Help your class recognize the capital and lower-case forms of the five vowels. They will learn how to make capital and lower-case forms of the vowels and all the rules surrounding vowels. Fun songs and activities are included. Links to...

First graders participate in a guided reading lesson. In this guided reading lesson, 1st graders read David's Drawings by Cathryn Falwell, which is a realistic fiction book on the DRA:16 level. They determine the author's message, and...

For this spelling worksheet, students read sentences from the book Mystery in the Attic and choose which word is spelled incorrectly and then correct it. Students complete this for 5 sentences.

Students practice organizing their vocabulary words in an online organizer tool. In this vocabulary lesson plan, students read a text and take notes. Additionally, students organize their vocabulary words into an online "Alphabet...

Students 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. Students practice...

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.

Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with the concept of rhyming and recognize them in different pieces of literature that includes songs, speech, and poetry. They also listen to music to make an auditory connection to the concept.

Students say the name of pictures of simple objects, people and places, choosing 15 to use for the instructional activity. Students glue pictures in a scrapbook and write the word for each picture beside it. Students complete word...

Students practice locating points on a large wall grid and create and label a neighborhood map. In this geography lesson plan, students spell and discuss places as the teacher places them on the map. They discuss the concept of an...

In this language arts worksheet, learners investigate words that end with "--tch." Students read a 2 page story about an angry wife who ends up at her own surprise birthday party. Learners mark the "--tch" words. Then students complete a...

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

Students develop literacy skills by exploring street signs, cereal boxes, and billboards. In this writing with environmental print activity, students build word recognition in every day print. Students decode words and discover new words.

This interactive Super Why! game features a BINGO game. Students listen to Princess Pea read aloud the following: initial vowel sounds, initial consonant sounds, and/or words with emphasized initial vowel or consonant sounds. Then...

This kidzone website provides kindergarten level information about consonants and phonics. It provides information such as an introduction, concepts of consonants, consonant ideas, and more.

An exciting activity for the whole class to practice listening for a specific letter sound. When they hear a word with the sound they are listening for they give it a thumbs up; if it doesn't have the sound, they give it a thumbs down....

What words begin with an r-blend? Group each picture card into the correct category according to its initial consonant blend. After they complete the list, have kids write words into each box in the worksheets. Fun and educational for...

This English pronunciation guide is useful for young English speakers, as well as English language learners of all ages. It offers practice in reading, pronunciation, and writing of vowels and consonants and of vowel and consonant...

Students play detective and discover a given letter at the beginning of a word. They keep a "tally" sheet and compete with their classmates. This site includes links to Letter cards and a Letter Hunt Tally Sheet.

An exciting classroom word game based on the game "Boggle." The classroom is divided into groups. The teacher says a letter, and each students writes down as many words as they can that begin with that letter. Then they compare with the...

Ready-to-print phonics chart on beginning consonant breath-sounds. Students can click on the letters, pictures, or words to hear the sounds independently or as a part of the words.

In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate blends in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see words...

A letter sounds game that young scholars will love! They toss a bean bag onto a poster board with pictures on it, and tell what the first letter and sound is of the picture that the bean bag lands on. This site includes a link to...

A great game to teach students how to sound out words. Each student picks a piece of long paper out of the teacher's basket and pronounces the letters on it.