PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Sight Word Spelling Lesson Plan
In 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.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Building Blocks: Teaching Adolescents With Reading Difficulties
This online professional development is designed to enhance teachers' knowledge and skills so they can effectively teach adolescent students who struggle with reading. This professional development consists of a series of resources with...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Spelling Patterns "Go Fish" Card Game
Contains plans for four lessons that ask learners to make spelling cards grouped by spelling patterns. These cards are then used in a "Go Fish" style card game. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Integrating Movement and Spelling Generalizations
Contains plans for two lessons that use movement and cheering to teach the letter y spelling generalization. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Shared Spelling Strategies
Contains plans for a lesson that will provide students with strategies for spelling unfamiliar words. Students are asked to use phonological awareness and visual recall, analyze alternative spellings, and use a variety of resources...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Sort, Hunt, Write a Weekly Spelling Program
Contains plans for five lessons that provide a spelling program where learners categorize spelling words before using them in context. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the...
Teachnology
Teachnology: English Language Arts Lesson Plans
Great lesson plans spanning a wide-range of language arts-related subjects.
Other
Reading From Scratch: Spelling Rules
The "Reading from Scratch" site provides a list of spelling rules with examples.
International Reading Association
Lesson Plan: Making and Writing Words
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!
Free Reading
Free Reading: Irregular Word Activities
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....
Free Reading
Free Reading: Rhyme Around Baseball Activity
An exciting version of baseball to build fluency in creating rhyming words. The classroom is divided into two teams; when one team is up to bat the first student is given a word family such as -at. They must create a rhyming word and...
Free Reading
Free Reading
This free reading intervention site is geared toward students grade K-3, with literacy activities and lessons/ideas links. The site includes teaching tools and activities. See the link at the bottom to "About FreeReading" for a list of...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Cognates (English Ii Reading)
This lesson focuses on cognates, or words from other languages that have similar spellings, pronunciations, and meanings. This means that if you know, or are studying, another language, you may recognize an English word simply because...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Cognates (English I Reading)
This lesson focuses on cognates, words from different languages that have similar spellings, pronunciations, and meanings. It shows ways that people who are in foreign countries can function by finding similar signs and words.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Dr. Seuss's Sound Words Playing With Phonics and Spelling
Contains plans for three lessons that teach about sound and letters using Dr. Seuss's "Mr. Brown Can MOO! Can You?" In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Want to Trade?
Learners will write about what they would trade for gold and practice inventive spelling in the process. After reading "In 1492", students will discuss how Christopher Columbus traded with the natives and then write what they would trade...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: The Two Voices of the Ow Spelling Pattern
Variable vowels are the focus of this lesson plan; students use nursery rhymes and ow to study how vowels can change their sounds according to different spelling patterns.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: You Can't Spell Prefix Without a Prefix
This online lesson teaches the importance of learning and understanding the meanings of prefixes in the English language. Lesson tend to be interactive, with students identifying, constructing, and defining words with prefixes.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Word Wizards: Students Making Words
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 plan looks for...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Integrating Math and Literacy
This lesson provides the elementary teacher with an opportunity to integrate the concept of mathematics with reading literacy. Young scholars use models to learn shapes, practice spelling the names and shapes, and learn to reflect and...
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.
Hopelink
Hopelink: Reading Lesson Idea: R Controlled Words
Practice reading and pronouncing words that have a vowel followed by the letter R.
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Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Variant Correspondences: The Write Word [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students play a game moving around the game board by identifying the spelling pattern of words. Materials are included.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: By Car, Train, or Bus! The Sounds of Language on the Go
Come and check out this awesome pre-reading resource. This site offers examples of simple word games you can play with kids to increase their ability to recognize and use letters and sounds. Try these games the next time you're in the...