Students explore the alphabet by participating in a letter identification activity. In this letter "Q" lesson, students identify the different sounds that can be made by the letter "Q" and words that begin with the letter. Students...

Students complete online phonics activities. In this phonics activity, students view online clips about using 'oa' words. Students make their own Phonics Finder badge and wear it to play the first and end sounds worksheet. Students also...

Students clap and count sounds when saying different words. In this phonemic awareness lesson plan, students move bingo chips around when hearing a certain number of sounds in words.

Students make the different e sounds and practice a chant about the e sounds. They use a letterbox to write different words utilizing the e sounds. They listen to a story about a dog named Red that emphasizes the e sound. They write a...

Students listen to the different sounds that the letter U can make. They practice finding the letter u in written words. They write the letter u. They say a tongue twister about the letter u and its sounds. They write different words...

Students accompany music to the story Bringing the Rain to the Kapiti Plain - Kenya to show how sound and music can accompany story description. In this music lesson, students learn how to show sound during a story.

Students answer a series of questions about the different sounds that the letter A makes. They practice saying a tongue twister about the letter A. They write the letter A and attach different words with the letter sounds. They listen...

Students sort and classify different attributes of warning signs, labels, and sounds. In this warning signs lesson plan, the teacher shows students different warning signs, labels, and sounds and tells students what each one means. ...

In this spelling instructional activity, students learn to spell a list of 20 words. All words have the long A sound with: "a", "ai" or "ay". Students write each word one time on the lines. There are additional at-home spelling...

Students invent words using a set of letters.  In this Alien word lesson, students determine if the letters made a real word.  Students record problem words in an activity log.

Learners study Kenya's culture and see how people and things can be different and similar at the same time. They create a pictograph of objects from each culture that are used in similar ways and examine a few Swahili words.

Students explore the music from Burundi, Zimbabwe, and Pygmy cultures. They listen to and discuss music from the African cultures, analyze the musical elements, write a song, and perform music.

Students demonstrate how to build words. In this word study instructional activity, students play a game where they must choose two index cards from each bucket and put them together to build a word.

In this long vowel activity, learners complete the short story "The Man and the Dog" by filling in the five blanks from the vocabulary words found in the word bank on the activity. Students then put the four pictures in chronological...

This spelling practice, appropriate for fourth graders, is a neat and useful instructional activity to assign as homework. For all 20 words, there are more letters than are heard when read out loud. 

In this spelling worksheet, 1st graders write each of the short "i" words two times each and rewrite the words adding an "s" at the end of each word. There are five words to write.

Fifth graders investigate various forms of energy. They compare potential and kinetic energy at different points during the period of a pendulum, design an apparatus that displays potential and kinetic energy, and analyze the advantages...

In this "ph" words worksheet, students analyze 4 words in a group that contain the letters "ph". Students circle the word that best describes the picture and then use that word in a sentence.

Students are introduced to the concept of sounding out words while building word recognition skills. In this sounding out words lesson, students take turns sounding out words on index cards. Students sound out the words as fast as they...

Students watch a video with no sound and discuss what they thought happened, then they watch the same section of video again with sound and compare what they thought happened with actual events. They explore life as a deaf person.

Twelfth graders practice pronouncing B/P sound words correctly in Chinese.

Students play a game with index cards to build reading  and speaking accuracy.  In this sounding out game, students look at cards and pronounce the word on them.  They keep the card if they are correct. the person with the...

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...

Learners grasp how underwater animals can "see" using sound waves. They practice making inferences, and build a conceptual understanding of sonar radar.