Students engage in an emergent literacy lesson in order to work on the skill of phonem ic awareness. The use of flashcards is essential for the instruction of the lesson. Students match the card with its beginning phoneme.

Students practice reading fluently and expressively through the use of various strategies. After reviewing chunking, decoding, and rereading, students complete an initial read of a novel text. They create a deck of expression cards to...

First graders echo a sentence targeting a vowel selected by the teacher and shown on a sentence strip. In this sentence building lesson, 1st graders put the cut up sentence strip back into correct order, repeating the sentence. Students...

Students participate in activities associated with the book, "The Very Hungry Caterpillar". They practice using new vocabulary and the days of the week. They create a book about what they ate on the different days of the week and how the...

In this grammar worksheet, 3rd graders use the articles a and an. Students complete 18 fill in the blank sentences and 4 short answer questions using the correct word where appropriate.

Students discuss different types of travel, specifically outlining travel arrangements requiring reservations (i.e., airplane, bus, etc.) They work in small groups and create travel brochures then practice dialoging reservations and...

In this adjective worksheet, students read about adjective and articles, then find adjectives in sentences, complete sentences with adjectives from a word box, and complete a short assessment, finding adjectives and articles.

Students recognize the short /o/ sound in written and oral words in this instructional activity. They say a tongue twister which emphasizes words with the short /o/ sound. They then listen to the story "The Big Top" and identify the...

For this letter O worksheet, students determine whether an underlined word had the long or short o sound, circling the correct answer.

Students practice a variety of techniques and strategies to assess the letter sound of o=/o/. They encounter Elkonin Boxes to assist them with their task as well as the tongue twister "Oliver had an operation in October, and Oscar gave...

In this comparatives worksheet, students review and discuss adjectives. They define adjectives as words used to compare two things using superiority, equability and inferiority. They then complete six comparative prompts by creating...

Pupils identify the short /i/ sound in spoken words and the letter symbol in this lesson. They say a tongue twister emphasizing words with the short /i/ sound. They then read the story "Liz is Six" and identify the words with the short...

Students engage in an emergent literacy lesson plan that focuses on phonemic awareness and they practice corresponding the letter "i" to its long or short sound. This type of recognition has been found to be essential to reading...

Students recognize the short /i/ sound in spoken and written words in this lesson plan. They say a tongue twister which emphasizes words with the short /i/ sound. They then listen to the book "Liz is Six" and identify the words in the...

Students identify and become competent and in reading the letter u, pronounced /uh/. They also use and spell words with the correspondance u = /uh/ by the use of a letterbox lesson plan, reading a short story, and writing a message.

Student read pseudo words containing the e=/e/ correspondence and recognize sounds in vocal gestures and words. They explore the e=/e/ correspondence, or short e vowel sound and complete a letter box lesson, reading words that contain...

Learners recognize phonemes that correspond with the letters in the alphabet. They focus on identifying the short a, /a/ sound. They examine the way their mouths move when making the short a sound mimicking a baby's cry. In given...

Students explore the short /e/ sound. They practice making the sound, noticing how their mouths move to make the sound. They use letterboxes to spell and write 'e' words. They listen for the /e/ sound in a story and then write their own...

Students recognize the short /o/ sound in spoken words in this instructional activity. They say a tongue twister with words emphasizing the short /o/ sound. They then listen the the book "Hop on Pop" by Dr. Suess, and identify the...

Students listen to a tongue twister emphasizing the short e sound. They practice writing the letter e and attaching different words with that sound to it. They listen to a book about a dog that enhances the letter e. They write a...

First graders compare the /a/ sound to that of a baby crying. They practice making the sound and then say the tongue twister as it is written on a sentence strip and then using the overhead and letters, name words with that sound in them.

Students identify the vowel sound with a short e. They distinguish this sound /e/ in written and spoken words. Finally, students identify and spell using a letterbox lesson and reading various words with the vowel sound and are...

Students explore phonemes. They identify that a=/a/. Students recognize /a/ in spoken words by learning a meaningful representation and a letter symbol. Students practice finding /a/ in a variety of words. Students read a book that...

Students practice recognizing the phoneme /a/ in spoken and written words as well as by symbol. They interact with the book, "The Cat Nap," from Educational Insights and the Dr. Seuss book, "ABC's Book." Each student also plays a memory...