Standard Course of Study :: English Language Arts

Goal 1

The learner will develop and apply enabling strategies to read and write.

Develop phonemic awareness and knowledge of alphabetic principle:

demonstrate understanding that spoken language is a sequence of identifiable speech sounds.
demonstrate understanding that the sequence of letters in the written word represents the sequence of sounds in the spoken word.
demonstrate understanding of the sounds of letters and understanding that words begin and end alike (onsets and rimes).

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Alphabet Recognition with the Alphabet Band and Express: This activity will reinforce letter recognition along with letter order. Students will watch a video, listen to stories and play CD games on the computer to aid in recognition of alphabet letters, sounds and order.; Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts and Computer Technology Skills); By Levrah Hall.

Bats: The students will learn that bats are nocturnal and use echolocation.; Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts and Science); By Debbie Lanier.

Bouncing bubbles: Students will listen to Bubbles Bubbles by Mercer Mayer and a bubble poem before exploring the joys of bubble blowing. Students will observe bubbles, discuss their observations and create illustrations and stories to share.; Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Science); By Karen Rice.

Classifying Transportation Objects: In this lesson the students will sort, classify, and label transportation items by various attributes.; Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts and Mathematics); By LuAda Skaggs.

Fishing For Beginning Sounds: This lesson introduces the beginning sounds for picture words.; Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts); By Deborah Kirby.

Here Comes the Circus: Boys and girls of all ages love the Circus. This is a lesson from an integrated unit. In this lesson, students will be introduced to the Kindergarten level words from the Dolch Word List.; Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts); By Penny Stafford.

Itsy, Bitsy Spider: The learner will use the words of the fingerplay Itsy, Bitsy Spider to create a book.; Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts); By JanetD White.

Keys to Computing the Alphabet: This lesson gives the students practice in locating the alphabet on the computer keyboard, using the space bar, printing their product, and finally, using these printed letters to make words.; Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts and Computer Technology Skills); By Jessie Smith.

Letter Books: Kindergarten children are usually familiar with beginning sound "ABC" books with texts such as "A is for apple." In this activity, repeated for each consonant letter, art, writing, conventional spelling, and reading are combined to create a personal "Letter Book" for each child.; Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts); By Clara McKenzie.

Life cycle of painted lady butterflies: Students will make a chart of the life cycle of the painted lady butterflies that the class observes over a period of several days.; Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts, Mathematics, Computer Technology Skills, and Science); By Anne Allen.

Look and listen: Exploring the five senses: This group of shared reading lessons is based on the book Look by Jillian Cutting. They are designed to be used as a part of an integrated classroom unit on the five senses.; Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts and Science); By Lisa Wallace.

Painting the Alphabet: After working on numerous letter names and sounds, the children will use a paint program to draw a picture and write the word to name the picture. The pictures will be printed out to make a class book or alphabet page.; Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts and Computer Technology Skills); By Jackie White, Kathy2 Moore, Kelley Turner, and Mike Christopher.

The big green monster teaches phonics in reading and writing: Students examine onset/rime patterns by generating word families, review sight words in the story, and play a card game to reinforce high-frequency vocabulary. This writing exploration allows an integrated application of phonics. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 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