Curated Video
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...
Curated Video
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...
Curated Video
Rhyming Words
It is finally time to learn to rhyme! I promise, it will be sublime. This video teaches students to recognize words with the same ending sounds, despite different spelling. Rhyming is a crucial piece of phonological awareness,...
Curated Video
Blending {Phonemic Awareness}
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...
Wonderscape
Phonological Awareness: Building CVC Words
This program meets Common Core kindergarten reading standards. The teacher explains phonological awareness and how to build three-letter CVC words (consonant, vowel, consonant). The students learn about vowels and consonants, and...
Wonderscape
Exploring Words: Rhymes, Syllables, and Beginning Sounds
This program meets Common Core kindergarten reading standards as it introduces phonological awareness. Kids will demonstrate greater understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes), recognize and produce rhyming words,...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Rocket Doodle Doo
This video segment from Between the Lions presents an animated rhyming song to help tune the listener's ear to language sounds, and it incorporates strategies for building vocabulary and fluency in reading. [1:17]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: A Fellow Named Sig
This video segment from Between the Lions features an animated limerick, which exemplifies the kind of wordplay that prepares children for early reading and spelling.
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...