Scholars take digital photographs of a phonic cluster. Each child will use their digital pictures in a PowerPoint slide with text showing the sound and the word that contains that sound. Then they will take a picture of the object they...

Help learners identify initial consonant sounds and letters that represent that sound. They indicate awareness of consonant sounds and letters by responding with a physical movement. They also sing using "Sing Your Way Through Phonics"...

Young scholars complete online phonics activities. In this phonics lesson, students view online clips about using 'oa' words. Young scholars make their own Phonics Finder badge and wear it to play the first and end sounds worksheet....

Students understand rhythm and rhyming words in poetry. In this poetry lesson, students listen to poetry and are able to find the ABAB pattern. Students recognize the "ow" sound. Students complete various activities to practice the...

Students use KidPix computer program to learn Dolch sight words. In this technology and language instructional activity, students type their Dolch sight words into KidPix to create a quasi-sentence.

Learners recognize long vowel sounds by reading and listening to a story that highlights words with long vowel sounds. They then construct an original story. They use picture clues to aid comprehension, and match words with similar vowel...

Students explore how to recognize and spell sets of rhyming words. They become familiar with short vowel spelling patterns.

Students explore the English language by participating in a word match activity. In this word family lesson, students write a specific word family on a paper squirrel and write words that belong to the family on a paper acorn. Students...

Help readers explore initial letter sounds. They will choose a letter of the alphabet and create a page for a classroom "ABC" book. They will write down various words that begin with their assigned letter and draw a picture to go in the...

Scholars practice rhyming and phonemic awareness using trade books and poetry. They will listen to the book Mouse Mess several times throughout the week, identifying rhyming words, and matching words that begin with the same sound. Then...

Encourage the poetic genius in your young creative writers with a poetry workshop. Fix form poems (cinquains acrostic poems, octopoems, hello/goodbye poems) provide a framework and encourage vocabulary development as well as an awareness...

Elementary schoolers discover that the world is at their fingertips as they acquire new vocabulary. Several suggested activities and strategies are provided here, building new reading and oral vocabulary. 

Students create homes for fairytale characters. In this early childhood lesson plan, students develop literacy, language, and problem-solving concepts as they create block structures related to specific fairy tales.

Students participate in a number of activities to study the letters A and I. They use food items such as apples and cereal as manipulatives for the activities.

Students study fish habits and traits. In this marine life lesson, students complete four learning centers of a fish memory game, a fish habitat study, draw and glue fish craft activity, and a fish read-a-thon. Students complete their...

Students make a class animal book using the letters of the alphabet. They use a website imbedded in this plan to get pages with animals that begin with any of the 26 letters.

Students increase their skills in word attack, fluency, and spelling of words and research and find information on topics from the Internet. They then use the Quick Cam with the computer and will increase cooperative skills in small...

Students create a drawing of a word containing the sound /ee/. They are introduced to the /ee/ vowel pattern that comprise the long /ee/ vowel sound. They practice listening for and reading a variety of words containing the long vowel...

First graders hear Great Grandma and I. They locate objects representing then (seed) and now (tomato). They make then and now charts for members of their families.

Students read short stories containing Dolch sight words and describe the scenes and answer comprehension questions. After relating the stories to their own experiences or observations, they draw pictures illustrating a scene from the...

Students participate in alphabetizing letters, coming up with questions and concepts, and show the rules of phonics by playing a game for a unit opener. In this language arts lesson plan, students also come up with thinking maps.

Students study facts about spiders using a number of literary forms, including stories, poems, and songs. They work with consonant sounds by matching pictures with the beginning consonant sounds. They design art projects that emphasize...

In this basic vowel and consonant blending lesson plan, young learners are shown how to "blend" the sounds of different letters together in order to make a word. Simple words such as, "sun," "moon," and, "ant," are used in a whole-class...

A unique writing instructional activity, this plan begins with learners talking about multiculturalism in small groups. Each learner will choose a picture from a newspaper, describe it to their small group, and think about how it relates...