Auburn University
The Reading Genie: Making Friends With Phonemes
This article provides suggestions for teaching children to understand and begin to manipulate phonemes.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Reading Basics
Provides a wealth of basic information on how to teach kids to read. Covers print awareness, sounds of speech, phonemic awareness, phonics and decoding, fluency, vocabulary, and lots more.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: What Do You Hear?
Celebration words can be used to help young scholars review and practice beginning sounds. This lesson plan will help students recognize and produce the initial sound of a given word. Included are an assessment checklist, videos of the...
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 plan, children practice matching letters with initial sounds.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Dr. Seuss's Sound Words Playing With Phonics and Spelling
Contains plans for three lessons that teach about sound and letters using Dr. Seuss's "Mr. Brown Can MOO! Can You?" In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as...
Quia
Quia: Online Stories
This site focuses on beginning, medial, and ending sounds. It offers a collection of games, exercises, and activities to teach letter sounds including beginning letters, phonemes, and ending sounds to emergent readers. These sites...
Other
Learning4 Kids: We're Going on a "Teddy" Bear Hunt
Playing with songs and books helps prepare children for future learning and teach them beginning pre-reading skills. Re-enacting we're going on a bear hunt is a fun activity we can do with our kids to help promote this learning through...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Reading Basics: Sounds of Speech
Sounds of speech are the sounds that make up our oral language. Children must understand how speech sounds work to be ready for instruction in reading and writing. To learn more about sounds of speech, browse the articles, parent tips,...