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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Getting the ig in Pig: Helping Children Discover Onset and Rime
   Students will need their language-building hard hats as they construct words using onset and rime, building vocabulary and phonics comprehension.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Launching Family Message Journals
   This lesson introduces Family Message Journals—a teacher-tested tool for encouraging family involvement and supporting writing to reflect and to learn.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Let's Read It Again: Comprehension Strategies for English-Language Learners
   Help Spanish-speaking English-language learners unlock the mysteries of their new language by using a bilingual book to recognize unfamiliar words and construct meaning from the text.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Multipurpose Poetry: Introducing Science Concepts and Increasing Fluency
   Creepy crawlers, hoppers, and fliers are the focus of this lesson in which students chorally read poems about insects and use the Internet to locate facts about their assigned insects.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 1  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Name Talk: Exploring Letter-Sound Knowledge in the Primary Classroom
   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.
   
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Q is for Duck: Using Alphabet Books With Struggling Writers
   A is for zoo? Q is for duck? The alphabet as students know it is transformed when students create a class book that contains clever associations for each letter of the alphabet.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Using Folk Tales: Vowel Influences on the Letter G
   Gentle, gigantic, graceful—do these g words describe the giant in Jack and the Beanstalk? Students will explore the hard and soft g sounds by studying fairy tales and animals.
8. Classroom Resources | Grade   K  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Using Repetition and Picture Cues to Foster Independent Young Readers
   Kindergartners share their knowledge of letters and sounds in a large group setting, giving teachers an assessment opportunity. Each student contributes a page to make a repetitive classroom book.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Whole-to-Parts Phonics Instruction: Teaching Letter-Sound Correspondences
   Students will find that learning onset and rime is a handy skill when they read the Jack and Jill rhyme.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Writing Poetry with Rebus and Rhyme
    This lesson encourages students to use rhyming words to write rebus poetry modeled on rebus books, which substitute pictures for the words that young students cannot yet identify or decode.