1 Using Folk Tales: Vowel Influences on the Letter G Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades PreK–1 Professional Commentary: This lesson integrates the study of a fairy tale with learning irregular patterns and letter-sound relationships related to decoding and spelling. Students begin by listening to the story Jack and the Beanstalk.... 2 Word Sorts for Beginning and Struggling Readers Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–2 Professional Commentary: This series of lessons provides a framework for introducing students to short-vowel word families. Focusing first on the "a" family, students work together and individually to learn the word families -at, -an, -ap, and -ack.... 3 Making and Writing Words Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 1–3 Professional Commentary: Making and Writing Words is a teacher guided word study activity. A variation of the making words activities developed by Patricia Cunningham, this resource provides regular opportunities for students to learn about the spelling structure of words in order to improve word recognition skills.... 4 Using Songwriting to Build Awareness of Beginning Letter Sounds Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–1 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students use familiar songs to reinforce their understanding of letter-sound correspondence. Although presented as a multi-day lesson, the components of this lesson can be customized to match the specific needs of beginning readers at various stages of reading development.... 5 Poetry Portfolios: Using Poetry to Teach Reading and Writing Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–2 Professional Commentary: Students' development in reading and writing is supported when they have an active interest their learning. This lesson supports students' exploration of language and writing skills as they read and discuss poetry.... 6 Phonemic Awareness Assessment - Kindergarten Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–1 Professional Commentary: This phonemic awareness assessment is excerpted from Reading and Writing Grade by Grade: New Standards, National Center on Education and the Economy and the University of Pittsburgh (1998). It is designed to be given to young children up to three times during the school year. The assessment includes: 1) teacher dialogue with examples for the child, 2) the vocabulary used for assessment, and 3) a form to record and track progress. The concepts tested are: rhyming words, isolating initial consonants, isolating ending consonants, and blending separately spoken phonemes. (author/jlkrause) ... 7 Phoneme Awareness Assessment Tools Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades PreK–1 Professional Commentary: This assessment resource for phonemic awareness includes four assessments designed to be used by classroom teachers. The assessments include: 1) Recognizing Rhyme, 2) Isolating Beginning Sounds, 3) Isolating Final Sounds, and 4) Phoneme Blending. All assessments include easy-to-follow teacher directions. The Recognizing Rhyme Assessment and the Phoneme Blending Assessment also include a QuickTime video clip of a demonstration of the assessment with children. These assessments are designed for use with children individually and throughout the school year to inform teachers using the assess-plan-teach cycle. (author/jlkrause) ... 8 Picture Sort for Initial F and T Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–2 Professional Commentary: This picture sort for the initial sounds of F and T is from the activity-based book, Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction. This activity helps children make the connection between spoken and written language. Children learn to identify the beginning sound in the pictures and place the pictures under the correct beginning letter. The activity can be extended when children draw and sort their own pictures that begin with the same beginning sounds to reinforce the letter/sound association. (author/jlkrause)... 9 Phoneme Segmentation Assessment : Yopp-Singer Test of Phonemic Segmentation Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–1 Professional Commentary: This resource, supported by the Los Angeles County Office of Education, features a video demonstration of the Yopp-Singer Test of Phonemic Segmentation. The video provides a step-by-step model for administering the Yopp-Singer Test.... Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades PreK–2 Professional Commentary: This article describes how to create a word family chart with a whole class or small group. The list of words generated can be simple or expanded, as necessary, up to two and three syllable words. Creating this list helps children hear and say the sounds, not the letters. The activity also begins to develop the important alphabetic awareness that words that sound alike at the end also look alike at the end. Extension ideas are provided that allow children to play with words through games, songs, and drawings to better understand the way the word families are connected. (author/jlkrause)... |