Reading Lessons
These lessons were created as a part of the first Fundamentals of Language and Literacy Instruction course at Auburn University. All of the lessons listed below were made in the Fall of 2016. Click the title to be taken to the full lesson design.
This lesson will help children identify /s/, the phoneme represented by S. Students will learn to recognize /s/ in spoken words by learning a meaningful representation (the shape of a snake) and the letter symbol S, practice finding /s/ in words, and apply phoneme awareness with /s/ in phonetic cue reading by distinguishing rhyming words from beginning letters.
This lesson teaches children about the long vowel correspondence ee = /E/. In order for students to become phonemically aware, they have to learn how to recognize all correspondences, which will also help them learn how to recognize the spellings that map word pronunciations. In this lesson children will learn to recognize, spell, and read words containing the spelling ee. They will learn this correspondence by learning a representation of a man screaming “EEEE,” showing the sound that ee makes when it is pronounced. Students will also perform a letterbox lesson and read a decodable text, then take an individual assessment to check for understanding.
To read fluently, a student must read quickly, smoothly, and expressively. In addition, word recognition must be automatic. If word recognition is automatic, reading becomes an enjoyable activity for a student. For students to gain automatic word recognition, the reading and re-reading of connected, decodable text is needed. The more a student comes in to contact with a specific text, the more fluent he or she becomes. In this lesson, students will learn how to read quickly, smoothly, and expressively in order to gain fluency. The goal of this lesson is to help children to become fluent readers in order to increase their comprehension of the text. This will be achieved through repeated readings with partners.
The ultimate goal of reading is comprehension. This lesson introduces students to a helpful strategy known as summarization, which will help them read to learn and understand the text. Students will learn to delete trivial information and redundant information in an article about the mystery of bees.
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