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Carson Newman College: A Brief History of English
This site features a brief history of English. Come and check out the links provided within this site. Students and teachers will benefit from this educational resource. It includes time lines.
Rutgers University
Rutgers University: History of the English Language
This site provides a brief description of the history of the English language.
TES Global
Tes: Phonics Worksheets
[Free Registration/Login Required] Eighty-one exercises designed to reinforce phonics skills are found on this sight.
Auburn University
Auburn University: How to Count Phonemes in Spoken Words
How do you count phonemes in spoken words? Check out this site to discover more about how to approach dealing with question in the classroom. This site offers exercises dealing with counting phonemes.
Rock ’N Learn
Rock 'N Learn: All Day: All and Al
This printable phonics worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will fill in words to complete sentences with words that end with -al or -all. Then students will complete a word...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Overview of Letter Sounds
This Overview of Letter Sounds resource has two sections: Introduction to Letter Sounds and Video Demonstrations. It provides downloads of the following: lesson plan, lesson materials, glossary, and video transcript. This section is...
Organization for Community Networks
Ofcn: "The Blending Slide" Sounding Out Cvc Words
A kindergarten/first grade lesson plan for sounding out consonant vowel consonant words. Students and teachers will benefit from this hands-on activity.
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Teaching Spelling in 6th Grade
This article focuses on spelling in the 6th grade including vowel-consonant spelling patterns, spelling study strategies, and links to word lists and spelling games.
Other
Galactic Phonics: Cvc Word Interactive Spelling
Practice spelling common Consonant Vowel Consonant words in this game-style interactive activity.
Education.com
Education.com: l.k.2.c Worksheets
[Free Registration/Login Required] Choose from a variety of worksheets to reinforce the common core standard of writing letters for most consonant and short-vowel sounds.
Arcademics
Arcademics: Turtle Dash
Game will engage students in a turtle race by identifying a word using vowel combinations.
City University of New York
Vp: The Singer's Dilemma, Tone Versus Diction
Shirley Emmons is a noted teacher of singing. Her website has a number of essays devoted to singing technique. This article is an in depth discussion of the age old problem of balancing beautiful tone with the need to sing words that can...
Big Learners
Biglearners.com: ccss.ela literacy.l.k.2.c : Kindergarten English Language Arts
Here is a collection of our common core aligned worksheets for core standard L.K.2.C. A brief description of the worksheets is on each of the worksheet widgets. Click on the images to view, download, or print them. All worksheets are...
Other
About Korea: Language
This resource provides a look at the Korean language and the history of the written language. The article professes that it is an extremely easy language to learn to read. See examples of the vowels and consonants and discover why the...
Other
About Korea: Language
A fascinating look at the Korean language and the history of the written language. The article professes that it is an extremely easy language to learn to read. See examples of the vowels and consonants and discover why the letters look...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Mix, Mix, Match: A Sounding Out Accuracy Game.
A small group game to practice word and sound recognition and accuracy. Students receive a card with a word part on it. The instructor plays music and when the music stops, the students "mix" and put their cards with another student.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Tic Tac Toe: A Sounding Out Accuracy Game
A small group game to practice word and sound recognition and accuracy. Students play tic tac toe with partners, but before they can take a turn they must pick a work from a pile on their desk and sound it out. Their partner gives them a...
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: Ge, Dge, Etc. Lesson
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "ge", "dge", etc. Students will choose to sound out words, see words sounded out, see words with pictures with and without sounds, and see...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Catch a Sound: Letter Sound Accuracy Activity
A quick alphabet game for the whole class. Students stand in a circle and throw a beanbag to each other. When they catch it, they must say a word that begins with the letter given. Continue this in alphabetical order.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Sound Toss Game; Letter Sound Accuracy
A letter sounds game that students 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 printable...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Sound Spaghetti; Letter Sound Accuracy Game
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.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Musical Chairs Game; Letter Sound Accuracy
A letter sound accuracy game based on Musical Chairs. But to keep the chair that they sit in the student must pick a letter from the teacher's bucket and give a word that starts with that letter. A link to Letter Cards is included on...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Letter Ring Game: Letter Sound Accuracy Activity
A fun, unique version of the game "Ring Around the Rosie" that builds the learners' accuracy in identifying letters, sounds, and words that begin with that letter. A link to printable letter cards is provided on this site as well.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Give Me Five; Letter Sound Accuracy Activity
An exciting game to build students' understanding and accuracy of producing words that begin with the same letter. Students sit in a circle and the teacher says the sound of the letter. One student must pass a bean bag around the circle...