The Letter A Song (Original Music Video) will help students learn all about the letter by watching a video about letter sounds, vocabulary words, and letter formation.
The Alphabet Song (Animated Music Video) will help students learn letter names and sounds by listening to the catchy lyrics and colorful video.
The Baby Shark Alphabet Song (Animated Music Video) will help students learn letter names and sounds by listening to the catchy lyrics and colorful video.
The Alphabet Songs Collection - Classic will help your kids gain a better understanding of letter names and sounds by listening to these ABC Songs.
The Alphabet Songs Pack - Animated will help support your visual learners gain a better understanding of letter names and sounds by listening to this song.
The Letter B Song (Original Music Video) will help students learn all about the letter by watching a video about letter sounds, vocabulary words, and letter formation.
The Letter H Song (Original Music Video) will help students learn all about the letter by watching a video about letter sounds, vocabulary words, and letter formation.
The Letter G Song (Original Music Video) will help students learn all about the letter by watching a video about letter sounds, vocabulary words, and letter formation.
The Alphabet Song (Animated Music Video) will help students learn letter names and sounds by listening to the catchy lyrics and colorful video.
The Letter J Song (Original Music Video) will help students learn all about the letter by watching a video about letter sounds, vocabulary words, and letter formation.
The Letter M Song (Original Music Video) will help students learn all about the letter by watching a video about letter sounds, vocabulary words, and letter formation.
The Letter E Song teaches the short E and long E sounds, uppercase and lowercase letter e, vocabulary words with e, and letter E handwriting practice.
The Letter D Song (Original Music Video) will help students learn all about the letter by watching a video about letter sounds, vocabulary words, and letter formation.
The Letter I Song (Original Music Video) will help students learn all about the letter by watching a video about letter sounds, vocabulary words, and letter formation.
The Letter F Song (Original Music Video) will help students learn all about the letter by watching a video about letter sounds, vocabulary words, and letter formation.
Crack the egg with the letter E! This animated letter E song helps preschool, kindergarten and 1st grade kids recognize E and e with the Funzies and a catchy chorus.
The Letter K Song (Original Music Video) will help students learn all about the letter by watching a video about letter sounds, vocabulary words, and letter formation.
The Letter C Song (Original Music Video) will help students learn all about the letter by watching a video about letter sounds, vocabulary words, and letter formation.
Sounds, blends and the joy of decoding
Phonics teaches kids how letters and sounds work together so they can read and spell new words. It starts with single letter sounds and blending short words: c-a-t = cat. Next come digraphs like sh, ch and th, then blends, silent e, vowel teams like ai and ee, and bossy r words like car and bird. Older kids move on to prefixes, suffixes and Greek and Latin roots. The click moment is when a child sounds out a word they have never seen and reads it all by themselves!
Phonics sticks when it is explicit, a little bit every day, and full of real reading. These are our go-to moves.
Give kids a digraph word list and have them sort the words into sh, ch and th columns. Say each word out loud before sorting it. Hearing, seeing and moving the word all at once builds a strong sound-letter link.
Why it works: the National Reading Panel found that systematic, explicit phonics teaching clearly improves how children learn to read.
Try it withDigraphs Word ListWorksheetsOpen it →Once kids learn short e, hand them a decodable story like Ben and the Eggs. Have them read it aloud and answer the questions. It shows you right away who can apply the pattern and who needs another round.
Why it works: researchers who compared ten study methods found practice testing is one of the two that work best (Dunlosky and colleagues, 2013).
Try it withBen and the Eggs Phonics Reading Comprehension Story Worksheet - Short Vowel E SoundAssessmentsOpen it →Keep yesterday's patterns alive with a quick daily game. A short vowel review game at the start of phonics time keeps old sounds sharp while you teach new ones.
Why it works: the brain holds on to what it meets again and again over time; spaced practice was rated among the very best methods (Dunlosky and colleagues, 2013).
Try it withShort Vowel Review GameGamesOpen it →Phonics practice can be the giggliest part of the day.
GamesKids race to match vowel teams like oa, ee and ai to the pictures that make those sounds.
Open Vowel Teams Game →
GamesOlder readers stack pre, dis and mis onto base words and see how the meaning flips.
Open Prefixes Pre Dis Mis Game →
VideosThe Letter H Song has kids huffing out /h/ like they just ran a race.
Open Letter H Song (Original Music Video) →Teacher favorites right now: Letter A Song (Original Music Video), Alphabet Song (Original Music Video) and Baby Shark Alphabet Song (Animated Music Video).
Phonics is the connection between letters and the sounds they make. Kids use it to sound out, or decode, words when reading and to spell words when writing.
Most programs go letter sounds, short vowel words, digraphs and blends, silent e, vowel teams, then r-controlled vowels. Prefixes, suffixes and word roots come later in the elementary grades.
Many kids start learning letter sounds in preschool, and formal phonics usually runs from kindergarten through 2nd or 3rd grade. Older students keep building word skills with prefixes, suffixes and roots.
Read decodable books together, play quick sound games, and have your child sound out words on signs and cereal boxes. Five to ten minutes a day goes a long way.
Phonemic awareness is hearing and playing with sounds, with no letters at all, like clapping the sounds in "dog." Phonics connects those sounds to written letters.
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