St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: Oo Quiz
This site is an interactive quiz to assess knowledge of words that incorporate "oo" in them. The quiz is designed to follow the "Reading Bear: oo" lesson.
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: Ar Lesson
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "ar" in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see words...
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: Aw, Au, Al Lesson
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "aw", "au", or "al" in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out...
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: Lessons 31 43 Review: "Oy, Oi" to "Ay, Air"
In this review unit module for emergent readers, the instructor reviews how to pronounce words that incorporate "oy", "oi", "ay", and "air" in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can...
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: 3 & 4 Syllables Quiz
This site is an interactive quiz to assess knowledge of 3-syllable and 4-syllable words. The quiz is designed to follow the "Reading Bear: 3 & 4 syllables" lesson.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Sight Word Spelling Lesson Plan
In this lesson students explore with movement and creativity to make words come alive! Using sight word flashcards, students use their bodies to spell out simple sight words.
Auburn University
Auburn University: The Letterbox Lesson
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.
Hopelink
Hopelink: Reading Lesson Idea: R Controlled Words
Practice reading and pronouncing words that have a vowel followed by the letter R.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Teacher Toolbox Decoding
What are the guidelines for decoding instruction? Explore this website from Readingrockets.org to find out the answer to this question.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: The Alphabetic Principle
What are predictor's for a child's success in reading? Use this site to learn more how the knowledge of the alphabet and shapes is a factor for reading success.
ICT Games
Ict Games: Dj Cows Spelling Patterns
A library of word searches for practicing vocabulary and spelling. Each word search focuses on a family of words with a similar spelling pattern.
Fun Brain
Fun Brain: What's the Word? Alphabet (Easy)
In this vocabulary game for beginning readers, students click on the words that fit the picture. A link to other games is available.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Word Form Recognition Activities
A wonderful site full of tips for teaching Word-form recognition activities. This site has a plethora of links that provide an excellent way to practice and memorize the essential skills of recognizing words without sounding out each...
Rock ’N Learn
Rock 'N Learn: Word List, Volume 2, Page 2
This printable sight word list is a worksheet from Rock 'N Learn. This list can be used as a pre-assessment or as a post-assessment.
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...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Whole to Parts Phonics Instruction: Letter Sound Correspondences
Contains plans for two lessons that use the whole-to-parts phonics approach to beginning reading. It uses onset and rime to group word families and spelling patterns to show sounds in context. In addition to objectives and standards,...
Rock ’N Learn
Rock 'N Learn: Oodles of Cool Words
This printable phonics worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will complete a seek-and-find that is filled with /oo/ words. An answer key and lesson extension are included.
Rock ’N Learn
Rock 'N Learn: My Grandpa: Reading Muti Syllable Words
This printable worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will read sentences that contain multisyllabic words and then identify pictures that contain the multisyllabic words in...
McREL International
Mc Rel: 100 Most Frequent Words in Books for Beginning Readers [Pdf]
A quick list of the 100 most frequent words in books for beginning readers. An excellent resource to print and give to parents to practice site words with students!
Auburn University
Auburn University: English Phonemes
Come and learn more about English phonemes, spelling, example words and meaningful names. Students and teachers will benefit from this comprehensive resource.
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center
Wisconsin Rt I Center: Segmenting [Pdf]
Classroom teachers will learn how to use segmenting phonemes as an instructional strategy. Teachers will learn direct instructional techniques for segmenting phonemes; games and activities are also provided to reinforcement student...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Phonics and Decoding
This resource provides information and techniques for teaching phonics and decoding, which assist with early literacy.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Decoding and the Jabberwocky's Song
What is reading? Explore this article from to find the answer to this question.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Alphabet and Word Recognition With Phonics
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students are actively engaged with this interactive flipchart that prompts the students to use the eraser, pen, highlighter, and arrow tools along with a link to a website that continues to build on the...