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Starfall

Starfall: The Big Hit (Short I Listening Practice)

For Students Pre-K - 1st
English language learners and beginning readers can practice listening to and pronouncing the short I sound in this read-aloud story about a baseball-playing tin man. Great graphics, unlimited repetition, and learner controlled.
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Starfall

Starfall: Zac the Rat

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Beginning readers can listen as they read-along with this wonderfully animated story about Zac, a rat who gets into quite a jam. Students can click on a word and it will show them how to blend the phonemes to pronounce it. It is an...
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Starfall

Starfall: Learn to Read

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
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.
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Quia

Quia: What Does the Schwa Sound Mean? Matching

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
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.
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Other

Alphabet Sound Recognition With Motions

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A fun activity for kinesthetic learners! Students learn motions to go along with letter sounds. This site includes a link to a building fluency site.
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St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: A E and E E Lesson

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
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,...
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Roy the Zebra

Roy the Zebra: Reading Games: Long Vowel Phonemes: Words With the "Ay" Sound

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
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.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Overview of Letter Sounds

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
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Vocabulary Spelling City

Vocabulary Spelling City: Read a Word: Long O With a Final E

For Students 1st Standards
Practice reading one-syllable long-vowel words with a final -e. The focus of this game is on the long "o" sound.
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Other

Reading From Scratch: Spelling Rules

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
The "Reading from Scratch" site provides a list of spelling rules with examples.
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ICT Games

Ict Games: Cvc Pop

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
An interactive game where students can practice identifying words with short vowel sounds following the consonant-vowel-consonant pattern. Students listen to a word and then click on all of the matching words as they float by on bubbles.
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Roy the Zebra

Roy the Zebra: Reading Games: Long Vowel Phonemes: Words With the "Ea" Sound

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Download this free interactive game to help a baby bird fly with her friends by building words that use the phoneme "ea" to create the long "e" sound.
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Roy the Zebra

Roy the Zebra: Reading Games: Long Vowel Phonemes: Words With the "Ow" Sound 2

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Download this free game and help a baby bird fly with her friends by completing words that use the "ow" phoneme to create the long "o" sound.
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Roy the Zebra

Roy the Zebra: Reading Games: Long Vowel Phonemes

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A game where players can create words with the long "e" sound created by a double "e."
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Roy the Zebra

Roy the Zebra: Reading Games: Long Vowel Phonemes: Words With the "Aw" Sound

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
Download this game to practice words containing the "aw" phoneme. Drag the phoneme into the correct part of the word to help a baby bird named Mango fly with her friends.
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Roy the Zebra

Roy the Zebra: Reading Games: Long Vowel Phonemes: Words With the "Oy" Sound

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A free game to download that allows students to practice placing the "oy" phoneme into words in order to help a baby bird fly with her friends.
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Rock ’N Learn

Rock 'N Learn: Splendid Sounds

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This printable worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will match each short vowels to the picture that begins with it. An answer key and lesson extension are included.
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Starfall

Starfall: Make a Word: Og

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Given the letters "og" with a blank before them and a list of letters from which to choose, students make words to match given pictures. Vocabulary words: dog, log, fog, frog. Audio and graphs make this page kid-friendly. When finished,...
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Cloudy With a Chance of Short Vowels

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart students practice identifying short vowel sounds.
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Starfall

Starfall: Vowels Save the Day

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A short animation that explains the role that vowels play in making words. With reinforcement for pronouncing select vowels and consonants.
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Roy the Zebra

Roy the Zebra: Reading Games: Long Vowel Phonemes

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A free downloadable interactive game. Help a baby bird fly by making words with a long "a" sound and a silent "e."
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Phonics in Context

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Contains plans for a lesson plan that teaches students the letter-sound relationship for the short /u/ sound using the book "Umbrella" by Taro Yashima. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to...
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Starfall

Starfall: Short I Song

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Listen to and then sing along with a song highlighting the short i sound and giving several examples of words containing that sound. [0:43]
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Starfall

Starfall: Short O Song

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Listen to and then sing along with a song highlighting the short o sound and giving several examples of words containing that sound. [:051]