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Title: Elkonin Letterbox Lesson Long a: ay, ai
Description: This lesson is an Elkonin letterbox lesson designed to help help students to isolate and pronounce initial, medial vowel and final sounds (phonemes) in spoken single-syllable words. Elkonin letterbox lessons are hands-on activities that involve orally producing single syllable words by blending sounds (phonemes), including consonant blends and the segmentation of single-syllable words.
Standard(s):
[ELA2015] (0) 22:

22 ) Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. [RF.K.3]

a. Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary or many of the most frequent sounds for each consonant. [RF.K.3a]

b. Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels. [RF.K.3b]

c. Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does). [RF.K.3c]

d. Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ. [RF.K.3d]

Subject: English Language Arts (K - 2)
Title: Elkonin Letterbox Lesson Long a: ay, ai
Description: This lesson is an Elkonin letterbox lesson designed to help help students to isolate and pronounce initial, medial vowel and final sounds (phonemes) in spoken single-syllable words. Elkonin letterbox lessons are hands-on activities that involve orally producing single syllable words by blending sounds (phonemes), including consonant blends and the segmentation of single-syllable words.

Title: Read Well Letter Chant Podcast
Description: This lesson guides students through creating a Podcast that provides video and audio of the Read Well Letter Chant. Students take pictures of the cards and record the chant to go along with the cards.
Standard(s):
[ELA2015] (0) 22:

22 ) Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. [RF.K.3]

a. Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary or many of the most frequent sounds for each consonant. [RF.K.3a]

b. Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels. [RF.K.3b]

c. Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does). [RF.K.3c]

d. Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ. [RF.K.3d]

Subject: English Language Arts (K), or Technology Education (K - 2)
Title: Read Well Letter Chant Podcast
Description: This lesson guides students through creating a Podcast that provides video and audio of the Read Well Letter Chant. Students take pictures of the cards and record the chant to go along with the cards.

Title: Word a Day
Description: Word a Day allows students to develop a bank of sight words that are meaningful to them. Each student picks words to add to his/her individual word bank. The teacher can specify particular categories or let the student choose any word. The student then finds a picture or symbol to illustrate each word using a variety of resources.
Standard(s):
[ELA2015] (1) 40:

40 ) With guidance and support from adults, demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings. [L.1.5]

a. Sort words into categories (e.g., colors, clothing) to gain a sense of the concepts the categories represent. [L.1.5a]

b. Define words by category and by one or more key attributes (e.g., a duck is a bird that swims; a tiger is a large cat with stripes). [L.1.5b]

c. Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at home that are cozy). [L.1.5c]

d. Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs differing in manner (e.g., look, peek, glance, stare, glare, scowl) and adjectives differing in intensity (e.g., large, gigantic) by defining or choosing them or by acting out the meanings. [L.1.5d]

Subject: English Language Arts (K - 1), or Technology Education (K - 2)
Title: Word a Day
Description: Word a Day allows students to develop a bank of sight words that are meaningful to them. Each student picks words to add to his/her individual word bank. The teacher can specify particular categories or let the student choose any word. The student then finds a picture or symbol to illustrate each word using a variety of resources.

Thinkfinity Lesson Plans

Title: A-Hunting We Will Go: Teaching Rhyming Through Musical Verse
Description: Adapting the song '' A-Hunting We Will Go,'' students put a whale in a pail and even '' take a little bear and hug it if we dare.''
Standard(s):
[ELA2015] (1) 22:

22 ) Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. [RF.1.3]

a. Know the spelling-sound correspondences for common consonant digraphs. [RF.1.3a]

b. Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words. [RF.1.3b]

c. Know final -e and common vowel team conventions for representing long vowel sounds. [RF.1.3c]

d. Use knowledge that every syllable must have a vowel sound to determine the number of syllables in a printed word. [RF.1.3d]

e. Decode two-syllable words following basic patterns by breaking the words into syllables. [RF.1.3e]

f. Read words with inflectional endings. [RF.1.3f]

g. Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words. [RF.1.3g]

Subject: Language Arts
Title: A-Hunting We Will Go: Teaching Rhyming Through Musical Verse
Description: Adapting the song '' A-Hunting We Will Go,'' students put a whale in a pail and even '' take a little bear and hug it if we dare.''
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: K,1,2

Title: Learning About Word Families with Click, Clack, Moo
Description: Using text from Doreen Cronin's Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type as shared readings, first-grade students learn word families and how to decode new words in a word family.
Standard(s):
[ELA2015] (2) 7:

7 ) Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot. [RL.2.7]

Subject: Language Arts
Title: Learning About Word Families with Click, Clack, Moo
Description: Using text from Doreen Cronin's Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type as shared readings, first-grade students learn word families and how to decode new words in a word family.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: K,1,2

Title: Word Sorts for Beginning and Struggling Readers
Description: Students are introduced to short-vowel word families and learn to sort words alone and with a partner using the Word Family Sort activity.
Standard(s):
[ELA2015] (1) 23:

23 ) Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension. [RF.1.4]

a. Read on-level text with purpose and understanding. [RF.1.4a]

b. Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings. [RF.1.4b]

c. Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary. [RF.1.4c]

Subject: Language Arts
Title: Word Sorts for Beginning and Struggling Readers
Description: Students are introduced to short-vowel word families and learn to sort words alone and with a partner using the Word Family Sort activity.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: K,1,2

Title: Stop Signs, McDonald's, and Cheerios: Writing With Environmental Print
Description: Students use logos from everyday life to identify individual letters and then create their own captions for the images.
Standard(s):
[ELA2015] (2) 39:

39 ) Demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings. [L.2.5]

a. Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., describe foods that are spicy or juicy). [L.2.5a]

b. Distinguish shades of meaning among closely related verbs (e.g., toss, throw, hurl) and closely related adjectives (e.g., thin, slender, skinny, scrawny). [L.2.5b]

Subject: Language Arts
Title: Stop Signs, McDonald's, and Cheerios: Writing With Environmental Print
Description: Students use logos from everyday life to identify individual letters and then create their own captions for the images.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: K,1,2

Title: Bingo! Using Environmental Print to Practice Reading
Description: The game Bingo is transformed in this lesson in which students use symbols and images to make connections to environmental print through the use of personalized Bingo cards.
Standard(s):
[ELA2015] (2) 19:

19 ) By the end of year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, in the Grades 2-3 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. [RI.2.10]

Subject: Language Arts
Title: Bingo! Using Environmental Print to Practice Reading
Description: The game Bingo is transformed in this lesson in which students use symbols and images to make connections to environmental print through the use of personalized Bingo cards.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: K,1,2

Title: Word Study with Henry and Mudge
Description: Henry and Mudge is used in this lesson to build students' word recognition through rereading, high-frequency word banks, word studies, and writing.
Standard(s):
[ELA2015] (3) 38:

38 ) Demonstrate command of the conventions of Standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. [L.3.2]

a. Capitalize appropriate words in titles. [L.3.2a]

b. Use commas in addresses. [L.3.2b]

c. Use commas and quotation marks in dialogue. [L.3.2c]

d. Form and use possessives. [L.3.2d]

e. Use conventional spelling for high-frequency and other studied words and for adding suffixes to base words (e.g., sitting, smiled, cries, happiness). [L.3.2e]

f. Use spelling patterns and generalizations (e.g., word families, position-based spellings, syllable patterns, ending rules, meaningful word parts) in writing words. [L.3.2f]

g. Write legibily in cursive. (Alabama)

h. Consult reference materials, including beginning dictionaries, as needed to check and correct spellings. [L.3.2g]

Subject: Language Arts
Title: Word Study with Henry and Mudge
Description: Henry and Mudge is used in this lesson to build students' word recognition through rereading, high-frequency word banks, word studies, and writing.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: K,1,2,3

Title: Name Talk: Exploring Letter-Sound Knowledge in the Primary Classroom
Description: Students demonstrate their letter/sound knowledge by working with name cards and sharing observations about their classmates names, giving teachers an opportunity to assess knowledge in a meaningful context.
Standard(s):
[ELA2015] (2) 20:

20 ) Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. [RF.2.3]

a. Distinguish long and short vowels when reading regularly spelled one-syllable words. [RF.2.3a]

b. Know spelling-sound correspondences for additional common vowel teams. [RF.2.3b]

c. Decode regularly spelled two-syllable words with long vowels. [RF.2.3c]

d. Decode words with common prefixes and suffixes. [RF.2.3d]

e. Identify words with inconsistent but common spelling-sound correspondences. [RF.2.3e]

f. Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words. [RF.2.3f]

Subject: Language Arts
Title: Name Talk: Exploring Letter-Sound Knowledge in the Primary Classroom
Description: Students demonstrate their letter/sound knowledge by working with name cards and sharing observations about their classmates names, giving teachers an opportunity to assess knowledge in a meaningful context.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: K,1

Title: What's in a Name? Teaching Concepts of Letter and Word
Description: In this recurring activity, the process of choosing a helper for the day becomes a literacy activity, with the helper's name as a starting place for reading and writing.
Standard(s):
[ELA2015] (2) 20:

20 ) Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. [RF.2.3]

a. Distinguish long and short vowels when reading regularly spelled one-syllable words. [RF.2.3a]

b. Know spelling-sound correspondences for additional common vowel teams. [RF.2.3b]

c. Decode regularly spelled two-syllable words with long vowels. [RF.2.3c]

d. Decode words with common prefixes and suffixes. [RF.2.3d]

e. Identify words with inconsistent but common spelling-sound correspondences. [RF.2.3e]

f. Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words. [RF.2.3f]

Subject: Language Arts
Title: What's in a Name? Teaching Concepts of Letter and Word
Description: In this recurring activity, the process of choosing a helper for the day becomes a literacy activity, with the helper's name as a starting place for reading and writing.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: K

Title: Growing Readers and Writers with Help from Mother Goose
Description: Watch Mother Goose work her magic! This lesson uses nursery rhymes to help emergent readers remember the letters and their sounds and identify word chunks.
Standard(s):
[ELA2015] (0) 22:

22 ) Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. [RF.K.3]

a. Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary or many of the most frequent sounds for each consonant. [RF.K.3a]

b. Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels. [RF.K.3b]

c. Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does). [RF.K.3c]

d. Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ. [RF.K.3d]

Subject: Language Arts
Title: Growing Readers and Writers with Help from Mother Goose
Description: Watch Mother Goose work her magic! This lesson uses nursery rhymes to help emergent readers remember the letters and their sounds and identify word chunks.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: K

Title: Teaching Short-Vowel Discrimination Using Dr. Seuss Rhymes
Description: Through the contrast of short-vowel patterns and use of Dr. Seuss rhymes, students apply their knowledge of vowel sounds in reading and spelling new words.
Standard(s):
[ELA2015] (2) 20:

20 ) Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. [RF.2.3]

a. Distinguish long and short vowels when reading regularly spelled one-syllable words. [RF.2.3a]

b. Know spelling-sound correspondences for additional common vowel teams. [RF.2.3b]

c. Decode regularly spelled two-syllable words with long vowels. [RF.2.3c]

d. Decode words with common prefixes and suffixes. [RF.2.3d]

e. Identify words with inconsistent but common spelling-sound correspondences. [RF.2.3e]

f. Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words. [RF.2.3f]

Subject: Language Arts
Title: Teaching Short-Vowel Discrimination Using Dr. Seuss Rhymes
Description: Through the contrast of short-vowel patterns and use of Dr. Seuss rhymes, students apply their knowledge of vowel sounds in reading and spelling new words.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: K,1,2

Title: Dr. Seuss's Sound Words: Playing with Phonics and Spelling
Description: Boom! Br-r-ring! Cluck! Moo!?Everywhere you turn, you find exciting sounds. Students use these sounds to write their own poems based on Dr. Seuss's Mr. Brown Can MOO! Can You?
Standard(s):
[ELA2015] (2) 20:

20 ) Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. [RF.2.3]

a. Distinguish long and short vowels when reading regularly spelled one-syllable words. [RF.2.3a]

b. Know spelling-sound correspondences for additional common vowel teams. [RF.2.3b]

c. Decode regularly spelled two-syllable words with long vowels. [RF.2.3c]

d. Decode words with common prefixes and suffixes. [RF.2.3d]

e. Identify words with inconsistent but common spelling-sound correspondences. [RF.2.3e]

f. Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words. [RF.2.3f]

Subject: Language Arts
Title: Dr. Seuss's Sound Words: Playing with Phonics and Spelling
Description: Boom! Br-r-ring! Cluck! Moo!?Everywhere you turn, you find exciting sounds. Students use these sounds to write their own poems based on Dr. Seuss's Mr. Brown Can MOO! Can You?
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: K,1,2

Title: Getting the ig in Pig: Helping Children Discover Onset and Rime
Description: Students will need their language-building hard hats as they construct words using onset and rime, building vocabulary and phonics comprehension.
Standard(s):
[ELA2015] (2) 20:

20 ) Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. [RF.2.3]

a. Distinguish long and short vowels when reading regularly spelled one-syllable words. [RF.2.3a]

b. Know spelling-sound correspondences for additional common vowel teams. [RF.2.3b]

c. Decode regularly spelled two-syllable words with long vowels. [RF.2.3c]

d. Decode words with common prefixes and suffixes. [RF.2.3d]

e. Identify words with inconsistent but common spelling-sound correspondences. [RF.2.3e]

f. Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words. [RF.2.3f]

Subject: Language Arts
Title: Getting the ig in Pig: Helping Children Discover Onset and Rime
Description: Students will need their language-building hard hats as they construct words using onset and rime, building vocabulary and phonics comprehension.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: K,1,2

ALEX Learning Activities

Title: Sight Word Search
Description: www.tagxedo.com is a word cloud application that takes several words and puts them into shapes. This web tool can be used as a literacy center to help students work on sight word recognition.
Standard(s):
[ELA2015] (0) 22:

22 ) Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. [RF.K.3]

a. Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary or many of the most frequent sounds for each consonant. [RF.K.3a]

b. Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels. [RF.K.3b]

c. Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does). [RF.K.3c]

d. Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ. [RF.K.3d]

Subject: English Language Arts (K)
Title: Sight Word Search
Description: www.tagxedo.com is a word cloud application that takes several words and puts them into shapes. This web tool can be used as a literacy center to help students work on sight word recognition.

Title: ReadWriteThink Picture Match
Description: The Picture Match interactive is designed to give new readers practice with identifying beginning-letter and short- and long-vowel sounds through a fun, simple game.
Standard(s):
[ELA2015] (0) 22:

22 ) Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. [RF.K.3]

a. Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary or many of the most frequent sounds for each consonant. [RF.K.3a]

b. Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels. [RF.K.3b]

c. Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does). [RF.K.3c]

d. Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ. [RF.K.3d]

Subject: English Language Arts (K)
Title: ReadWriteThink Picture Match
Description: The Picture Match interactive is designed to give new readers practice with identifying beginning-letter and short- and long-vowel sounds through a fun, simple game.

ALEX Learning Activities: 2

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