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Learning with Letter Tiles - A Guide to Hands-On Literacy teaching resource preview
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Learning with Letter Tiles - A Guide to Hands-On Literacy

Use physical alphabet letter tiles and letter-cluster tiles to play structured games/activities (e.g., Letter Bingo, Letter Lotto, 52 Pick-Up, LetterLand, word scrambles, cross-words) that build letter recognition, sounds, and spelling patterns.

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Pre-K–3
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Fun With CVC Words | Literacy Center Activities teaching resource preview
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Fun With CVC Words | Literacy Center Activities

Match CVC word cards to pictures; play memory/concentration with the cards; read or write CVC words in a 'read/write the room' format; read rebus sentences and write or illustrate the complete sentence; build CVC words by assembling letter cards; identify correct medial vowel sounds on cards; play a cover-up…

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Pre-K, 1–2
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Sight Word Cookie Jar teaching resource preview
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Sight Word Cookie Jar

Students cut out and assemble a paper cookie jar, then match printed sight-word 'cookies' to word lists and store/sort them by level; a checklist is used to track mastered words.

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Pre-K–3
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Give A Dog A Word Bone Game teaching resource preview
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Give A Dog A Word Bone Game

Students build a cardboard dog head/body/tail attached to a box, then take turns drawing a word-printed 'bone', reading the word aloud; if correct, they feed the bone through the dog's mouth (group says 'Woof!'), if incorrect the bone goes to the bottom of their pile ('Grrrr...'); first child to feed all bones to the…

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High-Frequency Word Practice: Tic, Tac, Snap Activity teaching resource preview
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High-Frequency Word Practice: Tic, Tac, Snap Activity

In pairs, each student picks a high-frequency word and writes it in the center; they play tic-tac-toe writing their chosen word in place of X or O, and the round ends when someone gets three in a row or the board fills up.

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Pre-K, 1–2
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CVC Words Nest Clipping Cards Activity teaching resource preview
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CVC Words Nest Clipping Cards Activity

Pick a clipping card at random and clip a clothespin to the correct matching sound or CVC word (two games: phonics-sound clipping and CVC-word clipping).

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Pre-K–1
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Reading Simple Sentences Activity Board Game teaching resource preview
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Reading Simple Sentences Activity Board Game

This Reading Simple Sentences Activity Board Game is intended for students who are working on reading accuracy and fluency skills. By reading the sentences one word at a time, they will be able to build these skills quickly and effectively.

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Pre-K, 1–2
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Snakes & Ladders: Sight Words (Editable in Google Slides) teaching resource preview
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Snakes & Ladders: Sight Words (Editable in Google Slides)

Students roll the dice and move along the board; landing on a white space requires correctly saying the sight word on that space to score a point (yellow = move up a ladder, purple = move down a snake); players track points on a tally chart, and the first to the finish line earns 10 bonus points.

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Pre-K–3
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Phonics Phonics Digraph Games: sh ch ck ee oo ar or teaching resource preview
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Phonics Phonics Digraph Games: sh ch ck ee oo ar or

Play board/matching games such as 'Find the Ending', a picture/word matching game, an apple-picking game, a caterpillar game, missing-sounds and word-match games, and 'ar'-vs-'or' identification games.

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55 pages
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Pre-K–1
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Word Ending Consonant Clusters Activity Packet | -ast, -est, -ash teaching resource preview
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Word Ending Consonant Clusters Activity Packet | -ast, -est, -ash

Sort word/picture cards by ending; circle the correctly spelled word; fill in missing letters to complete words; fill in the blank to complete sentences using cluster words; alphabetize word lists; find words in word-search puzzles; solve crossword puzzles using cluster-word clues; circle pictures matching a given ending; play…

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Pre-K, 1–2
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Sight Words Calling Cards teaching resource preview
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Sight Words Calling Cards

Students read, match, or are called sight words printed on individual cards; directions describe printing, cutting, and laminating the cards, then using them for matching games, scavenger hunts, group/individual reading, or writing practice.

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Pre-K–3
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AN Word Family Fun Worksheets teaching resource preview
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AN Word Family Fun Worksheets

Find and color six -an words (can, pan, fan, ran, man, van) in a Seek and Find worksheet; play a matching/concentration game with -an family word cards (can, van, ran, fan, tan, pan, man, clan, scan, plan); dab/trace a path through -an word pictures to complete a maze from start to finish; find six -an words (can…

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Pre-K, 1
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Swat the Phonics Spider Activity teaching resource preview
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Swat the Phonics Spider Activity

Use mats and spider-shaped letter counters, printable dice, and calling cards to play a matching/review game for the s, a, t letter sounds.

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Pre-K–1
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ACK Words Dice Games - Ending Digraph Phonics Game teaching resource preview
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ACK Words Dice Games - Ending Digraph Phonics Game

Assemble paper dice cube templates (one with word endings, one with beginning blends), roll the dice, and color, trace, or write the resulting ACK word on a recording sheet; several recording sheet variants are provided for differentiation.

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Pre-K, 1
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