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Blends and Digraphs Word Chains and Ladders
Word chains are a series of words that are used to help develop phonemic awareness, decoding, and encoding skills. This video changes one phoneme at a time to change a word using short vowels with blends and digraphs. These videos are...
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Short Vowel Word Chains and Ladders
Word chains are a series of words that are used to help develop phonemic awareness, decoding, and encoding skills. This video changes one phoneme at a time to change a word for short vowel CVC words. These videos are educational videos...
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Let's Learn SEGMENTING WORDS {Phonemic Awareness}
Phonemic Awareness is a key pre-reading skill. In this video kids practice segmenting first words in compound words and then up to five phonemes or sounds in words. Segmenting words is a critical pre-reading skill.
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Let's Learn RHYMING {Phonemic Awareness}
Phonemic Awareness is a key pre-reading skill. In this video kids practice hearing rhymes and then seeing them in written form.
Rock 'N Learn
Letter Sounds - Phonics for Beginners
Kids get excited about learning to read with energetic music, zany characters, and fun activities.
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ABC Phonics Song / Sounds of the Letters
Review letters of the alphabet, their sounds, and their hand signs! A singsong female voice states the letter and sounds it out as hand signs and letters are shown along with a toddler signing. A great way to go through letters and their...
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Beginning Consonant Blends - 1/3
Introduce /ch/ and /sh/ to your beginning readers. The digraphs are stated and other letters are added to make words. The words are repeated to allow young ones to practice saying the words themselves before the voice-over speaks.
Sesame Street
Sesame Street: A is for Apple with Elmo
The letter A can make so many words! Share the amazing A with your students. A words highlighted include: apple, ache, auto, awesome, arise, ape, afraid, and adios. This is a great video for building phonemic awareness and letter...
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J Jacket Song
Elmo sings about the letter “J.” He lists words that begin with the letter, like jacket. He also practices saying the sound. This film could be used to introduce the letter “J.”
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Jumping With J
Kids jump to demonstrate the sound of the letter “J.” After watching this film, it would be hard for learners to forget the sound of this letter. All they need to do is jump.
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Ruben Studdard: Soul Alphabet
Elmo and Ruben sing the alphabet song in this video. This is a soulful rendition of the song and a great way to practice it in the classroom. It could be used as a review before a lesson on the alphabet.
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B. B. King: The Letter B
You can't sing the blues without the letter "B". Groove along with Elmo and B.B. King as they sing about all the things you couldn't have without the letter "B". This is a fun song that reinforces beginning sounds, letter recognition,...
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Inside Sesame Street
Katie Couric interviews Little Jack Horner in this film. He rhymes as he describes his experiences. It's a wonderfully entertaining review of Language Arts. Children will love to come up with their own stories using Language Arts words.
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Song: Silly Sounding Words
Sesame Street characters celebrate words. They list some of their favorite silly sounding words including tweezers, snorkel, flapjack, smudge, and aardvark. Children could then list their own favorite words. It's a great way to make...
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Romeo And Alphabet
With a wonderful take on the play Romeo and Juliet, Sesame Street characters romanticize the alphabet. Telly calls out the letters of the alphabet as a banner slowly parades by. This could be a fun way to review the alphabet before a...
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Celebrity Lullabies
What do you do when you can't sleep? Elmo lays his fuzzy head down and listens to Ricky sing him a lullaby focusing on the letter “N.” The "N" words appear as Ricky sings them and he reinforces the /n/ sound by loudly singing NNNNNN....
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True Mud
Through the show True Mud, characters discuss Language Arts. A Sesame Street character enters a restaurant looking for mud, but instead is offered a spud, cud, and a dud. Viewers will love adding their rhymes to the list.
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Kingdom Of O
Elmo looks for the Kingdom of E but finds the wrong place. He implores the king and queen to change their kingdom to the land of the letter “E.” What a fun way to introduce this letter!
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Ellen And Elmo
Ellen tells Elmo that their names are similar, he doesn't agree. She repeats the two names until he hears the /ell/ sound at the beginning of each name. This could be useful prior to a lesson on sound or word chunking.
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Letter G Game
As a review of the letter G, this resource would be a motivating addition to a language arts lesson. The video not only explores the sound of the letter G, but focuses on words that begin with the letter. What learner won't love the...
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ABC Phonics: ABC Song
Boost phonics with a music video featuring each letter of the alphabet, its sound, and an item that begins with that letter.
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What Makes this Sound?
Check out this video to learn about some tricky phonemes. It shows the similarities between the /f/, /ph/, /gh/, and /ff/ sounds. After watching this video, ask your class to share different words using each different phoneme.
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Jolly Phonics - Vowels - Part 1/3
A jolly little song begins this video with the sounds of each vowel and the names of the letters. Words are written somewhat small, but still legibly. Children are singing the song with a slight British accent, but not too strongly. Each...
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Ending Consonant Blends
Consonant blends at the end of words are shown in this video. The ending is shown first, then other letters jump onto the screen to form a word. A female voice reads all the letters, sounds, and words.