Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center
Wisconsin Rt I Center: Word Families Letter Combinations [Pdf]
Classroom teachers will learn about teaching phonics through word families and letter combinations. Teachers will learn how to implement the use of word families and letter combinations, understand how to measure progress with word...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Phonics and Decoding
This resource provides information and techniques for teaching phonics and decoding, which assist with early literacy.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: The Big Green Monster Teaches Phonics in Reading and Writing
A big green monster helps students build their reading fluency and word recognition skills through choral reading, literacy center activities, and writing stories.
Other
Advanced Phonics Activities Free Reading
A great site to find lessons to use for teaching advanced phonics and word families.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Super Why: A L L Rhyming Words Worksheet [Pdf]
Print this worksheet for your students while teaching a rhyming/spelling unit. Student will fill in the beginning sound using picture clues to make a word ending in A-L-L. [Requires Adobe Reader.]
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Teaching Concepts of Letter and Word
A great resource for teachers introducing the concepts of "letters" and "words" to early elementary students. Uses the names of the students themselves as a starting place in learning these concepts. Great site.
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...
Auburn University
Auburn University: Teaching Blending
How do you teach your students to develop a blending ability through phonics instruction? This site features information to help get you started in your quest for this goal. According to this article you can begin with rhyming. Come and...
Hopelink
Hopelink: Reading Lesson Idea: Teaching Word Structure
Understanding word structure and being able to identify root or base words, prefixes and suffixes give your student valuable vocabulary-building skills. Click on the Prefixes and Suffixes handout.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Rhyme Rally Game: Identifying and Generating Rhyming Words
A teacher-led activity teaching students to identify whether it contains rhyming words. This site also contains links to Rhyming Books.
Other
Target Tests and Target Lessons That Teach Phonics
This site has simple lessons that use images and everyday words to demonstrate the usage of diphthongs, regular vowels, and irregular vowels. Click on on one of the "Phonics Lessons," to prepare for one of the corresponding tests.
abcteach
Abcteach: Phonics
[Free Registration/Login Required] From this site there are lots of templates for teaching phonics. There are coloring pages, word wheels, word wells, word searches, and unscramble the word exercises.
Auburn University
Auburn University: Decoding Glossary
What do you know about teaching decoding skills to your students? Do you ever get stumped by some of the words that go along with decoding? If you answered yes to any of these questions then come and check out this decoding glossary.
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...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Chunk Lesson Ake
[Free Registration/Login Required] Use literature and the Whole-Part-Whole Method to teach individual word chunks. This flipchart focuses on the -ake word chunk.
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center
Wisconsin Rt I Center: Reading Resources [Pdf]
This site provides a collection of reading strategy teaching resources. Strategies are arranged according to the ELA Common Core Curriculum Standards and grade level bands.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Sound Spaghetti; Letter Sound Accuracy Game
A great game to teach students how to sound out words. Each student picks a piece of long paper out of the teacher's basket and pronounces the letters on it.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Amplify Education, Inc.: Introduce Reading Connected Text
An exciting introduction to reading! The instructor writes a simple, one-line story on the board from literature, and the students learn to sound out the words.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Vocabulary Activities Find Activities
A fantastic reading skills site emphasizing vocabulary activities. This site contains 54 individual vocabulary activities to click on, and provides teaching tips as well. It is still in the building phase, and more activities, tips, and...
abcteach
Abc Teach: Abc Activities
[Free Registration/Login Required] Offers numerous hands-on activities for young children learning their ABCs.
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.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Tap and Say an Activity for Segmenting Words
You can add a phonemic awareness activity to your phonics lessons each day and it will only add a few extra minutes to your lessons. You also don't need to buy expensive manipulatives for your students to use. There are lots of low-cost...
LD Online
Ld Online: Learning Disabilities Online: Phoneme Awareness Activity
What do you know about phoneme activities for collaborative classrooms? This site will show how to develop your own activities to sharpen your students phonemic awareness skills. This informative resource will support any teacher's work...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Chunk Lesson At
[Free Registration/Login Required] Use literature and the Whole-Part-Whole Method to teach individual word chunks. This flipchart focuses on the -at word chunk.