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Early Reader Flashcards (63 rhymes, 713 words)

admin — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 19:00:17 +0000

Here are 63 flashcards designed to help early readers learn groups of rhyming words. Each rhyme (often called rimes or phonograms) is shown on a different card, with a number of example words below. Work with the child to learn the rhyming sound, then have him or her practice on the words below.

Download the PDF file from the link below. Print out the flashcards onto seven 8.5″ x 11″ pages, then cut them out on the light gray dotted lines. You can laminate them either before or after you cut them out. There are nine cards per page. The final size is about 3 2/3″ (93mm) tall by 2 7/8″ (72mm) wide.

Download here: Rhyme Flashcards (PDF: 99k)

The cards are printed using all lower case (with the exception of some proper nouns) in a font that is easy for children to read.

Enjoy! Comments and suggestions welcome!

Dolch Primer Sight Word Flashcards

admin — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 15:48:18 +0000

This flashcard set includes the 52 Dolch primer words (the second set of words) formatted for printing in portrait orientation on 3×5 index cards in both PDF and MS Word (*.docx) format. (They are among the most used words in the English language and are a great started set if your child is learning to read. Many are true “sight words” which cannot be sounded out and must simply be memorized.)

Print all 52 words onto 13 index cards by loading 13 index cards into your printer in portrait orientation, then printing pages 1-13. Re-load the 10 cards facing the other direction and print pages 14-26. Turn the cards over and print pages 27-39. Turn then around again and print pages 40-52.

The title of the set and the word number (alphabetically ordered) are printed in gray, small text above each word. The words themselves are printed in large Comic Sans font, which looks a lot like handwriting and dones’t have many confusing characters. (For example, the lower case “L” doesn’t look like an upper case “I”, or the number “1”.)

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Dolch Pre-primer Sight Word Flashcards

admin — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:42:16 +0000

Here are the 40 Dolch pre-primer words formatted for printing in portrait orientation on 10, 20 or 40 3×5 index cards in both PDF and MS Word (*.docx) format. These are among the most used words in the English language and are a great started set if your child is learning to read. Many are true “sight words” which cannot be sounded out and must simply be memorized.

Print all 40 words onto 10 index cards by loading 10 index cards into your printer in portrait orientation, then printing pages 1-10. Re-load the 10 cards facing the other direction and print pages 11-20. Turn the cards over and print pages 21-30. Turn then around again and print pages 31-40.

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Two Sets of ESL Flashcards

admin — Tue, 19 Nov 2002 03:44:48 +0000

Download links and listings of the words covered by each set are listed below. Primary words are the words specifically taught (underlined) in the lesson. Secondary words may also be taught, but the student will likely learn them over time as you teach the primary words. Plan each lesson to take about 1.5 – 2 hours, and be sure to take breaks during that time.

Set 1 – Emergency, Medical, Common Animals, Insects & Furniture

PRIMARY			SECONDARY
ambulance ant(s) bacon bed bee bee sting beef bird(s) bite butterfly card cat(s) chair chicken couch cow(s) dentist doctor dog(s) duck eagle egg fire	fire extinguisher fire hose fire hydrant fire truck firefighter fish fly / flies ham he horse hospital injured insect(s) itch lamp leaf / leaves light man medicine milk mosquito bite mosquito(es) pharmacist	pig(s) pillow(s) police car police dog police officer policeman policewoman pork roach she sheep sick sit sleep sofa spider sting table tooth / teeth tree woman wood wool	911 also are comes from hold/holding house hurt insect = 6 legs is man on people prescribe provide sell spider = 8 legs spray telephone television these this treat / treating water

51 flashcards: Download now (474k .doc.zip)

Set 2 – Colors, Fruits, Veggies & Other Foods

PRIMARY			SECONDARY
banana(s) basket bean(s) beans bell pepper(s) bitter black blue blueberry / blueberries bowl bread breakfast broccoli brown bunch butter cabbage cake carrot(s) carton celery cereal cheese cherry / cherries coffee coffee beans color(s) corn cup cupcake(s)	cut cutting board dark [color] egg(s) fork fruit(s) garlic glass(es) grain grape(s) gray green holding in front of inside knife lemon light [color] milk mushroom(s) napkin olive(s) onion(s) orange [color] orange(s) [fruit] outside pancake(s) pasta pea(s) peach(es)	pear(s) pie piece pink plate potato(es) purple raspberry / raspberries red red wine rice seed(s) sour spinach spoon strawberry / strawberries syrup tea teabag tomato(es) vegetable(s) water watermelon(s) wheat white white wine wine yellow	also covered eat five in is / are or seven six these three two

50 flashcards: Download now (435k .doc.zip)