Breakthroughs
Lesson Designs from Preservice Teachers
Auburn University
May 2001
I. Emergent Literacy
Ideas for teaching letter
recognition
Barclay O'Brien, Musical
Alphabet
Ideas for teaching phoneme
awareness
Renee McInnish, Popcorn
PPPopping P
Amy Vest, Say
Ahh!
Rachel Williams, My
Munching Mouth
Kim Burns, Ehhh
. . . What'd You Say?
Anna Maner, Rocking
Chair E
Leigh Anne Brace, The
Summer Sun is Hot, Hot, Hot!
Amy Turner, Let's
Rock
Leah Brown, Sneaky
Slimy Snake
Sara Ellen Killian, Baby
Sally Is Upset Again!
Robyn Shields, Ouch!
I Have a Booboo!
Bryant Foreman, Adam,
Abby, and the Stolen Apple
Nancy Williams, Aaah!
. . . The Baby is Crying
Devon Shaw, Appetizing
Apples
Melissa Jackson, The
Cry Baby
Christi Treadwell, Excellent
Eggs
Mary Ann Harbour, The
Icky-Sticky Sound
Erin Rice, Chimps
Chugging Chocolate Milk
Michelle Copeland, Hungry
Ollie Octopus
Hannah Johnson, The
B . . . B . . . B . . . Broken Car
Stacey Stanfield, Oscar
Says Ahhh
Ally Ellison, The
Crying Baby Sound
Jennifer Kelley, Shuffling
Feet
Julie Dunn, Open
Up··Say AHHHHHHH!
Amy Cowhick, A
Doctor's Visit
Michelle Burton, Can
You Hear the /e/?
Cassie Grieb, Pick
a Picture
Megan Lankford, A
Visit to the Doctor
Angel Moore, A-Okay!
Carolyn Lawton, Icky-Icky
Sticky!
Lindsey Champine, Open
Your Mouth and Say Ahh!
Lindsay Moseley, The
Crying Baby
Claire Hoffman, The
Creaky Door
Joslyn Vilabrera, Sh
. . . Sh . . . Be Quiet
Ashley Dulaney, Simple
Sam and Sleepy Sally
Ideas for teaching concepts about
print
Ingrid Caldwell, Time
to Rhyme
Pebbles King, Gone
Fishing
II. Beginning Reading
Ideas for teaching decoding with
short vowels
Amy Vest, Icky
Sticky!
Kim Burns, Aaah,
I'm Hungry!
Sara Ellen Killian, The
Itsy Bitsy Pig (Not Spider?)
Nancy Williams, Icky
Sticky Inchworm
Carolyn Lawton, He
Punched Me!
Ideas for teaching decoding with
long vowels
Rachel Williams, Busy
as a Bee
Robyn Shields, "A"
All Around!
Melissa Jackson, What
Does a Cow Say?
Stacey Stanfield, Sweet
Feet
Ally Ellison, No
Pain, No Brain!
Jennifer Kelley, O
No!
Ideas for teaching decoding with
consonant digraphs and other chunks
Leigh Anne Brace, Chugga
Chugga Chugga Chugga Choo Choo!
Amy Turner, Shhh
. . . The Baby is Sleeping!
Leah Brown, Sssshhhh
. . . No Shouting!
Barclay O'Brien, Cheerful
Children Chanting
Bryant Foreman, Shhh!
I'm Trying to Learn This Digraph!
Christi Treadwell, It's
All in the Family
Mary Ann Harbour, All
Aboard the Choo-Choo Train
Erin Rice, Theo
and his Thirty Thirsty Brothers
Michelle Copeland, Choo
Choo!
Hannah Johnson, I'm
Going to Ch . . . Ch . . . Chase You!
Devon Shaw, "Swish,
Swish," Says the Fish
Julie Dunn, Champions
of /Ch/
Amy Cowhick, Shhh!
You're in the Library!
Michelle Burton, Let's
Ride the Train
Megan Lankford, Shhh,
Quiet Please!
Angel Moore, Copycat,
Copycat!
Lindsey Champine, Choo
Choo Train
Lindsay Moseley, Shhh!
Be Quiet
Claire Hoffman, Quiet
Time
Pebbles King, Classroom
Ball
Ideas for teaching blending
Renee McInnish, Hissing
S Snake Learns to Blend in With Others
Anna Maner, Blending
Bumper Cars
Ingrid Caldwell, Sliding
Vowels
Cassie Grieb, Helping
a Rat
Joslyn Vilabrera, Play
the Word Accordion
Ashley Dulaney, Betty
Blender
Ideas for teaching cross-checking
Ideas for teaching spelling
III. Growing Independence &
Fluency
Ideas for teaching faster reading
Renee McInnish, Learning
to Read With Superman Speed
Kim Burns, I
Have the Need for Speed!
Anna Maner, Let's
Learn to Read Fast, Smooth, and Expressively
Melissa Jackson, Fast
as Fast Can Be . . .
Hannah Johnson, F.
A. I. T. H.
Carolyn Lawton, The
Great Reading Race
Joslyn Vilabrera, Read
and Rescue
Ideas for teaching smoother or
more
expressive reading
Amy Vest, Perfect
10 for Expression!
Rachel Williams, The
Little Children that Can!
Leigh Anne Brace, What
Can We Do Today?
Amy Turner, Reading
With Expression
Leah Brown, Expressions,
Expressions!
Sara Ellen Killian, Mrs.
Killian's Theatre
Robyn Shields, Can
You Feel the Book?
Bryant Foreman, Reading
With Expression, Fluency, and Accuracy Makes Reading FUN!
Nancy Williams, Expressing
Your Reading
Devon Shaw, Reading
Rainbow
Christi Treadwell, Ice
Cream
Michelle Copeland, Reading
Recall
Stacey Stanfield, Express
Yourself
Ally Ellison, Read
It Like You Mean It!
Jennifer Kelley, Not
Just Words
Ingrid Caldwell, Let's
Help the Bears
Amy Cowhick, Express
Yourself!
Michelle Burton, SWALLOWED
a FLY?
Cassie Grieb, Punctuation
to the Rescue
Angel Moore, Express
Yourself!
Lindsey Champine, It's
My Turn to Read
Lindsay Moseley, Reading
With Expression
Ideas for teaching silent reading
Barclay O'Brien, Silence
for Solo Reading
Mary Ann Harbour, Shhhh
. . . Silent Reading
Julie Dunn, Silence
is a Virtue
Megan Lankford, I
Can Read Without Making a Sound!
Claire Hoffman, I
Can't Hear You
Ideas for teaching children to
read
voluntarily and avidly
Erin Rice, I
Read It on My Own!
Ashley Dulaney, Munching
Yummy Books
Pebbles King, "Spring"
Into Step
IV. Reading to Learn
Ideas for teaching summarization
Renee McInnish, It
Doesn't Take Magic to Be Able to Be Able to Comprehend
Amy Vest, What's
the Main Idea?
Leigh Anne Brace, So
What Are You Trying to Say Here?
Leah Brown, Someone
is Summarizing
Barclay O'Brien, Summarization
is the Key to Success
Christi Treadwell, Making
Sense of What We Read
Mary Ann Harbour, Summarizing
and Mapping for Comprehension
Erin Rice, Top
It All Off With a Topic Sentence
Hannah Johnson, Let's
Go
Stacey Stanfield, Summarizing
Strategies
Amy Cowhick, Wild
Things!
Cassie Grieb, Read
All About It
Megan Lankford, Summarize
What You Read
Carolyn Lawton, Map
Me a Paragraph
Lindsey Champine, Let
Me Tell You What I Know
Claire Hoffman, Erasing
the Extras
Joslyn Vilabrera, Sum
It Up!
Ideas for teaching visualization
Sara Ellen Killian, Who
Needs Illustrations?
Robyn Shields, Visualize
It, Understand It, Remember It!
Michelle Burton, Let's
Create a Picture!
Angel Moore, Picture
This!
Ashley Dulaney, Sketch
It to Stretch It!
Pebbles King, Rainbow
Day
Ideas for teaching children about
story grammar
Kim Burns, Do
You Know Your Story Grammar?
Anna Maner, We
Can Comprehend What We Read
Amy Turner, Remember
What You Read!
Bryant Foreman, Who,
What, When, Where, and Why . . . and How Is This Strategy Used?
Nancy Williams, Comprehension
is the Key to Understanding
Michelle Copeland, Comprehending
Through Questioning
Jennifer Kelley, People
to Read About, Places to Go (in Your Mind), and Things to Remember
Ingrid Caldwell, Can
You Predict It?
Ideas for teaching children to ask
or answer questions
Julie Dunn, Question
Yourself
Melissa Jackson, Who,
What, When, Where, and Why Is he There?
Ally Ellison, Read
and Retain!
Ideas for teaching other
comprehension
strategies
Rachel Williams, Comprehend
That Reading!
Devon Shaw, My
Special Reading Notebook
Lindsay Moseley, Reading
Comprehension Jobs