Phonics Blends is a great way to demonstrate the use of letter and picture association. The student must identify the first two letters of the picture given and then write them on the line provided.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart will help students to spell two-syllable words containing double consonants.

This English pronunciation guide is useful for young English speakers, as well as English language learners of all ages. It offers practice in reading, pronunciation, and writing of vowels and consonants and of vowel and consonant...

In this beginning reading module, the instructor introduces words with initial consonant blends. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see words sounded out,...

This site is an interactive quiz to assess knowledge of initial blends. Words with initial blends are included on the assessment. The quiz is designed to follow the "Reading Bear: intial blends" lesson.

A fun classroom game! The teacher says a riddle, gives the sounds that make up the answer, and the students guess the answer by blending the sounds together.

A classroom or small group game to build accuracy of students' abilities to blend phonemes. Students write the sounds that the teacher gives them on their own slate/dry erase board and then blend the sounds together to form words.

In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "ck" in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see words...

In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "ph"or "gh" in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see...

In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "ch" and "tch" in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words,...

In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "x" or digraphs. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see...

This site is an interactive quiz to assess knowledge of the "ch" and "tch" consonant digraphs. The quiz is designed to follow the "Reading Bear: ch, tch" lesson.

Ancient Scripts features a tutorial on phonetics and the terminology used to describe the sounds and the tones that make up spoken language.

A version of the "20 Questions" game. The instructor tells the class he is thinking of something that starts with, for example, /b/. The students have to come up with what the teacher is thinking of.

A small group game to practice word and sound recognition and accuracy. Students receive a card with a word part on it. The instructor plays music and when the music stops, the students "mix" and put their cards with another student.

A quick alphabet game for the whole class. Students stand in a circle and throw a beanbag to each other. When they catch it, they must say a word that begins with the letter given. Continue this in alphabetical order.

Use this game of "I Spy" to help students build their accuracy of letter identification! Can be student- or teacher-led.

A fun activity that has students draw each individual letter and then blend them together.

A team game to practice sounding out words and letters.

A fun game involving the entire classroom that builds word and sound recognition phonetically.

This site is an interactive quiz to assess knowledge of the soft /g/ in words that incorporate the "ge" and "dge" spelling patterns. The quiz is designed to follow the "Reading Bear: ge, dge, etc." lesson.

A game where students distinguish between real words and "alien" or nonsense words.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains reading lessons on Ann's First Day by Constance Andrea Keremes. Phonics lessons on initial, medial, and final consonant sounds. Language lessons on statements and questions and...

A kindergarten/first grade lesson plan for sounding out consonant vowel consonant words. Learners and teachers will benefit from this hands-on activity.