Phonics

Blending Bowl
Students can watch a 1-minute football video in which "D" and "INE" combine to form the word "DINE."

City/Country Rap
This 1-minute video uses cartoon characters and rap beats to help students distinguish between "hard C" and "soft C" sounds.

City Mouse and Country Mouse
This 3 1/2-minute video from Between the Lions uses cartoon characters to help students distinguish between "hard C" and "soft C" sounds. Video includes captioning.

Cliff Hanger and the Sneezing Zebu
This 2 1/2-minute video from Between the Lions uses cartoon characters to help students recognize the "Z" sound.

C-V-C Phonemic Awareness
This 6-minute video is a demonstration lesson in teaching phonemics by acting out single-syllable words. It progresses from whole group instruction through guided practice to individual assessment.

Dancing Princess
In this 2-minute video students sound out and spell the word "pop."

Dixie Chimps: Delighted You're Mine
In this 1-minute video students explore words that contain "oo."

Dixie Chimps: Double O Heaven
In this 1-minute video students practice the sound "D."

Dixie Chimps: Good-bye, Chick
In this 1-minute video students practice the sound "CH."

Dixie Chimps: Home is Where Long O IS
In this 1-minute video students practice the sound "long O."

Double E
In this 1 1/2-minute video students practice the sound "long E."

Double O, OO
In this 1-minute video students practice the sound "oo."

Dr. Seuss's Sound Words: Playing with Phonics and Spelling
Students explore the relationship between sound and spelling using onomatopoeia. This lesson uses Dr. Seuss's Mr. Brown Can MOO! Can You?.

Encoding and Decoding
In these activities, students blend sounds to make words. This 37-page document includes instructions and printables designed for kindergarten and first grade. Requires Adobe Reader for access. (Suggestion: save the document to your computer and print only the pages you need.)

The Folly of Jolly Old Phonics
Mem Fox speaks on effective reading instruction.

Fred Says "Hot"
In this 22-second video, Fred combines the "h" and "ot" to form the word "hot."

Generating Rhymes: Developing Phonemic Awareness
Students work with rhyming words to learn word and letter patterns.

High Frequency Words
Six activities to help K-1 students recognize high frequency words, complete with printables. This 71-page document requires Adobe Reader for access. (Suggestion: save the document to your computer and print only the pages you need.)

Hung up on "H"
In this 2-minute video, country singers explain why the sound made by the letter "H" can be confusing.

Letter Recognition Activities
Designed for kindergarten and first grade, this document includes 43 pages of activities to develop letter recognition, including bulletin board borders and other printable material. (Suggestion: save the document to your computer and print only the pages you need.)

Letter-Sound Correspondence Activities
Designed for kindergarten and first grade, this document includes 115 pages of activities to develop letter-sound correspondence, printable games and other resources. Adobe Reader required for access. (Suggestion: save the document to your computer and print only the pages you need.)

Mr. Thorne Does Phonics
A series of videos to support teaching and learning phonics. Note: this site is hosted at YouTube, which may be blocked at schools.

Onset and Rime
A variety of activities and printables in which K-1 students blend onsets and rimes to make words. Adobe Reader required for access. (Suggestion: save the 41-page document to your computer and print only the pages you need.)

Phonic Generalizations in Chrysanthemum, book by Kevin Henkes
Using a variety of approaches, students work with the sounds of ow, ew, and aw.

Phonics
Links to resources designed by parents who used phonics.

Phonics Activities and Games
Interactive games to help young children with phonics.

Phonics and Reading Games to Print and Play
Printable games, motivational posters, and word lists.

Phonics Word Search Puzzles
From "Words that begin with bl1" through "Rhyming Words that end with -ip, 35 printable reinforcemend handouts. Adobe Reader required for access.

Phonological Awareness
A dozen activities to help K-1 students with rhyming words and alliteration. This 82-page document requires Adobe Reader for access. (Suggestion: save the document to your computer and print only the pages you need.)

The Role of Phonics in the Teaching of Reading
A position paper.

Rosie's Walk by Pat Hutchins
Four activities to develop literacy skills. The fourth activity works with the letter O.

Sentence Segmentation
Twelve activities to help K-1 students separate sentences into words. This 54-page document includes all the printables needed and requires Adobe Reader for access. (Suggestion: save the document to your computer and print only the pages you need.)

Shush!
In this downloadable video from Between the Lions, Cleo Lion sings about the sound "sh."

Syllable Patterns
Eight activities to help K-1 students recognize syllable patterns. This 46-page document includes all the printables needed and requires Adobe Reader for access. (Suggestion: save the document to your computer and print only the pages you need.)

Teaching Phonics Through Poetry
Designed for first graders, this 7-day unit plan includes handouts but not poems. It is 22-pages long and requires Adobe Reader or compatible application for access.

Teaching Short Vowel Discrimination Using Dr. Seuss Rhymes
Students identify rhyming words, discriminate between short u and o sounds, and more.

Variant Correspondences
Five activities and all printables needed for K-1 students to practice words with silent "e" and other skills. This 59-page document requires Adobe Reader for access. (Suggestion: save the document to your computer and print only the pages you need.)

When Two Vowels Go Walking
In this video segment from Between the Lions, two animated vowels walk down a road and are joined by other letters to make words as they go. The song explains the rule, "When two vowels go walking, the first one does the talking."

Without an -ing
In this video segment from Between the Lions, the Lions sing about the importance of the letter combination "ing." Featured words include sing, thing, ding-a-ling, sting, cling, zing, spring, king, swing, string, wing, brings, ping, and ring.

Word Families: -ig and -ip
This technology-based lesson will help students develop their phonemic awareness by teaching students to hear the sounds in the -ig and -ip word families. It also leads students to apply what they have learned. Students will blend, segment, and read words that contain the -ig and -ip word families.

Word Search Puzzle Archive
Printable word search puzzles; some related to the month, more related to initial consonant blends and end sounds.