Curated OER
Aaaaa! A Monster!
Pupils complete a variety of activities as they examine the letter 'a' as it makes the short /a/ sound. Through instruction and modeling, they explore the sound the letter makes and how the letter is written. They recite tongue twisters...
Curated OER
Poor Crying Baby
Students examine the letter 'a'. Through instruction and modeling and a variety of practice activities, they explore the sound the letter makes and how the letter is written. They recite tongue twisters and read stories and pick out...
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...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Developing Phonemic Awareness
This online lesson stresses the importance of emergent readers' understanding of rhyming patterns in language. Through this, learners will learn and apply the concepts of rhyme through exercises and interactive activities. A great...
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...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Add or Substitute Individual Sounds (Phonemes)
This site contains 13 lesson plans that are designed to address that standards of emergent readers. Each lesson engages students in adding or substituting individual sounds (phonemes).
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: What Do You Hear?
Celebration words can be used to help students review and practice beginning sounds. This lesson will help students recognize and produce the initial sound of a given word. Included are an assessment checklist, videos of the lesson in...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Match That Pie
Knowing the relationship between written letters and spoken sounds will help children recognize words accurately and automatically. In this lesson, children practice matching letters with initial sounds.
Chase Young, PhD
Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Guided Reading 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.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Explicit Phonics Lesson for Ew and Oo
This lesson covers phonemic awareness, decoding, blending, spelling patterns, and dictation. It can be used as an introduction or a follow up lesson.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Explicit Phonics Lesson for the " Ick" Word Family
This lesson covers phonemic awareness, decoding, blending, spelling patterns, and dictation. It can be used as an introduction or a follow up lesson.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Explicit Phonics Lesson for the " Ar" Sound
This lesson covers phonemic awareness, decoding, blending, spelling patterns, and dictation. It can be used as an introduction or a follow-up lesson.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Explicit Phonics Lesson for "Sh"
This lesson covers phonemic awareness, decoding, blending, spelling patterns, and dictation. It can be used as an introduction or a follow-up lesson.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Explicit Phonics Lesson for the Unk Sound
This lesson covers phonemic awareness, decoding, blending, spelling patterns, and dictation. It can be used as an introduction or a follow-up lesson.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Phonemic Awareness With Technology
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.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Word Detective
In this activity, 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...
Other
Laus Dnet: Kinder. Word Lesson Alphabet Potluck Feast [Pdf]
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...
Auburn University
Auburn University: The Letterbox Lesson
What is the rationale behind the "Letterbox Lesson?" This site reveals how learners must understand the phoneme sequence in words in order to decode them. Come and learn more.
Auburn University
Auburn University: The Letterbox Lesson
The "letterbox lesson plan" is a phonics lesson plan in which young students are led to analyze the phoneme sequence in a word, first by spelling the word and then by reading it.
Read Works
Read Works: Grade 2: Four Lesson Unit: Vocabulary in Context
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of four lesson plans designed to develop young scholars' vocabulary skills including understanding prefixes, using context clues, and using a glossary and a dictionary. Lessons are based on the...
Other
Teacher.org: Beginning Sound Match
This lesson will allow young scholars to practice both writing names and identifying beginning sounds for common item names.
Utah Education Network
Uen: K Act. 02: Name Games
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.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Segmenting and Blending Words
In this activity, students will learn how to segment words. Then students will play a segmentation game that utilizes Elkonin boxes and markers.
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...