Curated OER
Matching Numbers
Students match numbers 1-5. In this matching numbers lesson plan, students count the spots on ladybugs. Students read the numbers written on flowers and determine where each ladybug should land.
Curated OER
Summer Safety Activity: Playing with Environmental Print
Students look at the words, symbols, and signs that surround them. In this early childhood lesson plan, students use observational skills as they note the abundance of letters and signs in their world, then apply this awareness to block...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Teaching Reading: Classroom Strategies
A collection of effective, research-based classroom strategies to help build and strengthen literacy skills in print awareness, phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and writing.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Reading Basics: Print Awareness
Print awareness is understanding that print is organized in a particular way - for example, knowing that print is read from left to right and top to bottom. It is knowing that words consist of letters and that spaces appear between...
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.
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center
Wisconsin Rt I Center: Print Rich Environment [Pdf]
Classroom teachers will learn the importance of a print rich environment. Teachers will learn how to implement a print rich environment and how to measure students' progress relative to the print rich environment.
Roy the Zebra
Roy the Zebra: Signs
Students will help Roy the Zebra read different road signs. Students will also draw their own signs based on different directions.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Read and Write From Top to Bottom and Left to Right
Teach students to remind themselves (and train their eyes and brains) to go from top to bottom, left to right and page by page! This lesson plan includes a catchy song to the tune of Mary had a Little Lamb to help students remember this...