First graders match rhyming words. In this rhyming lesson students play a game with a partner matching rhyming words and a coordinating picture. The student pairs make a list of rhyming words that fit with their game.

Students make flip books of rhyming words and match words together that are on cards. In this rhyming lesson plan, students read books and read individual words to identify rhyming words.

Second graders complete the first column of a KWL chart with information that they know about caterpillars. They listen to a read aloud of Eric Carle's, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, while focusing on what caterpillars eat. They clap out...

Students investigate rhyming words. In this literacy lesson plan, students evaluate word pairs to discover rhymes. Students use a picture deck to rhyme words supplied by the teacher.

Students listen to a tongue twister emphasizing the short e sound. They practice writing the letter e and attaching different words with that sound to it. They listen to a book about a dog that enhances the letter e. They write a...

Students identify /b/ in spoken words and recognize the letter symbol b in written words. They say a tongue twister which contains words with /b/. They then listen the the book "The Butter Battle Book" by Dr. Suess and identify the...

Students study the /h/ phoneme by examining their mouth movements while making the sound. Next, they listen to and recite a tongue twister, and write the letter 'h.' They identify words with the /h/ sound both on picture cards and in a...

Students study the /i/ sound by examining how one's mouth moves when making the sound and using it in words. Next, they recite a tongue twister which contains many words with the focus sound, and practice writing it the lowercase "i."...

First graders distinguish between short vowel a and long vowel a. They are introduced to the vowel-consonant-e pattern that changes short vowel sounds into long vowel sounds. They practice reading words with the vowel-consonant-e pattern.

First graders practice recognizing words with the short /a/ sound and applying /a/ phoneme in spoken words. They interact with the book, "Pat's Jam," and five picture cards with pictures of a hat, rat, cat, pig and a dog on each one....

Students explore phonemes. They discuss the phoneme /a/ (short a). Students read and write words containing the phoneme /a/. They identify /a/ in written and spoken words. Students recognize the letter symbol for /a/ and find words with...

Students explore phonemes. They create a picture book when a new phoneme is introduced. Students discuss the new phoneme and words that contain the phoneme. They create phoneme books shaped like the phoneme being studied. They illustrate...

Pupils need to practice sight words to become proficient readers. So it is very important for children to learn common correspondences. The phoneme for the letter "e" is practiced in this lesson.

Students discover that letters stand for phonemes. They determine that spellings map out the phonemes that are found in spoken words. They analyze the correspondence, oa = /O/ and recognize the /O/ sound in spoken and written words in...

Young scholars observe the phoneme and digraph /sh/ in spoken words. They discover a meaningful representation and practicie finding /sh/ in words. They read and spell words (using a letterbox activity) that contain the phoneme /sh/.

Students explore letters and phonemes. They discuss the phoneme /o/. Students recognize /o/ in both spoken and written words. They discuss the shape their mouths make when saying /o/. Students learn a tongue twister to help them identify...

Students study the /s/ phoneme by examining the sound in written and spoken words. They recite a tongue twister, and examine how their mouths move as they make the sound. Next, they write the letter, differentiate the sound in given...

Students examine the /a/ phoneme in both written and spoken words. They practice finding the /a/ in words, watch how their mouths move when making the sound, and write the letter. Next, they differentiate the sound in words, listen to a...

Learners practice recognizing the phoneme /a/ in spoken words. They interact with the book, "A Cat's Nap," and a poster with Abby and Allen on it that are asking animals for apples, and cards with words on them like at, mad, went, bag,...

Students practice identifying letters and their corresponding phonemes to become solid fluent readers. They focus on the grapheme and phoneme associated with the upper and lowercase letter of S. Each student makes the sound that the...

Students distinguish between letters that stand for phonemes that deal with the short /o/ sound. They study how spellings map out the phonemes in oral language in order to be able to read and write words. Each student practices the...

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...

Learners explore the /s/ sound on the end of words. They discuss the phoneme /s/. Students listen for /s/=s at the beginning, middle and end of words. They write the letter s and practice reading and writing words containing /s/.

Students practice the strategies of phonemes and spellings maps to sound out new words. They work on the short vowel /a/ sound with a sentence strip with "Allie the Alligator sat on a mat eating apples," on it and the book, "Cat in the...