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.
Other
Nessy Spelling: Flossy Words
This video explains the "flossy rule," which words need double letters at the end.
Learning Upgrade
Learning Upgrade: Long Vowels Song
Identify final -e words as having a given long vowel sound. [1:55]
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]
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]
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: 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...
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.
Other
Jolly Phonics: Vowels
This YouTube video focuses on vowels and vowel sounds using songs for vowels collectively and separately. [3:24]
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.