Curated OER
Mother Goose on the Loose: Teaching Reading and Writing in a Way That's Exciting
Students become familiar with the conventions of print as they recognize Mother Goose poems. In this Mother Goose lesson, students follow the words from left to right as they read Mother Goose poems. Students recognize rhyming words and...
Curated OER
Rhyme Time
Students listen to a variety of stories and identify rhyming words. They sequence events in the story and generate rhymes of their own. They sort words by rhyming families and write rhymes of their own.
Curated OER
Gingerbread Baby
Students explore gingerbread stories. In this poetry lesson, students read the folk tale "The Gingerbread Man" as well as Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett and identify rhyming words. Students also make art projects, dramatize the stories,...
Curated OER
"EA" Beach
Learners are introduced to their new spelling words for the week which have the sound "ea". In groups, they brainstorm a list of other words with the same sound, draw them and write them on a worksheet. They share their new words with...
Curated OER
Sounding Out, Holiday Relay
Students explore word sounds by participating in a visual relay game. In this vocabulary identification game, students create holiday themed images and cards based on the different holidays in a year. Students place the cards and images...
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center
Wisconsin Rt I Center: Word Families Letter Combinations [Pdf]
Classroom teachers will learn about teaching phonics through word families and letter combinations. Teachers will learn how to implement the use of word families and letter combinations, understand how to measure progress with word...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Beach Ball Word Families
A great fun activity to use with students to practice fluency and word families.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Word Families: Ig and Ip
This technology-based lesson will help students develop their phonemic awareness by teaching students to hear the sounds in the -ig and -ip word families. It also leads students to apply what they have learned.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Rhyme Around Baseball Activity
An exciting version of baseball to build fluency in creating rhyming words. The classroom is divided into two teams; when one team is up to bat the first student is given a word family such as -at. They must create a rhyming word and...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Super Why! Wonder Red Rhyme Time Bingo
In this interactive game, the character Wonder Red reads aloud a word to prompt the player to find another word that rhymes with it. The process is repeated until the entire BINGO card reveals a printable picture.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Explicit Phonics Lesson for "Sh"
This lesson covers phonemic awareness, decoding, blending, spelling patterns, and dictation. It can be used as an introduction or a follow-up lesson.