Students create a word bank of sight words. Each student creates his/her own personal word bank, and creates pictures to illustrate the word.

Students use the r controlled o sound to sound out words and identify items and people in a picture. In this r controlled o lesson plan, students use the internet to complete their activity.

Young scholars match colors to the color words that they represent and complete a matching puzzle to go with it. In this colors lesson plan, students put the puzzle together to match up the colors.

Students identify their name in print by picking it out of the group and attaching it to a picture of themselves. For this name lesson plan, students use print letters to focus on and identify their own name.

Learners explore number sense by participating in a math recognition activity. In this number identification lesson, students practice pronouncing names of numbers and matching the number with an amount of objects. Learners practice...

Students explore shapes. In this math lesson plan, students identify basic geometric shapes. Students complete activities in which they identify shapes, symbols and letters. Students draw geometric shapes.

Students recognize and spell color and shape words. In this color and shape words lesson plan, students reinforce their vocabulary and spelling skills.

Young scholars develop literacy skills by exploring street signs, cereal boxes, and billboards. For this writing with environmental print lesson, students build word recognition in every day print. Young scholars decode words and...

Students explore the alphabet by completing an on-line letter identification activity. In this phonetics instructional activity, students utilize the website www.literarycenter.net and listen to word sounds as they identify the spelling...

Students follow a power point presentation to practice the sounds each letter of the alphabet make. In this 'what's my sound' lesson, students apply word recognition strategies and demonstrate listening and comprehension skills to build...

Students study color words. In this math lesson, students complete a variety of activities on the computer in which they identify colors and color words.

Students explore technology by participating in a word structure activity. In this grammar lesson, students utilize the Writing Center computer software to practice keyboarding while identifying word formations in class. Students...

Students match pictures with words that have specific phonics connotations. In this picture matching lesson plan, students have groups of words with the same phonics sayings.

A classroom activity led by the instructor. The student is given a spoken onset and rime, and learns to remove the onset and state the remaining rime.

This lesson offers routines for blending and segmenting onsets and rimes of single-syllable spoken words. Included is a video showing young scholars practicing this skill and ideas for centers.

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...

A game in which students are given a word and must hunt around the classroom for a word that rhymes with it.

A game of "Memory" where the students flip over two cards at a time to try and match rhyming words. This site includes links to Rhyming Pictures to use to make the Memory cards.

A fun classroom game that helps students come up with words that rhyme with a word given to them by the teacher. Students sit in a circle, the instructor gives them a sentence and asks what word rhymes with the last word. Students raise...

Students pull an object from a bag, keep it hidden, stretch out its name by pronouncing each letter sound for at least a second, and everyone else has to guess the object.

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,...

In this teacher-led activity on this site, students work together in the classroom creating a book full of rhymes.

A teacher-led activity teaching students to identify whether it contains rhyming words. This site also contains links to Rhyming Books.

In this classroom activity, the instructor creates a list of simple sentences that include a three or four letter word that the students are asked to blend. The instructor says the sentence and asks the student to help blend the letters...