Lesson Plan
Pennsylvania Department of Education

Writing With Environmental Print

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students develop literacy skills by exploring street signs, cereal boxes, and billboards. In this writing with environmental print lesson plan, students build word recognition in every day print. Students decode words and discover new...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Letter Recognition Flash Games for Kids

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Young scholars explore the alphabet by completing an on-line letter identification activity. For this phonetics lesson, students utilize the website www.literarycenter.net and listen to word sounds as they identify the spelling of the...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Color Recognition Game

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Pupils study color words. In this math lesson, students complete a variety of activities on the computer in which they identify colors and color words.
Worksheet
Curated OER

School-Home Links: Three and Four Letter Words

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this phonics worksheet, students follow directions and practice saying a list of 6 three and four letter words. Students first say the word, then say each sound each letter makes. Worksheet is designed to be signed by parent and child...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Treasure Box Game, Segmenting Syllables

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A classroom game designed to build accuracy skills in students' abilities to identify syllables. The teacher prints picture cards (this site links to the site for pictures) of one-, two-, or three-syllable words. Students pull a picture...
Unit Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Word Split Stomp, Segmenting Syllables Activity

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A classroom activity that introduces and builds the accuracy of students' abilities of identifying syllables in a word. The instructor says a word, the student stomps once for each syllable in the word and then stomps one more time to...
Unit Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Syllable Slap! Segmenting Syllables

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A higher level activity that helps students develop fluency in identifying open and closed syllable words.
Unit Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Syllable Walk; A Syllable Identification Game

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A fun, active game to learn all about syllables! Students line up on one side of the room and take one step for each syllable in the word that the instructor says.
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Onset Rime Segmenting and Blending

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This instructional activity offers routines for blending and segmenting onsets and rimes of single-syllable spoken words. Included is a video showing students practicing this skill and ideas for centers.
Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Segmenting and Blending Words

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this lesson, students will learn how to segment words. Then students will play a segmentation game that utilizes Elkonin boxes and markers.
Unit Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: "Aliens of Paz" Picture Activity: Oral Segmenting Accuracy

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
An exciting activity that helps pre-readers identify sounds and break down words into segments. The students pretend to be "Aliens of Paz" who pronouce words very slowly. This activity also incorporates movement as the student touches...
Unit Plan
St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: 3 & 4 Syllables Lesson

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate three or four syllables in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out...
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Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Segmenting [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
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...
Unit Plan
St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Lessons 23 29 Review

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "x". Words with digraphs and 2-syllable words are also included in this review module. Students are prompted to interact with the video...
Activity
Free Reading

Free Reading: Lucky Dip Game: Oral Blending and Segmenting

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students pull an object from a bag, keep it hidden, stretch out its name by pronouncing each letter sound for at least a second, and everyone else has to guess the object.
Unit Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Word Race Game, Oral Segmentation Accuracy

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students are divided into two teams. The teacher calls one person from each team up at a time to look at a picture. The first player to yell out how many sounds are in the picture gets a point for the team. This site includes a link to a...
Unit Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Graph the Sounds: Oral Segmentation Activity

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A small group activity. Each group receives a Graph the Sound page (link included on site). The teacher holds up a picture and the group must graph each sound they hear when they pronounce the word.
Unit Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: What's the Secret? Oral Segmentation Accuracy Activity

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this activity, the teacher says three words and has the students identify the common sound. This site includes a link to a Word List Generator.
Unit Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: The Take Away Game: Onset Rime Segmenting

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A classroom activity led by the instructor. The student is given a spoken onset and rime, and learns to remove the onset and state the remaining rime.
Unit Plan
St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Lessons 44 67 Review

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
In this beginning reading module, the instructor reviews how to pronounce words that incorporate"y", "ie", "ind", "ild". More review is also includes "2 & 3 syllable" words Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at...
Unit Plan
St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Lessons 13 24 Review

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this beginning reading module, the instructor reviews words that incorporate "x", "2 syllables", digraphs, and more. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words,...
Unit Plan
St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Lessons 84 88 Review

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this beginning reading module, the instructor reviews words that incorporate "ie", "ui", "u", "3 syllables", "4 syllables", and more. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to...
Unit Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Slate Races: A Phoneme Segmenting Game

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A classroom or small group game to build accuracy of students' abilities to blend phonemes. Students write the word that the teacher gives them on their own slate/dry erase board and then underneath the word, writes down each sound in...
Unit Plan
Los Angeles County Office of Education

Teams: Phonemic Awareness Activities

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site offers phonemic awareness activities that will extend the concepts and skills associated with this reading skill. Activities include rhyming words, segmenting syllables, substituting beginning sounds, isolating sounds, and...