by Chenyu Yi | May 12, 2018
This lesson is designed to demonstrate a fun way to teach children about...
by Chenyu Yi | May 12, 2018
This lesson is designed to demonstrate a fun way to teach children about...
by Heidi Gallagher | Feb 21, 2018
Heidi Gallagher | Wichita Collegiate School | Wichita, Kansas To aid in stand letter recognition, we play a game where we have a call out and echo pattern between the teacher and students. This Alphabet Chant is an activity I like to use “student teachers” for and let...
by Teach for Life | May 23, 2017
Debra Dennill | Wichita Collegiate School | Wichita, Kansas Word families are made up of words that end in the same sound. In this video, the teacher reviews one way she teaches the -ag and -am word...
by Teach for Life | May 18, 2017
Noel Lucero | Kensler Elementary | Wichita, Kansas In this activity, the teacher uses counters to help students identify how many words are in a...
by Amanda Leger | Apr 17, 2017
Amanda Leger | Wichita Collegiate School | Wichita, Kansas The teacher and students use a worksheet to learn about a new letter. In this video, the class learns about the letter “x” together, sounding it out, making its shape, and choosing pictures that...
by Heidi Gallagher | Apr 11, 2017
Heidi Jo Gallagher | Wichita Collegiate School | Wichita, Kansas The teacher uses this activity to show students the difference between a word and a letter. In this activity the “hungry;” only likes to eat the “fish with words;” so the students...
by Teach for Life | Mar 13, 2017
Kristin Freed | Wichita Collegiate School | Wichita, Kansas This video explains the stages of how young children hold writing tools and how to help them. To write and draw well, children need to learn how to hold a crayon, pencil or pen with a three-finger grip. If a...
by Amanda Leger | Mar 2, 2017
Amanda Leger | Wichita Collegiate School | Wichita, Kansas This video shows one way to teach letters and sounds, using “x” — a letter that breaks the rules! The students learn that it usually makes the /ks/ sound, but it can also sound like /z/ in...
by Teach for Life | Feb 23, 2017
Dana Barrientos | Harry Street Elementary | Wichita, Kansas To introduce the idea that sentences are made up of individual words, the teacher uses a visual aid to represent each word as it is said...
by Teach for Life | Feb 23, 2017
Dana Barrientos | Harry Street Elementary | Wichita, Kansas The teacher focuses on one letter and the sounds that letter makes. Then, the teacher has the students identify and name some everyday objects. The students must then figure out which items begin with the...
by Teach for Life | Feb 22, 2017
Susan Ensz | Wichita Collegiate School | Wichita, Kansas Using letter and animal picture cards, the teacher shows one way to teach letters and the sounds they make. This helps children learn to sound out and read simple...
by Teach for Life | Feb 14, 2017
Cindy Johnson | Wichita Collegiate School | Wichita, Kansas This song helps students learn simple, three-letter words. The teacher and students practice making the beginning, middle, and ending sounds of a word as well as the letters associated with those sounds, then...
by Teach for Life | Feb 14, 2017
Kristin Freed | Wichita Collegiate School | Wichita, Kansas In this lesson, children learn to write their names. The teacher reviews basic lines and shapes, demonstrating how they are combined to create the letters used to spell their...
by Teach for Life | Feb 13, 2017
Dana Barrientos | Wichita Collegiate School | Wichita, Kansas The teacher uses pre-made shapes to show how the lines of letter are written. In this example, she asks if the lines of the letter “y” are straight, and the students answer that they are...
by Teach for Life | Feb 13, 2017
Dana Barrientos | Harry Street Elementary | Wichita, Kansas The teacher and students sing the “ABC Song” together as the teacher points at the letters. This fun activity helps young children learn to recognize the letters of the alphabet, say the letter...
by Teach for Life | Feb 7, 2017
Cindy Johnson | Wichita Collegiate School | Wichita, Kansas Here is a fun, active way to teach letter sounds. The teacher leads students in learning the sounds the letter “C” makes using song, a rhythmic chant, body motions, and saying the sounds in...
by Educator Partner | Jun 18, 2015
Children can have fun, sing, dance, roar and learn about rhyming words and word families with Rhymin’ Lion. Word families (also known as phonograms or “chunks”) are groups of words that have a common feature or pattern. They have some of the same...
by Educator Partner | Feb 25, 2015
Children learn about and practice long and short vowel sounds while singing along to the tune of Old MacDonald. ******** “OLD MCDONALD HAD SOME VOWELS SONG LYRICS” Old McDonald had some vowels A-E-I-O-U And on his farm he had an A, AEIOU With an AA here,...
by Educator Partner | Nov 11, 2014
This fun song gives children a chance to practice the short vowel sounds for AEIOU. The song starts off slow but keeps going faster and...
by Linda Mitchell | Jul 3, 2013
This alphabet song leads children through the sounds and shapes of letters in preparation for writing. Based on Montessori method, presenting the sounds and motions needed to write the most-used letters–lower case. If students don’t have printed cards,...
by Educator Partner | May 16, 2013
Blending onset and rime using several different gestures, songs, and chants. Note- letter displacement and word manipulation is being done predominantly in small group based on Words Their Way. I keep these questions fairly lower-level for whole group fast-paced...
by Educator Partner | Nov 27, 2011
The teacher covers up the name of a student and shows it one letter at a time. Students try to guess whose name is hidden as each letter is...
by Educator Partner | Jun 16, 2011
Being able to name the letters in the alphabet is one of the critical predictors of reading success. Most people like to start with the alphabet song, but there are several different activities that you can use to teach your child the alphabet. I always like to use...
by Educator Partner | Apr 24, 2011
In this activity, young children place simple, three-letter words into blanks to create silly sentences. This gives them a chance to practice phonics, sounding out simple words, and reading. ***** Ideas for early learning and teaching preschool children....
