Sightings
Research-Based Lessons From Preservice Teachers
Auburn University
Fall 2008
I. Emergent Literacy
Lessons for teaching phoneme
awareness
Bruce
Murray, Brush
Your Teeth With F
Katie Guyton, Whistle
While You Work
Megan Duncan, All
About Short A
Cassie Cherof, Silly
Sarah the Slimy Snake
Katie DeFoor, Aaaaaa,
It's a Snake!
Morgan Montgomery, Mmm!
Something Smells Good!
Rachel Noto, Allie the
Alligator
Rachel Cummings, EEEEEasy
Does It
Mandy Fleming, Tired
Tom Yawns Big
Katy Bugg, Pant Like
Henry the Hound Dog
Keylon Callaway, The
Hungry Half-Brother of Harry the Hippo
Ashley Baker, Drum Roll
Please
Lessons
for teaching letter
recognition
Sarah
Frances Liles, Moose
Enjoy Magnificent Muffins
Katie Swanson, Tick
Tock, Said the Teeny Tiny Clock
Amber Clark, Sip and
See
Heather Smith, Colorful
Cats
Hayle Lipham, Bouncing
B's and Dribbling D's
Lara Lee Hood, Terrific
Talking T's
Mandy Jones, Let's
Learn the Letter L
Danielle Ivey, Bouncing B's and Dancing D's
Allison Sanders, Learning
With Loopy Letters
Lessons for teaching print
concepts, segmentation, or blending
Alicia
Ellis, Souper
Blenders!
II. Beginning Reading
Lessons for teaching decoding
with short vowels
Cassie
Cherof, Let's
Get Icky and Sticky
Amber Clark, Eddie the
Elephant
Mandy Fleming, What's
That You Say? Eh?
Katie Swanson, Uncle's
Umbrella
Hayle Lipham, Eddie's
Creaky Door
Sarah Frances Liles, Alexis
the Antelope
Lara Lee Hood, Ellie the
Elephant
Katie DeFoor, Eeehhh?
What Was That?
Allison Sanders, Icky
Sticky
Katie Guyton, Under
the Umbrella!
Danielle Ivey, Say Aaaaa!
Morgan Montgomery, Uh,
Where Is My Umbrella?
Rachel Noto, My
Favorite Sub
Katy Bugg, Excuse Me,
I Am About to . . . /a/ a/ CHOO! Sneeze
Alicia Ellis, Gone
Fishin'
Ashley Baker, Eddie the
Eskimo
Lessons
for teaching decoding
with long vowels and other vowels
Rachel
Cummings, Let's
Go Fly a Kite
Heather Smith, Flying
High With I
Lessons
for teaching
decoding
with consonant digraphs and other chunks
Megan Duncan, Thirsty
/th/
Mandy Jones, Shhhhhh!
Quiet Please!
Lessons for teaching spelling
Keylon
Callaway, Spelling
Monster
III. Growing
Independence & Fluency
Lessons for teaching faster
reading
Ashley Baker, Swing
Into Faster Reading
Mandy Fleming, Hippity
Hop Into Fluent Reading
Lara Lee Hood, Ready,
Set, READ!
Morgan
Montgomery, Take the Fluency
Test With Henry and Mudge!
Rachel Noto, Speedy
Reading!
Allison Sanders, Flowing
With Fun Words!
Hayle Lipham, Hurry.
. . Hurry. . . Off We Go!
Sarah Frances Liles,
Red is
Ready to Read
Amber Clark, Flying
With Fluency
Megan Duncan, Fly
Into Fluency
Mandy Jones, Speeding
Into Reading
Cassie Cherof, Buzzzzzing
to Fluency!
Katie DeFoor, Hit a
Home Run!
Katie Guyton, Come
Sail Away and Read
Danielle Ivey, It's a
Good Day to Start Reading Fluently
Rachel Cummings, Ready,
Set, Read!
Keylon Callaway, Stride
Through Reading
Alicia Ellis, Crabs
Can't Nap But You Can Read!
Lessons for teaching
smoother,
better phrased, or more expressive reading
Heather
Smith, Feeling
the Need to Read
Katy Bugg, Express
Your Character!
Lessons
for teaching
children
to read silently or voluntarily and avidly
Katie
Swanson, Shhhh,
I'm Reading!
IV. Reading to Learn
Lessons for teaching
summarization
Hayle
Lipham, Be a
Star Summarizer
Katie DeFoor, Summing
It All Up!
Katie Guyton, Get to
the Point
Mandy Jones, Let's
Summarize!
Rachel Cummings, Animal
Safari Summaries
Amber Clark, What's
That You Say?
Katie Swanson, Can You
Bear to Summarize It?
Katie Bugg, Steps to
Summing It Up!
Cassie Cherof, Summing
It All Up
Sarah Frances Liles, Sum It Up!
Ashley Baker, Fishing
for a Summary
Lara Lee Hood, Sum It Up!
Megan Duncan, Dive
Into Summarizing
Lessons
for teaching
visualization
Allison
Sanders, Do You
See What I See?
Morgan Montgomery,
Seeing The Boxcar Children!
Danielle Ivey, Can You
Picture It?
Heather Smith, Close
Your Eyes and Visualize
Mandy Fleming, Paint a
Picture in Your Head
Keylon Callaway, Reading
to Learn
Alicia Ellis, Etch a
Sketch to Stretch
Lessons
for teaching children
to ask or answer questions
Rachel
Noto, Monkey
Business
Lessons for teaching
children
about story grammar
