Practice reading and writing words with the consonant - vowel - consonant spelling pattern. Then, select the vowel and the endings to review a variety of patterns.

At the completion of this lesson, students will be able to blend a consonant vowel and consonant to make a word. Included are instructional videos, activities, printable worksheets, an assessment, and extension activity.

This printable consonant blends worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will follow long vowel words that end in silent "e" to complete a maze. An answer key and lesson extension...

An interactive game where students can practice identifying words with short vowel sounds following the consonant-vowel-consonant pattern. Students listen to a word and then click on all of the matching words as they float by on bubbles.

A team game to practice sounding out words and letters.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Use literature and the Whole-Part-Whole Method to teach individual word chunks. This flipchart focuses on the -ake word chunk.

Students are given a list of words and told to count the vowels and turn the sheet over. They are then asked to list the words. In this exercise, students discover how the words are arranged and find it easy to remember them.

A seventeen-part learning module with links to images and videos to help students learn about ou/ow and oi/oy diphthongs.

Given a picture and word with missing letters, students determine what vowel sound is missing and type the word spelled correctly into the box provided.

This printable consonant blends activity from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will write words with the consonant blend -ang to complete a short story. An answer key and lesson...

What is the rationale behind the "Letterbox Lesson?" This site reveals how students must understand the phoneme sequence in words in order to decode them. Come and learn more.

This article focuses on spelling in the 6th grade including vowel-consonant spelling patterns, spelling study strategies, and links to word lists and spelling games.

Discover more about the history of the English language when you visit this informative site. Students and teachers will benefit from this educational resource.

This site features a brief history of English. Come and check out the links provided within this site. Students and teachers will benefit from this educational resource. It includes time lines.

This site provides a brief description of the history of the English language.

Can you name the six syllable types? Explore this informative website to learn more about this part of the English language. Don't miss out on this educational resource.

How can you implement effective decoding instruction for diverse learners in your classroom? This site focuses on phonemic awareness, alphabetic principle, morphology, and the six basic types of syllables in the English language.

A kindergarten/first grade lesson plan for sounding out consonant vowel consonant words. Students and teachers will benefit from this hands-on activity.

A classroom or small group game to build accuracy of students' abilities to blend phonemes. Students write the sounds that the teacher gives them on their own slate/dry erase board and then blend the sounds together to form words.

An exciting activity for the whole class to practice listening for a specific letter sound. When they hear a word with the sound they are listening for they give it a thumbs up; if it doesn't have the sound, they give it a thumbs down....

A small group game to practice word and sound recognition and accuracy. Given a sound or word, each student on team runs to pile of holiday shapes, finds the letter, or picture that begins with the sound, or brings back all the letters...

A quick alphabet game for the whole class. Students stand in a circle and throw a beanbag to each other. When they catch it, they must say a word that begins with the letter given. Continue this in alphabetical order.

A great game to teach students how to sound out words. Each student picks a piece of long paper out of the teacher's basket and pronounces the letters on it.

A letter sound accuracy game based on Musical Chairs. But to keep the chair that they sit in the student must pick a letter from the teacher's bucket and give a word that starts with that letter. A link to Letter Cards is included on...