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Alphabet Books and the Children Who Read Them suggests: As each new sound-symbol card is introduced, teach a simple story or rhyme about the sound (e.g., “This is Leo the Lion; he loves to lick lollipops…). With learned associations, play “I’m thinking of…”(e.g., the letter that represents /h/; a sound that letter c can represent; a vowel that begins the word, apple (RF.1.3 a, b, c). (Source: Common Core Curriculum Maps)
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The Amazing Animal World suggests that teachers should address reading foundational skills by conducing daily quick drills with learned sound-symbol associations: You say the sound, students say the letter(s); you say the letter(s), students say the sound; you say the sound, students write the letter(s). Automaticity is the goal. (RF.1.3a,b,c) (Note: Introduce about two to three new sounds per week.) (Source: Common Core Curriculum Maps)
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Life Lessons suggests that teachers should address foundational reading skills by symbol associations. Give students letter (or grapheme) tiles, including digraphs and vowel teams (ng, th, ck, ee, etc.) written on one tile. Students can practice one-minute speed drills in pairs, naming the sounds for the graphemes. (Source: Common Core Curriculum Maps)
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Winds of Change- includes a section on “Foundational Skills”. Here you can find examples of phonics and word study activities to incorporate into this lesson. (Source: Common Core Curriculum Maps)
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American Contributions- includes a section on “Foundational Skills”. Here you can find examples of phonics and word study activities to incorporate into this lesson. (Source: Common Core Curriculum Maps)
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Around the World with A Glass Slipper- includes a section on “Foundational Skills”. Here you can find examples of phonics and word study activities to incorporate into this lesson. (Source: Common Core Curriculum Maps)
7. The British Broadcasting Company’s website provides a
phonics lesson. (Source: British Broadcasting Corporation)
8. Check out this
Bedford County Tennessee website for lesson plan links. (Source: Bedford County Schools)
9. Check out the
Learn NC website for a wide variety of lesson plans and activities, including phonics, spelling and word study. (Source: Learn NC, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Education)
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Read Write Think website sponsored by the National Council of English Teachers and the International Reading Association in collaboration with Thinkfinity for teacher-developed lesson plans, materials and other resources. (Source: Read Write Think, International Reading
Association, NCTE)
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Using the book, Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type, students are introduced to a lesson about word families.
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Getting the “ig” in pig: Helping Children Discover Onset and Rime.
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Gingerbread Phonics is a K-1 lesson plan that practice reading familiar words in stories
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Using Jack and the Beanstalk, this lesson supports the study of irregular patterns and letter-sound relationships related to decoding and spelling.
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Word Sorts for Beginning and Struggling Readers 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. Teacher modeling is used to introduce the word sort, inviting students to compare, contrast, and reflect on these four word families.
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Word Wizards: Student Making Words: This lesson begins with a read-aloud of Word Wizard by Cathryn Falwell, and then guides students through an active, hands-on activity in which they learn how to look for patterns in words and are encouraged to become "word wizards" themselves, making new words by adding letters or changing the sequence of letters. Students then use the online Word Wizard interactive to apply these strategies independently, making words from a given set of letters.
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Phonic Generalizations in Chrysanthemum (K-2) This 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 words for this lesson are taken from the book Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes
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Name Talk is a K-1 lesson that focuses on sharing what students know about letters and sounds in cooperative learning groups.
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Phonics in Context is a K-1 lesson, students become familiar with the short /u/ sound.
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Phonics in Context is a K-2 lesson can be adapted to first grade.
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What's in a Name? Teaching Concepts of Letter and Word is a recurring activity uses students' names to help young students come to understand the concepts of letters and words.
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Teaching Short-Vowel Discrimination Using Dr. Suess Rhymes is a lesson that teaches short vowel discrimination using Dr. Seuss rhymes.
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This lesson, Learning Vocabulary Down by the Bay, is most appropriate for kindergartners or first graders. The lesson uses a popular children's song that contains several high-frequency vocabulary words to assist students in recognizing, reading, writing, and using the words in several contexts.
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Reading Teachers Network website provides lessons that are illustrated and narrated. Look under the “lessons” tab to find a list of lessons. Those that include decoding have that designation noted in the “topic” column. (Source: Reading Teachers Network, Neuhaus Education Center)
12. Check out
Teachers Net for lessons you might use in teaching phonics. (Source: Teachers Net)
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Lessonplanet.com offers lesson plans in inflectional endings (Grade 2, which can be adapted to first grade). Also find the lesson “Changing now words to then words” which is Grade 1 inflectional ending lesson. This site requires a fee, but is free for the first 10 days for teachers to explore. (Source: Lesson Planet)