Students examine sounding out words. In this language arts instructional activity, students practice sounding out words. Students sound out each letter in the word and blend the sounds to create a word.

Students explore language arts by participating in a class game. In this word sound instructional activity, students discuss the sounds that vowels make in words and identify the different vowels. Students utilize index cards with words...

Second graders read index cards with contractions on them. In this contractions lesson plan, 2nd graders try to beat the clock and each other by reading the contractions fluently in the shortest amount of time.

First graders read past tense words. In this word accuracy instructional activity, 1st graders view index cards containing words ending in -ed. Students practice saying the given words in the past and present tense.

First graders build their fluency while reading contractions. In this contraction fluency lesson, 1st graders read a stack of 12 index cards that have contraction written on each. They read them as fast as they can, saying the word as it...

Third graders use individual student letter cards to practice vocabulary and sight words. In this vocabulary lesson plan, 3rd graders quiz themselves and practice their fluency using these cards.

First graders explore the concept of double letter words. In this word recognition lesson, 1st graders discuss the concept and play a game that requires them to form double letter words.

First graders practice reading words that contain a silent letter. In this silent letter words lesson plan, 1st graders look at words on the board such as lamb, sock, and knee and practice reading them without pronouncing one of the...

First graders practice double letter words. In this word study lesson, 1st graders are introduced to double letter words and pronounce them slowly. There is a helpful video with this lesson that explains and demonstrates on how to...

Students study words. In this word fluency instructional activity, students play a version of the game Hot Potato to practice correctly saying irregular words. They play as a class with a basket of irregular words. This instructional...

Learning to sound out CVC words can be fun, when you turn skills practice into a game. Kids play "Hot Potato" by passing a bucket filled with phonetically regular words on cards. When the music stops, students choose a word and sound it...

Students demonstrate automatic word recognition. In this sight word practice lesson, students sound out the words on the board to themselves and then read the word aloud.

First graders explore the concept of double letter words. In this word recognition instructional activity, 1st graders discuss the concept and play a game that requires them to use letter cards to form double...

First graders explore the concept of compound words. In this word recognition lesson, 1st graders discuss the concept and play a game that requires them to use word cards to form compound words.

Students explore word structure by participating in a game of musical chairs. For this phonics lesson, students discuss the letters of the alphabet and identify words that begin with each letter and the sounds they make. Students...

Students practice word patterns while playing the game of tic tac toe. In this sounding out accuracy lesson, students work with a partner to pick a word from a pile of words. Students then sound out the word from the pile of...

Students study language. In this writing activity, students listen to a story and then compose a friendly letter, about the  book, to a friend. They work independently to compose their letter depicting what happened in the story,...

Students are introduced to rhyming words and practice identifying them in a story or poem. In this rhyming words lesson, students listen to a story while paying listening for rhyming words in the story. Students then replace rhyming...

Pupils write the letters. In this language arts activity, students practice writing the letters of the alphabet without the use of paper and pencils. Pupils draw the letters in sand, beans, or rice.

Learners explore phonetics by participating in a pronunciation activity. In this word sound lesson, students identify words in the English language which contain the "sh" sound. Learners practice saying the words and the individual "sh"...

Second graders throw a beach ball to each other to play a game that helps them practice word families. In this word family lesson plan, 2nd graders throw a beach ball to each other and whatever part their thumb lands on, they look at the...

Students explore vocabulary words. In this language arts lesson, students listen to the story Kindergarten ABC and discuss the vocabulary words. Students discuss the word meanings and use the word in context.

Students use word family endings to create rhyming words for that word family. In this rhyming lesson, students divide into teams and play a game of word baseball where they create rhyming words for a specific word family.

Students examine word blends. In this word blends lesson, students investigate common word blends. Working in pairs, students analyze words containing blends and generate a word list.