Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Using Technology in the Early Childhood Classroom

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students explore ways to use technology. They create pictures with Kid Pix software to describe something about themselves. They create pictures os something they did over the summer and write sentences to accompany their pictures. They...
Worksheet
Scholastic

Digraph sh

For Students K - 2nd Standards
Shhhh! Listen up to learn about the sh digraph. With the materials provided here, kids will have the opportunity to hear, say, write, and read this particular digraph many times.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Which Letter Comes First?

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
In this literacy worksheet, students find the pictures that correlate to the words and they also decide which letter to begin the spelling of each word.
Worksheet
Curated OER

The "ear" Phoneme

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this phoneme worksheet, students cut out a set of 4 pictures and captions that belong with each, then circle the words in captions containing the "ear" phoneme and sort the different spellings.
Worksheet
Curated OER

The "aw" Phoneme

For Students 1st - 2nd
For this phoneme worksheet, students match "mixed up" words with their correct pictures, then sort spellings, looking for the aw, au, augh and al patterns.
Worksheet
Curated OER

The "ir" Phoneme

For Students K - 2nd
In this phoneme activity, learners find odd words in rows that spell the "ir" phoneme in a different way, then cut out the pictures and sort according to spelling of the phoneme.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Open Wide

For Teachers K
Students recognize the short vowel o in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, students discriminate the short vowel o from the long vowel o. They associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify the...
Printables
Heidi Songs

Th Sound (Th- Family Words)

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Think about using these worksheets that focus on the th digraph! These materials provide plenty of opportunities for pupils to practice their spelling and phoneme recognition.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Something is Different: Same/Different

For Students Pre-K - K
In this different/same worksheet, student draw an X on the picture in a box that is different from the others, 6 sets total. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

What in the World..?!?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students photograph mystery images. In this observation skills lesson, students gather everyday objects and place them under a digital microscope. They magnify the image and take a photograph of it. The image is then displayed on the...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Spreading Kindness All Around

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars donate items to organization to demonstrate kindness. In this kindness lesson plan, students read many books and discuss how the characters in each one demonstrate kindness, and then they themselves donate to charities.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Encoding and Decoding: Jar Sort

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students draw letter cards and see how many words they can make from them. Materials are included.
Unit Plan
Other

First School Years: Literacy: Phonics: Vowels: Sort the Long and Short 'E' Words

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site contains a sorting activity through which students can practice identifying pictures with either a long or short 'e' vowel sound.
Activity
Have Fun Teaching

Feeling Bright, Green and Proud (words with R-Blends)

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
What words begin with an r-blend? Group each picture card into the correct category according to its initial consonant blend. After they complete the list, have kids write words into each box in the worksheets. Fun and educational for...
Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Encoding and Decoding: Jar Sort

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students sort words according to their vowel-r combination. Materials are included.
Unit Plan
Other

First School Years: Literacy: Phonics: Vowels: Sort the Long and Short 'A' Words

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site contains a sorting activity through which students can practice identifying pictures with either a long or short 'a' vowel sound.
Professional Doc
Kidsource OnLine

Kid Source: Beginning Reading and Phonological Awareness

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Key to learning how to read is the ability to identify the different sounds that make words and to associate these sounds with written words. There are 44 phonemes in the English language, including letter combinations such as /th/,...
Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Sorting: R Controlled

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
Fun with phonics. This interactive game can motivate readers. Sort R-controlled words: barn, girl, corn, star, bird, and horn.
Professional Doc
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Phoneme Isolation [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Classroom teachers will learn how to use phoneme isolation as an instructional strategy. Teachers will learn direct instructional techniques for phoneme isolation. Word picture cards are included to be used with phoneme isolation tasks...
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Rock ’N Learn

Rock 'N Learn: Shy Tyrone: Long Vowel I (Y)

For Students K - 1st Standards
This printable vowels worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will sort words that contain "y" to form the long /i/. An answer key and lesson extension are included.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Two Sounds of G

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is correlated to Houghton Mifflin Grade 2 reading series. It reviews words with soft and hard g sounds, and includes a song, sound clips, interactive sorting, and classifying, spelling...