Starfall
Starfall: Y Can Be a Vowel
Discover how and when the letter "y" can act as a vowel. This site features an audio and video component exploring this topic. Students and teachers will benefit from this entertaining resource.
Starfall
Starfall: Jake's Tale (Long a Listening Practice)
A fun read-along story for practicing and listening to the long a sound. Great graphics and animation.
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.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Super Why! Spectacular Sounds Bingo!
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...
TES Global
Blendspace: Short Vowel Sounds
A five-part learning module with links to images and videos about short vowel sounds.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Long and Short Vowel Sounds
During this lesson, students will learn the different sounds vowels make. They will view a slideshow presentation that teaches them the different sounds. Once they have learned the sounds, students will create a document of pictures...
Rock ’N Learn
Rock 'N Learn: Ann and Abe: Long a (With Silent E) and Short a Sounds
This printable vowel letter worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will find hidden pictures by identifying words that contain short /a/ and long /a/. An answer key and lesson...
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.
Rock ’N Learn
Rock 'N Learn: Ned's Red Guitars: More Sounds of Ea
This printable worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will look at a series of word-labeled pictures and determine which ones possess the long /a/ with the -ea letter...
Quia
Quia: What Does the Schwa Sound Mean?
This site offers flash cards for practicing vowel sounds. On one side of the card is a word; on the other is the vowel sound, such as long e. Students try to determine the vowel sound when they read the word; then check to see if they...
Quia
Quia: What Does the Schwa Sound Mean? Concentration
This is a matching and memory game which requires students to not only match words with their vowel sounds, but also to remember their covered location on the grid of boxes.
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.
Starfall
Starfall: Robot and Mr. Mole (Long O Listening Practice)
Learn English words with the long O sound by listening to this read-aloud story about a robot. English language learners and beginning readers can practice listening to and pronouncing words with long o's. Great graphics, unlimited...
Roy the Zebra
Roy the Zebra: Reading Games: Long Vowel Phonemes: Words With the "Ay" Sound
Complete words with the "ay" phoneme to create a long "a" sound in this interactive game. Just download the game and complete the words to help Mango the baby bird fly with her friends.
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.
Quia
Quia: What Does the Schwa Sound Mean? Matching
This is a matching game in which students match the word in yellow blocks with the vowel sounds in blue boxes by clicking on them consecutively.
Starfall
Starfall: Word Machines: Short A
In this interactive, student learn to pronounce and produce rhyming words containing the short A sound. Using the word maching, students can change the beginning or the ending sounds to make new words which are then clearly pronounced.
Hopelink
Hopelink: Reading Lesson Idea: Dealing With Long Words
Don't let long words intimidate. Here students learn to break up long words into syllables.
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: A E and E E Lesson
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "a_e" and "e_e" in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words,...
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: Short a Lesson
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate short /a/. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see words...
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: Short a Quiz
This site is an interactive quiz to assess knowledge of words that incorporate short /a/ in them. The quiz is designed to follow the "Reading Bear: short a" lesson.
Starfall
Starfall: The Lone Vowels
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.
Roy the Zebra
Roy the Zebra: Reading Games: Long Vowel Phonemes
A free downloadable interactive game. Help a baby bird fly by making words with a long "a" sound and a silent "e."
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Overview of Letter Sounds
This Overview of Letter Sounds resource has two sections: Introduction to Letter Sounds and Video Demonstrations. It provides downloads of the following: lesson plan, lesson materials, glossary, and video transcript. This section is...