Curated OER
I'm Bananas for Faster, Fluent Reading!
Young scholars review the way to use cover-ups to focus on vowels and decoding. They listen as the teacher demonstrates reading a sentence slowly like a robot, and then a little faster each time, adding feeling and expression. They then...
Curated OER
Three Pieces for Chamber Orchestra, Movements 1 & 2 By Arnold Schoenberg
Students study composer, Arnold Schoenberg. They compare landscapes to soundscapes and study abstract art and abstract music. They answer questions and write about both in their journals. They identify abstract artist and composers...
Curated OER
Great River Bend Adventure
Young scholars use their imagination. They discuss the 4 C's of teamwork: Concentration, Communications, Coomperation, and Consideration. Students discuss the safety guidelines of the project. They complete a rope maze. The group walks...
Curated OER
Pack Your Snacks and Go!
In this diet/health worksheet, students complete a word search, finding words related to travel snacks, and read a healthy snack mix recipe. Worksheet is 2 pages, 1 in English and 1 in Spanish.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Songwriting for Beginning Letter Sounds
A great resource for teachers. This lesson plan uses songs and singing as a guide for students in learning letter names and beginning consonant sounds. Students in first and second grade can extend this lesson by creating new verses for...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Bl to the Ends (Blends) Game
This activity introduces letter blends both with index cards/flashcards and reenforcement with students highlighting the blends on individual word lists.
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: Blends (Ending, Part 2) Lesson
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate blends in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see words...
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: Blends (Ending, Part 1) Lesson
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate blends in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see words...
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: Blends (Ending, Part 2) Quiz
This site is an interactive quiz to assess knowledge of consonant blends. The quiz is designed to follow the "Reading Bear: blends (ending, part 2" lesson.
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: Blends (Ending, Part 1) Quiz
This site is an interactive quiz to assess knowledge of blends. The quiz is designed to follow the "Reading Bear: blends (ending, part 1)" lesson.
University of Virginia
University of Virginia: Beginning, Middle, and End
Choose from a variety of activities that focus on phonological awareness and sound-letter segmentation for Kindergarten. Printable materials provided. [PDF]
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: Adding S Lesson
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate that end in letter "s" in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out...
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: Ing Lesson
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "ing" ending words. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see...
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: Er, Le Quiz
This site is an interactive quiz to assess knowledge "er" and "le" word endings. The quiz is designed to follow the "Reading Bear: er, le" lesson.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Beginning Letters
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is good to use toward the beginning of first grade or the end of kindergarten. It has children look at pictures and match the beginning letter with the pictures. A pretest and posttest is...
Utah Education Network
Uen: 1st Grade Act. 07: Seven Fat Cats
With the aid of Joy Cowley's Seven Fat Cats as a shared text, 1st graders will listen and match the sounds (rhyming, beginning, ending, and vowel.)
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Build a Word
[Free Registration/Login Required] Using the Activboard and Activprimary, students assemble words by arranging various letters on the flipchart page. Students create words given pre-assembled word endings or listen to words delivered by...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Word Recognition Strategies Using Nursery Rhymes
This instructional activity is a great way to teach students about rhymes and word recognition. This plan includes suggest nursery rhymes for you to use, and several supplementary sites to help you out.
Other
Bob's Byway: Glossary of Poetic Terms
Calling itself "unique," Bob's is easy to use, with cross-links throughout, phonetic pronunciation guides when necessary, and many examples and quotations. Click on the letter and scroll for the word.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: The Delightful Dd
[Free Registration/Login Required] Kindergarten flipchart centered on the alphabet letter Dd. Students recognize the letter, its sound, words beginning and ending with the letter, and practice writing the letter correctly. The pen,...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Marvelous Mm
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart introduces the letter Mm, its sound, writing Mm and words beginning and ending with Mm.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Onset Rhyme
[Free Registration/Login Required] A one page flipchart that has an activity for students to create words. Have students move initial letters to appropriate endings to create words.
Free Reading
Free Reading: The Take Away Game: Onset Rime Segmenting
A classroom activity led by the instructor. The student is given a spoken onset and rime, and learns to remove the onset and state the remaining rime.