Standard Course of Study :: English Language Arts

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Butterfly Metamorphosis: This is an integrated lesson which is introduced using the book The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. Butterfly metamorphosis is explored through art, math, and writing.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts and Visual Arts Education); By Laura Byers.

Fishing For Vowels: This is an excellent hands-on activity in which the students actively participate in imagining a fishing trip. This lesson is designed to help students learn to recognize grade appropriate sight words. Students are expected to listen to a word and identify the short vowel sound heard.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts); By Shannon Bradley.

The Long and Short Of It!: This lesson will assist children in recognizing and discriminating short and long vowel sounds.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts); By Donna Lassiter.

Magic E: Decoding/Encoding with CVC & CVCE: Students will participate in two activities involving the consonant-vowel-consonant-silent e (CVCE) pattern: a decoding activity involving attaching a clothes pin with the letter e printed on it to consonant-vowel-consonant words (CVC) and sounding the new CVCE words; and an encoding activity involving dictation of CVC and CVCE words from the first activity which students are to write using auditory and tactile strategies. These activities require that students have prior knowledge of consonant and long and short vowel sounds as well as blending of these sounds in CVC pattern words.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts and Computer Technology Skills); By Julia Huff Jerome.

Phonics Fun: Kid Pix Deluxe software is needed for this lesson. Using this program, students will decode and blend one syllable short vowel words and words ending with silent "e" to match pictures with words as well as spell names of pictures.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts); By Jo Voigt.

A-Hunting We Will Go: Teaching Rhyming Through Musical Verse: Students brainstorm pairs of rhyming words and create their own verses for the song “A-Hunting We Will Go.” (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts and Computer Technology Skills); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Bingo! Using environmental print to practice reading: Emerging readers practice their reading skills using a variety of environmental print materials. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Click, clack, moo: Reading word family words: Teachers use Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin to teach students word identification strategies. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Dr. Seuss's sound words: Playing with phonics and spelling: By focusing on sound words in Dr. Seuss stories, students develop spelling strategies that help them move from phonemes, the sounds they make, to graphemes, the written representations of those sounds. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Ferocious fighting fish: An ocean unit exploring beginning word sounds: Students focus on alliteration while exploring an ocean theme. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

From stop signs to the golden arches: Environmental print: Students will help collect examples of environmental print, sort and classify these examples for inclusion in class books, and spend time reading the books as individuals, in pairs, or in groups. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Generating rhymes: Developing phonemic awareness: Helps students recognize and generate rhymes through songs, poems, and games. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Gingerbread Phonics: Early readers use familiar words from a traditional story to learn letter-sound correspondence. The teacher conducts a shared reading of The Gingerbread Man with the whole class. Students then use words from the story to practice letter-sound correspondence and write and publish their own stories online using some of these words. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Computer Technology Skills and English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Growing readers and writers with help from Mother Goose: Children connect characters with letters of the alphabet, letting them serve as hooks to help children remember the letters and their sounds and use that knowledge in their writing. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Hey diddle, diddle! Generating rhymes for analogy-based phonics instruction: Shared reading, guided reading, and small, cooperative-group instruction are used in a first-grade classroom to informally assess students' ability to demonstrate awareness of rhyme or other visual similarities in words. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Phoneme isolation: Building phonemic awareness: Students engage in games and chants to identify beginning and ending phonemes. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Phonic Generalizations in "Chrysanthemum": Uses an active, hands-on activity to teach students how to determine the common and alternative sounds for specific vowel combinations. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Phonics Through Literature: Learning About the Letter "M": Students will learn about phonics by participating in an integrated array of activities, including reading, writing, mathematics, music, art, and technology. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Play with words: Rhyme & verse: Students will listen to poems and rhymes, clap out syllables, and sing along with familiar tunes. They will also use puppets and crafts to help recall and retell favorite poems. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts); Provider: National Endowment for the Humanities

Playing Name Bingo with "Chrysanthemum": Students listen to Chrysanthemum and discuss the importance of a name. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Information Skills and English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE