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- Vowel, consonant, vowel your way to better reading
- This is a lesson for Secondary Special Education Teachers who teach exceptional children who are reading at the second grade level. Students will learn decoding patterns using vowels and consonants to divide words into syllables in order to sound out the word.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Arts)
- By Julie Wilson.
- 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.
- A new language
- In French colonization and Vietnam wars, page 4
- Once it became a French “protectorate” with puppet emperors, Vietnamese upper class leaders fiercely debated the relative merits of Chinese Confucian versus Western European knowledge and power. By the 1920s, though, they decided to adopt
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Tug-a-tooth
- Students will learn about dental hygiene and get a physical workout as well.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Healthful Living)
- By Annette Swanson.
- Wild and wacky warm-ups
- The lesson describes choral music warm-ups for improving singing posture, breath control, vowel placement, and rhythmic reading skills. Basic sight reading skills are reviewed and reinforced to enhance independent musicianship.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Music Education)
- By Georgia Stephens.
- Learning to Read
- Young children love to be read to and look forward to reading themselves. This sampling of resources provide activities that are fun and stimulate interest in reading.
- Format: bibliography/help
- 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.
- 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)
- “ottos mops” by Ernst Jandl
- This lesson is designed for students to enjoy a short amusing poem, as well as refine their knowledge of short “o” and long “o” sounds, and use higher order thinking skills to analyze who or what otto and mops are.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Second Languages)
- By Helga Fasciano.
- 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.
- 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)
- By Julia Huff Jerome.
- Shared reading with Soñar un Crimen
- This lesson focuses on basic pronunciation and comprehension skills while reading the first chapter of the mystery Soñar un crimen by Rosana Acquaroni Muñoz. Students will also practice the use of interrogatives. As an end result, students will produce crossword puzzle clues that review key elements of the first chapter.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Second Languages)
- By Rachel Casady.
- Motor car and galimoto: An intercultural lesson in pragmatism, creativity, and perseverance
- In this lesson for grade three, students read the book Galimoto, about a young boy in Malawi, Africa, and his quest to gather wire in order to make a toy car. Students discuss the literary elements of the book, study the language used, and complete their own quests to gather wire and create their own galimotos.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Visual Arts Education, English Language Arts, and Social Studies)
- By Edie McDowell.
Resources on the web
- First names first
- In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students create bar graphs and find the range and mode of a set of data based on their first names. They explore the relationship of vowels to consonants in their names. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Mathematics)
- Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
