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At Starfall, children have fun while they learn. Educational games, movies, books, songs, and more for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade learners.

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Join Milo and his jungle friends as they explore a fun-filled world of letters, sight words, phonics and spelling.

Get ready for adventure...Monkey Word School Adventure! Join Milo and his jungle friends as they explore a fun-filled world of letters, sight words, phonics and spelling. Seamless game flow and behind-the-scenes performance adjustment allow your child to jump right in and begin playing and learning.
For ages 3 to 7.

Monkey Word School Adventure is an entertaining and captivating way to introduce your child to the fundamental concepts behind reading and writing. The lessons range from letter recognition and writing to spelling and phonics introducing word components such as consonant blends, digraphs, irregular vowels and more! There is also a special focus on sight words, the vital building blocks of reading and writing.

=== FEATURES ===
*6 interactive, carefully conceived, captivating games.
*Letter and word recognition.
*Introduction to digraphs, consonant blends, irregular vowels and other important concepts.
*A focus on sight words helping your child learn these vital building blocks of reading and writing.
*Uses THUP's "Knack Technolgy " system which automatically adjusts the difficulty of the games as your child plays.
*Customizable Settings. Select which games your child plays and at what level allowing you to focus on a single task, such as learning sight words.
*Designed for Kids: No confusing Menus or navigation.
*Rewards! Kids earn frogs, butterflies, chameleons and more to put into their own customizable interactive terrarium.

=== KIDS LEARN WHILE THEY PLAY ===
*SPELLING STONE
Milo needs help with his spelling. He can show you what it looks like, but do you know how to spell it? Use the magic gold letters to solve the puzzle!

* SIGHT BIRDS
Milo is looking for a special gems and the sight birds have them! Help him collect as many as you can before the time runs out! Features letter recognition and sight words.

*LETTER WRITING
Learn to write uppercase and lowercase letters by carving them in the ancient stone writing wall.

*PHONICS BRIDGE
Oh no the bridge is out and two little chinchillas are going to miss their play date! Help them get together by fixing the bridge using the engineering power of phonics!

*WORD WALL
Using an ancient map Milo has stumbled upon a mysterious puzzle. Help him solve it by finding all the words on the map!

*RHYMING MAZE
Help a greedy little Chinchilla find his treasure by drawing a path using words that rhyme!

*TERRARIUM
Populate and decorate your own interactive terrarium! Choose from tons of plants, frogs, butterflies and dragonflies to create your own uniques worlds.

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[Cool Game! (But It Needs Update...)]How To Play: {If You Get A Game Correct. You Can Choose A Bug and/or Plant! The More You Get Correct. The Higher The Chance You Can Choose A Bug and/or Plant! Then, The Bug and/or Plant You Chosen Goes Into Your Terrarium! The Tray Below Your Terrarium Is Where You Can Store Your Bugs and/or Plants! (Even New Bugs and/or Plants!)The More Bugs and/or Plants You Have, The Higher The Chance You'll Get A Duplicate Of One Of Your Bugs and/or Plants! There's Only 3 Player Spaces... Each First Launch Of An Player, Starts The Player Without A Bug and/or Plant! Remember This Phrase?(The More Bugs and/or Plants You Have, The Higher The Chance You'll Get A Duplicate Of One Of Your Bugs and/or Plants!)Yeah! That!}Why It Needs Updates: {[Reason 1(Multiple iPad Play)] There Should Be An Option To Play With The Same Player On Multiple iPads!(Only When Multiple iPads Have This App)[Reason 2(Losing The Entirety (Or Part) Of Your Terrarium)]You Can Actually Lose The Entirety (Or Part) Of Your Terrarium... (Usually When It Crashes)That Shall Be Fixed![Reason 3(More Collectibles)]There Should Be New Bugs and/or Plants To Collect![And Reason 4(Big Fixes)]Fix The Bugs!

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I really love this app but recently the hint button appears to be broken. I'm having a student of mine practice only tracing the letters and I had turned off the hint option. But for some weird reason, the hints would continue to come on every few seconds. It got to the point where he can't do anything because the hinting arrows would prevent him from tracing.

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Compatibility

iPhone

Requires iOS 10.0 or later.

iPad

Requires iPadOS 10.0 or later.

iPod touch

Requires iOS 10.0 or later.

Mac

Requires macOS 11 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip.

Family Sharing

With Family Sharing set up, up to six family members can use this app.

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‎Get ready for adventure...Monkey Word School Adventure! Join Milo and his jungle friends as they explore a fun-filled world of letters, sight words, phonics and spelling. Seamless game flow and behind-the-scenes performance adjustment allow your child to jump right in and begin playing and learnin...

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‎The third learning adventure in the Nickelodeon Literacy Suite, Dora ABCs Vol 3: Ready to Read! focuses on your child's early reading and phonics skills. After reviewing letter sounds in Dora ABCs Vol 1: Letter & Letter Sounds, and learning phonemic awareness with Dora ABCs Vol 2: Rhyming Words your...

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The Language Builder® from Stages App is based on the Language Builder Picture Noun Cards, Sets 1 & 2. Used by BCBAs, SLP's, Teachers and Parents to teach basic language skills to children with autism, speech language delay or special needs, the app includes 6 ABA-based activities with customizable presentations. All of the images in the Language Builder from Stages APP are taken directly from the top selling Language Builder Picture Cards which you have come to rely on daily.

Highly customizable settings allow you to choose from multiple speech and text commands, card positions, prompts and prompt fading, target and distractor words, reinforcers, and more.

The Basic Language Builder® from Stages app includes 90 Basic Stage images, with 500+ words available for purchase by category. Language Builder Pro comes complete with all 600+ words, including Animals, Foods, Transportation, Furniture, Clothing, Toys, Everyday Objects, Insects, Sea Life, Musical Instruments, Tools, Body Parts, Safety Sign, Shapes and Colors.

The most recent release of the Language Builder® from Stages app allows you to create unlimited users so you can save the settings for each of your students and a reporting feature to track student progress. The Pro version of the app also lets you create your own custom flashcards to use with the app's ABA based activities.

For detailed descriptions of all our features and functionality, please click on the individual activities below, and visit our support page.

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Pairing our first graders with 5th and 6th graders for read aloud or paired reading activities. Suggate's research suggests this benefits both groups because reading practice should continue past elementary ages.

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Make this activity interactive by having the student where letter cards and move around as they manipulate sounds to make words. See activity in Phonics They Use, 7th Ed. pg. 54

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What?

Making Words is a hands-on activity in which students learn how adding and moving letters can create new words.

When?

During or after reading.

Why?

Making Words fosters high-order thinking skills and requires students to apply phonemic learning. This strategy builds holistic understanding of language by exploring how sounds form words and words form ideas. The game-like elements make learning domain-specific vocabulary (Tier Three) words fun and easy.

How?

Materials needed:

Index cards

Scissors

Pocket chart

Letter strip with secret word

Steps:

1. Choose your vocabulary words.

2. Decide what the "secret" word will be. It should be a Tier Two or Tier Three word that reflects students' reading levels and interests, the theme of the central text, and the letter-sound patterns necessary to sort the words.

3. Make a list of shorter words that can be made from the letters of the secret word (e.g. disability: at, it, is, bats, bit, bay, bait, tail, sail, ability).

4. From the shorter words, pick a sub-list that includes

Words you can sort for the spelling pattern(s) you want to emphasize

Longer and shorter words so the lesson can be differentiated

Words that can be changed through minor changes in letter placement to demonstrate the importance of letter order (e.g., bran/barn)

Proper names to demonstrate the use of capital letters

5. Keep an ordered list of the shorter words. Create an index card for each letter and for each word in the ordered list of words. Write a corresponding capital letter on the back of each letter card.

6. Create additional word order lists as necessary to reflect letter patterns, letter order or inclusion/omission of letters.

7. Write the letters of the secret word on a sentence strip, vowels first, consonants second, so as not to give away the secret word.

8. Make a copy of the letter strip for each student.

9. Have students cut apart each letter.

10. Place index cards with the same letters on a pocket chart.

11. Challenge students to make specific words by arranging the letters at their desks. For an example of this process, see sample Make Words activity.

12. If someone figures out the secret word, let that student come to the front of the class and make it using the pocket chart. If students do not identify the secret word, reveal the word on the pocket chart and have students make it at their desks.

13. Reread the segment of the central text where the secret word is found.

14. Define the word together, using context clues from the central text

15. Challenge students to see what other words they can create with the letters in the secret word.

16. Challenge students to write a complete sentence using words made from the secret word.

English language learners

Adapt Making Words for English language learners by using cognates. Cognates can then be used to create word lists and, ultimately, for sorting activities.

Connection to anti-bias education

Select words related to anti-bias and social justice themes, as seen in the Sample Make Words activity, This strategy helps students understand vocabulary and become flexible, independent problem solvers.

Sample Make Words activity
Secret word: disability

Take two letters and make the word at.

Change one letter and make the word it.

Change the "t" to an "s" to make is.

Take three letters and make the word bat.

Add an "s" to bat to make bats.

Change one letter and make the word bad.

Change bat to tab. I put a tab on my book where I stopped reading.

Make a three-letter word: day.

Change one letter in "day" to make lay. Lay your paper flat on the desk.

Make a three-letter word: lid. I took the lid off the jar.

Now, we are going to make some four-letter words. Make the word bait. I needed bait to go fishing.

Make the four-letter word tail.

Change one letter in tail to make it sail.

Make another four-letter word: dial. I turned the dial on the radio.

Let's make some five-letter words. Take five letters and make the word badly. Our league bowled badly today.

Now, spell another five-letter word: daily.

Try a six-letter word: ability. You have the ability to do anything!

Every making-word lesson has a secret word-a word than can be made with all the letters. Take a minute and see if you can figure out the secret word.

Sample Making Words Pocket Chart

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Elkonin Boxes | Classroom Strategies | Reading Rockets

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A multilingual word wall representative of the languages spoken amongst your learners. Because a student who becomes increasingly literate in their primary language, does better at acquiring English as a second language (Kelley, 2015).

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Associate the Moveable Alphabet to the Sandpaper Letters with this approach:

Invite child.

Unroll rug if to be used.

Choose a sandpaper letter.

Find the same letter from the moveable alphabet (or can remove a few to match sandpaper letters).

Place on or under the sandpaper letter.

Continue depending on the child's interest.

Return letters to movable alphabet box.

Use scanning, left to right.

The child will be interested in matching the letters. The control of error is that the letters don't match.

#3 - Movable Alphabet and Sandpaper Letters - Short Vowel Word Building

Once the guide introduces the moveable alphabet and associates the moveable alphabet with the sandpaper letters, the child is likely a bit older, about 4 years old or so, with the same prerequisites. The goals of this next lesson focus on order, concentration, coordination, independence, self-esteem, and preparation for writing, reading, and spelling.

Build Short Vowel Words with the Moveable Alphabet & Sandpaper Letters with this approach:

Bring the sandpaper letters to the rugs

Begin with the consonant sounds and vowel sound the child knows, for example: (c, s, m, t, a)

Form a word the child has previously read, such as "mat," with the Sandpaper Letters.

Introduce the Large Moveable Alphabet to the child.

Show the child how to scan box left to right, top to bottom with the index finger to find letters.

Ask the child to find the corresponding letters in the Moveable Alphabet.

Show the child how to arrange the letters of the Movable Alphabet to form the word "mat."

Ask the child to read the word he has formed.

Continue with other words, such as: "cat," "sat," "rat."

Show the child how to return letters to proper compartments.

The child will be interested in the different colors of vowels and consonants, the sounds, blending the sounds and letters, the colors of the vowels and consonants, and fitting the letters into the respective compartments.

#4 - Movable Alphabet: Short Vowel Words with Objects

When the child is ready to move on from short vowel word building, she will tackle the next lesson on the pink series sequence. The child will create short vowel words and match objects to the words.

For this lesson you need the following materials:

Red & blue pencils (for writing on labels if the child is ready)

Movable Alphabet and objects whose names are phonetic, rug, work board, paper slips

Containers of objects having the short vowel sound and the CVC pattern:

/a/: bag, can, cap, cat, fan, pan

/e/: bed, hen, jet, peg, pen, web

/i/: bib, kid, lid, pig, pin, wig

/o/: dog, fox, log, mop, pop, top, pod

/u/: bud, bus, cup, gum, jug, tub

Similar aims as the prior lessons including:

To begin forming and reading three letter short vowel phonetic words

Order

Concentration

Coordination

Independence

Self-esteem

Analyze sounds in words

Word building

Preparation for reading

Builds vocabulary

Match Short Vowel Words to Objects with this approach:

Invite the child to work with the short vowel objects and the Moveable Alphabet.

Show the child where the short vowel objects and the Moveable Alphabet are located on the shelf.

Unroll rug

Select the container with the short /a/ objects and the Moveable Alphabet and carry them to the rug.

Name each object.

Child repeats the name of each object.

Place the container of objects (/a/: bag, can, cap, cat, fan, pan) to the upper left of the rug in a vertical column.

Place the box of Moveable Alphabet letters to the right of the container of objects.

Name the object: "rug".

Make the first sound of the object while pointing to each letter in the Moveable Alphabet box to locate the letter that represents the sound and place on the rug.

Continue method, isolating each sound from word.

Point to the object and name the object.

Point and move the finger from left to right under the word and read the word emphasizing the sounds of the word.

Continue with the second object: bat.

Continue the process as long as the child remains interested and focused.

When words are formed, have the child read each word out loud.

Remember not to correct any misspelled words.

When ready to return the material to the shelf, begin with the object at the left. Name the object and return to container.

Read the word and return each letter to the appropriate compartment.

Return the objects and Moveable Alphabet to the shelf.

The child will be interested in exploring the objects, placing the letters in a row to make a word, the colors, the sounds, associating the sound and the letter, reading the words, reading the written words, and writing the words.

#5 - Moveable Alphabet with Short Vowel Words & Pictures

Once the child masters matching the objects to short vowel words built with the moveable alphabet, he is ready to move a bit more abstract. In this lesson, the child will build short vowel words with the moveable alphabet and match pictures (instead of objects) to the words.

Materials needed for this lesson include:

Movable Alphabet and pictures whose names pencils (red and blue) are phonetic, rug, work board, paper slips,

Containers of pictures having the short vowel sound and the pattern consonant/vowel/consonant:

/a/: bag, can, cap, cat, fan, pan, gas, ham, jam, rag, rat, tag

/e/: bed, hen, jet, peg, pen, web, keg, leg, men, red, ten, hem

/i/: bib, kid, lid, pig, pin, wig, fig, fin, hip, rib, tin, lip

/o/: dog, fox, log, mop, pod, top, cob, cot, hog, rod

/u/: bud, bus, cup, gum, jug, tub, bun, mud, pup, rug, sun, bug

The goals for this lesson include:

To begin forming and reading three letter short vowel phonetic words.

Order, concentration, coordination, independence

Self-esteem

Analyze sounds in words

Word building

Preparation for reading

Builds vocabulary

Match Short Vowel Words to Pictures with this approach:

Invite the child to work with the short vowel pictures and the Moveable Alphabet.

Show the child where the short vowel pictures and the Moveable Alphabet are located on the shelf.

Unroll rug

Select the container with the short /a/ pictures and the Moveable Alphabet and carry them to the rug.

Place the container of pictures (/a/: bag, can, cap, cat, fan, pan) to the upper left of the rug in a vertical column.

Place the box of Movable Alphabet letters to the right of the container of pictures.

Name the picture: cat.

Make the first sound of the picture while pointing to each letter in the Moveable Alphabet box to locate the letter that represents the sound and place on the rug.

Continue method, isolating each sound from the word.

"C", scan, remove the letter from box and place on the rug.

"a", scan, remove the letter from box and place on the rug. Place the letter to the right of the first letter.

"t", scan, remove the letter from box and place on the rug. Place the letter to the right of the second letter. Note: Letters can be pre-selected and laid randomly on the bottom of the rug.

Point to the picture and name the picture.

Point and move the finger from left to right under the word and read the word emphasizing the sounds of the word.

Continue with the second picture: can.

Continue the process as long as the child remains interested and focused.

When ready to return the material to the shelf, begin with the object at the left. Name the object and return to container.

Read the word and return each letter to the appropriate compartment.

Return the objects and Moveable Alphabet to the shelf.

Resources Used in these Moveable Alphabet Lessons

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5 Lessons You Need to Know Using the Moveable Alphabet

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Associate the Moveable Alphabet to the Sandpaper Letters with this approach: Invite child. Unroll rug if to be used. Choose a sandpaper letter. Find the same letter from the moveable alphabet (or can remove a few to match sandpaper letters). Place on or under the sandpaper letter. Continue depending on the child's interest.

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Change My Word: A phonological awareness activity

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How to Adapt Your Teaching Strategies to Student Needs

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Letter Reversals - Overcoming Letter Reversals

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Learning to read by sight is the key to early literacy. That's why high-frequency words worksheets are popular for preschool, kindergarten, and primary grade classrooms. Words like "the," "and," "it," "to," and "do" often appear throughout stories. Having high-frequency words worksheets at home helps your little one with memorization so that independent reading is easier in later grades.

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ABCya! • First Grade Learning Games, Ages 6 - 7

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Kids LOVE our free online games! Fly dragons, build dream houses, and explore while practicing addition, reading, and more 1st grade skills. Play now!

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SIPPS is an accelerative foundational skills program for K-12 proven to help both new and struggling readers.

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Put books in your child's hands, and open a door to "everywhere"! A love of reading has far-reaching benefits for children, emotionally and academically. Children who enjoy reading become confident readers and read more often. Kids can hear each word, and then they can try reading independently. Help turn the page of a lifetime adventure!

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Give your child a great start in reading and math! Putting together letters to make words, and gaining confidence with numbers adds up to success. Creative activities help kids practice spelling patterns, word recognition, letter sounds, and sight words, counting, addition, subtraction, and other essential skills that shape a lifetime of learning.

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First Grade Language Arts Skills - Rhyming

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Language Arts interactive skill builders, resources for first grade - rhyming

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Reading Bear is a collection of free, well-made, multimedia phonics presentations. Your child can learn to read with Reading Bear.

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Excited to learn more about first grade sight words? Use these learning resources perfect for first grade to start today!

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Dynamic Assessment of Phonemic Awareness

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Help students be more successful as they are assessed in a target academic area, and find out their potential for progress.

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These phonemic awareness songs are available from a variety of albums:

Concepts of Words and Syllables
Animal Hand-Clap Rap - Liz Buchanan
The Apes, The Monkeys and The Chimpanzees - Vincent Nunes
A Vowel Sound in Every Syllable - Jennifer Fixman
Chickadee And Chipmunk - Hap Palmer
Clap, Stomp & Chomp (Syllable Song) - Jack Hartmann
Clap Our Syllables - Jack Hartmann
Count and Move - Jack Hartmann
Face to Face - Fran Avni
Names in Motion - Jack Hartmann
Just One Word - Fran Avni
Sports Syllable Song - Jack Hartmann
Syllables - Stephen Fite
Syllable Song - Fran Avni and Nancy Schimmel
Words - Danny Weinkauf

Recognition and Production of Rhymes
Betty Spaghetti - Kymberly Stewart
Build a Word - Jennifer Fixman Rhyme Time - Fran Avni
Do's and Don'ts - Fran Avni
Exercise When We Rhyme - Jack Hartmann
From Here To There - Margot Bevington
Funny Rhymes (Long Vowels) - Ron Brown
Going Down the Road - Little Miss Ann
Good for You - Nancy Schimmel and Fran Avni
I Gave That Bear A Rocking Chair - Vincent Nunes
Make a Rhyme, Make a Move - Jack Hartmann
Name Game - Fran Avni
Over the Deep Blue Sea - Susan Salidor
Random Rhymes - Fran Avni
Rap, Clap and Rhyme - Jack Hartmann
Rhyme and Dance - Jack Hartmann
Rhyme and Move - Jack Hartmann
Rhyme Riddles - Marla Lewis

Rhyming Square Dance - Music with Mar.
Rise & Rhyme - Culture Queen
Say the Number - Stephen Fite
Stop When It Doesn't Rhyme - Music with Mar.
Time to Rhyme - Johnny and the Raindrops
Workout When We Rhyme - Jack Hartmann

Onomatopoeia
Onomatopoeia - Stephen Fite
Onomatopoeia Alphabet - Jack Hartmann

Word Families -- Phonograms -- Onsets and Rimes
All Together - Jack Hartmann
Beginning Sounds Workout - Jack Hartmann
Bop 'Til We Drop (OP Word Family)- Hap Palmer
Bounce - Hap Palmer
D-O-G: Walking the Dog (OG Word Family) - Hap Palmer
Exercise to Onsets & Rimes - Jack Hartmann
Family of Words - Jack Hartmann
Let's Make Words - Jack Hartmann
Let's Rhyme with the Animals - Ron Brown
My Playful Pig (-ig Word Family)- Hap Palmer
My Ramblin' Cat (-at Word Family)- Hap Palmer
The Name Game - Jack Hartmann
One Little Word - Hap Palmer
Phon-ercise - Dr. Jean
Random Rhymes - Fran Avni
Rime Time - Dr. Jean
Rug in the Middle of the Room - Fran Avni
Word Families - Liz Buchanan
The Word Family - Dr. Jean
The Word Family Song - J.W. Snyder
Word Family Workout - Jack Hartmann
Word Play - Jack Hartmann
Words! - Ron Brown

Recognition, Segmenting, Blending, and Manipulation of
Phonemes and Syllables
AI-AY - Ron Brown
(AR) Bossy R - Ron Brown
AW - Ron Brown
Apples and Bananas - Traditional
Bb - Greg Whitfield
Beginning and Ending Sounds - Jennifer Fixman
Beginning Blends - Jennifer Fixman
Bitty Bi Bo Bu - Dr. Jean
Change It! - Music with Mar.
Chunk It - Jack Hartmann
Compound Word Wiz - Jennifer Fixman
Compound Words - Mr. R's Songs That Teach
Compound Word Workout - Jack Hartmann
Digraph Dance - Jack Hartmann
Down by the Track (Segmentation of Phonemes) - Nancy Schimmel / Fran Avni
Drop It! (Phoneme Deletion) - Fran Avni
EE - Ron Brown
ER-IR-UR - Ron Brown
Echo Game - Ron Brown
Echo the Letter Sounds - Jack Hartmann
Eemo Imo - Skip West
Fiddle Around with the Middle Sound (Phoneme Substitution) - Fran Avni
Hat and Cat - Fran Avni
IGH - Ron Brown
_ight - Jennifer Fixman
I Lost a Sound (Deletion of Phonemes) - Nancy Schimmel and Fran Avni
ING - Ron Brown
Letter Blender - ABC's & Much More
Letter Sounds A to Z - Jack Hartmann
Miguel the Magic Monkey (Beginning Sounds) - Jack Hartmann
OA - Ron Brown
OI-OY - Ron Brown
Old MacDonald's Blend Farm - Stephen Fite
On Your Lap (Phoneme Addition and Blending) - Nancy Schimmel and Fran Avn
Pp - Greg Whitfield
Phoneme Deletion Freeze - Jack Hartmann
Phonogram Funk - Jennifer Fixman
Pineapple - Fran Avni
The Secret Word - Hap Palmer
SH - Ron Brown
Sing an Echo Song - Margie La Bella
Syllable Song - Fran Avni and Nancy Schimmel
TH - Ron Brown
Take a Word Apart - Fran Avni
Tell Me All The Sounds - Liz Buchanan
There's a Starfish Hidden Under My Bed - Fran Avni
Tongue Twister - Fran Avni
The Tongue Twister Song - The W.L.A. Children's Choir
Tongue Twisters - Jack Hartmann
Tooty Ta - Dr. Jean
Tooty Ta (open version) - Dr. Jean
Topsy Turvy (Phoneme Manipulation) - Fran Avni
Two Little Sounds- Hap Palmer
Who Knows the Alphabet Sounds? - ABC's & Much More

Book suggestions:

See more of our Language Arts & Reading Skills Song Lyrics

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That Build Phonological Awareness (Including Phonemic Awareness)

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Children's Songs and Educational Music for preschool, elementary, middle and high school. Lyrics, mp3 downloads, DVDs and CDs.

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Assess students who are new to school, or had interrupted schooling and may not have these basic skills developed.

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In this post regular contributor, Lauren of Teacher Types, shares seven playful ideas for encouraging children in the early years of school to experiment with building words with a range of materials.
"My child knows the Alphabet... Now what?"
Word building is a crucial step between knowing the letters of the alphabet and being able to write. The ideas I'm sharing today allow children to use hands on materials to experiment with arranging letters in different ways to create simple words. This process is much easier for young children than holding a pencil in their hand and having to remember how to form the letter shape, as well as which letters go together to make the word.

I recommend starting with commonly used, high frequency c/v/c (consonant/vowel/consonant) words because they are easier to sound out (eg mum, dad, dog, cat).
1. Bottle top letters
A very cool recyclable, there are so many opportunities to learn with bottle tops, including beginning word building. I usually start with a small group of letters (s a t i p n), and then move onto the second group of letters shown above (I use the Jolly Phonics program). Each student in my class has their own zip lock bag with a bottle top collection (we are always very careful at pack up time to make sure we have each letter and no doubles!).
2+3. Magnet & Foam Bath Letters
Incidental learning can be such a powerful thing - and having letters around the home such as these can provide great opportunities for word building. We have lower case magnets on our fridge and capital foam letters in the bath. At school, we teach lower case letters first, however children are usually exposed to various capital letters before they start school.
4. Foam Letter Stickers
These foam letter stickers are such a lovely tactile material. I ordered these ones from Clever Patch and use them in the classroom all the time.
5. Alphabet Pebbles
You'll notice with these Alphabet Pebbles that in addition to the single sounds I've also made two-letter blends (or diagraphs) such as sh, ch, th, ee and oo. This takes word building to another level. I purchased these pebbles from Bunnings and simply wrote the letters on with permanent marker.
6. Duplo Letters
Duplo is a fantastic tool for teaching word families. The top Duplo brick has one letter on each side of it, while the bottom two bricks stay the same. The child is able to move the top brick to create different rhyming words.
7. Magazine Letters
Who remembers doing this when they were at school? It's an oldie but a goodie. Firstly, young children can enjoy looking and searching for various letters through the magazines and then begin sticking them together to make words. This is challenging as awhole class activity - but great for small groups or an activity you and your school aged child can enjoy doing together at home.
Extending the Learning
If your child is showing signs of writing readiness or interest in writing the words they are making with these playful materials, you can encourage them to copy the words they've created with a variety of interesting writing materials - whiteboards, markers, special pens, crayon resist, rainbow writing, chalk, typing on the computer etc.

Learning the English language can be tricky, and it's helpful for parents to understand the process of how early reading and writing happens. It will come naturally for some children, and may take a little longer for others, but it is truly magical when you see that penny drop and your child begins reading and writing independently.
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Lauren Hunt is an Early Childhood Teacher who currently works part time teaching children in their first year of school. She is also mum to a two year old daughter. Lauren is passionate about play-based, hands-on learning and is certainly kept busy by her energetic toddler!

Read more of Lauren's adventures at http://teachertypes.blogspot.com.au/.

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In this post regular contributor, Lauren of Teacher Types, shares seven playful ideas for encouraging children in the early years of school to experiment with building words with a range of materials. "My child knows the Alphabet... Now what?" Word building is a crucial step between knowing the letters of the alphabet and being able ...

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