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Starfall

Starfall: Matching More Vowels

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
You can be victorious with vowels. This interactive game matches long and short vowel words and pictures. Master all three levels.
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Professional Doc
Kidsource OnLine

Kid Source: Beginning Reading and Phonological Awareness

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Key to learning how to read is the ability to identify the different sounds that make words and to associate these sounds with written words. There are 44 phonemes in the English language, including letter combinations such as /th/,...
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Professional Doc
Auburn University

The Reading Genie: Making Friends With Phonemes

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This article provides suggestions for teaching children to understand and begin to manipulate phonemes.
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Activity
Education.com

Education.com: rf.k.2.d Worksheets

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Choose from a variety of worksheets to help students practice pronouncing the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words.
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Interactive
BBC

Bbc: Skillswise: Syllables

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
With this BBC Skillswise fact sheet, find out about syllables and how they can help you spell.
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Unit Plan
St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Y, Ie, Ind, Ild Lesson

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this beginning reading video module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "y", "ie", "ind", and "ild" to form words with the long /i/. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various...
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Professional Doc
Auburn University

Auburn University: How to Count Phonemes in Spoken Words

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
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.
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Professional Doc
Auburn University

Auburn University: Teaching Blending

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
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...
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Decoding Two Syllable Words

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
The lesson will focus on reading and writing to meet a Phonics and Word Recognition standard: decode two-syllable words following basic patterns by breaking the words into syllables. The lesson is a review of two-syllable words using a...
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Phoneme Segmenting: Say and Slide Phonemes

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students work with a partner to count phonemes in picture cards. All materials are included.
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Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Digraph (Th) Activity

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Check out this interactive digraph activity for the "th" sound. Students will find this interactive activity engaging and educational.
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Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Digraph (Sh) Activity

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Come and learn more about the consonant digraph "sh" when you visit this interactive activity. This site features an audio component.
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Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Digraph (Ch) Activity

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Come and learn more about the digraph "ch" when you participate in this interactive activity.
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Unit Plan
Starfall

Starfall: Zac the Rat

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Beginning readers can listen as they read-along with this wonderfully animated story about Zac, a rat who gets into quite a jam. Students can click on a word and it will show them how to blend the phonemes to pronounce it. It is an...
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Unit Plan
Starfall

Starfall: Dune Buggy

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Learn the long U sound in English while paging through this read-aloud story about a day at the dunes. Great graphics, unlimited repetition, and learner controlled.
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Website
TES Global

Blendspace: Cvc Blending k.rf.4.2

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
At the completion of this lesson, students will be able to blend a consonant vowel and consonant to make a word. Included are instructional videos, activities, printable worksheets, an assessment, and extension activity.
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Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: Alphabats Syllables

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Alphabats - Syllables is a super fun way for kids to practice phonemic awareness. Click on the bats' bellies to hear the words, and then match the words with the same number of syllables. Match 6 words correctly and then help the bats...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Explicit Phonics Lesson for "Sh"

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This lesson covers phonemic awareness, decoding, blending, spelling patterns, and dictation. It can be used as an introduction or a follow-up lesson.
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Interactive
Road to Grammar

Road to Grammar: Rhyming Words

For Students K - 1st Standards
In this interactive, students click on the words that rhyme with the word in the middle. These include words that have similar spellings but different sounds. It also offers audio pronunciation of words if needed.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Vowel Diphthongs: Ou,ow; Oi, Oy

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A seventeen-part learning module with links to images and videos to help students learn about ou/ow and oi/oy diphthongs.
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Interactive
Roy the Zebra

Roy the Zebra: Reading Games: Long Vowel Phonemes

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A free downloadable interactive game. Help a baby bird fly by making words with a long "a" sound and a silent "e."
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Interactive
Roy the Zebra

Roy the Zebra: Reading Games: Long Vowel Phonemes

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A game where players can create words with the long "e" sound created by a double "e."
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Interactive
Roy the Zebra

Roy the Zebra: Reading Games: Long Vowel Phonemes: Words With the "Oy" Sound

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A free game to download that allows students to practice placing the "oy" phoneme into words in order to help a baby bird fly with her friends.
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Professional Doc
LD Online

Ld Online: Beginning Reading and Phonological Awareness

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site from the LD OnLine focuses on beginning reading and phonological awareness for students with learning disabilities. Check out the information presented in this informative article.