Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Fluency: Connected Text, Rereading Decodable Text

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Using a familiar decodable text, pairs take turns reading sentences. The partner who isn't reading follows along silently, helping if needed. They alternate sentences until the entire book is finished and then reverse to read the other...
Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness: Syllables, Clapping Names

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Scholars practice identifying and counting syllables. Images of classmates are cut out and placed on a chart. Learners clap and count the syllables in each child's name. They finish by writing the number of syllables under the...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Word Search: Phonics: Double Letter Consonants ending with "-le"

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this double letter consonants worksheet, students solve a puzzle, finding a set of words with double consonants ending with "le." An answer key is included.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Recognition of the Letters

For Teachers K
Students practice writing words and brief sentences. In this phonics lesson, students write letters phonetically spelling the words legibly.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Learning Upper and Lower Case Letters

For Students K - 2nd
In this phonics worksheet, students practice recognizing upper and lower case same letters. students circle the letter in a row that are the same, 5 rows total. Worksheet is designed to be signed by student and parent when completed.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

First Letter Changes

For Teachers K
Students use the books of Eric Carle to change the first letter in a word to see a new word. In this phonics lesson plan, students change the beginning letters in poems and books.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Ending consonants Worksheet: K, G, N, P

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this ending consonants worksheet, students study each of the pictures and write the correct ending consonant to complete the 4 words.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Ending Consonants: G, T, N, Y

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this ending consonants activity, students study each of the pictures and write the correct ending consonant to complete the 4 words.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Our Glittery Growing Garden!

For Teachers K - 1st
Students answer a series of questions about the letter G. They practice the sound that G makes and trace a letter G. They decorate their letter G with glue and glitter. They listen to a story about Plainting a Rainbow.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Make a Word: Long U by Starfall

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students explore language arts by participating an on-line grammar activity. In this letter U lesson, students discuss the uses for the letter U in the English language and the different sounds that can be made from the vowel. Students...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

What Begins With Bb?

For Teachers 1st
First graders match letter sounds to pictures they represent. In this matching letter sound lesson plan, 1st graders use the computer program Kidspiration to match the letter sounds to the corresponding pictures. This can be used for 1...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Phonemic Awareness: Isolation

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Teacher and class work together to build strong phonemic awareness. They say a series of words, isolate the initial phoneme, and say its sound. This lesson is super short but does have a decent extension activity suggestion.
Worksheet
Curated OER

CVC Words - Initial Sounds (2)

For Students K - 1st
In this phonics instructional activity, students study each picture and then fill in the missing initial sound to complete the word. Students follow the consonant-vowel-consonant pattern.
Worksheet
Curated OER

CVC Words - Initial Sounds

For Students K - 1st
For this phonics worksheet, students study each picture and then fill in the missing sound for each word. Students follow a consonant-vowel-consonant pattern.
Worksheet
Curated OER

The Letter K: Which Animal?

For Students Pre-K - K
In this letter k worksheet, students color the animal whose name begins with the letter K, choosing from a set of 3 total. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Phonics Assessment

For Teachers Pre-K - K
In this phonics worksheet, learners identify each alphabet letter and say the sound of the letters. Students complete 26 letters and sounds.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Beginning Sounds Worksheet

For Students K
For this letter recognition worksheet, students examine 4 colorful pictures. They circle the letter that each picture begins with after picking from the three letters shown under each picture.
Lesson Plan
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Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk, University of Texas at Austin

Lesson 2 - Consonant-Vowel-Consonant Words

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Closed syllable words contain short vowel sounds. A phonics lessons introduces readers to consonant-vowel-consonant words. Guided instruction introduces the words with a series of dictation activities, and then learners practice reading...
Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Matching, Medial Match

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Early readers get together and match medial phonemes. They take turns picking picture cards from a pile; they say each word, then determine whether the pair has matching medial sounds.
Lesson Plan
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Blending Best Buddies

For Teachers K - 1st
Practice blending letters together to make the words learners are reading. They decode words familiarized with the concept of blending. This lesson utilizes the Body-Coda method of blending developed by Lloyd Eldredge. Each child...
Unit Plan
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Spring Is Here: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 9)

For Teachers K Standards
Spring is the theme of this unit of extra support lessons. Your early readers enhance their skills using chants, practice worksheets, picture cards, and alphabet cards. Topics include identifying syllables, beginning sounds /w/, /g/,...
Lesson Plan
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Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk, University of Texas at Austin

Lesson 8 - Open Syllables

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Just like scholars plug something in to close a circuit, they must plug a consonant onto a word to make closed syllables. Help learners distinguish between open and closed syllables with a series of activities that emphasize open...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Phonics and Vegetable Books

For Teachers K
Students participate in phonemic awareness and phonics activities and develop a list of vegetable vocabulary words. They break up words into beginnings and endings, and trace and write the letter s. Students then create a Vegetable...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Another Gg Worksheet

For Students K - 2nd
In this reading Gg sound words worksheet, students identify pictures, read pairs of words, circle the word that names the picture, and write the word underneath the picture. Students complete nine g sound activities.