Syllable division rules show us how to break up a multi-syllable word into its syllable parts. There are six main syllable division rules to guide us. It all starts with the vowels. Find the vowels in the word. It helps to underline or...

This interactive Super Why! game features a BINGO game. Students listen to Princess Pea read aloud the following: initial vowel sounds, initial consonant sounds, and/or words with emphasized initial vowel or consonant sounds. Then...

Come one, come all! The Turtle Dash is a multi-player game against friends of the computer that challenges your knowledge and speed to match vowel blends with consonants to form words. Match everything quickly and accurately to win the...

This article focuses on teaching 3rd grade spelling including Dolch sight words for 3rd grade and the weird spelling patterns that 3rd graders face such as the letter Y, diphthongs, double consonants, and homophones.

This English pronunciation guide is useful for young English speakers, as well as English language learners of all ages. It offers practice in reading, pronunciation, and writing of vowels and consonants and of vowel and consonant...

This technology-based lesson has students navigate Internet sites to assist them with learning the letter names and sounds. Students also use slideshow presentations to identify letter matches and learn beginning sounds.

Fuzz Bugs Farm Consonant Blends is a great activity for young children to work with consonant digraphs and the different words they create. Help your Fuzz Bugs Farm Animal make its way across the game board by answering different...

This printable consonant letters worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will write words that end with the same double consonant letter to form complete sentences. An answer key...

This printable consonant letters learning exercise from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will find hidden words that begin with /g/ and end with /x/. An answer key and lesson extension...

This printable vowels worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Learners will find a hidden picture by identifying words that contain the ending consonant /s/. An answer key and lesson...

This printable phonics instructional activity from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will fill in words to complete sentences with words that end with -al or -all. Then students will...

This resource has two sections: Overview of Consonant-Vowel-Consonant Words/Closed Syllables and video Demonstrations. It provides downloads of the following: lesson plan, lesson materials, word list, and video transcript. This section...

This resource has two sections: Vowel-Consonant-e Syllables and video demonstrations. It provides downloads of the following: lesson plan, lesson materials, word list, and video transcript.

Grammar rules taught through song. A familiar tune helps to teach the E and O at the end of the word that make a long vowel sound. There are opportunities to demonstrate understanding by identifying words that that follow the rule.

A wonderful site full of tips for teaching Word-form recognition activities. This site has a plethora of links that provide an excellent way to practice and memorize the essential skills of recognizing words without sounding out each...

A short animation that explains the role that vowels play in making words. With reinforcement for pronouncing select vowels and consonants.

A seventeen-part learning module with links to images and videos to help students learn about ou/ow and oi/oy diphthongs.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Information and examples of words containing the vowels "a", "e", "I", and "o."

This lesson will allow students to practice both writing names and identifying beginning sounds for common item names.

Knowing the relationship between written letters and spoken sounds will help children recognize words accurately and automatically. In this lesson, children practice matching letters with initial sounds.

Celebration words can be used to help students review and practice beginning sounds. This lesson will help students recognize and produce the initial sound of a given word. Included are an assessment checklist, videos of the lesson in...

What is a digraph? The objective of this lesson plan is that students will be able to recognize and use consonant digraphs in sentences and speech.

This site includes 15 different phonics and reading games to download, laminate, and cut out. Includes games for phonics blends; "When two vowels go walking;" ee; ir, ur er; tion, etc.

There are a large number of vowel combinations that produce completely different sounds. These are known as vowel teams. These worksheets can help students be successful with the usage of vowel pairs and adjoining consonants.