In this lesson, students will play with words as they use alliteration. Students will press buttons to generate adjectives, verbs, and nouns that begin with the letter "B" in them. Students will continue to generate letter "B" words...

This site features activities for the letters of the alphabet. Students have an opportunity to click on a letter and hear a story about that letter.

This lesson focuses on the sound of the letter B. It includes a basketball poem, things beginning with the letter B and how to form the letter B.

One of a series of letters written home by Peter Hertzog of the 4th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, Co. B. Hertzog describes the events as his regiment travelled to Camp Thomas at Chickmauga, Georgia as well as his service in the...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Teaching letter B through focused based curriculum and instruction. Includes activator, vocabulary, teacher guided instruction, handwriting, graphic organizer, guided reading, science-tie-ins and...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a basic intro to recognizing letters. B, R, G, E, T and G are covered in this lesson.

This in-depth resource presents a history of the American West from pre-Columbian times until World War I with profiles, documents, and images. It encourages visitors to link these into patterns of historical meaning for themselves....

How can you teach your students letter recognition? This site offers insight into this necessary pre-reading skill set. Come and explore this informative resource.

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.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Multi-page flipchart designed to give primary students tools to use to distinguish between the letters b and d. Provides numerous opportunities for students to practice identification and automatic...

George Catlin made extensive observations on the various native peoples that he encountered on his travels in the West. He recorded his experiences in letters and notes. These documents provide us with critical information on the culture...

A speech by Mary Church Terrell, a letter by Booker T. Washington, a letter by W.E.B. DuBois, and the Niagara Movement's Declaration of Principles describe African American civil rights strategies in the early-twentieth century.

This site is an interactive quiz to assess knowledge of words that incorporate "b", "k", "t", or "w" in them. The quiz is designed to follow the "Reading Bear: 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...

This detailed account tracks the life of Mirabeau B. Lamar, a fascinating poet and politician, who quickly became involved in the fight for Texas independence. Numerous primary source documents, ranging from handwritten letters to...

Learn about the life of William B. Travis, a southern lawyer who died at the battle of the Alamo during the Texas Revolution. Includes a timeline.

Say the word "doubt" aloud. What is that "b" doing there? Does it have any purpose? Gina Cooke explains the long and winding history of "doubt" and why the spelling, though it seems random, is a wink to its storied past. [3:28]

Letter written by 40 year old Amaziah B. Morrison, enlistee of the 1st U. S. Volunteer Cavalry, "Rough Riders," while they were preparing to depart for the front during the Spanish-American War.the Rough Riders.

Choice Boswell Randell, who ran for Senate in 1912, was outspoken against women's suffrage. Read a letter in which he "exposes a common argument in the South against women's suffrage." Includes images of the original letter and...

Read this letter through which the interim president of Texas wrote to Michel B. Menard, "a trader and adopted member of the Shawnee nation," asking Menard "to negotiate a peace treaty with the Shawnees, Delawares, and Kickapoos." This...

Two letters: one written by Lyndon Johnson (1908-1973 CE) to Ho Chi Minh and the other Minh's response. Johnson is testing the waters for a peace settlement while Minh insists that the Vietname War was provoked by the US and can only be...

Transcription of an account written by Robert Travis in a letter or journal entry describing his adventures as part of the 4th U.S. Infantry during the Spanish-American War.

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Little Soldier's A.B.C. by McLoughlin Bros. (c1894), a children's alphabet book, illustrated with military scenes from the American Civil War and soldiers.

This site provides an extensive timeline of the life and work of Abraham Lincoln. Throughout the timeline there are photos that can be enlarged and many, many links to speeches, papers, letters of Lincoln's. The site is very easy to...