Lesson Plan
Curated OER

"Name Those Vowels"

For Teachers K - 2nd
Help your class recognize the capital and lower-case forms of the five vowels. They will learn how to make capital and lower-case forms of the vowels and all the rules surrounding vowels. Fun songs and activities are included. Links to...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Creating an Original Opera

For Teachers 9th - 12th
This may be a lot to ask of a high schooler, but then again, who knows? Pupils work in groups to explore, write, and then perform an original opera. They view versions of The Magic Flute and La Traviata, then compose a plot, characters,...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Dynamics

For Teachers 1st
First graders review Frere Jacques and perform crescendos and decrescendos. In this music lesson plan, 1st graders also learn about the dynamics of music including piano, forte, mezzo piano, and mezzo forte.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Temperature Conversions

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discuss the different between the English system of measurement and the metric system. Working ins mall groups, students read the weather map. They convert temperatures from one measurement system to another.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Scanning Worksheet: Latin

For Students 8th - 9th
Introduce your Latin class to meter and the metrical pattern of an elegiac couplet. Have your learners practice identifying the syllables open to resolution in the two exercises provided. Answers are not included, but there is a helpful...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Multimedia Book Reports

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students read a chapter book of 100-200 pages in length. They create a story map and multimedia book report. Pupils review the elements of a story map such as: characters, setting, problem, important events, solution, etc.) Students...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Using Scholastic News to Introduce the Net

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders log on to the net, type in the address for Scholastic and browse the subjects for the week. They select one area of interest and generate five interesting facts about the article.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Elements of Music

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students identify three of the essential elements of music: rhythm, melody and harmony. They discover a simple song which will illustrate these three elements separately and bring them together in a final form. They analyze and critique...
Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Peg the Hen (Short E Listening Practice)

For Students Pre-K - 1st
English language learners and beginning readers can listen as they read this wonderfully animated story about Peg the Hen. Excellent drill for learning to pronounce the short E sound with excellent reinforcement of basic vocabulary...
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Rock ’N Learn

Rock 'N Learn: Ned and Pete: Long E (With Silent E) and Short E Sounds

For Students K - 1st Standards
This printable vowel letter worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will identify and distinguish between words that contain short /e/ and long /e/. An answer key and lesson...
Unit Plan
St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Short E Lesson

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate short /e/ in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see...
Unit Plan
Starfall

Starfall: Short E Song

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A song that students can listen to and sing along with to introduce the short e sound and to hear examples of words using that sound.
Interactive
Roy the Zebra

Roy the Zebra: Reading Games: Long Vowel Phonemes: Words With the "Ea" Sound

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Download this free interactive game to help a baby bird fly with her friends by building words that use the phoneme "ea" to create the long "e" sound.
Unit Plan
St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: A E and E E Lesson

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "a_e" and "e_e" in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words,...
Unit Plan
Other

First School Years: Literacy: Phonics: Vowels: Sort the Long and Short 'E' Words

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site contains a sorting activity through which students can practice identifying pictures with either a long or short 'e' vowel sound.
Interactive
ICT Games

Ict Games: Cvc Pop

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
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.
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Rock ’N Learn

Rock 'N Learn: Ann and Abe: Long a (With Silent E) and Short a Sounds

For Students K - 1st Standards
This printable vowel letter instructional activity from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will find hidden pictures by identifying words that contain short /a/ and long /a/. An answer key...
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Rock ’N Learn

Rock 'N Learn: Bud and June Long U (With Silent E) and Short U Sounds

For Students K - 1st Standards
This printable vowels worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will view pictures and write words that contain short /u/ and long /u/. An answer key and lesson extension are...
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Rock ’N Learn

Rock 'N Learn: Mike and Mick Long I (With Silent E) and Short I Sounds

For Students K - 1st Standards
This printable vowels worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will label pictures with words that contain short /i/ and long /i/. An answer key and lesson extension are included.
Unit Plan
St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: U E Lesson

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate the silent e to form the long /u/. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound...
Unit Plan
St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Long E Lesson

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate long /e/ in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see...
Unit Plan
St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: O E Lesson

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "o_e" pattern. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see words...
Unit Plan
St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: I E Lesson

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "i_e" to form words with the long /i/. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to...
Interactive
Vocabulary Spelling City

Vocabulary Spelling City: Read a Word: Long O With a Final E

For Students 1st Standards
Practice reading one-syllable long-vowel words with a final -e. The focus of this game is on the long "o" sound.