The alphabet song in ebook form. Includes spoken narration in 16 additional languages with singing and text in English.

Knowing the relationship between written letters and spoken sounds will help children recognize words accurately and automatically. In this lesson, children practice matching letters with initial sounds.

In this lesson, students will become word detectives to find spelling patterns in a story, and then sort the words they find according to the patterns. This "word detective" will become a favorite independent activity throughout the year. Pictures and videos of the lesson in action are included.

In this activity for grades K to 2, students use letter sounds to identify words that begin with each of the letters of the alphabet.

This video segment from Between the Lions uses a cheer; "Hop 'Til You Drop" to build letter knowledge, and to demonstrate how movement and letter chanting can illustrate the words being spelled.

Contains plans for two lessons that use movement and cheering to teach the letter y spelling generalization. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as assessment and reflection activities.

Watch a fun video [1:41] to learn the sound of "ar" and "r" and to learn how they are used to form different words.

Great small group and whole class lessons on introducing, reintroducing, building fluency, and building accuracy for letter combinations.

This lesson is a spring themed three rotation blended learning centers activity for young learners (k-2). Students will rotate through three spring themed activities, with a teacher facilitating each center. Activities include a journal entry, a video with a Google Form assessment, and a mini-reader. 

Come and learn more about the consonant digraph "sh" when you visit this interactive activity. This site features an audio component.

Contains plans for two lessons that use the whole-to-parts phonics approach to beginning reading. It uses onset and rime to group word families and spelling patterns to show sounds in context. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as assessment and reflection activities.

Students explore the beauties of winter through a variety of texts about winter, learning about winter weather and weather forecasts and how different animals and plants survive winter.