ABCya
Ab Cya: Adventure Man Dungeon Dash Letters
Adventure Man is back once again, but this time with the help of fearless friend Danger Dame! Help them dash their way through the Letters Dungeon while collecting gold, gems, and answering questions about vowels, consonants, uppercase...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: 1.4: Sometimes a Vowel, Sometimes a Consonant:
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Spelling rules with examples for words that contain the letter "u."
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Sarah Snippets: Syllable Division Rules
Syllable division rules show us how to break up a multi-syllable word into its syllable parts. There are six main syllable division rules to guide us. It all starts with the vowels. Find the vowels in the word. It helps to underline or...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Six Syllable Types
Six written syllable-spelling conventions are used in English spelling. The conventions are useful to teach because they help students remember when to double letters in spelling and how to pronounce the vowels in new words. The...
University of Oxford (UK)
Oxford University: Articulation Vowels and Consonants
This webpage article is a very technical discussion of articulation of speech sounds. Multiple technical linguistic terms are used throughout the essay.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Mix, Mix, Match: A Sounding Out Accuracy Game.
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.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Tic Tac Toe: A Sounding Out Accuracy Game
A small group game to practice word and sound recognition and accuracy. Students play tic tac toe with partners, but before they can take a turn they must pick a work from a pile on their desk and sound it out. Their partner gives them a...
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: Ge, Dge, Etc. Lesson
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "ge", "dge", etc. Students will choose to sound out words, see words sounded out, see words with pictures with and without sounds, and see...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Most Common Sounds for Single Letters
This page contains audios of sounds for single letters. The audios give the letter sound and then pronounce a word that uses that sound. It gives only the short vowel sounds. The sounds are pronounced in a North American accent.
Other
Printable Reading and Phonics Games
This site includes 15 different phonics and reading games to download, laminate, and cut out. Includes games for phonics blends; "When two vowels go walking;" ee; ir, ur er; tion, etc.
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Teaching Spelling in 3rd Grade
This article focuses on teaching 3rd grade spelling including Dolch sight words for 3rd grade and the weird spelling patterns that 3rd graders face such as the letter Y, diphthongs, double consonants, and homophones.
Curated OER
Clip Art by Phillip Martin: Vowels and Consonants
A clipart illustration by Phillip Martin titled "Vowels and Consonants."
Free Reading
Free Reading: Guess What I'm Thinking?: Initial Sound Accuracy
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.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Letter Hunt Tally: A Letter Sound Accuracy Game
Students play detective and discover a given letter at the beginning of a word. They keep a "tally" sheet and compete with their classmates. This site includes links to Letter cards and a Letter Hunt Tally Sheet.
Other
Alphabet Sound Recognition With Motions
A fun activity for kinesthetic learners! Students learn motions to go along with letter sounds. This site includes a link to a building fluency site.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Word Race Game: Letter Sound Fluency
An exciting classroom word game based on the game "Boggle." The classroom is divided into groups. The teacher says a letter, and each students writes down as many words as they can that begin with that letter. Then they compare with the...
Other
Sounds of English
A comprehensive site on English pronunciation for English language learners and their teachers. It offers explanations and activities for pronunciation of specific sounds, of letter combinations, of word stresses, and of phrasal words....
Rock ’N Learn
Rock 'N Learn: Maze Madness: Silent E
This printable consonant blends worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will follow long vowel words that end in silent "e" to complete a maze. An answer key and lesson extension...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: The Two Voices of the Ow Spelling Pattern
Variable vowels are the focus of this lesson; students use nursery rhymes and ow to study how vowels can change their sounds according to different spelling patterns.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Word Form Recognition Activities
A wonderful site full of tips for teaching Word-form recognition activities. This site has a plethora of links that provide an excellent way to practice and memorize the essential skills of recognizing words without sounding out each...
Rock ’N Learn
Rock 'N Learn: Letter Candy
This printable worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will distinguish vowel letters from consonant letters. An answer key and lesson extension are included.
Rock ’N Learn
Rock 'N Learn: Funny Fish
This printable fish-themed learning exercise from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will distinguish vowel letters from consonant letters. An answer key and lesson extension are included.
Roy the Zebra
Roy the Zebra: Words That Rhyme With Bug
Help the bees collect words that rhyme with "bug" by clicking on the bees to see the words and drag the rhyming words into the nests.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Chunk Lesson Ake
[Free Registration/Login Required] Use literature and the Whole-Part-Whole Method to teach individual word chunks. This flipchart focuses on the -ake word chunk.