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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)

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 Computer/Technology Skills and English Language Arts)

By Jackie White, Kathy Moore, Kelley Turner, and Mike Christopher.

“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.

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.

“J'adore la pizza” by Karen Kransky: Finding rhyming words in a French poem

This lesson is designed to increase students' awareness of some French letter-sound combinations that rhyme, in spite of being spelled differently using the poem, "J'adore la pizza" by Karen Kransky.

Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Second Languages)

By Laura Hemphill.

The Colored State Normal Schools

In North Carolina in the New South, page 4.6

Excerpt from the catalog of the North Carolina Colored State Normal Schools (now Winston-Salem State University, Fayetteville State University, and Elizabeth City State University), 1906. Includes historical commentary.

Format: book

“Der Handschuh” by Friedrich Schiller

Students will have the opportunity to explore the poem, “Der Handschuh,” through shared reading, shared writing, and phonemic strategies that lead to fluency and comprehension.

Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Second Languages)

By Thomas Skinner.

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

As an extension of a weather unit, second grade students will use the book Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett to explore compound words using an introduction to spreadsheet.

Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Computer/Technology Skills and English Language Arts)

By Mary Rizzo.

Leapin' leprechauns

This lesson will allow first graders to use their imagination while practicing newly learned writing skills. The end product will be wonderfully creative leprechaun stories.

Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts)

By JoAnn Lazaro.

The second grade world of Louis Armstrong

Second grade students will explore the music of Louis Armstrong via booktalks, compact disc recordings, digital video disc recordings, and may pursue internet web-questing through Marco Polo (http://www.marcopolo-education.org) and http://www.redhotjazz.com as a bonus!

Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Music Education)

By Dirk Robertson.

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.

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.

Conventions

In The five features of effective writing, page 6

Conventions — grammar, spelling, and the like — are important to good writing, but should be taught only after the other Features of Effective Writing.

By Kathleen Cali.

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.

The Little Yellow Chicken

The students will be following an integrated unit on "Helping." They will use reading, math, social studies, science, technology, and other areas of study. Students will read, as a group, the book The Little Yellow Chicken by Joy Cowley. The students will be incorporating prediction, prior knowledge, comprehension skills, and language skills for the word family "-ook", the vowel sound "e", and the exclamation mark. The technology to be utilized by the students consists of use of the HyperStudio for math review, Math Software, Graph Club to create a graph of favorite party foods, Inspiration to guide and create graphic organizers for writing, and the Ultimate Writing Machine to create their own version of The Little Yellow Chicken. They will also incorporate color words to practice the Spanish Language.

Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Computer/Technology Skills and English Language Arts)

By diane williams.

Shared reading and writing with La Casa Adormecida

This lesson focuses on adjective placement and agreement in Spanish as found in the story La casa adormecida by Audrey Wood using shared reading and writing strategies.

Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Second Languages)

By Leslie Baldwin.

What good is Beowulf?

High school students can follow the English language's evolution in Beowulf and The Canterbury Tales, and they can focus on words and their meaning as they compare translations.

By Jo Barbara Taylor.

Resources on the web

Phonics in context

In this lesson from ReadWriteThink, teachers choose literature that contains the necessary phonics elements for instruction, then plan before, during, and after activities for read-aloud or shared reading experiences. Careful and ongoing assessment of students'... (Learn more)

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

Provided by: ReadWriteThink

Phonics Through Literature: Learning About the Letter "M"

Phonics is an important part of literacy instruction that can be taught within the context of reading children's literature. This ReadWriteThink lesson incorporates the use of children's literature, in addition to various learning centers and activities... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts)

Provided by: ReadWriteThink