St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: Digraphs and X Quiz
This site is an interactive quiz to assess knowledge of digraphs with the letter "x". The quiz is designed to follow the "Reading Bear: digraphs and x" lesson.
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: Digraphs and X Lesson
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "x" or digraphs. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Reading Basics: Spelling
Provides articles, parent tips, research briefs, and a video on how to teach spelling.
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: Oo Lesson
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "oo" in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see words...
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: Oo Quiz
This site is an interactive quiz to assess knowledge of words that incorporate "oo" in them. The quiz is designed to follow the "Reading Bear: oo" lesson.
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: Ar Lesson
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "ar" in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see words...
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: Lessons 31 43 Review: "Oy, Oi" to "Ay, Air"
In this review unit module for emergent readers, the instructor reviews how to pronounce words that incorporate "oy", "oi", "ay", and "air" in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Sight Word Spelling Lesson Plan
In this lesson students explore with movement and creativity to make words come alive! Using sight word flashcards, students use their bodies to spell out simple sight words.
Auburn University
Auburn University: The Letterbox Lesson
What is the rationale behind the "Letterbox Lesson?" This site reveals how learners must understand the phoneme sequence in words in order to decode them. Come and learn more.
Hopelink
Hopelink: Reading Lesson Idea: R Controlled Words
Practice reading and pronouncing words that have a vowel followed by the letter R.
LD Online
Ld Online: Guidelines for Learning Spelling; Ways to Practice Spelling
Five concise guidelines for mastering spelling wordes, and six methods for practicing spelling.
ICT Games
Ict Games: Dj Cows Spelling Patterns
A library of word searches for practicing vocabulary and spelling. Each word search focuses on a family of words with a similar spelling pattern.
Primary Resources
Primary Resources: Homophone Site
Check out this informative site featuring homophones. Students will enjoy the illustrations and activities found within this resource.
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...
Other
Tampa Reads: Phonemic Awareness and Consonant Digraphs Worksheets
Focus on the important skills of identifying where in a word a given sound appears, and on learning four consonant digraphs vital to learning to read (ch, sh, th, and wh).
Rock ’N Learn
Rock 'N Learn: Word List, Volume 2, Page 2
This printable sight word list is a activity from Rock 'N Learn. This list can be used as a pre-assessment or as a post-assessment.
Quia
Quia: Online Stories
This site focuses on beginning, medial, and ending sounds. It offers a collection of games, exercises, and activities to teach letter sounds including beginning letters, phonemes, and ending sounds to emergent readers. These sites...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Whole to Parts Phonics Instruction: Letter Sound Correspondences
Contains plans for two lessons that use the whole-to-parts phonics approach to beginning reading. It uses onset and rime to group word families and spelling patterns to show sounds in context. In addition to objectives and standards,...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Phonic Generalizations in "Chrysanthemum"
This online lesson plan uses an interactive activity to teach students how to determine the common and alternative sounds for specific vowel combinations. The words for this lesson plan are taken from the book "Chrysanthemum," by Kevin...
Other
Advanced Phonics Activities Free Reading
A great site to find lessons to use for teaching advanced phonics and word families.
Rock ’N Learn
Rock 'N Learn: Splendid Sounds
This printable worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will match each short vowels to the picture that begins with it. An answer key and lesson extension are included.
Rock ’N Learn
Rock 'N Learn: Oodles of Cool Words
This printable phonics worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will complete a seek-and-find that is filled with /oo/ words. An answer key and lesson extension are included.
Auburn University
Auburn University: English Phonemes
Come and learn more about English phonemes, spelling, example words and meaningful names. Students and teachers will benefit from this comprehensive resource.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Phonemic Activities
Come and learn more about these awesome phonemic activities for the preschool or elementary classroom.