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Curated OER

phoneme awareness

For Teachers K - 1st
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...
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Curated OER

Elephants Enjoy Eating Eggs

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
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...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Doctor Sound

For Teachers K - 1st
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...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Summer Sun is Hot, Hot, Hot

For Teachers K - 1st
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...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Gulp, Gulp, Gulp!

For Teachers K - 3rd
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.
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Curated OER

Yellowish Fish

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
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.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Creaky Door E

For Teachers K - 1st
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...
Lesson Plan
University of Oregon

Pizzaz, Creative Writing & Storytelling: Tongue Twisters

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
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.
Article
DOGO Media

Dogo News: Week of 12 9 13: World's Toughest Tongue Twister!

For Students 6th - 8th
Article reports on what has recently been deemed the world's most difficult tongue twister. Includes a brief video.
Activity
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Left Brained Writing Prompt: Extreme Alliteration: Tongue Twisters

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
Handout
English Club

English Club: Learn English: Pronunciation: Tongue Twisters

For Students 3rd - 8th
An explanation of a tongue-twister followed by a list of thirteen popular tongue-twisters.
Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Seven Selfish Shellfish

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
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]
Activity
Other

Indian Child: Tongue Twisters for Children

For Students 3rd - 8th
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.
Website
Charles I. Kelly and Lawrence E. Kelly

Many Things for Esl Japanese Version

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Fuzzy Wuzzy

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This interactive features the tongue twister Fuzzy Wuzzy.
Unit Plan
Other

Poetry4 Kids

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
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.
Graphic
Curated OER

Clip Art by Phillip Martin: Tongue Twisters

For Students 3rd - 8th
A clipart illustration by Phillip Martin titled "Tongue Twisters."
Unit Plan
Department of Defense

Do Dea: Spanish 2: Unit 1: La Rutina Diaria

For Students 9th - 10th
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....
Unit Plan
Department of Defense

Do Dea: Spanish 1: Unit 4: La Hora

For Students 9th - 10th
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,...
Unit Plan
Department of Defense

Do Dea: Spanish 2: Unit 3: La Diversion

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
Unit Plan
Department of Defense

Do Dea: Spanish 1: Unit 6: Los Lugares

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
Unit Plan
Department of Defense

Do Dea: Spanish 1: Unit 8: La Comida

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
Activity
Other

El Huevo De Chocolate: The Chocolate Egg

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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,...
Activity
Other

El Huevo De Chocolate: The Chocolate Egg

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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,...

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