Research-Based
Lessons Designed by Preservice Teachers
Auburn University
Summer 2007
I. Emergent Literacy
Lessons for teaching letter recognition
Shannon
Alexander, Magical
Moon
Brigette Marsden, Precious
Pigs
Jenna Landers, Ta-Ta-Timer
Hope Churchwell, D says
Duh! Duh?
Ashley Boulware, Tick Tock T
Julie Smith, B B Bee!
Lessons for teaching phoneme awareness
Jamie Johnson, The Icky
Sticky Igloo
Bruce Murray, Sound the
Foghorn
Glenna Neilson, Bum, Bum
Beat the Drum
Whitney Wingo, Cat Nap
Vicki Burns, Huffing H
Cortney Winton, Aaaa! The
Baby is Crying!
Heather Millington, Aaaaa!
I'm at the Doctor
Kathryn Nebrig, Isabelle is
Icky Sticky!
Lessons for teaching print concepts, segmentation, or blending
Brittany
Smith, Caterpillar
Blending
II.
Beginning Reading
Lessons
for teaching decoding with short vowels
Cortney
Winton, Uhhh...What?
Brigette Marsden, Eeehhhhhhh,
What Did You Say?
Jenna Landers, Ehhh!
What'd ya say? Eeeggs
Hope
Churchwell, /e/ in
Eeeeeecchhoo!
Brittany Smith, Punch in the
Stomach...uhhh
Ashley Boulware, Aaaaa Is
for Short /a/
Heather Millington, Sun Fun
Whitney Wingo, Aaaaa! I'm at
the Doctor
Jamie Johnson, Say Aaaaa
for Apple
Shannon Alexander, Icky
Sticky Goo
Kathryn Nebrig, Around the
World With Bud the Sub
Julie Smith, Icky Sticky
and Itty Bitty
Glenna Neilson, I Scream for Ice Cream!
Lessons for teaching decoding with consonant digraphs and other chunks
Vicki Burns, Shhhh! I'm
Hunting Wabbits!
Lessons
for teaching spelling
III.
Growing Independence
& Fluency
Lessons for teaching
faster reading
Brigette Marsden, Hurry, Off
We Go!
Jenna Landers, Llliioonn
vs. Lion
Hope Churchwell, Ready,
Set, Go! Fluency Here We Come!
Brittany Smith, Fast Like a
Rabbit
Heather Millington, Leaping
With Fluency
Whitney Wingo, Run Away With
Fluency
Jamie Johnson, Soaring
High With Fluency
Ashley Boulware, Fast
Fluent Readers
Shannon Alexander, Road
Runner Reading
Kathryn Nebrig, Reading Like
an Expert!
Julie Smith, Ready, Set,
Read!
Lessons
for teaching
smoother, better phrased, or
more expressive reading
Vicki Burns, How Does This
Make You Feel?
Glenna Neilson, Jump on the
Expression Express
Cortney Winton, Let's Sail
Far, Far Away