ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Word Recognition Strategies Using Nursery Rhymes
This lesson is a great way to teach students about rhymes and word recognition. This plan includes suggest nursery rhymes for you to use, and several supplementary sites to help you out.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Teaching Word Recognition [Pdf]
From the magazine, Teaching Exceptional Children, Sept/Oct 2003 issue, this article explains two different strategies for helping students with word recognition through blending and analogizing.
Education Place
Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Word Recognition Skills and Strategies
Included is a brief article outlining the skills that readers, all educational levels, use when they identify printed words. This site contains background material only and no related activities.
Other
How to Study: A Word Identification Strategy
Learn eight steps to help you identify unfamiliar words.
Other
Reading and Writing Project: Oral Reading Benchmark [Pdf]
Reading and Writing Project provides a benchmark document for oral reading to help assess students word recognition and comprehension abilities.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Word Form Recognition Activities
A wonderful site full of tips for teaching Word-form recognition activities. This site has a plethora of links that provide an excellent way to practice and memorize the essential skills of recognizing words without sounding out each...
Auburn University
Auburn University: How Children Learn to Read Words
How do children really learn to read words? This resource offers insight into this complicated but exciting journey of putting sounds and words together to learn the joy of reading. Come and discover more.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Patterns in Mathematics: Word Patterns Activities
This website helps students work with word patterns by having them create limericks and sentences. Students receive feedback and guidance as they work their way through the activities.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Literacy Achievement Academy, Grade 2: Additional Resources
This is a collection of links to teacher resources for teaching literacy to 2nd graders. It includes reading comprehension, word recognition, vocabulary, fluency, differentiated instruction, and using assessment data.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Molly of Denali: Bird in Hand Lesson Plan
This lesson, based on the 11-minute story "Bird in Hand" from the PBS KIDS series MOLLY OF DENALI, helps children use strategies, such as examining the parts of unfamiliar words to figure out their meaning. When Molly and Tooey come...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Molly of Denali: Party Moose Lesson Plan
This lesson, using the animated story "Party Moose" from the series Molly of Denali, shows the importance of paying attention to meaning while reading and using strategies, such as rereading, when something doesn't make sense. Molly and...
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center
Wisconsin Rt I Center: Reading Resources [Pdf]
This site provides a collection of reading strategy teaching resources. Strategies are arranged according to the ELA Common Core Curriculum Standards and grade level bands.
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center
Wisconsin Rt I Center: Contextual Redefinition [Pdf]
Classroom teachers will learn about contextual redefinitions, an engaging instructional strategy. Teachers will learn how to implement the strategy, understand how to measure progress with contextual redefinitions, find research that...
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning: Great Grouping Strategies
Strategies for grouping students during cooperative learning including Pick a Word, Tongue Depressors, Color Pencils, Group of the Day, Genre Groups, Burger Buddies, and Birthday Buddies.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning: Great Grouping Strategies
Strategies for grouping students during cooperative learning including Pick a Word, Tongue Depressors, Color Pencils, Group of the Day, Genre Groups, Burger Buddies, and Birthday Buddies.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning: Great Grouping Strategies
Strategies for grouping students during cooperative learning including Pick a Word, Tongue Depressors, Color Pencils, Group of the Day, Genre Groups, Burger Buddies, and Birthday Buddies.
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.
Other
Tennessee State University: The Study Skills Help Page
The Study Skills Help Page provides learning strategies for success. Explore the learning tools and tips that you can use to become a more skilled learner.
Other
Lesson Plan: Decoding: Context Activity
What does it mean to decode words in a context activity? Explore this lesson plan to find the answer to this question and more.
Other
Lesson Plan: Decoding: Context Activity
What does it mean to decode words in a context activity? Explore this lesson plan to find the answer to this question and more.
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.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Decoding and the Jabberwocky's Song
What is reading? Explore this article from to find the answer to this question.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning: How to Assign Meaningful Tasks
Strategies for grouping students during cooperative learning including Pick a Word, Tongue Depressors, Color Pencils, Group of the Day, Genre Groups, Burger Buddies, and Birthday Buddies.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Phonemic Activities
Come and learn more about these awesome phonemic activities for the preschool or elementary classroom.