Eighth graders use geo-boards to create similar and congruent figures and find their corresponding sides. Using the geo-board paper, they draw the shapes they create on the geo-boards. With partners,students create similar and congruent...

Pupils practice recognizing the connection between phonemes and letters with an emphasis on finding the short vowel /i/ in words. They each receive a Elkonin letterbox and a picture card with icky-sticky gum on it and the letter i.

Students explore the /awl/ phoneme. They examine the /awl/ sound and how to make the sound themselves. They say /awl/ tongue twisters and use letterboxes to write several 'all' words. They read stories with the /awl/ sound.

First graders identify the digraph /sh/ in written and spoken language. After a brief discussion of the independent and combined sounds of the phonemes /s/ and /h/ students practice identifying initial and final placement of the new...

What? A long-lost poem from Robert Frost? Introduce your class to a poem recently found and published from Robert Frost's personal collection. The lesson includes background information on the author, the poem itself, and a list of...

Scholars research and present on the historical happenings of 1919. After sharing their findings, pupils debate about how Congress dealt with the moral issues of the time. The evaluation asks learners to write a persuasive...

Students explore phonemes. They discuss the phoneme /m/. Students learn a tongue twister to help them identify the phoneme /m/. They read "If You Give A Moose a Muffin." Students search for /m/ words while reading the story. They...

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...

Pupils decode correspondence in order to become better, fluent readers. When the letters e and a are put together they make the E sound. They become more fluent readers through listening for a correspondence in speech, in text, and...

Students explore letter-sound correspondences. They explore the letter s and the sound produced by the letter. Students explore how to write both the upper and lower case forms of the letter s. Students identify s in both written and...

First graders recognize the short vowel a in written and spoken language. Through listening activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /a/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify...

Students build their sight vocabulary. They study the short vowel correspondence e. They practice pronouncing the /e/ phoneme when shown the grapheme e in written words. They read e = /e/ and write words that contain the e...

Student read pseudo words containing the e=/e/ correspondence and recognize sounds in vocal gestures and words. They explore the e=/e/ correspondence, or short e vowel sound and complete a letter box lesson, reading words that contain...

First graders develop letter-sound correspondence skills by segmenting words according to their phonemes. Using letter tiles and letter boxes, they spell words called by the teacher. After reading several books with the teacher, 1st...

Students recognize the short vowel u in written and spoken language. Through listening activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /u/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify the...

First graders recognize the short vowel i in written and spoken language. Through listening activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /i/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify...

Students engage in an emergent literacy instructional activity that focuses on phonemic awareness and they practice corresponding the letter "i" to its long or short sound. This type of recognition has been found to be essential to...

Students engage in an emergent literacy lesson in order to help develop the skills of letter recognition and corresponding sound of the phoneme. This is done with the use of a tongue twister using the phoneme of the letter "e".

Pupils 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 picture...

Students 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 spelling words with the vowel-consonant-e pattern.

Pupils investigate how the same letter can make more than one sound. It is also important for students to understand that the correspondences can be spelled and pronounced differently. This lesson plan will review e=/e/ and introduce...

First graders practice the short i sound by repeating tongue twisters. Later they write the letter i by using the analogy of drawing a straight line from the "fence" down to the "sidewalk" and putting a "basketball" above it. Other...

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 participate in an emergent literacy lesson that focuses on the skill of phonemic awareness. The phoneme chosen is the letter "a". They need to correlate the sound to the letter.