This lesson covers phonemic awareness, decoding, blending, spelling patterns, and dictation. It can be used as an introduction or a follow up lesson.

This lesson covers phonemic awareness, decoding, blending, spelling patterns, and dictation. It can be used as an introduction or a follow up lesson.

This lesson covers phonemic awareness, decoding, blending, spelling patterns, and dictation. It can be used as an introduction or a follow-up lesson.

This instructional activity covers phonemic awareness, decoding, blending, spelling patterns, and dictation. It can be used as an introduction or a follow-up instructional activity.

This lesson covers phonemic awareness, decoding, blending, spelling patterns, and dictation. It can be used as an introduction or a follow-up lesson.

The benefits of guided reading are plentiful! Students will have increased fluency, an expanded vocabulary, stronger phonemic awareness, and a greater motivation to read. Use the following PDF as a template for your guided reading lesson.

This lesson allows students to use the Internet to manipulate words by changing initial sounds. Students will use computer skills while learning how to change words by changing the initial sound.

In this lesson, students will become word detectives to find spelling patterns in a story, and then sort the words they find according to the patterns. This "word detective" will become a favorite independent activity throughout the...

Students will create a class book (PDF) modeled after the book Potluck, by Anne Shelby, to identify the beginning sounds of words and the letter of the alphabet representing that sound (phonemic awareness). Contains links to step sheets...

What is the rationale behind the "Letterbox Lesson?" This site reveals how students must understand the phoneme sequence in words in order to decode them. Come and learn more.

The "letterbox lesson" is a phonics lesson in which young students are led to analyze the phoneme sequence in a word, first by spelling the word and then by reading it.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of four lesson plans designed to develop students' vocabulary skills including understanding prefixes, using context clues, and using a glossary and a dictionary. Lessons are based on the books...

This lesson plan will allow students to practice both writing names and identifying beginning sounds for common item names.

This lesson engages students in many word play activities associated with students' names. Students will participate in songs, games, and other phonemic awareness activities associated with names of students.

In this lesson, students will learn how to segment words. Then students will play a segmentation game that utilizes Elkonin boxes and markers.

In this differentiated lesson, teachers will engage learners 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...

An exciting introduction to reading! The instructor writes a simple, one-line story on the board from literature, and the students learn to sound out the words.

Practice reading and pronouncing words that have a vowel followed by the letter R.

This technology-based lesson will help students develop their phonemic awareness by teaching students to hear the sounds in the -ig and -ip word families. It also leads students to apply what they have learned.

This is both a hands-on and technology based lesson where students can apply their knowledge of letter/sound relationships while incorporating the use of classroom technology. This Language Arts activity will allow for the students to...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a lesson in which students learn to use context clues in surrounding sentences to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. The lesson utilizes the book The Life Cycle of an Emperor Penguin by...

This site offers PDF grade-specific lesson plans for teaching various reading skills for grades K-3. These include phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.

A great resource for teachers. This lesson plan uses songs and singing as a guide for students in learning letter names and beginning consonant sounds. Students in first and second grade can extend this lesson by creating new verses for...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson uses Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Ehlert to teach students to use picture cues and initial word sounds to identify unknown words. Ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and independent...