Students put word cards together and use the word parts to create correct words. In this phonics lesson plan, students practice pronouncing consonant blends and vowel sounds, demonstrating an awareness of beginning, middle, and ending...

Have your young readers practice phonetic analysis skills with onsets and rhymes. Groups of middle schoolers create animations in PowerPoint to demonstrate combining beginning letters with rhyme patterns.

With What Do You See at the Pond?, young readers explore pond life and practice reading strategies. Learners first make predictions and then read the simple story independently. After a second read-through with a partner, kids come...

Young scholars discuss the fable, The Crow and the Pitcher. In this literature lesson, students read the fable and create a crow sock puppet. Young scholars use their puppets to dramatize the fable.

First graders, in pairs, use spinners to experiment with different combinations of letters. They combine letters and determine whether they have produced a word or not. They construct and record words choosing letters from designated tiles.

Students match pictures with words that have specific phonics connotations. In this picture matching lesson plan, students have groups of words with the same phonics sayings.

Pupils explore structures in a big city.  In this big city instructional activity, students become familiar with vocabulary about big cities through songs graphs, and hands-on art. Pupils practice phonic sound /M/.