Students engage in an emergent literacy lesson that focuses on the skill of phonemic awareness. To practice the skill the phoneme for the letter "o" is used. The students need to recognize the letter and its corresponding sound.

Participate in an emerging literacy instructional activity that focuses on the skill of phonemic awareness! The phoneme of choice is the letter "o". They need to use letter recognition in conjunction with the sound.

Which i sound is used in the word icky? Kindergarteners and first graders listen to the short /i/ sound. They practice shaking their fingers to indicate icky when they hear the target sound. Then they practice reading a poster with the...

Help your class increase their awareness of concepts related to reading and spelling. They identify the digraph /oa/ in spoken language and spelling. After a brief discussion, they read A Toad on the Road, listening for the target sound....

Spell and read words containing ai and ay. First and second graders identify vowel digraphs in written and spoken language. After a brief discussion on the combinations of letters that comprise digraphs, they practice reading and...

Study the long vowel sound /e/, as in a creaky door noise. Children repeat the sound and learn a chant. They use letters in letterboxes to make words with the /e/ sound before reading a book and writing a message about their favorite...

Students develop Phoneme awareness of a letter. They explore pictures, hand gestures, tongue twisters, and sounding out the letter. The i will be represented through a picture of an i and students circle the words with the...

Pupils become phonemically aware of various sounds that make up written words. This lesson plan focuses on the vowel correspondence a_e=/A/. They decode the long a mouth moves in words as well as practice spelling the words themselves.

Students create a drawing of a word containing the sound /ee/. They are introduced to the /ee/ vowel pattern that comprise the long /ee/ vowel sound. They practice listening for and reading a variety of words containing the long vowel...

Students distinguish between the sounds for short vowel a and long vowel a. They are introduced to the vowel patterns that comprise long vowel sounds, with a particular emphasis on vowel-consonant-e pattern. They practice reading and...

Young scholars explore how to blend words. They distinguish phonemes and practice blending them. Students practice the /oo/ sound and identify words that contain that sound. They read Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and identify words that have...

Pupils identify the letter I and the /i/ sound that it makes. They practice reading the tongue twister together, shaking their hands when they hear the /i/ sound and draw out the /i/ sound in each word. Finally, students write a...

Students study /e/ in both written and spoken words using a tongue twister and letterbox activities. They recite a tongue twisters and make words using letterboxes. Next, they read "Red Gets Fed" and find words that contain the /e/...

Students practice saying each letter of the alphabet to determine the different sounds from each letter. As a class, they are given a tongue twister to practice making the "a" sound and spelling the words. To end the lesson, they...

Learners identify digraphs in written and spoken language. After a brief discussion on the combinations of letters that comprise digraphs, students practice identifying initial and final placement of the digraph /ch/ in words and tongue...

First graders compare the /a/ sound to that of a baby crying. They practice making the sound and then say the tongue twister as it is written on a sentence strip and then using the overhead and letters, name words with that sound in them.

Students engage in an emergent literacy lesson that focuses upon the skill of phonemic awareness. The phoneme sound for the letter "i" is used with a tongue twister to build this important reading skill.

First graders discover that by moving their mouths different ways, they can make different sounds. They practice making the short /a/ relating it to the sound that is made when they were so afraid they screamed. They then practice saying...

Students study the /a/ sound by mimicking the sound one makes when they sneeze. Next they work with a tongue twister, which they recite while stretching out the initial short a sound. Next, they practice writing the letter and read "A...

Young scholars participate in an emerging literacy lesson plan that focuses on the skill of phonemic awareness. The phoneme of choice is the letter "i". Students need to recognize the letter in correlation to its sound.

Students identify and interpret the sound of the letter /a/ by looking at pictures and seeing if they can figure out what sound it makes. They practice writing the letter a, both upper and lower case on primary paper. Finally, students...

Students practice recognizing phonemes with letters emphasizing the /a/ in spoken words and by letter symbols. They interact with Elkonin boxes, letter manipulatives, the book, "A Cat Nap," and a poster with a tongue twister on it.

Students explore the various sounds that make up written words. They investigate the /o/ sound by creating a meaningful representation. Students spell and read words that contain the /o/ sound. They recite tongue twisters.

Students identify the digraph /sh/ in written and spoken language. Students practice the production of the /sh/ sound through storiesand tongue twisters. They identify the initial and final placement of the new digraph /sh/ using a...