This site features activities for the letters of the alphabet. Students have an opportunity to click on a letter and hear a story about that letter.

[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart, students learn to identify patterns in a sequence of shapes used to create letters. Students then use logic to extend the pattern and extrapolate further shapes.

Learn the importance of alphabetic sequence and using common letter patterns to support fluency. For adult learners.

This invaluable site helps instructors teach students how to handwrite each letter of the alphabet. It includes the amsti sequence to introduce letters, followed by fluency-building activities and accuracy-building activities. Additional...

"Letter to Grandmother" is a one page, fictional, reading passage about a family of early settlers who moved west. A girl writes a letter to her grandmother telling her about their new life on the plains. It is followed by...

Make pictures by counting by ones, by fives, and by counting backwards or by putting letters of the alphabet in the correct order.

Interactive games identifying letter sounds using picture cues. Sequencing and word families are emphasized. Other links include audio books and short videos.

A wonderful site full of tips for teaching the skills of sounding out words. This site has a plethora of links that provide an excellent way to practice and memorize the essential skills of sounding out words. The links using every...

Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduced students to the concept of geometric growth and geometric series/sequences. Students explore some real-life examples of geometric growth, such as chain letters, bank...

"More Trees" is a one page, fictional, reading passage about a student and his mother getting trees from the city and planting them in their neighborhood. It is followed by constructed-response questions which require students to provide...

View the online exhibit featuring photographs, documents--opening night telegraphs, letters, notes by Jerome Robbins and Leonard Bernstein, set designs--and other items such as posters, DVD covers, and a pair of slippers worn in the...

In this lesson, learn about the features of postcards. Then they design their own postcard making the visual part (by hand or computer) fit the message being sent. They then address and mail their card (with the help of the teacher).

In this activity, the teacher says three words and has the students identify the common sound. This site includes a link to a Word List Generator.

The DNA double helix contains two sequences of nucleotide code letters than run along the molecule. Untwist the spiral and DNA can be seen as two parallel strands. That's why its sometimes called the double helix. Unzip the strands and...

When we're making a program, we often want to store sequences of letters. In programming lingo, we call each letter a character and we call the sequence a string.

This site from Ibiblio.org presents information on the musical accomplishments of Hildegard of Bingen. It contains a brief biography of the abbess and saint, and lists how she excelled in letters, plays, botany, and music.

What is the definition of alphabetic principle? This site focuses on the stages of effective decoding for all types of students and learning strategies.

This is a slide show type alphabet "Book," that begins with a photograph, but then depends heavily on clip art. Fine for an alternative type alphabet practice, but instruction would be necessary to show how to move from slide to slide.

A chart from 1872 illustrating instructions for drawing Asia. "General instructions for drawing the continents. Make a scale by marking on a slip of paper or pasteboard the measures 1,2,3, etc., as on the sides of this map. Every measure...