The Franklin Institute
Franklin Institute: Music to Our Ears
Part of a larger site on the armonica, an instrument created by Ben Franklin. Introduce yourself to the human ear. This section looks at how sound is collected and transmitted and provides diagrams of the parts of the auditory pathway...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Abc Fun
In this differentiated lesson, teachers will engage students in working with letters and their sounds. Word-making (low level), word making with several letters (middle level), and word generating with random single letter pulling are...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Tap and Say an Activity for Segmenting Words
You can add a phonemic awareness activity to your phonics lessons each day and it will only add a few extra minutes to your lessons. You also don't need to buy expensive manipulatives for your students to use. There are lots of low-cost...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Meet Miss E
Students will be introduced to the letter E. They will learn both the long and short vowel sound, as well as learn to recognize the capital and lowercase letter. They will also put Miss E in the middle of two consonants to sound out one...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: 8.7 Communication
Learn about the many forms of animal communication.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Phoneme Isolation Building Phonemic Awareness
Contains plans for three lessons designed for first grade that teach phoneme isolation in order to build phonemic awareness. In addition to objectives and standards, these instructional plans contain links to sites used in the lessons as...
Auburn University
The Reading Genie: Making Friends With Phonemes
Superb explanation of phoneme awareness. Content addresses how to focus on individual phonemes, how to make the phoneme memorable, and how to find phoneme in word contexts.
Auburn University
Auburn University: How to Count Phonemes in Spoken Words
How do you count phonemes in spoken words? Check out this site to discover more about how to approach dealing with question in the classroom. This site offers exercises dealing with counting phonemes.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Phoneme Segmenting: Say and Slide Phonemes
A lesson plan in which students work with a partner to count phonemes in picture cards. All materials are included.
Library of Congress
Loc: The Gerry Mulligan Collection
A collection of scores, recordings, and memorabilia of the jazz great Gerry Mulligan.
Other
French Horn Stopping Why the Pitch Shift?
The opening four points of this article point out the 4 special challenges of playing the modern French horn. When the player uses the "stopping mute", he/she must transpose the music down one semitone in order to play in the correct...
Road to Grammar
Road to Grammar: Rhyming Words
In this interactive, students click on the words that rhyme with the word in the middle. These include words that have similar spellings but different sounds. It also offers audio pronunciation of words if needed.
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: The San Juan Boundary, 1883
A map of the Puget Sound area of North America showing the area of the boundary dispute between British Columbia and the United States. The San Juan Boundary was the source of a military conflict between the US and British North America....