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Curated OER
Ike's Ice Cream is Icy
Students recognize the short vowel i in written and spoken language. Through matching and listening activities, they discriminate the short vowel /i/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and...
Curated OER
Abigail Ant
Students recognize the short vowel a in written and spoken language. Through matching and listening activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /a/ from other phonemes. Students identify the phoneme and letter in words and pictures.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Phonics lesson for -ick family
Kindergarteners and first graders develop phonemic awareness for words that contain -ick. Each learner gets a stack of cards with different -ick words, highlighting the target sound as they review each one.
Kelly's Kindergarten
May Daily Activities
Five weeks of daily activities for the month of May! With a new activity for each day of the month, your youngsters will utilize a variety of skills and practice everything from sight words and spelling to counting by twos or coloring...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Picture the Word
This is an excellent way to make onset and rime visual for beginning readers. They examine CVC-word picture cards that are all missing the first letter. Using plastic letters (or whatever you have), they complete each word and record it...
University of Texas
Essential Reading Strategies for the Struggling Reader
Beneficial for beginning readers, struggling readers, and those in need of review, a set of language arts activities is a great addition to any foundational reading unit. Focusing on phonological awareness, fluency, instructional...
Curated OER
IIII---L-lll-ke---IIII-ke-and-M-IIII-ke
Students recognize the letter combination i_e by reading and spelling words with letter boxes in this instructional activity. They say a tongue twister which emphasizes the long /i/ silent /e/ combination. They then listen the story...
Curated OER
Word and Letter Practice #6
In this word and letter practice activity, students say the name and sounds of given letters, read simple sentences, practice reading sight words and practice "chunks" of words.
Curated OER
Word and Letter Practice #2
In this words and letters practice worksheet, learners practice naming letters and practicing sounds of given sets of letters, read simple sentences, and practice sight words.
Curated OER
Word Detectives!
Students recognize the short vowel e in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, students discriminate the short vowel e from the long vowel o. They associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify the...
Learning A-Z
Tips for Teaching: Word Recognition
Learning to read can be exhilarating for some pupils, but for others, it's difficult to get past the frustration of not knowing how to read a particular word. A tutoring resource provides several ways to guide class members into...
Curated OER
What Do You See at the Pond?
With What Do You See at the Pond?, young readers explore pond life and practice reading strategies. Learners first make predictions and then read the simple story independently. After a second read-through with a partner, kids come...
Curated OER
Animated Alphabet
Students explore English by completing an interactive language history activity. For this word recognition lesson, students discuss word formations and the phonetic relationship between letters. Students identify the origin of individual...
Curated OER
Guided Reading: Shapes Where We Play
Students discover shapes on a playground. In this guided reading activity, students discover new vocabulary words related to shapes as they read Shapes Where We Play. In small groups, students use picture clues and one to one matching to...
Curated OER
Web-Based Practice
Students explore technology by participating in a word structure activity. In this grammar lesson plan, students utilize the Writing Center computer software to practice keyboarding while identifying word formations in class. Students...
Curated OER
Fluency is Fantastic
Young scholars, through teacher modeling and guided activities, practice their word decoding and blending skills in order to become more fluent readers. Reading aloud to a partner, they practice reading smoothly and with expression.
Starfall
Starfall: Pete's Sheep (Long E Listening Practice)
Learn the long E sound in English while enjoying an animated story about sheep. You can listen to the story over and over again and watch the story come alive with animation.
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: Long E Lesson
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate long /e/ 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: Long E Quiz
This site is an interactive quiz to assess knowledge of words that incorporate long /e/ in them. The quiz is designed to follow the "Reading Bear: long e" lesson.
Starfall
Starfall: Picture Hunt: Y as Long E
Become a better reader with this interactive game. Hunt for pictures words with Y as a long E sound.
Rock ’N Learn
Rock 'N Learn: Ned and Pete: Long E (With Silent E) and Short E Sounds
This printable vowel letter worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will identify and distinguish between words that contain short /e/ and long /e/. An answer key and lesson...
Roy the Zebra
Roy the Zebra: Reading Games: Long Vowel Phonemes: Words With the "Ea" Sound
Download this free interactive game to help a baby bird fly with her friends by building words that use the phoneme "ea" to create the long "e" sound.
Roy the Zebra
Roy the Zebra: Reading Games: Long Vowel Phonemes
A game where players can create words with the long "e" sound created by a double "e."
Starfall
Starfall: Robot and Mr. Mole (Long O Listening Practice)
Learn English words with the long O sound by listening to this read-aloud story about a robot. English language learners and beginning readers can practice listening to and pronouncing words with long o's. Great graphics, unlimited...