Choose from a variety of activities that focus on phonological awareness and sound-letter segmentation for Kindergarten. Printable materials provided. [PDF]

This activity uses the students' favorite classroom book as a resource. The instructor says We are going on a Picture Hunt! and then asks the class where an object is in the picture, but leaves out the first letter sound when asking.

An exciting activity that helps pre-readers identify sounds and break down words into segments. The students pretend to be "Aliens of Paz" who pronouce words very slowly. This activity also incorporates movement as the student touches...

Students are divided into two teams. The teacher calls one person from each team up at a time to look at a picture. The first player to yell out how many sounds are in the picture gets a point for the team. This site includes a link to a...

In this succinct lesson plan, students will compare the sounds produced by tuning forks and observe the behavior of sound waves in different media.

This lesson focuses on Chivalry and Courtly Love in the literary works of the Middle Ages. It includes a list of the vows of chivalry and the rules of courtly love. It features links to information about Medieval Europe, the Vikings, the...

This lesson from Middle Ages Literature focuses on Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur. It features several links including Le Morte d'Arthur Preface and Introduction, Books I, XVI, and XXI, History of Le Morte d'Arthur, Information on...

This site contains a flexible activity that teaches learners how to "catch" or identify the final sound of a word.

A multimedia collection of resources to enhance studying the Middle Ages. Find several images and sound bits.

This digital textbook covers core physical science concepts and includes interactive features, real world examples, and videos.

In this activity, the teacher says three words and has the students identify the common sound. This site includes a link to a Word List Generator.

A classroom game designed to build accuracy skills in students' abilities to identify syllables. The teacher prints picture cards (this site links to the site for pictures) of one-, two-, or three-syllable words. Students pull a picture...

A higher level activity that helps students develop fluency in identifying open and closed syllable words.

Classroom teachers will learn how to blend words as a classroom modeling strategy. Teachers will learn direct instructional techniques for blending; games and activities are also provided to reinforcement the concept of blending.

Discover the connection between sound waves and hearing with this webpage tutorial. Be sure to click on the picture for detailed information.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explains how we hear sound, how the ear works, and the different structures of the ear.

This page contains audio clips of words separated into phonemes. The audios give the word and then the word separated. There is a link to the Phonological Awareness activities page that utilizes this sound page. The sounds are pronounced...

Interactive timeline breaks the history of the English language into ten periods. For each period, you can learn some history, hear a sample of the language spoken as it would have sounded at the time, learn how the language was changing...

The language we use everyday reveals a great deal about who we are and where we come from. However, did you know that language is linked to psychology, biology, and other sciences? Explore the "science" of language: how the brain...

In this lesson, students will use figurative language, digital tools, and illustrations to write a story. The teacher will model how to use an app that has onomatopoeia to create a story with a good beginning, middle, and end. A video...

This lesson plan investigates sound waves and how the ear hears. Students create a model of the ear using a cardboard tube, plastic wrap, and a sheet of paper.

This video segment follows neurophysiologist Allen Counter as he studies an epidemic of hearing loss in Moriussaq, Greenland, one of the quietest places on Earth. Footage from NOVA: "Mystery of the Senses: Hearing."

This site discusses exceptions to spelling rule, words that don't fit the typical letter-sound correspondence rules. It provides links to lists of frequently used words such as the Dolch list and 1,000 Most Frequent Words in Middle and...

The Routes of English is a series of four six-week features on the development of English as a language, presented on BBC Channel 4 by host Melvyn Bragg. In addition, there are three special programs which deal with the language of the...