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- 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)
- 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.
- 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 vowels
- This is an excellent hands-on activity in which the students actively participate in imagining a fishing trip. This lesson is designed to help students learn to recognize grade appropriate sight words. Students are expected to listen to a word and identify the short vowel sound heard.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts)
- By Shannon Bradley.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- Galimoto
- A galimoto -- a toy car made from wire. The word "galimoto" is in Chichewa, the national language of Malawi. In Chichewa the sounds r and l, and c and g are often interchanged and every syllable ends in a vowel. The word “galimoto” probably...
- Format: image/photograph
- “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.
- 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.
- 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
- Between the lions: Exploring short-vowel sounds
- In this ReadWriteThink lesson, early readers are introduced to the “Between the Lions” television program and website. Students review short-vowel sounds and practice their skills using a variety of innovative video clips, games, and activities... (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts)
- Provided by: ReadWriteThink
- Teaching short vowel discrimination using Dr. Seuss rhymes
- The study of common rimes, or word families, is vital to students' early reading and writing skills. Through the contrast of short vowel patterns, this ReadWriteThink lesson supports first- and second-grade students' use of analogy to apply their knowledge... (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts)
- Provided by: ReadWriteThink
- Phonic Generalizations in "Chrysanthemum"
- This ReadWriteThink lesson uses an active, hands-on activity to teach students how to determine the common and alternative sounds for specific vowel combinations. Authentic literature provides an excellent framework for teaching decoding and spelling. The... (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts)
- Provided by: ReadWriteThink
- Starfall
- An interactive, research-based learning environment for beginning readers. (Learn more)
- Format: website/lesson plan
- Provided by: Starfall
- The two voices of the “ow” spelling pattern
- This lesson demonstrates to students how the combination of two vowels represents a different sound. After becoming acquainted with the “ow” sound, students participate in activities that support Jerry Zutell's 6-step framework: The... (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 English Language Arts)
- Provided by: ReadWriteThink
