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Pbs Learning Media: City Country Rap Letter "C"

Pre-K - 1st
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...
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Pbs Learning Media: Dixie Chimps: Delighted You're Mine Letter "D"

Pre-K - 1st
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,...
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Pbs Learning Media: Dixie Chimps: Double O Heaven Letters "Oo"

Pre-K - 1st Standards
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]
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Pbs Learning Media: Dixie Chimps: Home Is Where Long "O" Is Long "O"

Pre-K - 1st Standards
Sing along with the Dixie Chimps as they perform a country ballad about the long "O" sound. Featured vocabulary includes: rope, phone, hope, cone, noses, hosed, roses, bone, and home.
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Pbs Learning Media: Double "E", "Ee"

Pre-K - 1st Standards
Join the singers of Fonix as they sing about the double "e" sound. They walk down the street, dance, and dress up as they sing about the double "e" words: green, meet, bees, knees, keen, sweet, tweet, steep, deep, meek, fleece, steel,...
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Pbs Learning Media: Double "O", "Oo"

Pre-K - 1st
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]
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Pbs Learning Media: Hung Up on "H"

Pre-K - 1st
In this Between the Lions video, Tammy Lionette (Cleo) and Jasmine Guy sing about the confusing sound of the letter "h". Featured vocabulary includes: hung, hard, hear, hope, heavy, hassled, hold, head, howl, hound, handle, hard, hard,...
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Pbs Learning Media: Shush "Sh"

1st
Shhhh! When you are watching a show, it is polite to be quiet. In this video, Cleo Lion is constantly disturbed by rowdy audience members. She laments over the "sh" sound and the words appear on the screen to display the "sh" digraph....
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Pbs Learning Media: Hard "C" Words

Pre-K - 1st Standards
This video segment from Between the Lions uses an animated road sign to illustrate and spell familiar words that begin with the /k/ sound that the letter "c" makes.
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Pbs Learning Media: A Fellow Named Sig

Pre-K - 1st Standards
This video segment from Between the Lions features an animated limerick, which exemplifies the kind of wordplay that prepares children for early reading and spelling.
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Pbs Learning Media: Marvin K. Mooney

K - 1st
In this interactive Kindergarten through 5th grade activity, the world of fitness and literacy unite! As the teacher reads the book "Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now" by Dr. Seuss, students listen carefully and safely jump up out...
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Pbs Learning Media: Sight Word Spelling

Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this interactive Kindergarten through 2nd grade activity, literacy and exercise unite! Using sight word flashcards, students use their bodies to spell out simple sight words. The use of their creativity and imaginations is encouraged...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: A Phonics Lesson With Chrysanthemum

K - 1st
This is a video phonics lesson focusing on the sounds "ow" can make. It uses the story "Chrysanthemum" by Kevin Henkes. [3:02]
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Turtle Diary

Turtle Diary: Animal Zoo

Pre-K - 1st Standards
This TurtleDiary video lesson features all letters of the alphabet. Animals that begin with each letter of the alphabet are featured. (5:55)
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Kiz Phonics: Mouse and Cow

Pre-K - 1st
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.
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Epic Phonics: S,a,t,p,i,n Segmenting and Blending

K Standards
This video helps children with understanding how words are made using the letters s,a,t,p,i,n. Practice segmenting and blending words any time you can- play it as children are coming into school, during snack time or home time!
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Word Game Time: The Cat on the Mat

Pre-K - K
Have you ever seen a fat rat on a mat? Watch this video to see just that! This story will introduce -at words for beginning readers.
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Jennifer Dean

Jennifer Dean: Two Syllable Words

2nd Standards
Read phonetically regular, two-syllable words with long vowels. The two-syllable word is introduced along with a sentence using the word. [1:16]
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Lets Start Smart

Lets Start Smart: Ch Sh Th Wh Song

1st Standards
Match sounds to the consonant digraphs that commonly produce them. Enjoy this catchy song while learning about SH, CH, TH, and WH. [1:43]
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My Growing Brain

My Growing Brain: Spelling Patterns: "Wr"

2nd Standards
Read words with common but irregular spelling patterns. [1:05]
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My Growing Brain

My Growing Brain: Spelling Patterns: "Ch," "Tch"

2nd Standards
Read words with common but irregular spelling patterns. [2:01]
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Pbs Learning Media: Sloppy Pop "O"

K Standards
Listen to Sloppy Pop sing about words ending in -op. It gets rather messy as they slop around in a pool filled with glop while a cop stands nearby! [1:53]
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Learning Upgrade

Learning Upgrade: Long Vowels Song

1st Standards
Identify final -e words as having a given long vowel sound. [1:55]
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Maple Leaf Learning

Maple Leaf Learning: Let's Read! Three Letter Words With "U"

K Standards
Read CVC words that differ from a given word by only the vowel. This video focuses on the vowel "u". [1:23]