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...
Other
Alphabet Sound Recognition With Motions
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.
Rock ’N Learn
Rock 'N Learn: The Hole Story
This printable vowel letter worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will look at a fill-in-the blank paragraph. Students will choose a long /o/ word that ends with the silent -e...
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.
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.
Room Recess
Room recess.com: Cloudy Day Word Play
Match the picture to the cloud that contains the correct word. Choose to play with short vowel words, long vowel words, or a combination of both.
Roy the Zebra
Roy the Zebra: Reading Games: Long Vowel Phonemes
A game where players can create words with the long "e" sound created by a double "e."
Starfall
Starfall: Zac the Rat
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...
Starfall
Starfall: Apple
This lesson focuses on the short-vowel letter A sound. It includes a poem about apples, how to from the letter A caps and lower case, and pictures of other things beginning with an A.
Rutgers University
Rutgers University: History of the English Language
This site provides a brief description of the history of the English language.
ICT Games
Ict Games: Cvc Pop
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.
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."
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.
Rock ’N Learn
Rock 'N Learn: Catchin' Air: Air
This printable instructional activity from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will identify words that have -air in them. An answer key and lesson extension are included.
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.
Starfall
Starfall: Vowels Save the Day
A short animation that explains the role that vowels play in making words. With reinforcement for pronouncing select vowels and consonants.
Starfall
Starfall: Short I Song
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]
Starfall
Starfall: Short O Song
Listen to and then sing along with a song highlighting the short o sound and giving several examples of words containing that sound. [:051]
Starfall
Starfall: Short E Song
A song that students can listen to and sing along with to introduce the short e sound and to hear examples of words using that sound.
Rock ’N Learn
Rock 'N Learn: Name That Picture: Cvc Words
This printable vowels learning exercise from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will view pictures and identify the words that contain the consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) spelling pattern....
Learning Farm
Learning Farm: Irregular Words and Phonics
Learn about irregularly spelled words, vowel teams, and inconsistent but common spelling-sound correspondences by watching a review video. Practice what you learned by taking a quiz or playing a game!
Rock ’N Learn
Rock 'N Learn: Quick as a Wink: Ink
This printable vowels worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will solve riddles with words that end in the -ink root. An answer key and lesson extension are included.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Most Common Sounds for Single Letters
This page contains audios of sounds for single letters. The audios give the letter sound and then pronounce a word that uses that sound. It gives only the short vowel sounds. The sounds are pronounced in a North American accent.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: What Do You Hear?
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...