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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.

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 home for Lars

Our lesson plan is based on the book, Ahoy There, Little Polar Bear, by Hans de Beer. We will use the book to introduce the polar bear's habitat and will elaborate on the necessary things a polar bear needs to survive in this habitat.

Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 Visual Arts Education and Science)

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.

Fishing for beginning sounds

This lesson introduces the beginning sounds for picture words.

Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts)

By Deborah Kirby.

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.

Itsy, bitsy spider

The learner will use the words of the fingerplay "The Itsy, Bitsy Spider" to create a book.

Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts)

By JanetD White.

Cross-checking: An early reading strategy

Beginning readers need to learn how to bring together two sources of information simultaneously. They have to think about what would make sense and think about letters/sounds; cross-checking. Most children prefer to do one or the other, but not both. Therefore, some children guess something that is sensible but ignore the visual (letter/sound) and others guess something which is close to the visual but makes no sense in the sentence. This activity will demonstrate how to cross check.

Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts)

By Jane Kate Blackmon.

Reading images: an introduction to visual literacy

Images are all around us, and the ability to interpret them meaningfully is a vital skill for students to learn.

By Melissa Thibault and David Walbert.

ABCs by the week

This is an ongoing series of lessons to teach the 26 letters of the alphabet through functional skills that can be used on a daily/weekly basis building on and transferring to other educational tasks. These lessons incorporate coloring, marking, painting, cutting, pasting, creating, listening and following directions.

Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts)

By Karen Dawsey and Sherry Waters.

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.

Wet your kinders' chops on the sound "op"!

Students will explore the sound “Op” with a reading of Charlie Parker Played Be-Bop by Chris Raschka and a showing of the PBS Between the Lions episode #130 “Be Bop,” which also features the Charlie Parker book and explores the “op” sound.

Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts)

By Dirk Robertson.

Portrait of a reader: Tyson

In Ongoing assessment for reading, page 3.3

Tyson is a student I have known for two years. He was a member of the school's newspaper club, which I ran when Tyson was in tenth grade. Tyson was very involved in seeking stories around the school for reporting in the paper. The articles he wrote tended...

By Jeanne Gunther.

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

Racing against catastrophe: a webquest for English I teachers

Students often have difficulty making connections between classic books and their contemporary lives. This Webquest puts you in the role of student to find learning strategies that scaffold the meaning-making process as your own students read.

Format: /lesson plan

By Kim Bowen and Shayne Goodrum.

Making reading passages comprehensible for English language learners

English language learners can read the same content-area material as their peers, but may need special help. Teachers can make difficult reading comprehensible by building vocabulary, decoding difficult syntax, and teaching background knowledge.

By Ellen Douglas.

Resources on the web

Caesar cipher

In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students investigate the Caesar substitution cipher. Text is encoded and decoded using inverse operations. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Mathematics)

Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Note writing in the primary classroom

This lesson from ReadWriteThink invites students to write short everyday notes, to remind, plan, request, or compliment, providing many natural opportunities for meaningful writing and lots of practice in encoding/decoding written text. Note writing is... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts)

Provided by: ReadWriteThink

Word wizards: Students making words

This ReadWriteThink lesson uses an active, hands-on activity in which students learn how to look for patterns in words and how to make new words by adding or changing the sequence of letters. Authentic literature provides an excellent framework for teaching... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts)

Provided by: ReadWriteThink

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)

Provided by: ReadWriteThink