Scholars practice rhyming and phonemic awareness using trade books and poetry. They will listen to the book Mouse Mess several times throughout the week, identifying rhyming words, and matching words that begin with the same sound. Then...

Help learners identify initial consonant sounds and letters that represent that sound. They indicate awareness of consonant sounds and letters by responding with a physical movement. They also sing using "Sing Your Way Through Phonics"...

Practice using word blends and learning about word families by participating in a class game. Learners will collaborate as teams in a game by throwing beanbags onto a shower curtain with word blends on it. They will say the sound their...

Learners complete a variety of activities related to the book The Cow That Went Oink. They role-play the various animals from the story, write a letter to a farm animal in the book, identify syllables of story words, and create an...

Explore word structure by participating in a vowels and consonants activity with young readers. They will read words their teacher points out in class and pronounce them correctly. Then they identify the words they say which have a...

Explore English by identifying word structures. Learners find many words that end with a vowel, consonant, and then an e. The class will participate in a word flash card game in which they correctly pronounce vowel-consonant words.

Listen to the book Madeline, and identify rhyming words with learners as they hear them in the book. Learners will engage in a class discussion about rhyming words. After listening to Madeline, they will circle pictures of words that...

Recognizing consonant sounds and word blends are the focus of this lesson. Students recognize common consonant sounds that are word blends. They create a learning game to help them identify words that contain specific word blends.

Students study rhythm and rhyme. In this rhyming lesson plan, students read Scrambled Eggs Super! by Dr. Seuss. Students explore the rhythm of rhyming words found in the book. The students decorate eggs and place rhyming words inside to...

First graders read "There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly" and use Kid Pix to identify characters from the story. In this character identification lesson, 1st graders first hear several versions of the classic tale, and then locate...

Students explore phonetics by participating in a class game. In this alphabet sounds lesson plan, students collaborate in a ABC's activity where they identify a random letter, the sound it makes, and place it in it's correct spot on a...

Young scholars explore language arts by participating in a vowel identification activity. In this word sound lesson, students discuss the sound that is made by two consecutive O's. Young scholars listen to the teacher recite words and...

First graders explore vowels and consonants by participating in a flash card activity. For this phonetics lesson, 1st graders discuss the difference between short and long vowels and identify them within a story told to them by their...

Students discriminate initial sounds of words and categorize words based on the initial sound. They generate ideas and topics for writing and use prewriting and drafting strategies to formulate text.

Learners recognize long vowel sounds by reading and listening to a story that highlights words with long vowel sounds. They then construct an original story. They use picture clues to aid comprehension, and match words with similar vowel...

Students identify uses for plants. In this agricultural lesson, students read the book Spring Gardening and distinguish between food plants and flowers. Students plant flower in cups as a follow-up activity.

Students read books by the same author and compare what they find.  In this Dr. Seuss lesson, students learn about Dr. Seuss' writing style, listen for the rhyme scheme in his stories, and create a KWL chart on Dr. Seuss. ...

Students make a class animal book using the letters of the alphabet. They use a website imbedded in this plan to get pages with animals that begin with any of the 26 letters.

Students create a drawing of a word containing the sound /ee/. They are introduced to the /ee/ vowel pattern that comprise the long /ee/ vowel sound. They practice listening for and reading a variety of words containing the long vowel...

Pupils discover a working definition of the word philanthropy. They sing the definition to the tune of a familiar song. They establish phonemic awareness through rhyming text and identify philanthropic acts.

Students study facts about spiders using a number of literary forms, including stories, poems, and songs. They work with consonant sounds by matching pictures with the beginning consonant sounds. They design art projects that emphasize...

Second graders write their own version of the book "Somewhere" in this lesson. They listen to the book and locate the rhyming words within the text. They find the number of syllables per word in the text, and compare the number of...

Students brainstorm words that start with each letter of the alphabet, take digital pictures of words that start with assigned letter, and use iPhoto to create class alphabet book.

Through the use of stories, artwork, and the KidPix program, youngsters explore the color word red, and engage in activities around the word. Teaching kindergartners about the color words can be so much fun. This could be adapted for any...