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.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Sight Word Spelling
In this interactive Kindergarten through 2nd grade activity, literacy and exercise unite! Using sight word flashcards, students use their bodies to spell out simple sight words. The use of their creativity and imaginations is encouraged...
Turtle Diary
Turtle Diary: Homophones
This TurtleDiary interactive video lesson [1:27] features information about homophones. Games and worksheets are provided to supplement this homophones lesson
Other
Nessy Spelling: Flossy Words
This video explains the "flossy rule," which words need double letters at the end.
My Growing Brain
My Growing Brain: Spelling Patterns: "Wr"
Read words with common but irregular spelling patterns. [1:05]
My Growing Brain
My Growing Brain: Spelling Patterns: "Ch," "Tch"
Read words with common but irregular spelling patterns. [2:01]
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...
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.