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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Word Recognition Strategies Using Nursery Rhymes

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This lesson is a great way to teach students about rhymes and word recognition. This plan includes suggest nursery rhymes for you to use, and several supplementary sites to help you out.
Article
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Teaching Word Recognition [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
From the magazine, Teaching Exceptional Children, Sept/Oct 2003 issue, this article explains two different strategies for helping students with word recognition through blending and analogizing.
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Education Place

Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Word Recognition Skills and Strategies

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Included is a brief article outlining the skills that readers, all educational levels, use when they identify printed words. This site contains background material only and no related activities.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Sight Word Spelling Lesson Plan

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson young scholars explore with movement and creativity to make words come alive! Using sight word flashcards, students use their bodies to spell out simple sight words.
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International Reading Association

Lesson Plan: Making and Writing Words

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A detailed and thorough lesson/unit plan designed to lead students into a greater understanding of word building through intense study and activities. Students learn spelling structure, word recognition, and phonics. Great resource!
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Irregular Word Activities

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This extensive site has links to games and activities that teach students to read 30 high-frequency irregular words. There are over 20 activities and games at the bottom of the site in additional to sequenced irregular word activities....
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Using a Predictable Text to Teach High Frequency Words

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Using "Have You Seen My Cat?" students will learn to recognize high-frequency words. There are supplementary materials provided, as well as several links to useful websites.
Interactive
Arcademics

Arcademics: Kitten Hop Word Recognition

For Students K - 1st Standards
Help your kitten win the race by clicking on the words stated as quickly as possible. You could win a trophy!
Interactive
Fun Brain

Fun Brain: What's the Word? Alphabet (Easy)

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this vocabulary game for beginning readers, students click on the words that fit the picture. A link to other games is available.
Activity
The Tech Interactive

Make a Splash With Color

For Students 9th - 10th
The companion website for an exhibit housed at the Tech Museum of Innovation, in San Jose. The exhibit explores and explains how our eyes see color, the words we use to describe colors, and how the eye works.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Alphabet and Word Recognition With Phonics

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students are actively engaged with this interactive flipchart that prompts the students to use the eraser, pen, highlighter, and arrow tools along with a link to a website that continues to build on the...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Word Wizards: Students Making Words

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Using four popular children's books, "Corduroy", "Franklin in the Dark", "The Very Hungry Caterpillar", and "Chrysanthemum", the Word Wizard interactive game builds vocabulary with related words. Each 30-minute lesson looks for patterns...
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Other

How to Study: A Word Identification Strategy

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn eight steps to help you identify unfamiliar words.
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Goodwill

Gcf Global: Reading Activity: Word Explorer

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Students choose a category to see a list of related words and then choose a word they would like to explore. Includes pronunciations, definitions, pictures, and video demonstrations of each word.
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Hopelink

Word Bank Lesson Plan: Eastside Literacy Program

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This word bank lesson plan offers the individual student the opportunity to increase their vocabulary.
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Hopelink

Hopelink: Reading Lesson Idea: Word Sorts

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Delve into a world of vocabulary building. This site offers a lesson plan for "word sorts." This simple but effective tool will increase your student's vocabulary skills.
Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: Word Bingo

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This word game offers seven levels: pre-primer, primer, 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, nouns, and all words. Students listen to a word and click on the word on the bingo card; when they have five in a row, BINGO appears on that row....
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Charles I. Kelly and Lawrence E. Kelly

Many Interesting Things: Basic Esl Vocabulary Word Lists

For Students 9th - 10th
Collection of word lists in a variety of categories such as baseball, geography, cooking, and transportation. Learning activities include word finds, hangman, and even typing practice.
Graphic
DLTK

Kid Zone Language Arts: Dolch Word Lists and Flashcards

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site offers Dolch words lists and flashcards from pre-K to third grade.
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Other

Laus Dnet: Grade 1 Word Lesson Plan (Stone Soup) Pdf

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this activity, students use Stone Soup by Ann McGovern to generate word lists and use patterned text to assist with descriptive writing. Gives links to step sheets and samples for creating a table , a template for shared writing, a...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Reading Instruction: Beginning Reading Instruction

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Research-based programs for beginning reading instruction provide comprehensive, well-organized instructional plans and practice opportunities that allow all students to make sense of reading. It offers two free downloads: Beginning...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Warped Words and the Stroop Effect

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The Stroop effect describes an experiment about the time it takes to name the color of printed words. When you try to name the color in which color words are printed, it takes longer when the color word differs from the ink color than...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Decoding Two Syllable Words

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
The lesson will focus on reading and writing to meet a Phonics and Word Recognition standard: decode two-syllable words following basic patterns by breaking the words into syllables. The lesson is a review of two-syllable words using a...
Interactive
Arcademics

Arcademics: Kitten Hop

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards
Jump your cat to the yarn ball that has the correct word.

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