LEARN NC

K–12 teaching and learning · from the UNC School of Education

Goal 1

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

Objective 1.02

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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Resources on the web

Hey diddle, diddle! Generating rhymes for analogy-based phonics instruction
In this lesson from ReadWriteThink, 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 K–1 English Language Arts)
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Growing readers and writers with help from Mother Goose
This ReadWriteThink lesson will help children grow as readers and writers using the familiar words and characters of nursery rhymes. Children will be encouraged to connect the characters with letters of the alphabet, letting them serve as hooks to help... (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts)
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Gingerbread Phonics
In this ReadWriteThinklesson, 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... (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts)
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Getting the "ig" in Pig: Helping Children Discover Onset and Rime
This lesson from ReadWriteThink incorporates literature, independent and cooperative learning, critical thinking, and hands-on activities to engage students in learning the “ig” rime. Students explore books and magazines for words that have... (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts)
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Generating rhymes: Developing phonemic awareness
Learning how to generate rhyme and recognizing rhyming patterns in language is an essential skill for emergent readers. Students should be able to manipulate words and sounds to create simple rhymes, which will help them recognize word and letter patterns... (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts)
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From stop signs to the golden arches: Environmental print
The purpose of this lesson from ReadWriteThink is to bring the print-rich environment of the community into the classroom through the use of environmental print, enabling emergent readers to delight in the realization that they are indeed readers. Students... (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts)
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Ferocious fighting fish: An ocean unit exploring beginning word sounds
In this lesson from ReadWriteThink, students focus on alliteration while exploring an ocean theme. Students explore alliteration in framing texts then compose a class book to practice using the technique in their own writing. The lesson is a natural extension... (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts)
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Dr. Seuss's sound words: Playing with phonics and spelling
Boom! Br-r-ring! Cluck! Moo! — Everywhere you turn, you're bound to find exciting sounds. Whether you visit online sites that play sounds or take a sound hike at school, a near-by park, or on a field trip, ask your students to notice the sounds they... (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts)
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Click, clack, moo: Reading word family words
In this lesson, students learn to identify rimes or word families and apply their knowledge of these words to the decoding of new words. During a repeated read-aloud of Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type, the teacher stops... (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts)
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The big green monster teaches phonics in reading and writing
In this lesson from ReadWriteThink students begin with a shared reading of the story, Go Away, Big Green Monster! by Ed Emberley. After the shared reading, students engage in a paired reading of the online version to build fluency and word... (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts)
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A-Hunting We Will Go: Teaching Rhyming Through Musical Verse
This lesson, from ReadWriteThink, begins with the singing of the song “A-Hunting We Will Go” with its original verses and several new verses that support rhyming concepts. Students brainstorm pairs of rhyming words and create their own verses... (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts)
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