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- Digging up discoveries
- The students will study archaeology, practicing their knowledge of spelling patterns and capitalization and punctuation skills along the way. The students will go to a teacher-created excavation and discover a surprise in a “rock” from the excavation. The students will then write about their experience.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts and Science)
- By Alyssa Slater.
- Newspaper words
- Students will use newspapers to find the letters for certain words, such as spelling words, or words with certain beginnings or endings, and then create those particular words by cutting and pasting.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts)
- By Emily Goodson.
- Read it backwards
- One editing technique that writers can use to help them catch their own spelling errors is "Read It Backwards." In this lesson, students will learn a procedure for identifying and correcting the spelling of misspelled words.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–4 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- Word bank
- The Word Bank provides students with a classroom resource for "researching" the correct spelling of words that students want or need to use in their writing on a daily basis.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–3 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- Word family web
- Students play a fun game with spider and fly to build new words using known word families.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts)
- By Peggy Johnson.
Resources on the web
- Going on a shape hunt: Integrating math and literacy
- In this ReadWriteThink lesson, students are introduced to shapes through appropriate children's books and many different learning modalities. They then learn shape names, locate shapes in their environment, practice spelling out the names of items and shapes... (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts and Mathematics)
- Provided by: ReadWriteThink
- Learning vocabulary down by the bay
- This lesson from ReadWriteThink uses a popular children's song that contains several high-frequency vocabulary words to assist students in recognizing, reading, writing, and using the words in several contexts. Students sing the song repeatedly, while following... (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts)
- Provided by: ReadWriteThink
- Student of the day: Create sound/letter understanding with names
- This lesson from ReadWritethink uses students' names and other concrete words to teach the conventions and terminology of print. Kindergarten and first-grade students explore each other's names, making comparisons between initial sounds, ending sounds,... (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts)
- Provided by: ReadWriteThink
- To, too, or two: Developing an understanding of homophones
- This ReadWriteThink lesson focuses on the “word demons” that can complicate spelling and vocabulary. Some of the most common of these “demons” are homophones—words that sound the same, but are spelled differently and have very... (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts)
- Provided by: ReadWriteThink
- You can't spell the word "prefix" without a prefix
- In this ReadWriteThink lesson, students learn in a cooperative setting to identify, define, and construct words with prefixes. First, students guess at initial meanings and spellings of words. They then correct misspellings using spelling strategies developed... (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts)
- Provided by: ReadWriteThink
