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- Internet Field Trips
- ABCs and the WWW
K-2
Learning the alphabet is fun and easy at these sites on the Web.
- Lesson Plans
- Bag Full of Vowel Sounds
K-2
A fun game lets you assess students' understanding of vowel sounds. (PDF) Source: Literature-Based Mini-Lessons to Teach Decoding and Word Recognition
- Bat the Ball!
K-2
Practice vowel phonograms with this fun baseball game. (PDF) Source: Phonics Games Kids Can't Resist!
- It’s Full of Beans!
3-5
Check student’s understanding of vocabulary words drawn from the book The Thief and the Beanstalk by P.W. Catanese.
- Making Rhyming Word Wheels
K-2
Make rhyming word wheels and practice the "-an" word family. (PDF) Source: Turn-to-Learn: Word Family Wheels
- Nonsense Word Test
A word test that examines students' ability to decode common sound-spelling relationships.
- Playing With Sounds
K-2
These fun activities can improve phonemic awareness.
- Spelling Strategies: Guiding Kids to "Discover" Spelling Rules
3-5
Help your students use a discovery process to learn rules related to forming plurals and adding suffixes and prefixes to base words.
- Spelling Strategies: Learning High-Frequency Words
3-5
This article describes four strategies that can help students learn to spell frequently-used words.
- Spelling Strategies: Make Smart Use of Sounds and Spelling Patterns
K-2
These strategies will help students hear sounds in words by developing phonemic awareness and exploring sound/symbol relationships and spelling patterns.
- Spelling Strategies: Mastering New Words for Writing
K-2, 3-5
This article discusses five strategies for helping students select and learn their own spelling words.
- Synonym Sleuths
6-8
Children can practice finding synonyms using resources such as a dictionary or thesaurus. Based on Runt by Marion Dane Bauer.
- Which Letter?
K-2
Help children learn about letter sound/symbol relationships. (PDF) Source: 201 Thematic Riddle Poems to Build Literacy
- Online Activities Teacher Guides
- Annie's Rhyme Time: Teacher's Guide
Lesson-planning suggestions for using Annie's Rhyme Time in the classroom.
- Clifford Interactive Storybooks Teachers Guide
Use this guide for using Clifford's Interactive Storybooks in your class.
- Community Club Teacher's Guide
A teacher’s guide to the online activity that teaches early readers learn about neighborhood workers.
- Reproducibles
- A Comes First
Early Childhood, K-2
Sing along with the letters A, B, and C and build letter skills. (PDF)
- A Friendly Conversation
K-2
This fun complete-the-sentence activity will give students practice spelling words with the long "a" sound.
- A House for Hermit Crab
Early Childhood, K-2
These activities based on the book A House for Hermit Crab. teach science and vocabulary.
- Butterfly Spanish Mini-Book
K-2
Review the stages of a butterfly's life cycle with a Spanish mini-book. (PDF) Source: 25 Spanish Science Mini-Books For Emergent Readers
- Creepy Crawlies (Poems)
Early Childhood, K-2
Practice phonics skills with these buggy poems. (PDF) Source: Thematic Poems for the Classroom: Creepy Crawlies
- Hickory, Dickory, Dock
K-2
Practice initial consonants and blends found in a nursery rhyme. (PDF)
- Jumping Beans
K-2
Get kids jumping with this activity when they practice spelling words that contain the letters j and g.
- Mi libro de palabras de regreso a la escuela
K-2
Learn school-related sight words in Spanish with this mini-book. (PDF) Source: Reading Success Mini-Books: Sight Words in Spanish
- My Book of Winter Words
K-2
This mini-book provides a fun way to experience sight words about winter. (PDF) Source: Reading Success Mini-Books: Sight Words
- My Book of Words Beginning with Bb
K-2
Give students practice with the initial consonant B with this mini-book. (PDF) Source: Reading Success Mini-Books: Initial Consonants
- My Book of Words Ending in -ing
K-2
Use this mini-book to give beginning readers practice with words ending in "-ing." (PDF) Source: Reading Success Mini-Books: Word Families
- My Book of Words With Short "a"
K-2
This mini-book will give students practice with the short vowel "a." (PDF) Source: Reading Success Mini-Books: Short & Long Vowels
- Our Gg words
Early Childhood, K-2,
Use this reproducible to learn to spell and to recognize upper and lowercase G. (PDF) Source: Alphabet File-Folder Word Walls
- Picture Dominoes
K-2
Get practice listening for the ending sounds of words with this matching game.
- The Alphabet Tree
K-2
This activity builds students' letter recognition skills. (PDF) Source: Overhead Teaching Kit: Easy Phonics Lessons for the Overhead
- The S Game
K-2
A super game sure to help reinforce the "s" sound.
- Tic Tac Tan
K-2
Practice rhyming with this familiar game.
- Very Punny
K-2
Figure out compound words with this rebus activity.
- What's in the Truck?
K-2
Use these mini-books to reinforce students' short vowel concepts. (PDF file) Source: Ready-to-Go Reproducibles: Fun Phonics Mini-Books
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