Starfall
Starfall: Learn to Read
There are 15 easy-to-read stories, each focusing on a particular vowel sounds; it also provides quizzes using the same long and short vowel sounds. In addition there are alphabet videos.
Quia
Quia: What Does the Schwa Sound Mean?
This site offers flash cards for practicing vowel sounds. On one side of the card is a word; on the other is the vowel sound, such as long e. Students try to determine the vowel sound when they read the word; then check to see if they...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Phonics in Context
Contains plans for a lesson that teaches students the letter-sound relationship for the short /u/ sound using the book "Umbrella" by Taro Yashima. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites...
Rock ’N Learn
Rock 'N Learn: Splendid Sounds
This printable instructional activity from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will match each short vowels to the picture that begins with it. An answer key and lesson extension are included.
Other
Saint Ambrose Barlow: Background Color: Missing Sounds, Year 1 Term2
Given a picture and word with missing letters, students determine what vowel sound is missing and type the word spelled correctly into the box provided.
Rock ’N Learn
Rock 'N Learn: Spare Square: Are
This printable -are worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Given a matrix of word boxes, students will identify the words that have -are in them. An answer key and lesson extension are...
Quia
Quia: What Does the Schwa Sound Mean? Concentration
This is a matching and memory game which requires students to not only match words with their vowel sounds, but also to remember their covered location on the grid of boxes.
Rock ’N Learn
Rock 'N Learn: Hidden Words
This printable vowel letter worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will find hidden words that contain "ie" to form long /e/. An answer key and lesson extension are included.
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: The, Se, Etc. Lesson
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "the" or "se" in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words,...
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: Lessons 79 83 Review
In this beginning reading module, the instructor reviews how to pronounce words that incorporate "the", "se", "ea", "ear", and other patterns. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can...
Courseware Solutions
Got Kids Games: Magic Phonics Wizard: Find the Wizard
This is a phonics game in which students listen to a sound and then click on all of the words containing that sound. If they make three mistakes, they must start over. When finished, they find the magic wizard.
ICT Games
Ict Games: Cvc Pop
An interactive game where students can practice identifying words with short vowel sounds following the consonant-vowel-consonant pattern. Students listen to a word and then click on all of the matching words as they float by on bubbles.
ESL4kids
The Efl Playhouse: Phonemic Awareness for Young Language Learners
A group of ten simple activities easily incorporated into the course of a day to reinforce phonemic awareness.
Quia
Quia: What Does the Schwa Sound Mean? Matching
This is a matching game in which students match the word in yellow blocks with the vowel sounds in blue boxes by clicking on them consecutively.
Rock ’N Learn
Rock 'N Learn: Put Out the Fire: Ire
This printable vowels worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will read several words and identify the ones that possess the -ire. An answer key and lesson extension are included.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Meet Miss E
Students will be introduced to the letter E. They will learn both the long and short vowel sound, as well as learn to recognize the capital and lowercase letter. They will also put Miss E in the middle of two consonants to sound out one...
Rock ’N Learn
Rock 'N Learn: Scare the Crows
This printable phonicd worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Learners will look at a series of pictures with the long /o/. Students will cut out body parts with "ow" words to form a...
Rock ’N Learn
Rock 'N Learn: Meal Time
This printable phonics instructional activity from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will complete a fill-in-the-blank paragraph with long /o/ words and then find each word in a...
Rock ’N Learn
Rock 'N Learn: Get the Swing of It: Ing
This printable -ing worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will label pictures that contain -ing in them. An answer key and lesson extension are included.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Overview of Letter Sounds
This Overview of Letter Sounds resource has two sections: Introduction to Letter Sounds and Video Demonstrations. It provides downloads of the following: lesson plan, lesson materials, glossary, and video transcript. This section is...
Can Teach
Can Teach: Spinning Short Vowel Word Game
Fun game helps young readers develop their reading skills by playing an engaging game with spinners.
Rutgers University
Rutgers University: History of the English Language
This site provides a brief description of the history of the English language.
Auburn University
Auburn University: How to Count Phonemes in Spoken Words
How do you count phonemes in spoken words? Check out this site to discover more about how to approach dealing with question in the classroom. This site offers exercises dealing with counting phonemes.
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Phonics Scramble Games
Phonics Scramble Games includes eight games from which the students can choose, such as "Short A Sound". They are given a picture and a scrambled word. They are to drag the letter blocks to spell the word correctly, check their answer,...
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