Florida Center for Reading Research
Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Matching, Sound Pie
Develop phonological awareness by challenging pupils to recognize final sounds in familiar words. Using magazines or other print resources, scholars search for pictures of words with the same final sound as a starter picture. Once they...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Isolating, Sound Quest
Scholars cut, paste, and identify specific initial, medial, and final phonemes by placing them on a phoneme chart.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Phonics: Letter-Sound Correspondence, Letter-Sound Place Mats
Young scholars create personalized place mats as they learn about initial sounds. Using construction paper, they stamp their names using letter stamps. Scholars examine print resources and cut out pictures with the same initial sound as...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Isolating, Phoneme Quest
In this phonics activity, little learners glue picture cards under the initial, medial, and final phonemes represented by the lead sound cards. An image of a shark broken into three parts represents the initial phoneme /sh/, the medial...
Curated OER
Swimmy Swim Swiftly
Students examine the letter 's'. Through instruction and modeling they explore the sound the letter makes, how the letter is written, words that contain the letter, etc. They listen to a story and identify words with the /s/ sound by...
Curated OER
Graphing Sound
Students formulate an understanding of sound as a vibration and draw their graph as carefully as possible on their observation sheet. They also record how they made the sound and and a description of the sound. Finally, students cut out...
Curated OER
Nick's Sticky, Icky Fingers
Students examine the letter 'i'. Through instruction and modeling they explore the sound the letter makes, how the letter is written, words that contain the letter, etc. They use letterboxes to write 'i' words and read stories containing...
Kelly's Kindergarten
Kelly's Kindergarten: Snow and the Letter E
It's a flurry of vowels! Learners review a series of snowflakes featuring pictures that include the letter E, glue them into place, and write the words underneath.
NC Cooperative Extension, Guilford County Center
Life Cycle Of Painted Lady Butterflies
The Very Hungry Caterpillar is the inspiration for this project-based learning activity. Kindergartners create a lifecycle chart for a butterfly with four sections: egg, caterpillar, pupa, and butterfly. It is a three-dimensional...
Curated OER
Harry the Hungry, Hungry Hippo
Students study the /h/ phoneme by examining their mouth movements while making the sound. Next, they listen to and recite a tongue twister, and write the letter 'h.' They identify words with the /h/ sound both on picture cards and in a...
Curated OER
Rain Stick
Students create a rain stick. For this rain stick lesson, students construct their rain stick using a cardboard tube, stickpins, a cup of rice, and decorative paper. Students follow given instructions and listen to sounds from the...
Curated OER
Oddity Rhyming Strips
Learners practice identification of rhyming words. Students compare/contrast pictures by identifying rhyming sounds in them. Learners place strips on the pictures. Students share comparisons with each other.
Sargent Art
Rainsticks
This rainstick instructional activity isn't just about making art; it's about understanding Native American symbols and culture. Kids read about the use of rainsticks and why specific symbols were used to decorate them. They then make...
Greater Grace Christian Academy
Cereal Box Book Report
Need a creative idea for an elementary book report? Use a cereal box project to engage your readers beyond plot, setting, and characters. The lesson includes templates for the project and examples from Charlie and the Chocolate...
Weebly
Cereal Box Book Report
What is is about cereal boxes that draws consumers in? Tap into the effective marketing of cereal boxes and apply those elements to a book report. Pupils cover cereal boxes with information about their chosen books. they must create a...
Wisconsin Family Assistance Center for Education
Sight Word Lists and Activities
Scholars examine newspaper articles and highlight two sight words to discover which appears more frequently. They then glue sight words onto paper to make flashcards before composing, writing, and creating picture representations of...
Curated OER
Electricity
The presentation begins with a circuit building activity and two data tables for young scientists to copy and complete. Full of clever animations, it will definitely spark student interest! However, the information is incoherent. You may...
Curated OER
Finding Synonyms
Student identify synonyms in poetry. In this grammar lesson, students define what a synonym is and view several examples on the board. Students read a selected poem on an overhead transparency and circle the synonyms.
Curated OER
Introduce Compound Words
First graders practice reading compound words. In this word identification lesson, 1st graders are introduced to several compound words and practice decoding the words by breaking them up into two parts. Students practice reading several...
Curated OER
Oddity Rhyming Strips
Students list rhyming words. In this rhyming lesson, students look at a groups of pictures, name them and identify which one doesn't rhyme with the rest. Students make their own rhyming strips.
Curated OER
Introduce Compound Words
First graders explore the concept of compound words. In this word recognition lesson, 1st graders discuss the concept and play a game that requires them to use word cards to form compound words.
Curated OER
Box O' Love
Pupils create a Valentines Day poem using an empty cereal box as their canvas. For this poetry lesson, students create their poems using rhyming words and create sentences.
Curated OER
Model Construction
In this lesson, students explore shapes and forms in architecture. Students understand that the function of architecture influences its form as well as construst a simple architectural model. As an assessment, have students with a...
Curated OER
Merry Christmas: Activity Pages
In this Christmas activity, students color, cut and glue pictures on a wreath, reindeer, penguin and snowman. Each part of the activity has suggestions for adult participation in the activity.