Improve pronunciation and phonemic awareness in your first and second graders! With this plan, they distinguish between the sounds for short vowel e and long vowel e. They are introduced to the vowel patterns that comprise long vowel...

First graders successfully build words containing the short "u" vowel. They connect letter cards with an accuracy of 90%. Students build on phonics as well. They encounter within this lesson sequencing.

Complete a variety of activities related to the long /a/ sound with a focus on words containing the ai and ay correspondence with your readers. As a class, they recite a tongue twister, then spell different words containing ay and ai...

Students practice the strategy of phonemic awareness to become better fluent readers. They grasp the concept of short vowels and identify the sound of /a/ in reading and spelling words. A letterbox is utilized within this lesson along...

Students are introduced to the characteristics of fables and folktales. In groups, they read and identify the various elements in the stories they read from around the world. For each story, they analyze the setting and the various...

Students 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 explore phonemes in spoken words as well as their corresponding graphemes in written words. They practice the short vowels /i/ and /e/. Students perform activities to practice sounds. They identify pictures with a particular...

Students, with the help of a vocabulary list of terms involving safety and security procedures, analyze pictures of recreational activities found in magazines/dictionaries and in groups review all the safety and security procedures...

Students examine the /O/ phoneme by examining words and reciting a tongue twister. They practice writing the letter 'O' on their dry erase boards. While they listen to a read aloud of "Bo and Rose" they form the /O/ with their mouths...

Students study the /a/ using the hand gesture and 'aaa' sound as if they were seeing a ghost. Next, they recite a tongue twister and make words using letter boxes using different numbers of phonemes. Next, they read "Pat's Jam" out loud...

Learners incorporate knowledge box into their classroom activities. In this technology integration lesson plan, students fill out a graphic organizer using Glossopedia to analyze a new subject.

In this present continuous worksheet, students view examples of how to put the subject of their sentences into present continuous form with the form to be and ing. Click on "Continue with Exercise" at the bottom of the page to see actual...

Students review language the language of health through a question and answer session.  In this health adjectives instructional activity, students use previously learned vocabulary to  write speak and write sentences using...

  Young learners gain phonemic awareness with this quick activity. First, point out what sound you’re focusing on today: /a/. Then spell basic words that use this sound, like fat, bat, cat, etc. As a culminating activity, the whole...

Learners practice reading silently to become better readers. They each read a copy of the book, "Mr. Cricket takes a Vacation," from Carousel Readers. Each student explains why if everyone read aloud in class how distracting it would be...

Pupils work on their sign language skills using yarn balls to tag with and cones for boundaries.

Students practice letter(s) map(s) along with phoneme sequences and sounds that make the /o/ sound in both spoken and written formats. They also decode words containing /o/ sounds to work towards becoming more fluent readers beginning...