Auburn University
The Reading Genie: Making Friends With Phonemes
Superb explanation of phoneme awareness. Content addresses how to focus on individual phonemes, how to make the phoneme memorable, and how to find phoneme in word contexts.
Chase Young, PhD
Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Guided Reading Lesson
The benefits of guided reading are plentiful! Students will have increased fluency, an expanded vocabulary, stronger phonemic awareness, and a greater motivation to read. Use the following PDF as a template for your guided reading lesson.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Explicit Phonics Lesson for Ew and Oo
This lesson covers phonemic awareness, decoding, blending, spelling patterns, and dictation. It can be used as an introduction or a follow up lesson.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Explicit Phonics Lesson for the " Ick" Word Family
This lesson covers phonemic awareness, decoding, blending, spelling patterns, and dictation. It can be used as an introduction or a follow up lesson.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Explicit Phonics Lesson for the " Ar" Sound
This lesson covers phonemic awareness, decoding, blending, spelling patterns, and dictation. It can be used as an introduction or a follow-up lesson.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Explicit Phonics Lesson for "Sh"
This lesson covers phonemic awareness, decoding, blending, spelling patterns, and dictation. It can be used as an introduction or a follow-up lesson.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Explicit Phonics Lesson for the Unk Sound
This lesson covers phonemic awareness, decoding, blending, spelling patterns, and dictation. It can be used as an introduction or a follow-up lesson.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Phonemic Awareness With Technology
This lesson allows students to use the Internet to manipulate words by changing initial sounds. Students will use computer skills while learning how to change words by changing the initial sound.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Word Detective
In this activity, students will become word detectives to find spelling patterns in a story, and then sort the words they find according to the patterns. This "word detective" will become a favorite independent activity throughout the...
Other
Laus Dnet: Kinder. Word Lesson Alphabet Potluck Feast [Pdf]
Students will create a class book (PDF) modeled after the book Potluck, by Anne Shelby, to identify the beginning sounds of words and the letter of the alphabet representing that sound (phonemic awareness). Contains links to step sheets...
Auburn University
Auburn University: The Letterbox Lesson
What is the rationale behind the "Letterbox Lesson?" This site reveals how learners must understand the phoneme sequence in words in order to decode them. Come and learn more.
Auburn University
Auburn University: The Letterbox Lesson
The "letterbox lesson plan" is a phonics lesson plan in which young students are led to analyze the phoneme sequence in a word, first by spelling the word and then by reading it.
Read Works
Read Works: Grade 2: Four Lesson Unit: Vocabulary in Context
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of four lesson plans designed to develop young scholars' vocabulary skills including understanding prefixes, using context clues, and using a glossary and a dictionary. Lessons are based on the...
Other
Teacher.org: Beginning Sound Match
This lesson will allow young scholars to practice both writing names and identifying beginning sounds for common item names.
Utah Education Network
Uen: K Act. 02: Name Games
This lesson engages students in many word play activities associated with students' names. Students will participate in songs, games, and other phonemic awareness activities associated with names of students.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Segmenting and Blending Words
In this activity, students will learn how to segment words. Then students will play a segmentation game that utilizes Elkonin boxes and markers.