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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)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Atatürk teacher

Atatürk, the teacher. This photo is of a monument that shows Atatürk teaching, dressed in a suit and pointing at vowels in the alphabet. The photo does not show the entire monument, merely Atatürk teaching and a few of the letters he is pointing to.

Format: image/photograph

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

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.

Rainbow spelling: A kinesthetic approach to encoding

The following lesson requires the students to spell words containing learned phonemes using a visual and kinesthetic learning approach.

Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Arts)

By Wendy Parton.

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.

“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.

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.

The Tuscarora ask Pennsylvania for aid

In Colonial North Carolina, page 3.5

Report of commissioners from the Pennsylvania provincial government who met with representatives of North Carolina's Tuscarora Indians in 1710. The Tuscarora requested permission to move to Pennsylvania to escape harrassment and enslavement by southern settlers, but were denied permission. Includes historical commentary.

Format: report

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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

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

Creating pictographs

In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students collect data based on the number of vowels in their first and last names. They then create pictographs and answer questions about the data set. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Mathematics)

Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics