Alabama Learning Exchange
The Causes of Pollution
Learners identify types of pollution. In this environmental lesson, students view a video and discuss the types of pollution. Learners create a poster to suggest ways to prevent pollution.
Curated OER
Sharing Beauty Through Song
Students perform a song for their school community. In this music lesson, students sing the philanthropic song See Me Beautiful by Red Grammar and reflect upon the lyrics. Students perform the song for their school community.
Curated OER
Using Abbreviations for Months of the Year
In this abbreviation for the months of the year instructional activity, students review correct abbreviations, then write the month of the year and its abbreviation indicated by a statement about that month.
Curated OER
Halves And Fourths
Young learners start out by going to the board to draw lines through shapes to identify halves. Then they are given a square of paper and are directed to fold the paper into halves and then into fourths. They color the halves...
Curated OER
I Spy. What Do You See?
Students play "Veo, veo" (I Spy), a game from the oral tradition that incorporates the alphabet.
Curated OER
Express Yourself
Students investigate the different types of sentences that are found in common usage including exclamatory, interrogative, declarative, and imperative. They examine samples of the different types of sentences and identify the name for each.
Curated OER
Group Initiatives
Students explore the names and qualities about members in the group. They each say their name and something about themselves. Students gather around in a circle. They listen to the teacher as he or she says the name of someone and throws...
Curated OER
Adventures in Alice
Students create a haiku and illustrate it on the computer. For this haiku lesson plan, students review the history of the haiku while they are outside and then write their own. Students then use a computer program to illustrate their poem.
Curated OER
A Balanced Diet
High schoolers determine which healthy foods comprise a well balanced meal. Using a checklist, students classify foods as healthy or unhealthy. This lesson is intended for high schoolers acquiring English.
Curated OER
Adverbs
In this adverb instructional activity, learners choose an adverb to complete sentences in a paragraph. Students are given an adverb list from which to choose.
Other
St. Ambrose Barlow Catholic Primary School: Spelling: Silent Letters
This learning exercise asks students to spell words with silent letters such as w, k, and g.
Vocabulary.com
Words Plagued by Unusual Silent Letters
This site contains a list of 20 words with commonly misspelled words that have silent letters. Teachers can digitally assign this list to their students to reinforce the spellings, pronunciations, and meanings of these words.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Silent Letters
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will investigate, read and spell words with silent letters.
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: Silent Gh, H, L Lesson
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "gh", "h", or "l" in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out...
Other
Ghost Letter Digraphs
This Prezi presentation gives examples of the silent-letter digraphs kn, wr, and gn.
Rock ’N Learn
Rock 'N Learn: Ann and Abe: Long a (With Silent E) and Short a Sounds
This printable vowel letter worksheet 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 and lesson...
Rock ’N Learn
Rock 'N Learn: Ned and Pete: Long E (With Silent E) and Short E Sounds
This printable vowel letter learning exercise 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...
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: Silent B, K, T, W Lesson
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "b", "k", "t", or "w" in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out...
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: A E and E E Lesson
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,...
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: Lessons 68 73 Review
In this beginning reading module, the instructor reviews how to pronounce words that incorporate"a_e", "e_e", "ing", and other patterns. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to...
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Teaching Spelling in 4th Grade
This article focuses on 4th-grade spelling words which include the following: abbreviations and acronyms, suffixes, capitalization, and silent letters.
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: U E Lesson
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...
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: I E Lesson
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...
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: O E Lesson
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...