Identifying Middle Phonemes
This is a lesson plan for the explicit instruction of isolating the middle sound in words.
Identifying Ending Phonemes
Use this lesson plan to explicitly teach students to identify the final sound in words.
Identifying Beginning Phonemes
This lesson plan outlines an instructional routine for explicitly teaching students to isolate the first sound in words.
Phoneme Awareness Word List
This document provides a list of words for phonemic awareness instruction, with words carefully organized by number of sounds and stop/continuant sounds.
Phoneme Identification Assessments
Use these diagnostic assessments to understand which phoneme isolation skills need instruction.
Phoneme Blending and Segmenting Diagnostic Assessment
This is a short assessment to assess students’ mastery of phoneme segmenting and blending.
Blending and Segmenting Games
This Reading Rockets article provides materials and resources for several activities to teach blending and segmenting. The authors provide research that supports the use of each of these activities.
Word Connections: A Multisyllabic Word Reading Program
Free downloadable supplemental reading intervention program for students in grades three to five who continue to need support with word reading. This program includes 40 40-minute lessons designed to be delivered in small groups, 3 – 4 times per week.
Heart Word Magic Dissect a Word
This activity allows students to practice dissecting Heart Words (high-frequency words) with irregular letter sound relationships by listening to the individual phonemes in a word and then filling in the corresponding spellings. They fill in a heart above the irregular part of the word that must be learned “by heart” and write that tricky part again.
Sample scripts are provided for the following words: saidfromhisofcould
This PDF includes 5 pages. Page 1 provides the overall directions, pages 2-4 provide the sample scripts and page 5 is the student spelling grid sheet.
Heart Word Magic – Help Students Learn to Read and Spell High-Frequency and Sight Words
Heart Word Magic is a complimentary teaching tool designed to help students learn to read and spell high-frequency words and sight words, particularly those that aren’t very decodable. There are 26 embedded videos in total. Each video explains the spelling pattern in a systematic and explicit manner in under 2 minutes.
Advanced Word Study
This resource is designed for teachers and students with limited experience with advanced phonics instruction. It provides an accelerated scope and sequence of syllable types and common prefixes, suffixes, and root words. The lessons include detailed descriptions, visual examples, and practice pages.
Morphology Matters: Building Vocabulary Through Word Parts
Wondering where to start with morphology and how it can tie in with your explicit vocabulary instruction? This 36-page resource is full of lesson ideas and activities that you use with your students. This resource provides some essential background knowledge of morphology for all educators and then provides several lesson frameworks that you can use with your students, using the new Ontario Curriculum. It provides a suggested scope and sequence as well as word lists, but remember that the scope and sequence for morpheme introduction for the new curriculum is found on page 6 of Appendix A (Word-Level Reading and Spelling: Applying Phonics, Orthographic, and Morphological Knowledge). Once the introductory morpheme sequence from the curriculum has been consolidated, the word and morpheme lists found in this resource you can use to expand students’ morphological understanding beyond Grade 4 and across many subject areas.
