Melanie Giovannone
Letter-Sound Match Cut and Paste
Develop beginning readers' understanding of letter-sound correspondence with this fun series of cut-and-paste worksheets. With each page focusing on four specific letters, children are able to practice isolating...
Learning Upgrade
Long Vowels Song
Throw on a leather jacket and saddle shoes, because it's time to sing about long vowels! Listen while a doo-wop group explains how long vowels are made and shares words that have long vowel sounds.
Learning Upgrade
Short Vowel Song
Get your groove on with a music video showcasing short vowels! Throughout the song, each vowel's letter name, sound, and example word is identified with a cool disco beat.
Learning Upgrade
Decode Multi-Syllable Long Words Song
Provide a visual and auditory representation of how to decode multisyllabic words in a music video set to an upbeat jazz tempo.
Hooked on Phonics
Hooked on Phonics Tv: First Grade, Lesson 2: Th Words
This YouTube video focuses on the beginning "Th" consonant blend; it sounds out words beginning with "th" and forms a series of words, and then repeats them asking the students to say them.
Learning Upgrade
Learning Upgrade: Long Vowels Song
Identify final -e words as having a given long vowel sound. [1:55]
Scratch Garden
Scratch Garden: Syllables
Count syllables in printed words. Start simple with one-syllable words such as "dog" and work your way up to four syllable words such as "salamander". [5:08]
Jack Hartmann
Jack Hartmann: When 2 Vowels Go Walking
When 2 vowels go walking, the first one does the talking. The following video focuses on this classic rule. Learn to read one-syllable long-vowel words with vowel teams. [2:46]
The Bazillions
The Bazillions: Silent "E"
Watch how the silent "e" transforms words! Learn to identify final -e words as having a given long vowel sound. [2:44]
ELF Kids Videos
Elf Kids Videos: I Can Read! Phonics 3
Learn about common digraphs and diphthongs while watching and this video. Repeated use of the phonemic sound with a sample word and picture helps to reinforce this lesson. [3:03]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: When Two Vowels Go Walking
"When two vowels go walking, the first one does the talking". Watch as two vowels walk down a road and are joined by other letters to make words as they go. In each word, the first vowel gets larger and happier and the second vowel gets...
Starfall
Starfall: When Two Vowels Go Walking
Check out the Vowel Team TV movie about long vowel sounds. It teaches a catchy song about how the first vowel does the talking. There is an opportunity to practice identifying words with their vowel pattern.
Curated Video
You Tube: Two Syllable Words and Long Vowels
Watch a second-grade teacher teach a lesson on two-syllable words and long vowels. She explains techniques for breaking words into syllables and uses words from the book A Bad Case of the Stripes as examples. [11:37]
Other
Elf Learning: Learn to Read! Phonics Consonant Blends
This is a YouTube phonics video that focuses on blending consonant sounds to form words.
Hooked on Phonics
Hooked on Phonics Tv: Phonics Words Second Grade Lesson 2: Long I Sound
This YouTube video teaches the long "i" vowel sound by presenting an extensive list of words and their pronunciations. This is followed by the words being repeated and students asked to pronounce them.
Hooked on Phonics
Hooked on Phonics Tv: Blending Lesson
This YouTube video is a lesson on how to blend letter sounds to form words. It focuses on the "at" sound and words that rhyme with it.
Hooked on Phonics
Hooked on Phonics Tv: Phonics Words First Grade Lesson 1 Ch and Sh
This vdeo is a lesson on forming words using the beginning consonant blends "ch" and "sh." A series of words using "ch" are sounded out, followed by a series of words with the"sh" sound. Then they repeat the two sets of words asking the...
Jack Hartmann
Jack Hartmann: The Syllable Song
Get moving with Jack as you count syllables in printed words. [3:39]
Other
Elf Learning: Phonics Song 3 Digraphs and Diphthongs
This is a YouTube video of a phonic sing-along of digraphs and diphthongs such as "er", "oo", etc.
Hooked on Phonics
Hooked on Phonics Tv: Phonics Words Second Grade Lesson 1: Long a Sound
This YouTube video focuses on the long "a" sound by presenting an extensive list of "a" words, pronouncing them, and then repeating the list with a delay asking students to say the words.
Starfall
Starfall: The Amazing Silent E
A short but clever animation that helps early readers understand the role of the silent E in words such as and tape, bite, and ate.