Curated OER
Investigating Human Behavior
Students explore the Holocaust and themes such as prejudice and discrimination.
Curated OER
Termite Biology
Students explore the physical characteristics, distribution and habitat of termites. The lesson focuses on the termite as a social creature contrary to most other insects.
Curated OER
What Has Happened Here?
Young scholars read a passage from Geraldine Brooks's novel Year of Wonders. They generate questions to clarify the meaning of the text and make connections between the text and information learned in their history and science classes.
Curated OER
Nothing Goes to Waste Here: Saw Mills in Action
Students examine lumber mills operate and their efficiency. In this saw mill lesson students view a PowerPoint presentation then feel different grades of lumber to see how rough sawn lumber is.
Other
Improving Word Identification Skills Using Strategic Instruction Model (Sim)
This research article is a Publication of the National Center on Secondary Education and Transition. In this article, the authors share the steps for using the Strategic Instruction Model (SIM) to help secondary students with identifying...
Other
How to Study: A Word Identification Strategy
Learn eight steps to help you identify unfamiliar words.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Word Recognition Strategies Using Nursery Rhymes
This lesson 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.
Education Place
Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Word Recognition Skills and Strategies
Included is a brief article outlining the skills that readers, all educational levels, use when they identify printed words. This site contains background material only and no related activities.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Teaching Adolescents Who Struggle With Literacy
There are five components of reading instruction for struggling adolescent readers: Word identification/decoding, Vocabulary, Comprehension, Fluency, and Engagement/motivation. These components are discussed and a video of middle school...
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Animals: Animals I Know
Do you know the names of these animals? Each page has one word and a photograph. Includes audio narration in 23 additional languages with text in English.
University of Victoria (Canada)
Elc Study Zone: Kitchen Utensils Vocabulary
This vocabulary development tool for students features a matching exercise that shows pictures of common items of common kitchen utensils. Students match correct word with picture from a drop-down menu. After 10 questions a score can be...
University of Victoria (Canada)
Elc Study Zone: Furniture Vocabulary
Nice vocabulary development tool for students. Matching exercise shows pictures of common items of furniture. Student tries to match correct word with picture from drop down menu. After 10 questions a score based on correct answers can...
Hopelink
Hopelink: Reading Lesson Idea: Word Sorts
Delve into a world of vocabulary building. This site offers a lesson plan for "word sorts." This simple but effective tool will increase your student's vocabulary skills.
Hopelink
Word Bank Lesson Plan: Eastside Literacy Program
This word bank lesson plan offers the individual student the opportunity to increase their vocabulary.
Roy the Zebra
Roy the Zebra: Reading Games: Words Within Words Game 5
This reading game provides a word with a word inside. Young readers find the word within and drag the letters onto the lines provided to form that word. Then they choose a toy for Lucy the Elephant by dragging it into her gift box.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Effects of Intensive Reading Intervention of Decoding Skills
This article summarizes a study that evaluated the effectiveness of intensive instruction in the Word Identification Strategy, a learning strategy for decoding multi-syllabic words. Results indicate that intense strategy instruction...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Phonics and Decoding
This resource provides information and techniques for teaching phonics and decoding, which assist with early literacy.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Syllable Walk; A Syllable Identification Game
A fun, active game to learn all about syllables! Students line up on one side of the room and take one step for each syllable in the word that the instructor says.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Connect 4 Words: Letter Sound Accuracy Activity
A reading game based on "Connect 4" that will build student's abilities to say the name and sound of a letter and find a word beginning with that sound.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Teach Students How to Fluently Read Multisyllabic Content Vocabulary
Dysfluent readers are so consumed with word identification that they cannot focus on extracting or constructing meaning from the text. Here are some activities to develop students' fluency skills, so that they may move on to access content.
Auburn University
Auburn University: Teaching Letter Recognition
How can you teach your students letter recognition? This site offers insight into this necessary pre-reading skill set. Come and explore this informative resource.
Phonics Guide
Papa Jan: What Is Phonics?
How can you define phonics? Take this opportunity to learn a little more about phonics and its relationship to letters and sounds.
Free Reading
Free Reading: "I Spy" Letter Sound Accuracy
Use this game of "I Spy" to help students build their accuracy of letter identification! Can be student- or teacher-led.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Beginning Sound Spin Letter Sound Accuracy Activity
Builds students' abilities to identify the sound of a letter and say if a word begins with that sound. The student spins a wheel and says what letter/sound it stops on. Then they find a picture that begins with that sound. This site...