Letter Chase

Students explore storytelling techniques by reading a book in class. In this mystery story lesson, students read the book Chasing Vermeer and identify the characters, setting and mystery plot. Students complete reading comprehension and...

In this vocabulary and word study instructional activity, students discover that some words have more than 1 meaning and practice using context clues to render the meaning of 3 word in 6 different sentences.

Students play a chasing, fleeing, dodging freeze tag game while practicing identifying words that begin with a specific letters.

First graders identify the digraphs in written and spoken language. After a brief discussion of the combinations of /c/ and /h/ that comprise the /ch/ digraph, 1st graders practice identifying initial and final placement of the digraph...

Focus in on the digraph ch. Young readers will hear the sound, print the letters, and read A Peach for Chad. Can your youngsters think of any more words that use the target sound? 

Let's learn about the long A sound! Youngsters practice saying the name of each picture listed, and then they unscramble the letters in the boxes provided. They write the word that contains the long A sound on the line. Note: The...

Students practice the correspondences associated with letters and phonemes dealing with digraphs such as ch=/ch/. They recite several times the tongue twister "Cheer up Charlie; your teacher is bringing chocolate," and view cards with...

Students focus on the sound of the /ch/ digraph before recognizing it in both written and spoken words. They study the poster that says "Chugga Chugga Choo Choo!" to find they /ch/ phonemes. They write the letters before identifying...

Young scholars begin to read and spell words vis phonemes and letter correspondences. They encounter the concept digraph. This lesson plan helps the students see a c and h together, they make the ch sound. So, that the young scholars...

Students meet Ben Franklin and research his life accomplishments. In this lesson plan about the history of Benjamin Franklin, students will visit several websites in order to learn about this Founding Father. Students follow a worksheet...