This video helps kids decode words and try both a short and long vowel sound. This is for after students have learned both short and long vowels. This teaches students how to decide whether a vowel is short or long in an unknown word....

Schwa says /uh/ and it is in so many multi-syllable words. It is the most common vowel sound. When vowels don't make their short or long sound, kids need to know that the schwa sound is a possibility.

This video teaches how to blend short vowel CVC words. Once kids know their letter sounds, they are ready to begin putting sounds together to learn to read.

If kids need more practice with letter sounds, here is a video to...

This video has kids practice first tapping out sounds to a short vowel word with blends. Then, they map it or turn the sounds into letters, and finally they spell the word. This is great practice for beginning readers and writers and...

This video gives kids a chance to practice high frequency words along with easy to decode short vowel words. Kids practice reading a sentence word by word, and then read it all together. <br/>

This video teaches how to blend short vowel CVC words. Once kids know their letter sounds, they are ready to begin putting sounds together to learn to read.

This video teaches how to read and spell words with soft g. We learn soft g is followed by an e, i, or y and compare it to hard g.

This gives practice reading multisyllabic words with vowel team and diphthong syllables, along with many hopefully prior learned syllables. This helps kids break apart words to read and spell longer words.

This video is a lesson on decoding words with the long vowel sound O at the end of a syllable. It explains the difference between open and closed syllables and how they affect vowel sounds. The video provides examples and teaches...

This video teaches the short and long vowel sounds. It gives kids practice hearing those sounds in words by sorting short and long vowel sounds. Being able to try both sounds when encountering a word helps kids learn to blend and read...

In this video, you'll learn how to use fluency-building techniques that support early literacy and word recognition. Perfect for kindergarten, first grade, and struggling readers, this reading fluency activity strengthens decoding...

This video teaches how to read and spell words with soft c. We learn soft c is followed by an e, i, or y and compare it to hard c.

This video practices the important skill of segmenting by segmenting 2, 3, and 4 sound words as a phonemic awareness skill.



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In today's Beginner German lesson I teach you how to pronounce vowel sounds in German including vowel combinations (diphthongs) and umlauts. This video includes example words for each of the sounds that you learn and tips for how to hold...

This video teaches how to blend digraphs with short vowel words. Once kids know their letter sounds and digraphs, they are ready to begin putting sounds together to learn to read.

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 and long vowels, practicing silent e or magic...

Long and Short Vowels for Kids | Kids Academy Teaching children the very basics of the English language is quite imperative because this then helps them when they reach the stage when they have to make the sentences on their own. In...

This video teaches when to use C or K at the beginning of words and which spelling to use at the end of words: CK, KE, or K. We also introduce C endings too. This will help kids at they read, write, and spell words with the /k/...

This video teaches about trigraphs, tch, dge, and igh and the rules of when to use them. There is practice with both reading and writing with them.

This video teaches how to blend consonant blend words. It mostly focuses on beginning blends but also practiced ending blends and three letter blends. Practice blending sounds is an important step in learning to read. <br/>

This video helps English learners recognize the short and long sound for each vowel.

Phonics song to teach vowel sounds and short words

This video teaches how to blend long vowel words. We use CVCe words. Seeing the silent or magic e at the end of a word is a signal that the word may have a long vowel. Practice blending the sounds in words is an important step in...

This video teaches how to blend long vowel words. We use CVCe words. Seeing the silent or magic e at the end of a word is a signal that the word may have a long vowel. Practice blending the sounds in words is an important step in...