C. Demonstrate an awareness of the correlation of sounds, letters, and words through the use of:

1. picture books
2. predictable texts
3. environmental print
4. decodable texts

The Letter Slide:
A story for blending sounds into words; also an activity for children who are having difficulty understanding the concept of blending.

Word Sorts for Beginning and Struggling Readers:
This series of lessons provides a framework for introducing students to short-vowel word families. Focusing first on the a family, students work together and individually to learn the word families –at, –an, –ap, and –ack.

Word Family Jamboree:
Identify beginning consonants in single syllable words.

Dr. Seuss's Sound Words:
Playing with Phonics and Spelling.  Using sound words based on Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?, students will notice the sounds they hear and do several activities.

Growing Readers and Writers with Help from Mother Goose:
This lesson will help children grow as readers and writers using the familiar words and characters of nursery rhymes.

Read a Song: Using Song Lyrics for Reading and Writing
Singing is a favorite pastime for many people and is part of popular culture. In this lesson, students make the connection that the words sung in a song are part of a book that can be read. They explore this connection through children’s song storybooks and interactive websites. Students complete a project by writing new lyrics to a familiar song and creating illustrations related to the lyrics. During the lesson students are engaged in various levels of reading and writing activities.

The Big Green Monster Teaches Phonics in Reading and Writing

This lesson begins with a shared reading of the story, Go Away, Big Green Monster! by Ed Emberley. After the shared reading, students engage in a paired reading of the online version to build fluency and word recognition skills. They also examine onset/rime patterns by generating word families, review sight words in the story, and play a card game to reinforce high-frequency vocabulary. As a culminating activity, students draw their own big green monsters and write stories about the monsters to publish online. This writing exploration allows an integrated application of phonics where skills can be taught to students individually at the point of use.

Improving Fluency through Group Literary Performance
Bill Martin, Jr’s picture books are known for their creative use of language. In this lesson, the repetition, rhythm, and rhyme of Martin’s works provide opportunities for students to hear fluent reading modeled then to join in the readings through literary performance. By inviting students to participate in the shared and choral reading, the lesson provides students the chance to focus their fluency and comprehension. The readers theater section of the lesson allows students to demonstrate for an audience, while improving their literacy skills further.

I Know That Word! Teaching Reading With Environmental Print
“I can read that!” A student who says these words may be talking about a stop sign or a McDonald’s logo. Capitalizing on this ability to recognize images and words in the world around them, this lesson has students read logos beginning in color, following with black and white, and finishing with the logo word without supporting graphics. Students then move from whole-word identification to alphabetic decoding by sorting the logos according to their initial letters. This lesson is aimed primarily at emerging readers in kindergarten and first grade, but it can also be used with older struggling readers.

Poetry Portfolios: Using Poetry to Teach Reading and Writing

Teach your students about sentence structure, rhyming words, sight words, vocabulary, and print concepts using a weekly poem. These important skills for reading and writing are demonstrated in a whole-to-parts approach using engaging poems, shared reading, and independent activities.
 

AlphaBites Main Page:
Activities for all letters of the alphabet

Dreamhouse: Nursery: Mother Goose:
Alphabetical Index

StoryPlace Pre-school Library:
Many online stories that are animated and have sound.

Story Pals

Books read by actors

Tumble Books

Animated online stories read with words showing.

Suggestions for English Language Learners (ELLs):
(E/B=Entering/Beginning, D=Developing, E=Expanding)

E/B: Identify and restate format elements of book (i.e. front cover, title, back cover).
E/B: Identify and restate symbols and signs within classroom and community environment; D: Identify and restate symbols and signs within classroom and community environment; E: Describe symbols and signs within classroom and community environment.
E/B: Identify and express beginning sounds of words.
E/B: Recognize some simple sight words; D: Recognize and produce some simple sight words; E: Recognize and produce various sight words.
E/B: Listen and repeat rhyming patterns in language; D: Listen and produce rhyming patterns in language.
E/B: Distinguish between capital and lowercase letters.
E/B: Follow sequence of words from left to right.
E/B: Identify first sound within a spoken word; D: Identify first and last sounds within a spoken word.
E/B: Read some high-frequency words, including own name; D: Sort some high-frequency words by category; E: Sort and classify most high-frequency words by category.
D: Blend two to four phonemes into recognizable words.
D: Recognize and identify capital and lowercase letters.
D: Distinguish between individual sounds and syllables; E: Blend vowel-consonant sounds orally to make words or syllables.
D: Begin to correct self when reading simple words or sentences aloud; E: Correct self when reading simple words and sentences aloud.
E: Use more complex words and sentences to communicate needs and express ideas in a wider variety of social and academic settings.

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