LD Online
Ld Online: Learning Disabilities Online: Phoneme Awareness Activity
What do you know about phoneme activities for collaborative classrooms? This site will show how to develop your own activities to sharpen your students phonemic awareness skills. This informative resource will support any teacher's work...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Animal Einsteins: If Only They Could Talk!
Investigate the communication skills of animals. Explore their ability to associate abstract concepts or signs with specific objects or actions by solving a puzzle involving decoding symbols.
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.
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
The Museum of Un Natural Mystery: The Mystery of the Rosetta Stone
A nicely written history of the finding and the decoding of the Rosetta Stone.
American Academy of Achievement
Academy of Achievement: Francis S. Collins, m.d., ph.d.
Biographical resource on Francis Collins who was honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his work in human genetics, decoding DNA, and his contributions to improving human health.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Reading Basics
Provides a wealth of basic information on how to teach kids to read. Covers print awareness, sounds of speech, phonemic awareness, phonics and decoding, fluency, vocabulary, and lots more.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Six Syllable Types
Six written syllable-spelling conventions are used in English spelling. The conventions are useful to teach because they help students remember when to double letters in spelling and how to pronounce the vowels in new words. The...
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Tree Rings Simulation Dendrochronology
Tree rings help scientists learn about past climates by decoding tree ring patterns. Use this interactive simulation to learn how tree ring patterns tell us about climate conditions in the past.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Tic Tac Toe; Letter Sound Accuracy Activity
A letter sound version of Tic Tac Toe that students play with partners. Before they can take their turn, they must draw a letter and give three words that begin with that letter. Their partner must give them a thumbs up before they can...
National Institutes of Health
The Cancer Genome Anatomy Project
This resource, established by the National Cancer Institute, deals with the genetic conditions that cause cancer, and are present in cancerous tumors.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley Lab: Genome Sciences
The LBN Laboratory uses the data generated by the Human Genome Project to actually map the genes within the decoded genome.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Beginning Sound Spin Letter Sound Accuracy Activity
Builds students' abilities to identify the sound of a letter and say if a word begins with that sound. The student spins a wheel and says what letter/sound it stops on. Then they find a picture that begins with that sound. This site...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Catch a Sound: Letter Sound Accuracy Activity
A quick alphabet game for the whole class. Students stand in a circle and throw a beanbag to each other. When they catch it, they must say a word that begins with the letter given. Continue this in alphabetical order.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Sound Toss Game; Letter Sound Accuracy
A letter sounds game that learners will love! They toss a bean bag onto a poster board with pictures on it, and tell what the first letter and sound is of the picture that the bean bag lands on. This site includes a link to printable...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Sound Spaghetti; Letter Sound Accuracy Game
A great game to teach students how to sound out words. Each student picks a piece of long paper out of the teacher's basket and pronounces the letters on it.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Musical Chairs Game; Letter Sound Accuracy
A letter sound accuracy game based on Musical Chairs. But to keep the chair that they sit in the student must pick a letter from the teacher's bucket and give a word that starts with that letter. A link to Letter Cards is included on...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Long Vowel Choice Game; Letter Sound Accuracy
An entertaining, whole class game to build the accuracy of the students' abilities to identify the sounds of different vowels. This site includes a link to a Word List Generator.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Egg Carton Game; Letter Sound Accuracy Activity
A small group game to build students' abilities to identify letters and their sounds. A student shakes an egg carton, opens it to see where a chip landed, and says the letter and its sound.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Connect 4 Words: Letter Sound Accuracy Activity
A reading game based on "Connect 4" that will build student's abilities to say the name and sound of a letter and find a word beginning with that sound.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down? Letter Sound Accuracy Game
An exciting activity for the whole class to practice listening for a specific letter sound. When they hear a word with the sound they are listening for they give it a thumbs up; if it doesn't have the sound, they give it a thumbs down....
Free Reading
Free Reading: Holiday Relay: A Sounding Out Game
A small group game to practice word and sound recognition and accuracy. Given a sound or word, each student on team runs to pile of holiday shapes, finds the letter, or picture that begins with the sound, or brings back all the letters...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Build a Word: Sounding Out Accuracy Game
A small group game to practice word and sound recognition and accuracy. Students pull cards with word parts printed on them out of a hat and if they can put it together and sound it out accurately they keep the card.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Mix, Mix, Match: A Sounding Out Accuracy Game.
A small group game to practice word and sound recognition and accuracy. Students receive a card with a word part on it. The instructor plays music and when the music stops, the students "mix" and put their cards with another student.
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