Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Add or Substitute Individual Sounds (Phonemes)
This site contains 13 lesson plans that are designed to address that standards of emergent readers. Each lesson engages students in adding or substituting individual sounds (phonemes).
Kidsource OnLine
Phonemic Awareness: Important Early Step to Reading
This site features an article that looks at the importance of phonemic awareness as an early step to learning to read. Teachers will benefit from the information presented within this article.
Los Angeles County Office of Education
Teams: Phoneme Awareness Assessment Tools: Final Sounds
Here are two tools to use in assessing student understanding of final sounds. One deals with phoneme isolation and one deals with phoneme matching.
LD Online
Ld Online: Learning Disabilities Online: Phoneme Awareness Activity
What do you know about phoneme activities for collaborative classrooms? This site will show how to develop your own activities to sharpen your students phonemic awareness skills. This informative resource will support any teacher's work...
Auburn University
Assessing Phoneme Awareness and Decoding
How do you assess phoneme awareness and decoding? Use this site to find the answer to this question on phoneme awareness and decoding.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Listen for My Sound. A Phoneme Segmenting Activity
A simple, yet effective activity to teach students to identify the same sounds in different words. The teacher says a word and the students give a thumbs up or thumbs down. This site also includes a Word Generator list link as a resource.
Auburn University
Auburn University: Teaching Blending
How do you teach your students to develop a blending ability through phonics instruction? This site features information to help get you started in your quest for this goal. According to this article you can begin with rhyming. Come and...
Curated OER
The Reading Genie: Teaching Blending
Suggestions of ways to help students learn to blend phonemes to make real or nonsense words. Dr. Murray explains both onset-rime and body-coda methods of blending.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Catch a Sound: Final Sounds Game
This site contains a flexible activity that teaches students how to "catch" or identify the final sound of a word.
Auburn University
Auburn University: Decoding Glossary
What do you know about teaching decoding skills to your students? Do you ever get stumped by some of the words that go along with decoding? If you answered yes to any of these questions then come and check out this decoding glossary.
University of Oregon
Big Ideas in Beginning Reading
The goal for teachers from the academic content standards is every child to be reading by 3rd grade. This site will help teachers to teach the "big ideas" in reading: phonemic awareness, alphabetic principle, fluency with text,...
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....
PBS
Pbs Kids: Super Why: Letter Sounds Worksheet [Pdf]
An excellent resource for teaching beginning letter-sound correspondence. Student must identify the object in the picture and circle the letter that begins the word.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Between the Lions: Letter Songs
This a collection of music videos focused on teaching the ABCs, upper and lower case, and sounds such as AR, ING, PH, etc. QuickTime is required.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Rhyme Rally Game: Identifying and Generating Rhyming Words
A teacher-led activity teaching students to identify whether it contains rhyming words. This site also contains links to Rhyming Books.
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...
PBS
Pbs Kids: Super Why: A L L Rhyming Words Worksheet [Pdf]
Print this worksheet for your students while teaching a rhyming/spelling unit. Student will fill in the beginning sound using picture clues to make a word ending in A-L-L. [Requires Adobe Reader.]
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Teacher Toolbox Decoding
What are the guidelines for decoding instruction? Explore this website from Readingrockets.org to find out the answer to this question.
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: Sports/hobbies: Pronunciation/sonidos
This Spanish-speaking ELL tutorial practices sound recognition - contrasts short "ch" and "j" sounds as in "choke/joke". Great interactive listening comprehension exercises reinforce teachings. Site has a "Teacher's Lounge" for suggested...
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: Weather Pronunciation
Extensive site focusing on Spanish-speaking ELL. This section practices sound recognition. Great interactive listening comprehension exercises reinforce teachings. Site has a "Teacher's Lounge" for suggested follow-up activities....
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: The City (La Ciudad): Pronunciation/sonidos
Extensive site focusing on Spanish-speaking ELL. This section practices sound recognition - contrasts sounds as in "cap/cup, ran/run." Great interactive listening comprehension exercises reinforce teachings. Site has a "Teacher's...
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: Health (La Salud): Pronunciation/sonidos
Extensive site focusing on Spanish-speaking ELL. This section practices sound recognition - (saw/sew, caught/coat). Great interactive listening comprehension exercises reinforce teachings. Site has a "Teacher's Lounge," for suggested...
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: Transportation (Transporte)
Extensive site focusing on Spanish-speaking ELL. This section practices sound recognition - contrasts "e" & "ey" (wet/wait, test/taste). Great interactive listening comprehension exercises reinforce teachings. Site has a "Teacher's...
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: Shopping (Compras): Pronunciation/sonidos
This site focuses on Spanish-speaking ELL. This section practices sound recognition - contrasts "c" & "g". Great interactive listening comprehension exercises reinforce teachings. Site has a "Teacher's Lounge" for suggested follow-up...