PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Sight Word Spelling Lesson Plan
In this lesson students explore with movement and creativity to make words come alive! Using sight word flashcards, students use their bodies to spell out simple sight words.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Phonological Awareness/beginning Sounds
During this instructional activity students will develop phonological awareness through activities that focus on beginning sounds. Students will go on a scavenger hunt, make a picture book, and play games on the Internet in order to help...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Developing Phonemic Awareness
This online lesson plan stresses the importance of emergent readers' understanding of rhyming patterns in language. Through this, learners will learn and apply the concepts of rhyme through exercises and interactive activities. A great...
Other
Handwriting for Kids
At this site students can improve their handwriting skills. It provides printable worksheets, activity ideas, and interactive activities.
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...
Hopelink
Hopelink: Reading Lesson Idea: R Controlled Words
Practice reading and pronouncing words that have a vowel followed by the letter R.
Hopelink
Hopelink: Reading Lesson Idea: The Letter C
Practice reading words that contain the letter C and learn how to decode the s and k sound.
NWT Literacy Council
Nwt Literacy Council: Five Photo Stories (For Beginning Adult Readers) [Pdf]
The activities in this extensive unit (163 pages) are intended for adult learners but could be adapted for struggling readers at younger ages. The photo stories are brief, only a few sentences, and focus on Arctic topics, such as sled...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Around the World Game: Sounding Out Accuracy
A fun game involving the entire classroom that builds word and sound recognition phonetically.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Bam! Game: Sounding Out Accuracy
A small group game to practice word and sound recognition and accuracy. Students pull cards out of a hat and if they can sound it out accurately they keep the card.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Bingo! Sounding Out Accuracy Game.
A game of Bingo! for the whole classroom where the teacher sounds out a word and the students try to find the word on their individual bingo cards.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Build a Word: Sounding Out Accuracy Game
A small group game to practice word and sound recognition and accuracy. Learners 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: Draw Two: A Sounding Out Accuracy Game
A whole group game to practice word and sound recognition and accuracy. Learners pull a card out of a hat and if they can sound it out accurately they keep the card. But Watch out! You may draw a card that says Draw Two! Then the student...
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.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Tic Tac Toe: A Sounding Out Accuracy Game
A small group game to practice word and sound recognition and accuracy. Young scholars play tic tac toe with partners, but before they can take a turn they must pick a work from a pile on their desk and sound it out. Their partner gives...