Read First New Jersey - Professional Development
Video-based Reading Strategies and Techniques: Phonics

Resources - Whole Group Activity

Cross-curricular lessons	Grades K-2 Fact or Fiction: Learning About Worms Using Diary of a Worm (reading, science) The Frog Beyond the Fairy Tale Character: Searching Informational Texts (reading, science) Grades 3-5 What If We Changed the Book? Problem-Posing with "Sixteen Cows" (reading, mathematics) Multipurpose Poetry: Introducing Science Concepts and Increasing Fluency (reading, science) Looking for the History in Historical Fiction: An Epidemic for Reading The stories from the booklist, namely The Birchbark House and Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, might be books that you would want to read aloud to third grade students (reading, social studies).
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. Grades K-2.
Getting the ig in Pig: Helping Children Discover Onset and Rime	This lesson incorporates literature, independent and cooperative learning, critical thinking, and hands-on activities to engage students in learning the ig rime. Grades K-2.
Gingerbread Phonics: Learning Letter-Sound Correspondence with a Favorite Folktale	In this lesson, early readers use familiar words from a traditional story to learn letter-sound correspondence. Grades K-2.
Instructional Resources Database: Instructional Activities - Decoding Activities	Decoding activities for emergent and developing readers from SEDL (Southwest Educational Development Laboratory).
Phonic Generalizations in Chrysanthemum	This lesson uses an active, hands-on activity to teach students how to determine the common and alternative sounds for specific vowel combinations. Grades K-2.
Phonics in Context	In this lesson teachers choose literature that contains the necessary phonics elements for instruction, then plan before, during, and after activities for read-aloud or shared reading experiences. Grades K-2.
Student of the Day: Create Sound/Letter Understanding with Names	This lesson uses students' names and other concrete words to teach the conventions and terminology of print. Students explore each other's names, making comparisons between initial sounds, ending sounds, syllabication, and letter shape. Grades K-1.
Whole-to-Parts Phonics Instruction: Teaching Letter-Sound Correspondences	This lesson uses whole-to-parts phonics instruction as an approach to beginning reading. Letter-sound correspondences are taught within a meaningful context, and in an explicit, systematic, and extensive manner. 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.

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