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- Bubblegum Blends - As students progress and become more confident with consonants, they will begin blending them together. This lesson will bring their attention to which consonants make up the blends within the new words they have been learning.
- Busy Bee Vowels - By participating in the following activity, students will begin to recognize the letters that make the short vowel sounds they have been hearing and saying in class.
- First Letter Bingo - The student will be able to identify the first letter of the word that names a picture shown by the teacher.
- Fishing for Phonics - The game in the following lesson is a lot of fun and a long-time favorite with kids. It's a great motivator for students to learn phonics sounds.
- Four Corners and a Wall: Matching Vowel Sounds - This lesson gets students up and moving. It is designed to assist in helping students practice their long and short vowel sounds as their vocabulary continues to build.
- Jumping Syllables - The following activity is an excellent way to learn the concept of syllables, by helping students visualize the structure of words. It's also a great way of burning saved up energy!
- Phonics Challenge - This game challenges students to plan ahead and to try to make the most words with their team. This activity encourages more advanced reading and spelling students to help those who are struggling. The whole team works together to be successful.
- Plates of Word Families - Students will have a lot to digest as they filling their plates with word families. This activity helps students see the similarities between words. Many of the Dr. Seuss' books are a great way to introduce students to word families.
- Predicting Missing Words - Who better to grab students' attention with phonetic word patterns, than Dr. Seuss? This lesson will help students begin to recognize patterns so that they can better predict the words in a rhyming sentence.
- Rhyming Word Relay - It's time to rhyme! Students will enjoy this fast-paced challenge to come up with more rhyming words than the opposing teams.
- Scavenger Hunt - Listening for phonic sounds and recognizing which letters make them is important for developing students' language and literary skills. This lesson encourages students to think about how phonics is used in their environment.
- Rhyming Dominoes - This is a non-competitive game that can be played by the whole class. It is played with pictures instead of words, so even beginning readers can play.
- The Yell of the Silent 'E' - Oh, that timid, yet supportive, silent letter 'e'… Students will get a better picture of the role that silent 'e' plays, when they put themselves in its shoes.
- Stand Up or Sit Down - This is a great activity that will not only allow students to practice picking out the vowels and consonants in words, but they also get to move!
- Textured Alphabet - The student will be able to add items that start with the correct sound to a cut out of that letter.
- Vowel Posters - The student will be able to cut pictures out of magazines and newspapers that match the vowel sound on the poster.
- Washing Letters - The following letter recognition activity will give students a better understanding of which uppercase and lowercase letters belong together. It also helps them practice beginning sounds.
- Who's My Match? - This lesson will have students thinking about the versatility of vowels by recognizing and acknowledging the long and short sounds they make.
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- Be-Bop and other "op" Words- Students will create new words and new meaningful sentences using rhyming strategies.
- Beginning Phonics Software Game- Download and install free "Lettersounds" game. The student drags a picture to the house with the letter on it that begins the word.
- Consonant Blends Interactive Bulletin Board- Take butcher paper and cut out a design of a bowl. Then draw lines to make it look like you were seeing 1/2 of the bowl.
- Consonants- Create and state a series of rhyming words, including consonant blends.
- Decoding Phonograms- The students will recognize phonograms in a variety of different words.
- Designing a Big Book: "Sheep in a Shop"- Students will create a big book from the text of Nancy Shaw's book, Sheep in a Shop. By illustrating the story, students will develop an understanding that illustrations are a source of decoding support for emergent readers. Additional activities will develop skill in the use of the "sh" digraph.
- FIRST AID for phonics- Focus the child's attention on a flash card with /ow/ on the front. Tell him this letter combination can have two different sounds.
- How Does It Move? - How do objects move? Through this literature-based lesson, students review using illustrations and phonetic principles to understand words, that different things move at different speeds, and vocabulary as they explore how forms of transportation move.
- Learning the Letter "G" Sound - This lesson will help students recognize and respond to the sound of the letter G. Students create green, glittered G's on popsicle sticks.
- More Kindergarten Phonics- The kindergarten/pre-school child is still very much focused on themselves and their identity. I used this to great advantage a couple of years ago with the initial sounds of each child's name.
- Morning Message - The Morning Message is a shared reading with emphasis placed on concepts of print and phonetic principles. A designated student points to words in the message as it's read, then illustrates a printed copy of the message.
- Musical Chair Phonics- Students will be able to read words by playing muscial chairs.
- Oh, Oh, I Think I See a Mouse, Do You See a Mouse?- By participating in this lesson, the students will discriminate long vowel sounds and short vowel sounds of the letter "O."
- Phomenic Awareness Activity- I use this activity daily with kindergarten students. Because the activity results in the class learning which child will perform the important function of "Helper of The Day", the children are very attentive and motivated to decode the name of the lucky person.
- Phonemic Awareness through Music- Students will respond critically to a variety of works in the arts, connecting the individual work to other works and to other aspects of human endeavor and thought.
- Phonics And Writing- "To help the students in sounding out words and writing."
- Phonics for Kindergarten- For high level thinking.
- Phonics for Kindergarten- We take a letter each week. We start the week with a show and tell of objects beginning with the letter.
- Phonics Fun- To use sound addition and subtraction to make new words. Good for 1 to 1 with special educational needs such as dyslexic children.
- Phonics with Dr. Seuss - "One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish"- The learner will be able to recall and spell words from the story using the phonograms: -ad, -op, -ish, -ink and -ump. The learner will be able to circle words with like phonograms.
- Phonics Page- Divide the class into groups, and then give each group a sheet of bulletin board paper with a beginning sound at the top of the paper.
- Phonics Revision Game- I play this game with my kindergarten class as a lesson break during the day and as revision of taught sounds.
- Reading Journals- inexpensive journals for each student
- Reading: Phonograms- Student will learn to generate various words from phonograms and create sentences to use the words in context.
- Reinforcing Alphabet Names/Sounds- Knowledge of the alphabet is essential to beginning reading. This activity is a way to reinforce these skills with young children in a fun way.
- Slide into a Rhyme - Multimedia projects make learning fun for students. This lesson helps students practice phonetic analysis skills with onsets and rhymes.
- Sound Search- This lesson is for students working on letter/sound recognition.
- Teachers.Net Phonics for Kindergarten- I introduce a letter/sound per week. One activity is a letter museum - where children bring an object from home starting with letter/sound to be put on display.
- Teachers.Net Phonics game for kindergarten- Use 3x5 cards to write phonics parts. (Put together, they will make words)
- Teaching Phonograms- The student will read six phonograms and as a class verbally define each using the print and illustrations in the text, The Sneetches by Dr. Seuss.
- Teaching Phonograms by using the book The Sneetches- The student will read six phonograms and as a class verbally define each using the print and illustrations in the text, The Sneetches by Dr. Seuss.
- The Blending Slide- Getting kids to blend sounds to make words is an essential step in learning to read. This activity gives them a concrete and fun way to learn this skill.
- The letter P- Students will be able to articulate simple sentences (expressing one thought) using present progressive -ing forms. For example, "I am popping popcorn."
- The Sounds of "EA"- In this lesson, the sounds of "ea" are dramatized in a PowerPoint presentation. Students will learn that "ea" can sound like a "long e," a "short e," a "long a," and more.
- The Vowel Slide- Students will learn that every word must have a vowel.
- Ugly Bug/Snuggly Bug - Students demonstrate an understanding of rhyming words by creating buggy pictures and a sentence containing rhyming words.
- Vowel/Phonogram Match- This is a great idea for reviewing phonograms within words and utilizing a motivating holiday theme.
- What? You want me to read AND enjoy it? - After spending six to nine years teaching the student how to read, students often see reading as torture in the middle grades.
- What Sound Does the Letter "Bb" Make?- The students will identify the letter "Bb." The students will identify the sound the letter "Bb" makes.
- Words that begin with "Q"- "The students will create sentences with "Q" words."
