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Description |
| Choosing a Host City for the Olympic Games | In this model eliciting activity (MEA), students are asked to help the International Olympic Committee rank prospective host cities for upcoming Summer Olympic Games. Students are provided with data about a list of applicant cities and then must rank the cities and write a proposal to the IOC explaining their rankings. At the end of the MEA, the students will write an opinion piece for the International Olympic Committee that tells their final decision about which city should be the next host of the Summer Olympic Games.
Model Eliciting Activities, MEAs, are open-ended, interdisciplinary problem-solving activities that are meant to reveal students’ thinking about the concepts embedded in realistic situations. MEAs resemble engineering problems and encourage students to create solutions in the form of mathematical and scientific models. Students work in teams to apply their knowledge of science and mathematics to solve an open-ended problem while considering constraints and tradeoffs. Students integrate their ELA skills into MEAs as they are asked to clearly document their thought processes. MEAs follow a problem-based, student-centered approach to learning, where students are encouraged to grapple with the problem while the teacher acts as a facilitator. To learn more about MEAs visit: https://www.cpalms.org/cpalms/mea.aspx |
| Listen Up! Having Fun with Sound Words | In this lesson, students will be able to recognize and decode the use of sound words in literature. Students will practice these skills through a sound game, creating a word web, and making a sound word flip book. |
| Prefix Lesson | This lesson is an introduction to using the prefixes re-, pre-, and un-. In this lesson, students work with partners to add common prefixes to words and define the new meaning of the word. Students will create a digital presentation showcasing examples of the prefixes in use in sentences. |
| Colorful Rhymes | The students will participate in reading the rhyming story The Crayon Box That Talked and help to generate words that rhyme with colors. Then, students will be able to demonstrate their understanding of rhyming words by completing a sorting activity. |
| I See the Tree – Vowel Team /ee/ | In this lesson, students will decode words with the vowel team /ee/. The students will develop a class-made /ee/ tree in which the students will increase their vocabulary with a variety of /ee/ words and students will create a narrative using words with the vowel team /ee/. |
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Description |
| Phonics: Word Construction | In this activity, students will combine base words with affixes and inflections to make new words. |
| Phonics: Base Word Sort | In this activity, students will identify word components (base word and affixes) by doing a sort. |
| Phonics: Front or Back | In this activity, students will add affixes to base words to make new words. |
| Phonics: Affix Hunt | In this activity, students will identify base words and affixes (prefixes and suffixes). |
| Phonics: Compound Concentration | In this activity, students will form compound words. |
| Phonics: Syllable Share | In this activity, students will make words from syllable cards. |
| Phonics: Syllable Trivia | In this activity, students will identify syllable patterns by playing a game. |
| Phonics: Parting Words | In this activity, students will identify and segment base words and inflections. |
| Phonics: Covering the Bases | In this activity, students will identify base words and inflections. |
| Phonics: Word Plus | In this activity, students will identify and write individual words in compound words. |
| Phonics: Six-Way Syllable Sort | In this activity, students will sort words by syllable types. |
| Phonics: Map and Swoop | In this activity, students will map graphemes to phonemes and mark syllables within words. |
| Phonics: Syllables, Words, and Pictures | In this activity, students will combine syllables to form words by playing a matching game. |
| Phonics: Sight and Sound Scout | In this activity, students will match vowel diphthong patterns by playing a board game. |
| Phonics: Diphthong-O | In this activity, students will identify vowel diphthongs by playing a bingo-type game. |
| Phonics: Spell and Sort | In this activity, students will identify vowel digraphs by completing a spell and sort activity. |
| Phonics: Syllable Cut-Ups | In this activity, students will segment and cut words into syllables. |
| Phonics: Syllable Snake | In this activity, students will count syllables in words by playing a game. |
| Phonics: Syllable Scoops | In this activity, students will segment and sort words by the number of syllables. |
| Phonics: Map-A-Word | In this activity, students will orally segment phonemes in words and write the corresponding letters in Elkonin boxes. |
| Phonics: Roll and Read | In this activity, students will read words with different spelling patterns while playing a board game. |
| Phonics: Vowel Digraph Baseball | In this activity, students will identify vowel digraphs in words by playing a baseball board game. |
| Phonics: Fishing for Vowel Digraphs | In this activity, students will identify and match vowel digraphs by playing a card game. |
| Phonics: Same but Different | In this activity, students will identify and sort different spelling patterns for long vowels. |
| Phonics: Change My Word | In this activity, students will segment the onset and rimes of words represented on picture cards. They will then identify the blends, digraphs, and vowel teams that represent each part. |
| Phonemic Awareness: Sound Changes | In this activity, students will substitute specific sounds in words to create new words. |
| Phonemic Awareness: Word Change | In this activity, students will delete the second phoneme in an initial blend and select the picture that represents the new word. |
| Phonemic Awareness: Phoneme Swap | In this activity, students will decide which phoneme has been changed by comparing two pictures. |
| Phonemic Awareness: Phoneme Position Sort | In this activity, students will sort pictures based on the location (initial, medial, final) of phoneme substitution. |
| Phonemic Awareness: Make It, Find It, Keep It | In this activity, students will delete initial phonemes in words and select the picture that represents the new word. In an extension activity, students can segment and count the phonemes in each word and sort by the number of phonemes. |
| Phonemic Awareness: Final Phoneme Pie | In this activity, students will delete final phonemes in words and select the picture that represents the new word. |
| Phonemic Awareness: What's Left? | In this activity, students will delete initial phonemes in words and select the picture that represents the new word. |
| Phonemic Awareness: Break and Make | In this activity, students will segment and blend phonemes to make words by playing a picture card game. |
| Phonemic Awareness: Phoneme Split and Say | In this activity, students will segment and blend phonemes in words using Elkonin boxes. |
| Phonemic Awareness: Phoneme Challenge | In this activity, students will segment phonemes in words by playing a counting game. |
| Phonemic Awareness: The Phoneme Game | In this activity, students will segment and count phonemes in words while playing a board game. |
| Phonemic Awareness: Phoneme Counting Sort | In this activity, students will segment and count phonemes in words and sort by number. |
| Phonemic Awareness: What's My Word? | In this activity, students will blend phonemes in words and select the corresponding picture. |
| Phonemic Awareness: Phoneme Quest | In this activity, students will isolate initial, medial, and final phonemes by comparing pictures. |
| Phonemic Awareness: Final Phoneme Find | In this activity, students will isolate final phonemes by listening to words and choosing pictures with the same ending sound. |
| Phonemic Awareness: Bag-of-Sounds | In this activity, students will identify initial phonemes in words represented by objects. As an extension, students may also identify the medial and final phonemes. |
| Phonemic Awareness: Vowel Picture Sort | In this activity, students will sort pictures based on vowel sounds (long and short). |
| Phonemic Awareness: Medial Match | In this activity, students will match medial phonemes by playing a card game. |
| Phonemic Awareness: Medial Phoneme Dominoes | In this activity, students will match medial phonemes by playing dominoes. |
| Phonemic Awareness: Match Maker | In this activity, students will identify initial phonemes to match picture cards. |
| Phonics: How Many Words? | In this activity, students will make words using letter tiles containing digraphs and vowel pairs. |
