Students practice identifying beginning sounds. In this phonics lesson plan, students review different beginning sounds and read a poem. Students then work together to identify the words in the poem with their particular beginning sound.

Students participate in an activity to identify words with specific letter sounds or letter combinations. In this letter sound/letter combination lesson, students focus on three-letter sounds then identify words in a sound hunt...

Students practice word patterns while playing the game of tic tac toe. In this sounding out accuracy instructional activity, students work with a partner to pick a word from a pile of words. Students then sound out the word...

Students practice sounding out words. In this phonics instructional activity, students play a baseball game, practicing sounding or stretching out words for accuracy.  Students read the word off the card and stretch it out.

Students practice reading. In this fluency building lesson, students participate in a relay race to quickly sound and read word cards. They work in small groups to accurately sound out and say three word cards before it is another team...

Students complete a variety of activities related to the short /a/ sound. They listen to a list of words and identify the words containing the short /a/ sound, and write the letter A. Students listen to the book "Cat Nap" and identify...

Students name the letters of the alphabet. In this ESL lesson, the teacher introduces the letters of the alphabet or their sounds, then the class plays games to practice the letter names or sounds.

Students practice a hand motion to help them remember the short vowel sound of I. They answer a variety of questions focusing on the vowel sound. They repeat a tongue twister with the repetitive sound of I. They practice writing the...

Students complete a variety of activities related to the short /o/ sound. They spell different words containing the short /o/ sound using letter manipulatives, and with a partner read the book "Big Top." With their partner they count...

In this letter sounds learning exercise, students read several silly sentences and circle the two letters that make new sounds. Students write these two letters on the lines. Students then write the sound a train makes and the two...

In this vowels worksheet, students recognize the long vowel A. Students look at one word containing the long vowel A and then look at six other words with their pictures circle the ones that have the long vowel A.

Students are reintroduced to the letter "Z" and review its sound. For this letter "Z" lesson, students review words that begin with the letter "Z" then think of other words that begin with the letter "Z" while they practice their...

Students practice the soft letter "g " sound and distinguish its sound from other letters. In this soft letter "g" lesson, students take turns saying the soft letter "g" sound. Students identify words that begin with the soft letter "g."

Students are reintroduced to the letter combination "oa" and its letter sound. In this letter combination "oa" lesson, students review words with the letter combination "oa." Students then practice the pronunciation of the...

Students analyze a graphic from an article and predict what the article might be about. After reading an article, they discover a journalist's experience of traveling across the United States to compare fast food restaurants. They...

Explore how photographs can represent a whole story to a viewer. Middle schoolers work on narrative writing techniques in this lesson, focusing on photographs from the New York Times to write first-person descriptive narratives....

A fabulous lesson on the life of Clara Barton awaits your class. They describe how Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross, and the role it played in organizing help for those in need. Additionally, young historians explain how...

The concept of a habitat being a home for animals is the main thrust of this life sciences resource. Learners complete a cut-and-paste activity using a fine worksheet that's embedded in the plan. They must place four very different...

Talk about technology in the classroom. This plan has all the resources needed to create a non-linear or branching story. Included is a step-by-step tutorial that walks middle schoolers through the project description, a model of a...

In this chemistry worksheet, learners examine the periodic table and how it is used in the context of interpreting compounds and their structure.

Glimpse how pH changes during an acid-base titration by examining graphs.  It contains not only graphs of pH changes, but also a chart summarizing what indicator to choose for different changes. This is not truly a worksheet,...

Your class will use a set scale to convert diameters of planets to the model size, the diagram given to expand on the number of planets drawn as concentric circles, and examine the scale that would be needed to fit the larger...

Explore African literature and artwork in a multicultural literacy and art lesson. Begin with a read aloud of Tiger and the Big Wind: A Tale from Africa, and afterward, have kids retell the main events in the story. They...

Search a variety of sources to create a multimedia or book project about Japan. Learners use the independent investigation method to plan and conduct research about Japan. They use the information they discover to create a computer book...