ClassFlow
Class Flow: Chunk Lesson Ake
[Free Registration/Login Required] Use literature and the Whole-Part-Whole Method to teach individual word chunks. This flipchart focuses on the -ake word chunk.
International Reading Association
Lesson Plan: Making and Writing Words
A detailed and thorough lesson/unit plan designed to lead students into a greater understanding of word building through intense study and activities. Students learn spelling structure, word recognition, and phonics. Great resource!
ICT Games
Ict Games: Phoneme Patterns
Resource that provides lists of words that are grouped in families with similar spelling patterns.
Starfall
Starfall: Make a Word: En
Create words using short vowel E. Identify beginning sounds using pictures to build words.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: By Car, Train, or Bus! The Sounds of Language on the Go
Come and check out this awesome pre-reading resource. This site offers examples of simple word games you can play with kids to increase their ability to recognize and use letters and sounds. Try these games the next time you're in the...
BBC
Bbc: Skillswise: Syllables
With this BBC Skillswise fact sheet, find out about syllables and how they can help you spell.
BBC
Bbc: Skillswise: Words to Watch Out For
A factsheet, a worksheet, a game, and a quiz are provided for teachers and students at this BBC spelling skills tutorial that shows you how to avoid confusing words.
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: Ed Lesson
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that the incorporate "ed" suffix. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see...
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: Wh, Qu, Th Lesson
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "wh", "qu", and "th" in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Decoding Two Syllable Words
The lesson will focus on reading and writing to meet a Phonics and Word Recognition standard: decode two-syllable words following basic patterns by breaking the words into syllables. The lesson is a review of two-syllable words using a...
Education Place
Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Word Recognition Skills and Strategies
Included is a brief article outlining the skills that readers, all educational levels, use when they identify printed words. This site contains background material only and no related activities.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Word Knowledge: Homograph Hitch
A lesson plan in which students match two definitions to each homograph. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Phoneme Segmenting: Say and Slide Phonemes
A lesson plan in which students work with a partner to count phonemes in picture cards. All materials are included.
Starfall
Starfall: Digraph (Sh) Activity
Come and learn more about the consonant digraph "sh" when you visit this interactive activity. This site features an audio component.
Starfall
Starfall: Digraph (Wh) Activity
What sound does the consonant digraph "wh" make? Check out this interactive resource to learn more about the "wh" sound.
Starfall
Starfall: Digraph (Ch) Activity
Come and learn more about the digraph "ch" when you participate in this interactive activity.
Starfall
Starfall: Make a Word: Control Ar
Become a better reader. This interactive game can motivate readers. Create controlled AR words. Use picture cues by identify beginning and ending sounds to make a word.
Learning Farm
Learning Farm: Irregular Words and Phonics
Learn about irregularly spelled words, vowel teams, and inconsistent but common spelling-sound correspondences by watching a review video. Practice what you learned by taking a quiz or playing a game!
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Vocabulary and Reading Go Hand in Hand
Students will be doing their own illustrations of the vocabulary words from "Look Out Kindergarten, Here I Come!" Students will also practice the skill of sequencing.
CPALMS
Cpalms: Building Meaning
In this tutorial, students will acquire tools from Handy Hal that will help them answer questions about unknown words in a text. Students will learn about word parts, picture clues, and context clues to help them with vocabulary...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Read, Write, and Say
In this instructional activity students improve their ability to spell sight words and decodable text. Students use a slideshow presentation to practice spelling frequently-used words. This instructional activity will improve students'...
ABCya
Ab Cya: Alphabats Syllables
Alphabats - Syllables is a super fun way for kids to practice phonemic awareness. Click on the bats' bellies to hear the words, and then match the words with the same number of syllables. Match 6 words correctly and then help the bats...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Molly of Denali: Party Moose Lesson Plan
This lesson, using the animated story "Party Moose" from the series Molly of Denali, shows the importance of paying attention to meaning while reading and using strategies, such as rereading, when something doesn't make sense. Molly and...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Molly of Denali: Bird in Hand Lesson Plan
This lesson, based on the 11-minute story "Bird in Hand" from the PBS KIDS series MOLLY OF DENALI, helps children use strategies, such as examining the parts of unfamiliar words to figure out their meaning. When Molly and Tooey come...