Kidsource OnLine
Phonemic Awareness: Important Early Step to Reading
This site features an article that looks at the importance of phonemic awareness as an early step to learning to read. Teachers will benefit from the information presented within this article.
Auburn University
The Reading Genie: Making Friends With Phonemes
Superb explanation of phoneme awareness. Content addresses how to focus on individual phonemes, how to make the phoneme memorable, and how to find phoneme in word contexts.
University of Oregon
Official Dibels Homepage
This assessment focuses on phonemic awareness and alphabet knowledge. Free downloads available on the website.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: What's Your Name? (U)
This video segment from Between the Lions uses a fun hip-hop song about names to highlight the /uh/ sound that the letter "u" makes and to boost phonemic awareness: an understanding of the sounds within words.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Reading Basics
Provides a wealth of basic information on how to teach kids to read. Covers print awareness, sounds of speech, phonemic awareness, phonics and decoding, fluency, vocabulary, and lots more.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Decoding and the Jabberwocky's Song
What is reading? Explore this article from to find the answer to this question.
Other
Esl Kid Stuff: Classroom Games & Activities
Great variety of classroom games and activities for PK-2 ELL/ESL students, submitted by teachers. Organized alphabetically by game name, the current collection includes activities designed to help the student practice a wide range of...
Other
Mama Lisa's World
Large list of nursery rhymes for children to read. Each nursery rhyme is accompanied by pictures and some even have sounds.