A collection of single-syllable sight words appropriate for kindergarteners flashes across a yellow screen. Each word is clearly read and is printed in dark black lettering.

An object pops up on the screen for each letter of the alphabet, accompanied by the letter itself and the name of the object. The objects are drawn in black and white and the letters pop up in red.

Dance starts with the letter “D!” Elmo, Big Bird, and Snuffy dance with the letter “D.” This is a parody of the old iPod commercial.

This video segment from Between the Lions features an African tale full of surprises and new words. Master storyteller Karen Kandel models the power of storytelling, the mesmerizing effects of language, and how stories can help build...

This video segment from Between the Lions features the Knights of Blending Fields demonstrating an important element of phonemic awareness: blending word parts to make a word.

This site offers four short video clips for the early elementary teacher to watch and learn about effective phonemic awareness techniques. From the PBS television series "Launching Young Readers".

Join Rhymo and his hip-hop-singing hippopotamus friend, Hip, as they rap about the hard "c" and soft "c" sounds, giving examples of objects that use the hard "c" (like candy) and the soft "c" (like celery). Featured vocabulary includes...

Sing along with the Dixie Chimps as they perform a song starring the letter "d". Featured vocabulary includes: dropped, dinner, destroyed, dishes, dropping, dumped dirt, desk, damaged, drapes, door, dashing, dreamy, dancing, divine,...

Sing along with the Dixie Chimps as the perform a ballad centered around the double O sound (oo). Vocabulary words used to reinforce the double "o" sound include book, took, hook, brook, crook, cooking, good-looking, and shook. [0:40]

Join the female singing group Fonix as they perform songs about the double "o" sound (oo). Featured words include: moo, goo, coo, room, broom, kerchoo, pool, cool, loot, hoot, and yahoo. [1:12]

In this interactive story [2:51], students will listen to the story about a mouse who has to learn how to deal with a noisy cow. The 'ou' and 'ow' diphthongs that make the sound /au/ will be learned in this funny story.

Dance along to the puppet band Phish while learning about the digraph "ph". In this video segment from Between the Lions, the puppet band Phish performs a rockin' song about the "ph" sound.

In this lesson, you will learn how to decode five-phoneme words that start with three-consonant blends by segmenting each sound and blending them all together to make words. [4:05]

In this lesson, you will learn how to decode five-phoneme words that start and end with consonant blends by segmenting each sound and blending them all together to make words. [4:09]

In this lesson, you will learn how to decode five-phoneme words that start with three-consonant blends in a text by segmenting each sound and blending them all together to make words. [4:17]