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Resources - Small Group Activity
| Dr. Seuss's Sound Words: Playing with Phonics and Spelling | By focusing on sound words, this lesson helps students develop spelling strategies that help them move from phonemes to graphemes. Scroll down to Sessions Two and Three for possible small group activities. Grades K-2. |
| Name Talk: Exploring Letter-Sound Knowledge in the Primary Classroom | This lesson invites primary students to share their letter/sound knowledge in a small group and gives teachers an opportunity to assess knowledge in a meaningful context. Grades K-2. |
| Personal Game Boards | Create a file folder game board that can be used for phonics. Grade K. |
| Word Wizards: Students Making Words | This lesson uses an active, hands-on activity in which students learn how to look for patterns in words and how to make new words by adding or changing the sequence of letters. Grades K-2. |
| Word Sorts for Beginning and Struggling Readers | This lesson uses a hands-on word sort to introduce beginning and struggling readers to short-vowel word families. Grades K-2. |
Read*Write*Think contains a wealth of reading and writing lessons. It is a collaborative effort between the International Reading Association, NCTE, and Marco Polo.
Bank Street's Guide to Literacy for Volunteers and Tutors , Bank Street College of Education provides reading tutors with a variety of information ranging from background information on literacy and early reading, sample lesson plans, activities, and information on other literacy and reading resources.
Instructional Resources Database: Instructional Activities from SEDL is a search tool for locating instructional activities.
