Curated OER
How to 'Write Right'!
Students practice their reading, writing, and listening skills by completing the sentence writing journal activity. In this reading and writing sentences activity, students read sentences from the board, identify vocabulary within the...
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Vowel Sounds
This plan aims to increase the reading proficiency of your fourth grade class. While no materials are provided, a list of activities to practice are included. Various activities include creating songs for short vowel sounds, using cue...
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Letter Recognition Flash Games for Kids
Students explore the alphabet by completing an on-line letter identification activity. In this phonetics lesson, students utilize the website www.literarycenter.net and listen to word sounds as they identify the spelling of the...
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I Dunno!
Students explore the sounds of letters in the alphabet. Using phonetic activities, they practice the /u/ sound. Students say tongue twisters. they match pictures to the /u/ sound.
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Inuktitut
Students explore Inuit language. In this Inuktitut lesson plan, students listen to a lecture about the history and phonology of the Inuit language. Students create Inuktitut-English dictionaries with illustrations for younger student use.
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Minimal Pair Pronunciation Lesson
Learners distinguish minor differences between English vowel sounds.
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Grandparents Are Grand
Students to interview their grandparents. It uses the book, "Just Grandma and Me." students brainstorm and select the questions they each ask their grandparents.
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Japanese Shodo
Young scholars participate in a activity to investigate the Japanese art form of Shodo which is a form of caligraphy. They create their own Shodo book as a real experience of the art and communication of the Japanese civilization.
Curated OER
Hieroglyphics: It's Not Greek To Me! (It's Egyptian)
Learners identify different hieroglyphic characters. They spell their name and write a sentence using them. They use online hieroglyphic translators as well.
Quia
Quia: Das Alphabet
Match the German letter with its phonetic pronunciation in this interactive activity.
abcteach
Abcteach: Basic Spanish Grammar
[Free Registration/Login Required] This site houses worksheets that have been prepared for both ELL students and students who are learning to speak Spanish as their second language. Most of the worksheets focus on the phonetics of the...
Ministerio de Educacion, Cultura y Deporte (Spain)
Cnice: Ejercicios De Ortografia
Practice spelling Spanish words -- particularly letters with tricky sounds (v,b; y,ll; etc.). Click the corresponding letter on the keyboard to launch an activity -- then try to correctly spell 15-20 words. You can check your answers...
ESL4kids
The Efl Playhouse: Phonemic Awareness for Young Language Learners
A group of ten simple activities easily incorporated into the course of a day to reinforce phonemic awareness.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Guess What I'm Thinking?: Initial Sound Accuracy
A version of the "20 Questions" game. The instructor tells the class he is thinking of something that starts with, for example, /b/. The students have to come up with what the teacher is thinking of.
Kidsource OnLine
Kid Source: Beginning Reading and Phonological Awareness
Key to learning how to read is the ability to identify the different sounds that make words and to associate these sounds with written words. There are 44 phonemes in the English language, including letter combinations such as /th/,...
Auburn University
Auburn University: Hand Gestures for Phonemes
Come and learn some hand gestures for phonemes designed by the faculty and students at Auburn University. Students and teachers will find these gestures beneficial in the learning process.