Starfall
Starfall: Learn to Read
There are 15 easy-to-read stories, each focusing on a particular vowel sounds; it also provides quizzes using the same long and short vowel sounds. In addition there are alphabet videos.
Other
Saint Ambrose Barlow: Background Color: Missing Sounds, Year 1 Term2
Given a picture and word with missing letters, students determine what vowel sound is missing and type the word spelled correctly into the box provided.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Sounds: What We Hear!
Students will create a descriptive writing about the sounds they hear in a favorite place. This is a good follow-up to a science unit on sound.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Alphabats Syllables
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...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Molly of Denali: Party Moose Lesson Plan
This lesson plan, using the animated story "Party Moose" from the series Molly of Denali, shows the importance of paying attention to meaning while reading and using strategies, such as rereading, when something doesn't make sense. Molly...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Molly of Denali: Bird in Hand Lesson Plan
This lesson plan, based on the 11-minute story "Bird in Hand" from the PBS KIDS series MOLLY OF DENALI, helps children use strategies, such as examining the parts of unfamiliar words to figure out their meaning. When Molly and Tooey come...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix:a Right Brained Writing Prompt: Serendipitous Alliteration: Letter S
Students use the alliteration generator to spark an idea for an alliterative narrative using the letter "S" and focusing on word choice and playing with words. An online page and a word choice checklist are provided for students to type...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Grocery List Spelling [Pdf]
This PDF activity page offers a unique way to study spelling words. Students do one activity (such as make a crossword with their spelling list and definitions) from three of the four grocery store departments: meat, produce, bakery, and...
Other
Galactic Phonics: Cvc Word Interactive Spelling
Practice spelling common Consonant Vowel Consonant words in this game-style interactive activity.
Other
Free Phonics Lessons: Breath Sound Consonants: Beginning Consonant Sounds
Ready-to-print phonics chart on beginning consonant breath-sounds. Students can click on the letters, pictures, or words to hear the sounds independently or as a part of the words.
Other
First School Years: Literacy: Phonics: Vowels: Sort the Long and Short 'A' Words
This site contains a sorting activity through which students can practice identifying pictures with either a long or short 'a' vowel sound.
Other
First School Years: Literacy: Phonics: Vowels: Sort the Long and Short 'E' Words
This site contains a sorting activity through which students can practice identifying pictures with either a long or short 'e' vowel sound.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Count the Vowels
Students are given a list of words and told to count the vowels and turn the sheet over. They are then asked to list the words. In this exercise, students discover how the words are arranged and find it easy to remember them.
Roy the Zebra
Roy the Zebra: Reading Games: Long Vowel Phonemes: Words With the "Ea" Sound
Download this free interactive game to help a baby bird fly with her friends by building words that use the phoneme "ea" to create the long "e" sound.
Roy the Zebra
Roy the Zebra: Reading Games: Long Vowel Phonemes
A game where players can create words with the long "e" sound created by a double "e."
Roy the Zebra
Roy the Zebra: Reading Games: Long Vowel Phonemes: Words With the "Oy" Sound
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.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Onset Rhyme
[Free Registration/Login Required] A one page flipchart that has an activity for students to create words. Have students move initial letters to appropriate endings to create words.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Paragraphs
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will write simple, non-chronological reports from known information (e.g., from own experience or from existing text), using notes made to organize and present ideas. Students will learn to...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Phonics
[Free Registration/Login Required] This interactive flipchart explores beginning word sounds, ending word sounds, and short vowels. There are assessment questions included. The vocabulary level is appropriate for primary elementary...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Short and Long Vowel Discrimination
[Free Registration/Login Required] Short and long vowel practice.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Short Vowel Sounds
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart helps early readers look more in depth at the short vowel sounds and requires them to identify, create, and write words that contain short vowel sounds.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Short Vowel Words
[Free Registration/Login Required] Using the pencil tool, students see how many short vowel words they can make on each page starting with the short vowel- a.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Short Vowels
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart students will review the sounds of the short vowels while finding pictures to match the sounds. Then they will be able to apply what they learned with questions using Activote.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Short Vowels Review
[Free Registration/Login Required] The students demonstrate: knowledge of concept of print, ability to identify & orally manipulate words & individual sounds, relationship between letters & letter combinations of written...