This fun story, The Cats, boosts literacy development with phonics skills. Beginning readers get valuable practice for short vowel sounds, beginning consonants, and consonant-vowel-consonant combinations. It’s a great way to boost...

Learn about ending blends with the letter N. Consonant blends have two or more consonants blended together, and each letter sound can be heard. Fun characters help kids learn to read two words at a time with the blends: nd, nk, nt. Kids...

This video teaches various contractions, how they are made out of two words, and how they can be taken apart. It focuses on common contractions of not, would, will, and is.

This video teaches what a homophone is, shares many examples, and gives kids a chance to try to name the correct homophone. Learning homophones helps build vocabulary which grows comprehension.

This video discusses the steps to sentence comprehension and keys to understand what we read. Kids should work to keep their brain in the book, reread aloud at confusing parts, ask questions, and predict.

Comprehension is complex for kids. This focuses on sentence comprehension with pronouns, punctuation, and multiple meaning words. Kids will learn how noticing these in sentences can grow their comprehension.

Comprehension is complex for kids. This focuses on sentence comprehension with the basic conjunctions and, but, and so. Kids will learn what they mean and practice using them in the correct sentence.

Suffixes are letters or groups of letters at the end of words. It's important to know suffixes to be able to understand the meaning of words. Four of the most common prefixes are -ed, -ing, -ly, and -s,-es. This video teaches about each...

This video teaches vowel team syllables (ai, ea, oa, ou, oo, and more) and how to read them. It is assumed that kids already know open, closed, Magic E, and r-controlled syllables. See links to those videos below. Knowing syllable types...

Schwa says /uh/ and it is in so many multi-syllable words. It is the most common vowel sound. When vowels don't make their short or long sound, kids need to know that the schwa sound is a possibility.

This video teaches when to use C or K at the beginning of words and which spelling to use at the end of words: CK, KE, or K. We also introduce C endings too. This will help kids at they read, write, and spell words with the /k/ sound.

This gives an overview of steps to break apart words as well as some of the basic rules of syllable division. It's important for kids to have a background in syllable types to understand this video.

This video teaches open syllables and how to read them. Knowing syllable types help readers read multi-syllable words.

This video helps kids decode words and try both a short and long vowel sound. This is for after students have learned both short and long vowels. This teaches students how to decide whether a vowel is short or long in an unknown word....

This video teaches consonant + le syllables, (-ble, -cle, -ple, -tle and more) how to divide them and how to read them. It is assumed that kids already know open, closed, Magic E, r-controlled, and vowel teams syllables. See links to...

This video teaches closed syllables and how to read them. Knowing syllable types help readers read multi-syllable words.

This video reviews all the syllable types. It is best for showing after students have learned each type, as a way to review and recheck. First, all syllable types are reviewed and then kids get to test their knowledge by naming the...

Prefixes are letters or groups of letters at the beginning of words. It's important to know prefixes to be able to understand the meaning of words. Four of the most common prefixes are dis-, in-, re-, and un-. This video teaches about...

This video teaches R-controlled syllables (ar, er, ir, ur, and or) and how to read them. It is assumed that kids already know open and closed syllables. See links to those videos below. Knowing syllable types help readers read...

This video has kids practice blending sounds without seeing the letters to prepare for blending print. Phonemic Awareness is one of the biggest predictors of reading success. Once kids are able to rhyme, blend and segment, they are ready...

Phonemic Awareness is one of the biggest predictors of reading success. Once kids are able to rhyme, blend and segment, they are ready to add phonemes. Use this video to practice this important skill with your new reader.

Phonemic Awareness is one of the biggest predictors of reading success. Once kids are able to rhyme, blend and segment, they are ready to delete phonemes. Use this video to practice this important skill with your new reader.

Phonemic Awareness is one of the biggest predictors of reading success. Once kids are able to rhyme, blend and segment, they are ready to delete phonemes. Use this video and level 2 to practice this important skill with your new reader....

This video teaches magic e or CVCe syllables and how to read them. It is assumed that kids already know open and closed syllables. See links to those videos below. Knowing syllable types help readers read multi-syllable words.