US Department of Education
U.s. Department of Education: Teaching Approaches: Phonemic Awareness
What is phonemic awareness? Check out this site to learn more about phonemic awareness. Teachers can gain an overview of this topic when they visit this resource.
McGraw Hill
Mc Graw Hill Education: Grade 2: Treasures: Practice Book O [Pdf]
Help second graders reinforce their understanding of the reading skills, vocabulary acquisition, phonemic awareness, and sight words with the pages in this 260-page workbook. This workbook is designed to supplement the stories from Grade...
McGraw Hill
Mc Graw Hill Education: Grade 3: Treasures: Practice Book O [Pdf]
Help third graders reinforce their understanding of reading skills, vocabulary acquisition, phonemic awareness, and sight words with the pages in this 230-page workbook. This workbook is designed to supplement the stories from Grade 3...
McGraw Hill
Mc Graw Hill Education: Grade 1: Treasures: Spelling Practice Book [Pdf]
Help Grade 1s reinforce their understanding of the spelling skills with the exercises in this 128-page workbook. This spelling practice workbook is designed to supplement the story words found in the Grade 1 Treasures collection.
Kidsource OnLine
Kid Source: Beginning Reading and Phonological Awareness
Key to learning how to read is the ability to identify the different sounds that make words and to associate these sounds with written words. There are 44 phonemes in the English language, including letter combinations such as /th/,...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Teaching Reading: Expert Interviews
Learn from nationally known researchers and experts in literacy and early education. Topics include phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, spelling, comprehension, writing, summer learning, early childhood education, dyslexia, and more.
McGraw Hill
Mc Graw Hill Education: Grade 1: Treasures: Practice Book O [Pdf]
Help Grade 1s reinforce their understanding of the reading skills, vocabulary acquisition, phonemic awareness, and sight words with the exercises in this 275-page workbook. This workbook is designed to supplement the stories from Grade 1...
LD Online
Ld Online: Beginning Reading and Phonological Awareness
This site from the LD OnLine focuses on beginning reading and phonological awareness for students with learning disabilities. Check out the information presented in this informative article.
McGraw Hill
Mc Graw Hill Education: Grade 4: Treasures: Practice Book O [Pdf]
Help fourth graders reinforce their understanding of reading skills, vocabulary acquisition, fluency, and phonics with the exercises in this 230-page workbook. This workbook is designed to supplement the stories from Grade 4 Treasures.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: What Do You Hear?
Celebration words can be used to help young scholars review and practice beginning sounds. This lesson plan will help students recognize and produce the initial sound of a given word. Included are an assessment checklist, videos of the...
Other
Teacher.org: Beginning Sound Match
This lesson will allow young scholars to practice both writing names and identifying beginning sounds for common item names.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Match That Pie
Knowing the relationship between written letters and spoken sounds will help children recognize words accurately and automatically. In this lesson plan, children practice matching letters with initial sounds.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Guess What I'm Thinking?: Initial Sound Accuracy
A version of the "20 Questions" game. The instructor tells the class he is thinking of something that starts with, for example, /b/. The students have to come up with what the teacher is thinking of.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Alphabats Syllables
Alphabats - Syllables is a super fun way for kids to practice phonemic awareness. Click on the bats' bellies to hear the words, and then match the words with the same number of syllables. Match 6 words correctly and then help the bats...
ABCya
Ab Cya: Alphabats Rhyming Words
Alphabats - Rhyming Words is a super fun way for kids to practice phonemic awareness. Click on the bats' bellies to hear the words, and then match the words with rhyming sounds. Match 6 words correctly and then help the bats collect...
Education.com
Education.com: L.1.2.e Worksheets
[Free Registration/Login Required] These worksheets can help students practice the Common Core State Standards skill of spelling words phonetically.
Hopelink
Hopelink: Reading Lesson Idea: R Controlled Words
Practice reading and pronouncing words that have a vowel followed by the letter R.
Phonics Guide
Papa Jan: What Is Phonics?
How can you define phonics? Take this opportunity to learn a little more about phonics and its relationship to letters and sounds.
ICT Games
Ict Games: Letters and Sounds: Phoneme Pop
Click on the correct letter to match the phoneme and catch the letters to practice letter sound recognition.
Los Angeles County Office of Education
Teams: Distance Learning: Rhyming Words Activities
A K-1 lesson plan from TEAMS Distance Learning. "Students will practice rhyming words and also be able to identify words that rhyme. These lessons will have them active."
Read Works
Read Works: Grade 2: Four Lesson Unit: Vocabulary in Context
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of four lesson plans designed to develop students' vocabulary skills including understanding prefixes, using context clues, and using a glossary and a dictionary. Lessons are based on the books...
Read Works
Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 2nd Grade Unit: Context Clues
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a lesson plan in which students learn to use context clues in surrounding sentences to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. The lesson plan utilizes the book The Life Cycle of an Emperor...
Read Works
Read Works: Vocabulary in Context Kindergarten Unit: Using Sound and Picture Cues
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson uses Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Ehlert to teach students to use picture cues and initial word sounds to identify unknown words. Ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and independent...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Holiday Relay: A Sounding Out Game
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...