Students learn about phonics by focusing on the letter m and participating in an integrated array of activities, including reading, writing, mathematics, music, art, and technology.
![Phonics Through Literature: Learning About the Letter <em>M</em>](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/1831_0.jpg?h=e0b65719&itok=TKtTBYzx)
Phonics Through Literature: Learning About the Letter M
![Hey Diddle, Diddle! Generating Rhymes for Analogy-Based Phonics Instruction](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/1804_0.jpg?h=a8f2152a&itok=0WuQnzjp)
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Hey Diddle, Diddle! Generating Rhymes for Analogy-Based Phonics Instruction
1
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
Students practice matching rhyming words, apply phonological awareness to analogy-based phonics, and use the interactive Construct-a-Word to create rhyming words by adding a beginning consonant to a word ending.
![Whole-to-Parts Phonics Instruction: Teaching Letter-Sound Correspondences](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/1849_0.jpg?h=dbfb23f9&itok=TuJsU1Ja)
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Whole-to-Parts Phonics Instruction: Teaching Letter-Sound Correspondences
K - 2
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
Students will find that learning onset and rime is a handy skill when they read the Jack and Jill rhyme.
![Choral Reading](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/444.jpg?h=1615299c&itok=H2wjg-NH)
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Choral Reading
Grades
K - 5
Strategy Guide
During choral reading, students read together orally. Repeated, supported reading helps students read with greater expression and read unfamiliar words with greater ease.
![Gingerbread Phonics](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/1887_0.jpg?h=790be497&itok=sups0S-c)
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Gingerbread Phonics
K - 2
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
"Run, run, as fast as you can." Students use this refrain from The Gingerbread Man to learn letter-sound correspondence. Students use their new skills to write an online story.
![Dr. Seuss's Sound Words: Playing with Phonics and Spelling](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/1895_0.jpg?h=dcb7b74a&itok=ybzKKJEx)
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Dr. Seuss's Sound Words: Playing with Phonics and Spelling
K - 2
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
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?