then create their own letters and resumes using the Resume Wizard in Microsoft Word.
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Dog Gone

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students write friendly letters. In this language arts lesson, students discuss the parts of a friendly letter. Students compose a friendly letter. Students share their letters with small groups and draw a picture to go with the letter.
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Bingo - Alphabet Literacy

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this alphabet literacy worksheet, students match the lower case letters in the word "bingo" to their corresponding upper case letter. Then, students match the upper case letter to a picture that begins with that letter. Finally,...
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Reintroduce -wh

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore phonetics by participating in a letter combination activity with their class. In this word sound lesson, students identify the sound "wh" and discuss words where the sound is utilized. Students practice repeating words...
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Thank you!

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students type a personal business letter to their elementary principal, teacher or pastor to thank them.
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You Are Uniquely You; Reflecting and Sharing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students write a letter as a culminating activity to a service project. In this reflection project, students draw something that occurred during the project and attach words to their drawings. Students pair share to edit their work.
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Our Own Postal System

For Teachers 1st
First graders address an envelope, write a letter, and perform the duties of the postal worker in a classroom post office.
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Beginning consonants

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this beginning consonants worksheet, students trace and print the beginning sound of the picture given. Students complete 4 beginning consonant problems.