ClassFlow
Class Flow: B or D?
[Free Registration/Login Required] Multi-page flipchart designed to give primary students tools to use to distinguish between the letters b and d. Provides numerous opportunities for students to practice identification and automatic...
Can Teach
Can Teach: Word Race
In this activity for grades 1 and 2, students practice examining, copying out, and reading words that are written in the classroom.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Popcorn Words
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will review commonly used reading words.
Education.com
Education.com: Rf.2.3.c Worksheets
[Free Registration/Login Required] These worksheets can help students practice the Common Core State Standards skill of decoding regularly spelled two-syllable words with long vowels.
Auburn University
Auburn University: How Children Learn to Read Words
How do children really learn to read words? This resource offers insight into this complicated but exciting journey of putting sounds and words together to learn the joy of reading. Come and discover more.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: The Alphabetic Principle
What are predictor's for a child's success in reading? Use this site to learn more how the knowledge of the alphabet and shapes is a factor for reading success.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Taking the "Un" Out of "Unwritten"
In this lesson plan, learners will use a the rap song about prefixes, suffixes and roots and the song "Unwritten" by Natasha Bedingfield. Students will be engaged as they are practice their understanding of prefixes, suffixes and roots....
Other
Audiblox: Foundational Reading Skills
What types of reading skills do students need to be successful? This informative site focuses on students with learning disabilities. Explore!
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Phonic Generalizations in "Chrysanthemum"
This online lesson plan uses an interactive activity to teach students how to determine the common and alternative sounds for specific vowel combinations. The words for this lesson plan are taken from the book "Chrysanthemum," by Kevin...
Other
How to Study: A Word Identification Strategy
Learn eight steps to help you identify unfamiliar words.
Rock ’N Learn
Rock 'N Learn: My Grandpa: Reading Muti Syllable Words
This printable worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will read sentences that contain multisyllabic words and then identify pictures that contain the multisyllabic words in...
International Reading Association
Reading Online Articles: Comprehension Instruction
An article on improving reading comprehension through time-tested strategies as well as a summary of new hypotheses about effective comprehension instruction.
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center
Wisconsin Rt I Center: Structural Analysis [Pdf]
Classroom teachers will learn about structural analysis of words, an important instructional strategy. Teachers will learn how to implement structural analysis, understand how to measure progress with structural analysis, find research...
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center
Wisconsin Rt I Center: Segmenting [Pdf]
Classroom teachers will learn how to use segmenting phonemes as an instructional strategy. Teachers will learn direct instructional techniques for segmenting phonemes; games and activities are also provided to reinforcement student...
Read Works
Read Works: A New Letter for the Alphabet
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage discusses the history of the schwa sound. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for vocabulary...
Education.com
Education.com: Lesson Plan: Syllabication: Open and Closed Syllables
[Free Registration/Login Required] During this lesson, students will divide words into syllables. Then students will determine whether the syllables are "open" or "closed."
Arcademics
Arcademics: Turtle Dash
Students will determine the correct double vowel sound to go in the given letters.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Princess Presto's Spectacular Spelling Play
Help Princess Presto put on a spelling play! After she makes the letter sound, choose the correct letter with your wand to make a simple word. The word you spell will become part of the play!
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: The Big Green Monster Teaches Phonics in Reading and Writing
A big green monster helps students build their reading fluency and word recognition skills through choral reading, literacy center activities, and writing stories.
Starfall
Starfall: Digraph (Th) Activity
Check out this interactive digraph activity for the "th" sound. Students will find this interactive activity engaging and educational.
BBC
Bbc Skillswise: Reading: The Sounds of English
Learn about the different sounds in English. For adult learners.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Can You Crack the Code?
Students will conduct guided research on the Navajo code talkers and briefly discuss their impact on WWII. Students will also be introduced to other forms of cryptology and use number pattern skills to crack their own code and create a...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Dividing Words Into Syllables
Young scholars will develop reading fluency using vocabulary from the book Why Mosquitos Buzz in People's Ears by Leo and Diane Dillon. Students will participate in reading the story using the reader's theatre strategy. After being...
Understood For All
Understood.org: Skills Kids Need Going Into First Grade
There are fun ways to practice language and math skills to help your child get ready for first grade. Here is a list of skills kids need to develop for first grade in reading, writing, and math.