Resources

Phonological Awareness is the awareness of spoken language and all of its parts: from sentences to words, down to the smallest units of sounds known as phonemes (phonemic awareness).  Students need to be able to isolate and manipulate sounds in words to read and spell. 

Video: 3 minutes 58 seconds

Video with audio of the 26 letters of the alphabet and their primary sounds.  Keywords are included.  As young children learn the sounds associated with the letters, it is helpful to provide a keyword to anchor their learning to. 

Video: 1 minute 36 seconds

Video with audio of the 26 letters of the alphabet and their primary sounds.  As students progress, we remove pictures and keywords so that they automatically associate the primary sound when they see the letter. 

Video: 43 seconds

Letter knowledge is a strong predictor of reading success.  The Alphabet Arc gives us the opportunity to help students learn which letters names correspond to the correct symbol.  They can also learn the sequence of the alphabet at the same time.  

Video: 1 minute 40 seconds

Closed Syllable Words are words that contain a vowel followed by a consonant and usually represents the short vowel sound. 

Video: 2 minutes 38 seconds

Closed Syllable Words with digraphs Digraphs are two letters that represent one sound like the sh in ship.  

Video 4 minutes 7 seconds

Closed Syllable Words with double final consonants The f, l, and s are doubled in a one syllable word after a short vowel.  These are known as double final consonants.

Video 2 minutes 6 seconds

Closed Syllable Words with consonant blends Consonant blends are letter combinations where each letter keeps their own sound when blended together.

Video 3 minutes 2 seconds

Vowel Consonant Silent E Words are words with one vowel, followed by one consonant and one final silent e.  The vowel sound in these words is usually long. 

Video: 3 minutes 27 seconds

Words with Vowel Teams are words that contain two or more vowels together that represent a long, short or new vowel sound. 

Video 4 minutes 42 seconds

Words with Open Syllables are words with a single vowel at the end of a syllable that represent a long vowel sound.

Video 2 minutes 32 seconds

Words with R-Controlled Vowels are words with one or more vowels followed by an r with controls the vowel sound. 

Video 4 minutes 38 seconds

Multisyllabic Word Reading: VCCV Pattern

Poster to Print

Video: 5 minutes 47 seconds