Florida Center for Reading Research
Phonological Awareness
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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Instant Spelling Activity: 1st Grade
First graders practice their spelling skills. In this spelling lesson plan, 1st graders explore onsets and rimes as they complete an activity regarding double letters.
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Using the Sounds of Words Reading Task
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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Animated Alphabet
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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Learn-to-Read Pumpkin Patch
Students practice identifying and pronouncing the short letter "u" sound. In this phonetic awareness lesson plan, students access the Starfall.com website and follow the directions on the screen to reinforce the short "u" sound. Students...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Phonics: High Frequency Words, Word Baseball
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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Peg and Hen
Students navigate a website to practice the short e sound. In this short e sound lesson plan, students read a story on Starfall and complete practice with the short e sound.
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Context Clues
Students develop vocabulary using pre -reading strategies. In 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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Phonics Instructional Routine: Blending Sounds in Short Words
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...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Word a Day
Students 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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CHICKEN LICKEN
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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I Say You Say
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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Picture Hunt: R Control O
Young scholars 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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Where's My Name?
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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Number Recognition Games
Pupils 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. Pupils...
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Shape Recognition Games
Students explore shapes. In this math lesson, students identify basic geometric shapes. Students complete activities in which they identify shapes, symbols and letters. Students draw geometric shapes.
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Word Recognition
Students recognize and spell color and shape words. In this color and shape words lesson plan, students reinforce their vocabulary and spelling skills.
Pennsylvania Department of Education
Writing With Environmental Print
Students develop literacy skills by exploring street signs, cereal boxes, and billboards. In this writing with environmental print lesson, students build word recognition in every day print. Students decode words and discover new words.
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Letter Recognition Flash Games for Kids
Students explore the alphabet by completing an on-line letter identification activity. In this phonetics activity, students utilize the website www.literarycenter.net and listen to word sounds as they identify the spelling of the...
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Color Recognition Game
Students study color words. In this math lesson plan, students complete a variety of activities on the computer in which they identify colors and color words.