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Picture Hunt: R Control O
Learners use the r controlled o sound to sound out words and identify items and people in a picture. In this r controlled o lesson plan, students use the internet to complete their activity.
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Word Recognition
Students recognize and spell color and shape words. In this color and shape words lesson plan, students reinforce their vocabulary and spelling skills.
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Picture Match
Students match pictures with words that have specific phonics connotations. In this picture matching lesson plan, students have groups of words with the same phonics sayings.
Pennsylvania Department of Education
Writing With Environmental Print
Students develop literacy skills by exploring street signs, cereal boxes, and billboards. In this writing with environmental print instructional activity, students build word recognition in every day print. Students decode words and...
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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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Color Recognition Game
Students study color words. In this math lesson, students complete a variety of activities on the computer in which they identify colors and color words.
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Web-Based Practice
Students explore technology by participating in a word structure activity. In this grammar lesson, students utilize the Writing Center computer software to practice keyboarding while identifying word formations in class. Students...
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Phonics Lessons
Great phonics lesson plans can make teaching students to read a whole lot easier, and a lot more enjoyable.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Onset Rime Segmenting and Blending
This lesson offers routines for blending and segmenting onsets and rimes of single-syllable spoken words. Included is a video showing students practicing this skill and ideas for centers.
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.
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Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center
Wisconsin Rt I Center: Segmenting [Pdf]
Classroom teachers will learn how to use segmenting phonemes as an instructional strategy. Teachers will learn direct instructional techniques for segmenting phonemes; games and activities are also provided to reinforcement student...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Lucky Dip Game: Oral Blending and Segmenting
Students pull an object from a bag, keep it hidden, stretch out its name by pronouncing each letter sound for at least a second, and everyone else has to guess the object.
Curated OER
The Reading Genie: Teaching Blending
Suggestions of ways to help students learn to blend phonemes to make real or nonsense words. Dr. Murray explains both onset-rime and body-coda methods of blending.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Finish My Sentence: Oral Blending Accuracy Activity
In this classroom activity, the instructor creates a list of simple sentences that include a three or four letter word that the students are asked to blend. The instructor says the sentence and asks the student to help blend the letters...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Draw My Sounds: Oral Blending Fluency Activity
A fun activity that has students draw each individual letter and then blend them together.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Riddle Game: Oral Blending
A fun classroom game! The teacher says a riddle, gives the sounds that make up the answer, and the students guess the answer by blending the sounds together.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Slate Races: A Phoneme Blending Game
A classroom or small group game to build accuracy of students' abilities to blend phonemes. Students write the sounds that the teacher gives them on their own slate/dry erase board and then blend the sounds together to form words.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Slate Races: A Phoneme Segmenting Game
A classroom or small group game to build accuracy of students' abilities to blend phonemes. Students write the word that the teacher gives them on their own slate/dry erase board and then underneath the word, writes down each sound in...
Los Angeles County Office of Education
Teams: Levels of Phonemic Awareness
This site outlines seven levels of phonemic awareness ranging from awareness of rhyming words to phoneme manipulation.