Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Caesar Cipher
Create your own affine cipher for encoding and decoding messages. Input your own constant and multiplier, then input a message to encode.
Understood For All
Understood.org: Skills Kids Need Going Into First Grade
There are fun ways to practice language and math skills to help your child get ready for first grade. Here is a list of skills kids need to develop for first grade in reading, writing, and math.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Launching Young Readers: Episode 3: Fluent Reading
Hosted by Deborah Norville, Fluent Reading explores the ability to decode quickly and achieve fluency. The program also demonstrates how early testing and intervention can help struggling readers. Features children's book author and...
Other
Lesson Plan: Decoding: Context Activity
What does it mean to decode words in a context activity? Explore this lesson plan to find the answer to this question and more.
Other
Lesson Plan: Decoding: Context Activity
What does it mean to decode words in a context activity? Explore this lesson plan to find the answer to this question and more.
Austin Independent School District
Austin Independent School District: Quick and Easy Word Study Routine [Pdf]
When older students struggle with decoding difficult words, the word study routine described in this slide presentation can teach them to chunk bigger words into smaller parts to learn pronunciation skills.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Decoding Long Words
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart will help students learn how to decode unknown words quickly and accurately. Three strategies are introduced to help in this process and Activotes are utilized for practice.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Word Analysis: Tutorial
In this slideshow tutorial, students will review the concept of word analysis. The decoding skills of analyzing morphemes, including looking at prefixes, suffixes, and roots are included.
Other
Printable Reading and Phonics Games
This site includes 15 different phonics and reading games to download, laminate, and cut out. Includes games for phonics blends; "When two vowels go walking;" ee; ir, ur er; tion, etc.
HotChalk
Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Consonant Digraphs
What is a digraph? The objective of this lesson plan is that young scholars will be able to recognize and use consonant digraphs in sentences and speech.
Auburn University
Auburn University: The Letterbox Lesson
The "letterbox lesson" is a phonics lesson in which young students are led to analyze the phoneme sequence in a word, first by spelling the word and then by reading it.
Education.com
Education.com: rf.k.3.d Worksheets
[Free Registration/Login Required] Choose from a variety of worksheets to help students practice distinguishing between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ.
Big Learners
Biglearners.com: ccss.ela literacy.rf.2.3.c : Second Grade English Language Arts
Here is a printable learning game for core standard RF.2.3.C. A brief description of the game is on the widget. Click on the images to view, download, or print them. All pages are free for individual and non-commercial use.