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Jennifer Prior, Ph.D.
| Name | Jennifer Prior, Ph.D. |
| Location | Flagstaff, Arizona |
| Role | Associate Professor |
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"As a former classroom teacher, I recognize the importance of implementing strategies that are grounded in research. Developing lessons for ReadWriteThink.org is my way of inspiring teachers in the field and making life a little bit easier for them by providing activities that are tried and true and ready to use."
Jennifer Prior is an associate professor at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. She teaches in the areas of early childhood and literacy. Jennifer is a member of the International Reading Association and is an author and coauthor of numerous books including Enviornmental Print in the Classroom: Meaningful Connections for Learning to Read (IRA, 2004).
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Contributions on ReadWriteThink.org |
Grades K – 2 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
A is for Apple: Building Letter-Recognition Fluency
Students apply and build their knowledge of letters and letter sounds as they play games and interact with letters online, creating their own ABC book as a final activity.
Grades K – 2 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
A-Hunting We Will Go: Teaching Rhyming Through Musical Verse
Adapting the song "A-Hunting We Will Go," students put a whale in a pail and even "take a little bear and hug it if we dare."
Grades K – 2 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Bingo! Using Environmental Print to Practice Reading
The game Bingo is transformed in this lesson in which students use symbols and images to make connections to environmental print through the use of personalized Bingo cards.
Grades K – 2 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
"Run, run, as fast as you can." Students use this refrain from The Gingerbread Man to learn letter-sound correspondence. Students use their new skills to write an online story.
Grades K – 2 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Stop Signs, McDonald's, and Cheerios: Writing With Environmental Print
Students use logos from everyday life to identify individual letters and then create their own captions for the images.
Grades K – 2 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Using Songwriting to Build Awareness of Beginning Letter Sounds
"Bessie bird lives in a barn" in this lesson in which students create alliterative animal songs to help them learn letter names and consonant sounds and build phonemic awareness.
Grades K – 2 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Word Recognition Strategies Using Nursery Rhymes
Whether you sing or recite familiar nursery rhymes in this standard lesson, students will learn how to create and categorize words that have similar endings.
Grades K – 2 | Professional Library | Book
Environmental Print in the Classroom: Meaningful Connections for Learning to Read
Learn the many ways you can use environmental print as an instructional tool in your preschool and primary classrooms.
