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Unit Plan
University of Texas

Alphabetic Understanding, Phonics, and Spelling

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Have your youngsters reading in no time with with collection of literacy activities and lessons. Starting with a basic understanding of the alphabet, this unit progressively builds students' phonemic awareness and ability to decode and...
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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Kindergarteners and first graders alike are engaged as they learn the initial sounds of objects by taking turns flipping cards to form a long train. This complete and ready-to-print activity helps young ones build the basic foundations...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Instant Spelling Activity: 1st Grade

For Teachers 1st
First graders practice their spelling skills. In this spelling lesson, 1st graders explore onsets and rimes as they complete an activity regarding double letters.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Word Families: A Kindergarten Experience

For Teachers K
Students study rhyming words. In this language arts lesson, students participate in several activities in which they practice rhyming words. Students match onsets and rhymes and practice spelling words.
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Word Steps

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Blending basic CVC letters to make words is one of the first steps to independent reading. Provided here are several images of stairs and several letters to cut and arrange. The learner rearranges the letters to form CVC patterns, sounds...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Using the Sounds of Words Reading Task

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young readers demonstrate phonemic awareness in words and blends, and recognize 100 high-frequency words. Use a nursery rhyme to point out rhyming words, and change the words by putting a new letter at the beginning. Each learner will...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Animated Alphabet

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students explore English by completing an interactive language history activity. In this word recognition lesson, students discuss word formations and the phonetic relationship between letters. Students identify the origin of individual...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Learn-to-Read Pumpkin Patch

For Teachers K - 1st
Students practice identifying and pronouncing the short letter "u" sound. In this phonetic awareness lesson, students access the Starfall.com website and follow the directions on the screen to reinforce the short "u" sound. Students can...
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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonics: High Frequency Words, Word Baseball

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Scholars play high-frequency word baseball, pretending to be a pitcher and a batter. Players take turns choosing baseballs with high-frequency words printed on them. If they read the word correctly, they move to the next base until they...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Sing Your Way Through Phonics Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore how to recognize and spell sets of rhyming words. They become familiar with short vowel spelling patterns.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Peg and Hen

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students navigate a website to practice the short e sound.  In this short e sound lesson, students read a story on Starfall and complete practice with the short e sound.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Context Clues

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students develop vocabulary using pre -reading strategies. For this language arts lesson, students discuss the intended message from observing a picture. Additionally, students explore guessing the covered word within a text.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Phonics Instructional Routine: Blending Sounds in Short Words

For Teachers 1st - 4th Standards
Students strengthen their reading of new words with phonics and blending sounds in short words. They interact with word cards with short letter sounds like sit, mat, fit, etc. Each student also assesses magnetic letters to physically...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Making a Case for Beginning Wigh Suprasegmental Features in Pronunciation

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students explore the ways in which voice quality and intonation can convey meaning.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Word a Day

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Young scholars create a word bank of sight words. Each student creates his/her own personal word bank, and creates pictures to illustrate the word.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Human Conditioned Responses

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners listen as the teacher demonstrate how easily and quickly a person can be conditioned to respond to external stimuli. Students are encouraged to look at numerous ways in which conditioned behavior affects their day to day...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

CHICKEN LICKEN

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders examine the cover of the book, CHICKEN LICKEN and make predictions about what will happen in the story. They read the book understanding that is a cautionary tale. They read the story again focusing on the repeated refrains.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

I Say You Say

For Teachers K
Students practice switching initial consonant sounds to make rhyming words. They identify the difference between rhyming words is in the initial sound. Students practice various rhyming phrases and create their own rhyming pairs.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Picture Hunt: R Control O

For Teachers Pre-K - K
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.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Where's My Name?

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students identify their name in print by picking it out of the group and attaching it to a picture of themselves. In this name lesson plan, students use print letters to focus on and identify their own name.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Number Recognition Games

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students explore number sense by participating in a math recognition activity. In this number identification instructional activity, students practice pronouncing names of numbers and matching the number with an amount of objects....
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Shape Recognition Games

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Learners explore shapes. In this math lesson, students identify basic geometric shapes. Learners complete activities in which they identify shapes, symbols and letters. Students draw geometric shapes.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Word Recognition

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students recognize and spell color and shape words. In this color and shape words lesson plan, students reinforce their vocabulary and spelling skills.
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Lesson Plan
Pennsylvania Department of Education

Writing With Environmental Print

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students develop literacy skills by exploring street signs, cereal boxes, and billboards. In this writing with environmental print instructional activity, students build word recognition in every day print. Students decode words and...

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