Better Lesson
Better Lesson: What Do You Hear?
Celebration words can be used to help students review and practice beginning sounds. This lesson will help students recognize and produce the initial sound of a given word. Included are an assessment checklist, videos of the lesson in...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Match That Pie
Knowing the relationship between written letters and spoken sounds will help children recognize words accurately and automatically. In this lesson, children practice matching letters with initial sounds.
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: Initial Blends Lesson
In this beginning reading module, the instructor introduces words with initial consonant blends. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see words sounded out,...
University of Virginia
University of Virginia: Beginning, Middle, and End
Choose from a variety of activities that focus on phonological awareness and sound-letter segmentation for Kindergarten. Printable materials provided. [PDF]
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: Oy, Oi Lesson
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "oy" or "oi" in them.Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see...
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: Ow, Ou Lesson
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "ow" or "ou" in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see...
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.
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center
Wisconsin Rt I Center: Blending [Pdf]
Classroom teachers will learn how to blend words as a classroom modeling strategy. Teachers will learn direct instructional techniques for blending; games and activities are also provided to reinforcement the concept of blending.
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center
Wisconsin Rt I Center: Phoneme Isolation [Pdf]
Classroom teachers will learn how to use phoneme isolation as an instructional strategy. Teachers will learn direct instructional techniques for phoneme isolation. Word picture cards are included to be used with phoneme isolation tasks...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Letter Combination Activities Free Reading
Great small group and whole class lessons on introducing, reintroducing, building fluency, and building accuracy for letter combinations.
Other
Tampa Reads: Phonemic Awareness and Consonant Digraphs Worksheets
Focus on the important skills of identifying where in a word a given sound appears, and on learning four consonant digraphs vital to learning to read (ch, sh, th, and wh).
Quia
Quia: Online Stories
This site focuses on beginning, medial, and ending sounds. It offers a collection of games, exercises, and activities to teach letter sounds including beginning letters, phonemes, and ending sounds to emergent readers. These sites...
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: Whole to Parts Phonics Instruction: Letter Sound Correspondences
Contains plans for two lessons that use the whole-to-parts phonics approach to beginning reading. It uses onset and rime to group word families and spelling patterns to show sounds in context. In addition to objectives and standards,...
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...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Student of the Day: Create Sound/letter Understanding With Names
A recurring lesson plan focused on understanding letters and sounds. Each session lasts ten to twenty minutes with one session for each student in the class. Each student has a turn at being the Student of the Day and other students...
Rock ’N Learn
Rock 'N Learn: Splendid Sounds
This printable worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will match each short vowels to the picture that begins with it. An answer key and lesson extension are included.
Los Angeles County Office of Education
Teams: Phonemic Awareness Activities
This site offers phonemic awareness activities that will extend the concepts and skills associated with this reading skill. Activities include rhyming words, segmenting syllables, substituting beginning sounds, isolating sounds, and...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Exploring Before, During, After Sequencing
From Read-Write-Think, here is a three-day lesson plan in which a class collaborates to produce a book, focusing on carving a jack-o-lantern. The emphasis is on teaching the skill of sequencing events.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Phoneme Isolation Building Phonemic Awareness
Contains plans for three lessons designed for first grade that teach phoneme isolation in order to build phonemic awareness. In addition to objectives and standards, these instructional plans contain links to sites used in the lessons as...
ABCya
Ab Cya: Alphabet Matching
This is a fun educational activity where children must match letter sounds to beginning word sounds. All letters and words are sounded out for children as they play the game.
Read Works
Read Works: A Loud Concert
[Free Registration/Login Required] Sound waves are discussed in this realistic fiction article. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for...
Read Works
Read Works: Parts of a Tree
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about how leaves, branches, bark, and roots make up the parts of a tree. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Your Daily Learning Platform
An index to the Discovery Channel. Find resources for teachers, students, and even parents, from science experiments to math help, to virtual field trips.