Students engage in a emergent literacy lesson with the intention of improving reading comprehension. The goals of the lesson include recognizing both upper and lower case S, to create an awareness of the mouth movement and the phoneme...

Learners observe the prop of a door to demonstrate the sound of the phonemic sound of the letter "e". Then they drill and practice the sound with the teacher. The essential importance of the skill of phonemic awareness is stressed in the...

Students identify the letter and phoneme /n/ in written and spoken language. Students practice the production of the /n/ sound through stories and rhymes. They identify the initial placement of the letter and sound using a picture...

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

Students engage in a instructional activity of emerging literacy that focuses on phonemic awareness. The phoneme for the letter "p" is chosen for the instructional activity and students must acquire the skill of letter recognition also.

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 recognize the short vowel a in written and spoken language. Through matching and listening activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /a/ from other phonemes. Students identify the phoneme and letter in pseudo words they decode.

Young scholars explore vowel correspondences. They discuss the vowel correspondence u=/u/. They identify u=/u/ in written words and a meaningful representation and letter symbol for the sound. Students read and write words using u=/u/.

Young scholars investigate how: A single phoneme, which is a vocal gesture in spoken words, can be represented by more than one grapheme. Also how a digraph is the combination of two letters that make one sound (there are both vowel and...

Students complete a variety of activities related to the short /o/ sound. They spell different words containing the short /o/ sound using letter manipulatives, and with a partner read the book "Big Top." With their partner they count...

Students identify the digraph /sh/ in written and spoken language. After a reading of a decodable story containing the digraph, students practice identifying the initial and final placement of the new digraph /sh/ in words using a...

Students recognize the short vowel "A" in written and spoken language. Through matching and listening activities, they discriminate the short vowel /a/ from other vowel phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter...

Pupils explore the short /e/ sound. They practice making the sound, noticing how their mouths move to make the sound. They use letterboxes to spell and write 'e' words. They listen for the /e/ sound in a story and then write their own...

First graders identify the digraphs in written and spoken language. After a brief discussion of the combinations of /c/ and /h/ that comprise th /ch/ digraph, 1st graders practice identifying initial and final placement of the digraph...

Students become aware that when certain letters are put together in a word they are said with a single mouth move. Through modeling and a variety of guided practice activities they explore the /sh/ phoneme. They read and identify 'sh'...

Students recognize the short vowel a in written and spoken language. Through matching and listening activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /a/ from other phonemes. Students identify the phoneme and letter in words from the story...

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

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

Students recognize the short vowel a in spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /a/ in words and sentences. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and read sentences...

Students study the u=/u/ correspondence. They explore words with /u/ in them, read a book focusing on /u/ and complete a worksheet. The Play Around the World with flashcards with /u/ words and words that are not /u/ words on them.

First graders identify the digraph /sh/ in written and spoken language. Students practice the production of the /sh/ sound through word practice and stories. They identify the initial and final placement of the new digraph /sh/ using a...

Young scholars recognize the short vowel a in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /a/ in words and sentences. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and read...

First graders identify the digraph /sh/ in written and spoken language. Students practice the production of the /sh/ sound through word practice and riddles. They identify the initial and final placement of the new digraph /sh/ using a...

Students practice letter recognition for the /s/ sound in both lower and upper case formats. They listen as the book, "Saturday Night at the Dinosaur Stomp," by Carol Shields is read to them and then they complete a worksheet containing...