BBC
Bbc: History: Ages of English Timeline
Interactive timeline breaks the history of the English language into ten periods. For each period, you can learn some history, hear a sample of the language spoken as it would have sounded at the time, learn how the language was changing...
National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation: Language and Linguistics
The language we use everyday reveals a great deal about who we are and where we come from. However, did you know that language is linked to psychology, biology, and other sciences? Explore the "science" of language: how the brain...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Go Figure With Figurative Language It Helps With Predicting!
In this instructional activity, young scholars will use figurative language, digital tools, and illustrations to write a story. The teacher will model how to use an app that has onomatopoeia to create a story with a good beginning,...
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Ears and Hearing
This lesson plan investigates sound waves and how the ear hears. Pupils create a model of the ear using a cardboard tube, plastic wrap, and a sheet of paper.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Moriussaq: A Case Study in Hearing Loss
This video segment follows neurophysiologist Allen Counter as he studies an epidemic of hearing loss in Moriussaq, Greenland, one of the quietest places on Earth. Footage from NOVA: "Mystery of the Senses: Hearing."
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Spelling Rules and Irregular Words
This site discusses exceptions to spelling rule, words that don't fit the typical letter-sound correspondence rules. It provides links to lists of frequently used words such as the Dolch list and 1,000 Most Frequent Words in Middle and...
BBC
Bbc: The Route of English
The Routes of English is a series of four six-week features on the development of English as a language, presented on BBC Channel 4 by host Melvyn Bragg. In addition, there are three special programs which deal with the language of the...
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center
Wisconsin Rt I Center: Phoneme Isolation [Pdf]
Classroom teachers will learn how to use phoneme isolation as an instructional strategy. Teachers will learn direct instructional techniques for phoneme isolation. Word picture cards are included to be used with phoneme isolation tasks...
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center
Wisconsin Rt I Center: Phoneme Substitution [Pdf]
Classroom teachers will learn how to use phoneme substitution as an instructional strategy. Teachers will learn direct instructional techniques for phoneme substitution. Word picture cards are included to be used with phoneme...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Beginning Sounds
[Free Registration/Login Required] Match beginning sound to the correct picture.
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Beginning Sound Games
In this activity, students are asked to type in the beginning letter sound of a word, based on a picture provided.
Music Education
Learn About Instruments: Strings
Learn general information about various string instruments, including the viola and cello, and hear audio clips to hear what these instruments sound like when played.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Asians of Africa
The Asian population of Africa is a small but significant minority. Whereas there have been Asians, primarily merchants, who lived on the east coast of Africa for hundreds, if not thousands, of years, a great influx of Asians came to...
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.
The Franklin Institute
Franklin Institute: Music to Our Ears
Part of a larger site on the armonica, an instrument created by Ben Franklin. Introduce yourself to the human ear. This section looks at how sound is collected and transmitted and provides diagrams of the parts of the auditory pathway...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Abc Fun
For this differentiated lesson, teachers will engage learners in working with letters and their sounds. Word-making (low level), word making with several letters (middle level), and word generating with random single letter pulling are...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Tap and Say an Activity for Segmenting Words
You can add a phonemic awareness activity to your phonics lessons each day and it will only add a few extra minutes to your lessons. You also don't need to buy expensive manipulatives for your students to use. There are lots of low-cost...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Meet Miss E
Students will be introduced to the letter E. They will learn both the long and short vowel sound, as well as learn to recognize the capital and lowercase letter. They will also put Miss E in the middle of two consonants to sound out one...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: 8.7 Communication
Learn about the many forms of animal communication.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Phoneme Isolation Building Phonemic Awareness
Contains plans for three lessons designed for first grade that teach phoneme isolation in order to build phonemic awareness. In addition to objectives and standards, these instructional plans contain links to sites used in the lessons as...
Auburn University
The Reading Genie: Making Friends With Phonemes
Superb explanation of phoneme awareness. Content addresses how to focus on individual phonemes, how to make the phoneme memorable, and how to find phoneme in word contexts.
Auburn University
Auburn University: How to Count Phonemes in Spoken Words
How do you count phonemes in spoken words? Check out this site to discover more about how to approach dealing with question in the classroom. This site offers exercises dealing with counting phonemes.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Phoneme Segmenting: Say and Slide Phonemes
A lesson plan in which students work with a partner to count phonemes in picture cards. All materials are included.
Library of Congress
Loc: The Gerry Mulligan Collection
A collection of scores, recordings, and memorabilia of the jazz great Gerry Mulligan.