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Curated OER
phoneme awareness
Students focus on the sound of the /ch/ digraph before recognizing it in both written and spoken words. They study the poster that says "Chugga Chugga Choo Choo!" to find they /ch/ phonemes. They write the letters before identifying...
Curated OER
Elephants Enjoy Eating Eggs
Students recognize the short vowel e in written and spoken language. Through listening and matching activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /e/ from other phonemes. Students practice using the phoneme and letter in words by writing...
Curated OER
The Doctor Sound
Students recognize the short vowel o in written and spoken language. Through matching and listening activities, students discriminate the short vowel o from other short vowel sounds. They associate the phoneme with its letter...
Curated OER
The Summer Sun is Hot, Hot, Hot
Learners recognize the short vowel o in written and spoken language. Through listening and matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /o/ from other vowel phonemes. Students associate /o/ with its letter representation and...
Curated OER
Gulp, Gulp, Gulp!
Students recognize the grapheme g in its upper and lower case form. They produce the corresponding sound for the letter g. Students go over what shape your mouth makes and how the back of your throat moves when making the sound for g.
Curated OER
Yellowish Fish
Students engage in an emergent literacy lesson in order to obtain the skill of phoneme awareness to become better readers. They practice blending different phonemes in order to eventually form words.
Curated OER
Creaky Door E
Learners recognize the short vowel "E" in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /e/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and fill in the...
University of Oregon
Pizzaz, Creative Writing & Storytelling: Tongue Twisters
This PIZZAZ (People Interested in Zippy and ZAny Zcribbling) lesson plan will engage students in writing tongue twisters. Examples of tongue twisters are provided. A template is also included as a graphic organizing support for students.
DOGO Media
Dogo News: Week of 12 9 13: World's Toughest Tongue Twister!
Article reports on what has recently been deemed the world's most difficult tongue twister. Includes a brief video.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Left Brained Writing Prompt: Extreme Alliteration: Tongue Twisters
Choose from the tongue twister starter generator and use these words at the beginning, middle, or end of a BIGGER tongue twister you create. Don't make just a line of alliteration; make a line of alliteration that's really challenging to...
English Club
English Club: Learn English: Pronunciation: Tongue Twisters
An explanation of a tongue-twister followed by a list of thirteen popular tongue-twisters.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Seven Selfish Shellfish
This video segment from Between the Lions features a classic tongue twister: a type of wordplay that helps children tune their ears to language and the sounds within words. [0:29]
Other
Indian Child: Tongue Twisters for Children
What better way to practice your English speaking skills than to wrap your tongue around a few twisters? This site includes twisters contributed by people from India, the U.S., and other countries.
Charles I. Kelly and Lawrence E. Kelly
Many Things for Esl Japanese Version
This is the Japanese version of the well-known Interesting Things for ESL site (the authors are professors teaching in Japan). The Japanese site has many of the same features as the English Only version in fact, it usually goes to the...
Other
Poetry4 Kids
Author Kenn Nesbitt's poems are entertaining. Funny tongue twisters and popular poems such as "I'm Practically Perfect" are read by the author. There are also links to books and games.
Curated OER
Clip Art by Phillip Martin: Tongue Twisters
A clipart illustration by Phillip Martin titled "Tongue Twisters."
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Spanish 2: Unit 1: La Rutina Diaria
In this first unit of an intermediate Spanish course, students learn about the history of Spain and how to talk about their daily routine. Vocabulary includes reflexive verbs, bath items, schedules, the simple future tense, and clothing....
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Spanish 1: Unit 4: La Hora
In this fourth unit of an introductory Spanish course that focuses on Ecuador, students learn about different types of verbs in Spanish, time, the difference between al and a la, interrogatives, how to develop a schedule of events,...
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Spanish 2: Unit 3: La Diversion
In this third unit of an intermediate Spanish course, students learn about Spanish art. They investigate El Greco and use a whiteboard tool to create a painting in El Greco's style. They present and research information about other...
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Spanish 1: Unit 6: Los Lugares
In this sixth unit of an introductory Spanish course, students learn about Venezuela's culture and history, continue to expand their written and oral vocabulary when speaking about themselves, and recite a tongue twister. Includes...
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Spanish 1: Unit 8: La Comida
In this eighth unit of an introductory Spanish course, students learn about foods eaten in Spanish-speaking countries, traditions and eating habits, what's on a menu, they recite a tongue twister, gather and present information about a...
Other
El Huevo De Chocolate: The Chocolate Egg
This is a fabulous Spanish-language site where you can find tales, traditions, songs, activities, tongue twisters, riddles and more. Good way to preserve and spread children's folklore. Also provides other safe links to geography, math,...
Other
El Huevo De Chocolate: The Chocolate Egg
This is a fabulous Spanish-language site where you can find tales, traditions, songs, activities, tongue twisters, riddles and more. Good way to preserve and spread children's folklore. Also provides other safe links to geography, math,...