Students explore gingerbread stories. In this poetry lesson, students read the folk tale "The Gingerbread Man" as well as Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett and identify rhyming words. Students also make art projects, dramatize the stories,...

Pupils recognize the short vowel i in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /i/ from other vowel sounds. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify the...

Students use technology to improve their communication skills and have the ability to interact with other speech students attending other elementary schools. Through riddles, games, and other activities, students attain their speech...

In this Language Arts worksheet, students write 7 words for each different vowel sound. For example, under "ai" students could write, "pain" and "rain."

Students explore language arts by reading a children's book in class. For this story vocabulary lesson, students read the book The Subway Mouse and identify the use of specific vocabulary words. Students define the selected vocabulary...

Students participate in a game to identify word wall words. In this decoding instructional activity, students play a variation of the game "BINGO" and identify sight words on the word wall.

Students find the beginning letters of words. For this alphabet lesson, students sound out words to find the beginning sound and the beginning letter. They play a game to mark these letters on a card. 

Here is a great spin on the classic game, Musical Chairs! Instead of fighting to get the last chair when the music stops, learners will need to read a CVC word to stay in the game. They walk around, whoever is near the word bucket when...

Young scholars study words. In this phonemic awareness lesson, students play a game in which they identify if two words have the same initial sound. They play the game in pairs using a stack of word cards prepared by the teacher. This...

Students listen to the story, There's a Wocket in My Pocket, by Dr. Seuss. They discuss the rhyming in the book and then play a rhyming game.

Students identify the textures of materials in their environments in order to expand their language, math, sensory, and observational skills. For this sensory activity lesson, students first write a list of different words to describe...

Students explore word sounds by participating in a visual relay game. In this vocabulary identification game, students create holiday themed images and cards based on the different holidays in a year. Students place the cards and images...

Students play an alphabet game with beans that asks them create simple short vowel words. They spill several marked beans onto a paper and separate those that have fallen face-up. They arrange the beans into words and read them aloud.

Pupils explore corresponding letters of the alphabet with the corresponding phonemes using farm animals. They create a classroom word wall of the items they saw on a trip to the farm or zoo. Students create pictures to go along with the...

Students study words. In this fluency building lesson, students play a one on one game in which they read irregular words presented to them. They work with their teacher to keep as many irregular word cards as he or she can based on them...

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

Students explore memorization by participating in a fun class game. In this Mexican culture lesson, students identify important Mexican symbols and utilize these images to play a memory game. Students match flash cards containing the...

Students color pages, eat carrots, read books, and more to learn about Winnie the Pooh. In this Winnie the Pooh lesson plan, students also play a bears musical chairs game.

Students participate in a spelling game to help them with their spelling words. They role a die and write the given word as many times as the die says too. They write the words in different colors to review them as well.

Students participate in a unique version of the game Mother, May I. They play the game to explore how to positively communicate their needs, wants and feelings, and to demonstrate how to react to problems.

Pupils explore phonemes through rhymes. They discuss nursery rhymes and rhyming words. Students read "Jack and Jill" and discuss the rhyming words in the nursery rhyme. They play a rhyming game and identify words that rhyme.

Students explore why Thanksgiving is celebrated. In this cross-curriculum lesson, students listen to the book Thanks for Thanksgiving by Julie Markes, and complete the sentence frame "I am thankful for ____." Students practice phonemic...

Young scholars read a story. In this speech lesson, students read Yettle's Feathers and discuss what they learned from this parable. Young scholars discuss how the words we say have an affect on other people.

Students explore phonetics by participating in a class game. In this alphabet sounds lesson, students collaborate in a ABC's activity where they identify a random letter, the sound it makes, and place it in it's correct spot on a mat....