PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Sight Word Spelling Lesson Plan
For this lesson students explore with movement and creativity to make words come alive! Using sight word flashcards, students use their bodies to spell out simple sight words.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Spelling Supports Reading
Many readers are puzzled by the rules and exceptions of spelling. Research has shown, however, that learning to spell and learning to read rely on much of the same underlying knowledge. Read this article to learn more about the...
Other
Balanced reading.com: Decoding
What is decoding? Use this site to find the answer to this important question. This website focuses on a balanced reading approach to learning.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Teacher Toolbox Decoding
What are the guidelines for decoding instruction? Explore this website from Readingrockets.org to find out the answer to this question.
Vocabulary Spelling City
Vocabulary Spelling City: Read a Word Fry Words 901 910
Identify correct decoding of multisyllabic grade 4 and 5 words by playing this online game.
Vocabulary Spelling City
Vocabulary Spelling City: Read a Word Fry Words 911 920
Identify correct decoding of multisyllabic grade 4 and 5 words by playing this online game.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Princess Presto's Spectacular Spelling Play
Help Princess Presto put on a spelling play! After she makes the letter sound, choose the correct letter with your wand to make a simple word. The word you spell will become part of the play!
Vocabulary Spelling City
Vocabulary Spelling City: Audio Word Match Fry Words 921 930
Identify correct decoding of multisyllabic grade 4 and 5 words in this audio matching game.
Auburn University
Auburn University: Assessing Phoneme Awareness and Decoding
How can you assess phoneme awareness and decoding skills in your students? Teachers can benefit from this informative resource that takes you through this intricate path of phonemic awareness.
Education.com
Education.com: rf.k.3.d Worksheets
[Free Registration/Login Required] Choose from a variety of worksheets to help students practice distinguishing between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ.
Auburn University
Auburn University: The Letterbox Lesson
What is the rationale behind the "Letterbox Lesson?" This site reveals how learners must understand the phoneme sequence in words in order to decode them. Come and learn more.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Decoding and the Jabberwocky's Song
What is reading? Explore this article from to find the answer to this question.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Decoding Two Syllable Words
The lesson plan 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 plan is a review of two-syllable words...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Onset/rime Games
Similar to teaching beginning readers about rhyme, teaching children about onset and rime helps them recognize common chunks within words. This can help students decode new words when reading and spell words when writing. This article...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Key Literacy Component: Morphology
Morphology describes how words are formed from building blocks called morphemes, the smallest unit of meaning in a word. Students who don't understand this structure have trouble recognizing, understanding, and spelling words. Find out...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Explicit Phonics Lesson for the " Ick" Word Family
This lesson covers phonemic awareness, decoding, blending, spelling patterns, and dictation. It can be used as an introduction or a follow up lesson.
Other
Sarah Snippets: Syllable Division Rules
Syllable division rules show us how to break up a multi-syllable word into its syllable parts. There are six main syllable division rules to guide us. It all starts with the vowels. Find the vowels in the word. It helps to underline or...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Holiday Relay: A Sounding Out Game
A small group game to practice word and sound recognition and accuracy. Given a sound or word, each student on team runs to pile of holiday shapes, finds the letter, or picture that begins with the sound, or brings back all the letters...
Auburn University
Auburn University: The Letterbox Lesson
The "letterbox lesson plan" is a phonics lesson plan in which young students are led to analyze the phoneme sequence in a word, first by spelling the word and then by reading it.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Guess What I'm Thinking?: Initial Sound Accuracy
A version of the "20 Questions" game. The instructor tells the class he is thinking of something that starts with, for example, /b/. The students have to come up with what the teacher is thinking of.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Overview of Letter Combinations
This resource has two sections: Overview of Letter Combinations and two video demonstrations. It provides downloads of the following: lesson plan, lesson materials, word list, video transcripts, and teaching tips.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Phonic Generalizations in "Chrysanthemum"
This online lesson plan uses an interactive activity to teach students how to determine the common and alternative sounds for specific vowel combinations. The words for this lesson plan are taken from the book "Chrysanthemum," by Kevin...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Explicit Phonics Lesson for the " Ar" Sound
This lesson covers phonemic awareness, decoding, blending, spelling patterns, and dictation. It can be used as an introduction or a follow-up lesson.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Explicit Phonics Lesson for "Sh"
This lesson covers phonemic awareness, decoding, blending, spelling patterns, and dictation. It can be used as an introduction or a follow-up lesson.