American Museum of Natural History
Sounds of the Silk Road
Young explorers may not be able to travel the Silk Road but they can listen to music that was played on instruments of the time and create their own songs with the help of an interesting interactive resource.
Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk, University of Texas at Austin
Lesson 5 - R-Controlled Syllables
Put on your pirate hat and get ready to teach r-controlled syllables. Learners practice using words that contain ar, or, er, ir, and ur. Instructors model how to decode words to isolate vowel teams, as well as combine r-controlled sounds...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Phonological Awareness: Onset and Rime, Quick Pick
What does it begin with? In this engaging phonics game, small groups study onset and rime using picture cards. Groups take turns as one player draws three cards from an overturned pile, placing them face-up on the table. They silently...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Phonological Awareness: Onset and Rime, Rime House
Are you covering onset and rime with budding readers? Here, learners examine six "rime house" work boards, each with an image at the top. Working with a partner, they segment each top image's onset and rime. Then, they pick cards and...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Wheels Go Around: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 7)
Wheels go around is the theme of the plethora of activities to aid in the language fluency of your scholars in this unit of ESL lessons. Learners can take part in a grand conversation focused on wheels, make their own steering wheel,...
SEN Teacher
Literacy Dice
Reinforce literacy skills using a six-sided die that focuses on phonics and story starters. Scholars roll, and show what they know about blends, plots, and more!
Curated OER
Initial Blend "Spr"
In this initial blends worksheet, students identify the word for each picture and bracket the 'spr' sound for each word. Students complete 5 examples.
Curated OER
School-Home Links: Putting Sounds Together
In this sound blends worksheet, learners read about the sound blends 'oi,' 'oy,' 'ou,' and 'ow.' Students then examine several pictures, say the names of the pictures, and write the letters on the line under each picture to make new...
Curated OER
Pronunciation of Initial /s/ Consonant Clusters
Students comprehend how to produce these pronuciation features, recognize the various blends of initial /s/, hear the sounds, produce them correctly when thinking about it, and practice correct pronunciation to be comprehended by others.
Curated OER
Beginning and Ending Sounds
First graders practice their letter and word recognition skills. In this initial and final sounds lesson, 1st graders participate in a classroom activity that requires them to blend phonemes into spoken words and sound out multisyllable...
Curated OER
Consonants Blended with Long Vowels and Endings
Students practice vowel and phonic sounds. For this grammar lesson, students practice rhythm, rhymes, voiced phonic sounds, unvoiced phonic sounds and voiced vowel signs. Students brainstorm words with the cvce patterns.
Curated OER
Blending with Frog and Toad
Students apply word analysis and vocabulary skills to comprehend selections by reading and interpreting a variety of literary words. They then make predictions about the story and identify blends within the English language.
Curated OER
Initial Blends
In this consonant clusters worksheet, students fill in the missing initial blends for the words. Students fill in cr, gr, fr, pr, tr, and dr to make each word match the picture. Students find nine different words.
Curated OER
Drew the Dragon: Consonant Clusters
In this initial blends worksheet, students read the ending sections of the 3 word lists. Students then write in the missing initial blend of br, cr, and gr.
Curated OER
Sh Sound
In this "sh" sound worksheet, students examine 6 pictures and identify each of them. The words feature the "sh" sound.
Curated OER
Blends: "gl" or "gr"?
In this consonant blends worksheet, students respond to 12 fill in the blank questions that that require them to identify and use words have the "gl" and "gr" sounds. Picture clues are provided.
Curated OER
Word Families
This phonics PowerPoint presents sets of word families featuring /a/ and /o/. Each of the words is accompanied by a picture. Students practice sounding out each of the words.
Curated OER
Consonant Clusters 2
In this consonant clusters worksheet, students examine 12 pictures and determine where the words have the sh, ch or th cluster present in them.
Curated OER
Let's Measure the Speed of Sound
Third graders measure the speed of sound using scientific investigative techniques.
Curated OER
Sounds and Letters
While just a series of slides with a consonant blend and long vowel combination on each, this presentation could be useful when covering spelling rules. Show learners a slide with the letter combination, and they can come up with a list...
Curated OER
Where are the Mittens?
Help early readers identify rhyming words in nursery rhymes. They will read the nursery rhyme Three Little Kittens Who Lost Their Mittens in order to identify rhyming words. Then they chart the rhyming words they heard in the...
Curated OER
Produce Rhyming Words
Have fun creating rhymes! Your class will read the familiar nursery rhyme Three Little Kittens and list rhyming words. They then use the story as a template to develop their own rhymes.
Curated OER
Raven Chapter 13 Guided Notes: Patterns of Inheritance
In this short space, it would be impossible to describe the breadth of this seven-page genetics learning exercise. Geared toward AP or college biology learners, they explore not only the basic vocabulary and concepts, but also the Law of...
Curated OER
Phonics Consonant Blends Workbook Sample
In this consonant blend instructional activity, 1st graders complete words with th, wh, ch, or sh. They draw a line from the carrot next to the words with short vowel sounds to the basket at the bottom of the page.