Lesson Plan: Final Phoneme ll, ff, ss

Stamp, slap, and clap! Emergent readers demonstrate their awareness of the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds in spoken, short vowel, single-syllable words with a stamp/slap/clap activity. After identifying the letters and sounds of...

Matching letters to letter sounds can be fun and builds strong phonemic awareness. Kindergarteners take turns matching initial, medial, and final phonemes, to individual graphemes. They pick a card, say its name, then find the letter...

Give guided reading lesson plans a makeover with a sample lesson plan designed to meet the needs of your early readers. The sample lesson is divided into three sections: before, during, and after reading. The model then extends to a...

Provide this extensive practice packet for your young learners. Consider having them complete a section each day, or provide this for take-home work. For each letter, the learner says it aloud, traces it, writes it on the blank line, and...

Reading practice can be fun for little ones. This center activity asks them to cut, paste, and identify specific initial, medial, and final phonemes by placing them on a phoneme chart. Cutting and pasting makes this drill and practice a...

Home Sweet Home is the theme of a unit comprised of extra support lessons. Scholars reinforce concepts through chants, grand discussions, and practice worksheets. Topics include digraphs, blending phoneme, long vowels, final sounds,...

As a class, scholars read the poems, Humpty Dumpty, Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater, and Jack and Jill, in order to identify words with the same ending sound. Using their rhyming skills, learners brainstorm additional words from word...

First graders practice their letter and word recognition skills. In this initial and final sounds lesson plan, 1st graders participate in a classroom activity that requires them to blend phonemes into spoken words and sound out...

Look at artistic perspective as you read Two Bad Ants. For this art and reading lesson plan, learners read the Chris Van Allsburg book and find the differences among visual characteristics in the illustrations of the story. They can take...

The fifth installment in a writing unit that culminates with a Hyperstudio illustrated group story project, this plan is ripe with ideas for ways to design group writing projects for elementary writers. Use the whole unit as a base from...