Students study the short /a/ sound by examining the movement of their mouths as they make the sound mimicking a baby's cry. They recite a tongue twister and write the lower case "a." They raise their hands when they hear the letter sound...

Students review information questions with who, what, when and where. They orally practice answering questions as a class then work in pairs to practice all questions and answers orally.

Students explore structures in a big city.  In this big city lesson, students become familiar with vocabulary about big cities through songs graphs, and hands-on art. Students practice phonic sound /M/.

Come one, come all! The Turtle Dash is a multi-player game against friends of the computer that challenges your knowledge and speed to match vowel blends with consonants to form words. Match everything quickly and accurately to win the...

This multi-level game asks students to match a correct vowel combination into a word to earn points.

This printable vowels worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will view pictures and write words that have long /e/ and use the /ea/ vowel digraph. An answer key and lesson...

This printable vowels worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will identify pictures with words that contain the long /a/ with the /ai/ digraph. An answer key and lesson...

There are a large number of vowel combinations that produce completely different sounds. These are known as vowel teams. These worksheets can help students be successful with the usage of vowel pairs and adjoining consonants.

This printable vowels worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will view pictures and write words that will solve riddles that use long /a/ and contain the /ay/ vowel digraph. An...

This printable worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a long /u/ reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will read a fill-in-the-blank paragraph and write missing words that include /ui/, /ue/, or /ou/ vowel digraphs in...

This site is an interactive quiz to assess knowledge of long /e/ with the vowel digraphs "ew" and "ue". The quiz is designed to follow the "Reading Bear: ew, ue" lesson.

What is a digraph? The objective of this lesson plan is that students will be able to recognize and use consonant digraphs in sentences and speech.

This printable "ou" worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will write "ou" vowel digraph words into 4 Square game squares. An answer key and lesson extension are included.

Learn about irregularly spelled words, vowel teams, and inconsistent but common spelling-sound correspondences by watching a review video. Practice what you learned by taking a quiz or playing a game!

Game will engage students in a turtle race by identifying a word using vowel combinations.

This site is an interactive quiz to assess knowledge of words that incorporate "oo" in them. The quiz is designed to follow the "Reading Bear: oo" lesson.

This online lesson plan uses an interactive activity to teach students how to determine the common and alternative sounds for specific vowel combinations. The words for this lesson plan are taken from the book "Chrysanthemum," by Kevin...

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

This site is an interactive quiz to assess knowledge of "aw", "au", and "al" words. The quiz is designed to follow the "Reading Bear: aw, au, al" lesson.

This site is an interactive quiz to assess knowledge of "ai" in words. The quiz is designed to follow the "Reading Bear: ai" lesson.

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

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

This site is an interactive quiz to assess knowledge of "ay" and "air" in words. The quiz is designed to follow the "Reading Bear: ay, air" lesson.

In this review unit module for emergent readers, the instructor reviews how to pronounce words that incorporate "oy", "oi", "ay", and "air" in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can...