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     Internet Field Trips
ABCs and the WWW  K-2
Learning the alphabet is fun and easy at these sites on the Web.

     Lesson Plans
Bag Full of Vowel Sounds  K-2
A fun game lets you assess students' understanding of vowel sounds. (PDF) Source: Literature-Based Mini-Lessons to Teach Decoding and Word Recognition

Bat the Ball!  K-2
Practice vowel phonograms with this fun baseball game. (PDF) Source: Phonics Games Kids Can't Resist!

It’s Full of Beans!  3-5
Check student’s understanding of vocabulary words drawn from the book The Thief and the Beanstalk by P.W. Catanese.

Making Rhyming Word Wheels  K-2
Make rhyming word wheels and practice the "-an" word family. (PDF) Source: Turn-to-Learn: Word Family Wheels

Nonsense Word Test 
A word test that examines students' ability to decode common sound-spelling relationships.

Playing With Sounds  K-2
These fun activities can improve phonemic awareness.

Spelling Strategies: Guiding Kids to "Discover" Spelling Rules  3-5
Help your students use a discovery process to learn rules related to forming plurals and adding suffixes and prefixes to base words.

Spelling Strategies: Learning High-Frequency Words  3-5
This article describes four strategies that can help students learn to spell frequently-used words.

Spelling Strategies: Make Smart Use of Sounds and Spelling Patterns  K-2
These strategies will help students hear sounds in words by developing phonemic awareness and exploring sound/symbol relationships and spelling patterns.

Spelling Strategies: Mastering New Words for Writing  K-23-5
This article discusses five strategies for helping students select and learn their own spelling words.

Synonym Sleuths  6-8
Children can practice finding synonyms using resources such as a dictionary or thesaurus. Based on Runt by Marion Dane Bauer.

Which Letter?  K-2
Help children learn about letter sound/symbol relationships. (PDF) Source: 201 Thematic Riddle Poems to Build Literacy

     Online Activities Teacher Guides
Annie's Rhyme Time: Teacher's Guide 
Lesson-planning suggestions for using Annie's Rhyme Time in the classroom.

Clifford Interactive Storybooks Teachers Guide 
Use this guide for using Clifford's Interactive Storybooks in your class.

Community Club Teacher's Guide 
A teacher’s guide to the online activity that teaches early readers learn about neighborhood workers.

     Reproducibles
A Comes First  Early ChildhoodK-2
Sing along with the letters A, B, and C and build letter skills. (PDF)

A Friendly Conversation  K-2
This fun complete-the-sentence activity will give students practice spelling words with the long "a" sound.

A House for Hermit Crab  Early ChildhoodK-2
These activities based on the book A House for Hermit Crab. teach science and vocabulary.

Butterfly Spanish Mini-Book  K-2
Review the stages of a butterfly's life cycle with a Spanish mini-book. (PDF) Source: 25 Spanish Science Mini-Books For Emergent Readers

Creepy Crawlies (Poems)  Early ChildhoodK-2
Practice phonics skills with these buggy poems. (PDF) Source: Thematic Poems for the Classroom: Creepy Crawlies

Hickory, Dickory, Dock  K-2
Practice initial consonants and blends found in a nursery rhyme. (PDF)

Jumping Beans  K-2
Get kids jumping with this activity when they practice spelling words that contain the letters j and g.

Mi libro de palabras de regreso a la escuela  K-2
Learn school-related sight words in Spanish with this mini-book. (PDF) Source: Reading Success Mini-Books: Sight Words in Spanish

My Book of Winter Words  K-2
This mini-book provides a fun way to experience sight words about winter. (PDF) Source: Reading Success Mini-Books: Sight Words

My Book of Words Beginning with Bb  K-2
Give students practice with the initial consonant B with this mini-book. (PDF) Source: Reading Success Mini-Books: Initial Consonants

My Book of Words Ending in -ing  K-2
Use this mini-book to give beginning readers practice with words ending in "-ing." (PDF) Source: Reading Success Mini-Books: Word Families

My Book of Words With Short "a"  K-2
This mini-book will give students practice with the short vowel "a." (PDF) Source: Reading Success Mini-Books: Short & Long Vowels

Our Gg words  Early ChildhoodK-2
Use this reproducible to learn to spell and to recognize upper and lowercase G. (PDF) Source: Alphabet File-Folder Word Walls

Picture Dominoes  K-2
Get practice listening for the ending sounds of words with this matching game.

The Alphabet Tree  K-2
This activity builds students' letter recognition skills. (PDF) Source: Overhead Teaching Kit: Easy Phonics Lessons for the Overhead

The S Game  K-2
A super game sure to help reinforce the "s" sound.

Tic Tac Tan  K-2
Practice rhyming with this familiar game.

Very Punny  K-2
Figure out compound words with this rebus activity.

What's in the Truck?  K-2
Use these mini-books to reinforce students' short vowel concepts. (PDF file) Source: Ready-to-Go Reproducibles: Fun Phonics Mini-Books