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.

In this basic vowel and consonant blending lesson, 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 setting.

In this word blends worksheet, students study the pictures and write the sk or sc blend that goes with each picture. Students find blends for 12 pictures.

Students discuss the importance of commemorative monuments. They review Texas monuments and identify the reasons a monument dedicated to certain events or individuals. They design another Texas monument and explain why they...

Students visit the Texas Capitol Visitors Center. They review the importance of the Lone Star as a state symbol. They create a collage of Lone Stars using various print media (newspapers, magazines, travel literature and advertisements.)

Fourth graders tour the Texas State Capitol and review historic figures discussed on the Capitol tour. They complete additional research to acquire additional information about important Texans. They write a report about the individual...

Seventh graders tour the Texas State Capitol and discover two historic paintings in the Capitol building. They discover how these paintings depict crucial events of the Texas Revolution. In groups, they review notebooks of the artist...

Students practice identifying and pronouncing the short letter "u" sound. In this phonetic awareness lesson plan, students access the Starfall.com website and follow the directions on the screen to reinforce the short "u" sound. Students...

Students complete a post-trip discussion after visiting the capitol building in Austin. As a class, they review how soldiers received their allotment of land for participating in the Texas Revolution. Individually, they write a letter...

Young scholars, through lecture and discussion, identify public lands of Texas and how the land was used during the 19th century. They read selections about public lands and work in groups to answer questions about the readings. In...

In this m, n, or t worksheet, students add one of the letters to the end of names to name sheep. Students name 8 sheep and then they can color them.

Second graders examine the cover of the book, WHO'S IN THE SHED? and talk about the animals portrayed and the noises they make. They then read the book as a class, looking through the peepholes and making predictions.

In this recognizing prepositions instructional activity, students observe pictures, read sentences with the prepositions in, on, over, under, beside, between, behind, and in front of, and choose the sentence that correctly describes the...

Young scholars navigate a website to practice the short e sound.  In this short e sound lesson, students read a story on Starfall and complete practice with the short e sound.

Learners explore number sense by participating in a math recognition activity. In this number identification lesson, students practice pronouncing names of numbers and matching the number with an amount of objects. Learners practice...

Students explore shapes. In this math lesson plan, students identify basic geometric shapes. Students complete activities in which they identify shapes, symbols and letters. Students draw geometric shapes.

Students identify their name in print by picking it out of the group and attaching it to a picture of themselves. In this name lesson plan, students use print letters to focus on and identify their own name.

In this addition practice learning exercise, students solve 12 problems that require them to add 1-digit numbers with 3 addends. Two addends in each of the problems are doubles.

In this assessment worksheet, students read a tracking rubric. The rubric includes the following skills: code knowledge, blending for reading, segmenting for spelling, reading irregular words, and spelling irregular words.

Students study color words. In this math lesson, students complete a variety of activities on the computer in which they identify colors and color words.

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

Read words that differ from a given word by only the initial consonant. Click on the correct word after hearing it read and used in a sentence. The focus of this game is on "-ag" words.

Practice spelling common Consonant Vowel Consonant words in this game-style interactive activity.

This resource has two sections: Overview of Adding Vowel Suffixes to CVC and Silent e Base Words, and video demonstration. It provides downloads of the following: lesson plans, lesson materials, word list, and video transcript.