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Letter Sounds Quiz

Game

Letter Sounds Quiz

Your early reader matches vowel and consonant sounds with objects.

1st grade

Reading & Writing

Game

A-E-I-O-U! Vowels Game

Lesson Plan

A-E-I-O-U! Vowels Game

What do the letters A, E, I, O, and U have in common? They're all featured in this engaging reading lesson. Give your young learners a chance to play a version of Red Light, Green Light that doubles as a vowel review.

1st grade

Reading & Writing

Lesson Plan

Reading: Phonics to Vocabulary

Workbook

Reading: Phonics to Vocabulary

This workbook focuses on the fundamentals of reading and spelling from vowel sounds to sight words.

1st grade

Reading & Writing

Workbook

Sound Sorting

Workbook

Sound Sorting

Sort out the short vowel sounds with this comprehensive phonics packet! Beginning readers will review vowel families and practice differentiating between "short" vowels and "long" vowels.

1st grade

Reading & Writing

Workbook

Short U Match-Up

Game

Short U Match-Up

Kids must find the object that starts with the short u sound in this zany game.

1st grade

Reading & Writing

Game

All Long Vowels Please Stand Up!

Lesson Plan

All Long Vowels Please Stand Up!

Students will learn long vowel tricks to expose impostor vowels who “say” their name in this fun game that teaches the long vowel rule.

1st grade

Reading & Writing

Lesson Plan

First Grade Fall Review Packet - Week 4

Workbook

First Grade Fall Review Packet - Week 4

This final installment of our First Grade Fall Review Packet offers five more days of fun and diverse learning activities to prepare children for their first grade year.

1st grade

Reading & Writing

Workbook

Short A 2

Guided Lesson

Short A 2

Having a strong understanding of short A words like bag, hand and bat can help first graders with reading fluency. This guided lesson helps to support first graders as they expand their comprehension of short A words. With targeted exercises and familiar examples, the lesson will take kids through the short A words they will most commonly come acrsoos in first grade texts.

1st grade

Reading & Writing

Guided Lesson

Short U Rhyme Match

Game

Short U Rhyme Match

Cub ... sub! Kids must match the short u rhyming words in this interactive card game.

1st grade

Reading & Writing

Game

Short U Cloud Catcher

Game

Short U Cloud Catcher

Kids find CVC words with the short u sound in this phonics game.

1st grade

Reading & Writing

Game

Short U Rhyme Hopper

Game

Short U Rhyme Hopper

Kids make a splash with short u rhyming words in this puddle jump game.

1st grade

Reading & Writing

Game

First Grade Fall Review Packet - Week 3

Workbook

First Grade Fall Review Packet - Week 3

Get your first grader geared up for a new year of learning with Week 3 of our First Grade Fall Review Packet.

1st grade

Reading & Writing

Workbook

L-o-o-o-o-ng Vowels

Workbook

L-o-o-o-o-ng Vowels

Go long for this collection of vowel sheets focused on long vowel sounds. Kids will work with some common long vowel words and then practice identifying long vowels versus short vowels.

1st grade

Reading & Writing

Workbook

Short U 2

Guided Lesson

Short U 2

Knowing the patterns for pronouncing short U words, such as jump, mug and sun, can help kids decipher and decode new texts. This lesson provides guided instruction to teach kids how to say the short U sound, and gives lots of examples of short U words first graders will commonly encounter. For more practice with short U words, be sure to check out the accompanying worksheets.

1st grade

Guided Lesson

Segmenting 2

Guided Lesson

Segmenting 2

Segmenting is a reading technique to help first graders break apart the sounds in new words. One example of this would be segmenting the sound units in the word black (b/l/a/k). This can help early readers tackle new words on their own, boosting reading confidence. This guided lesson teaches kids how to segment words in order to improve overall reading fluency.

1st grade

Guided Lesson