ec-phonics

= Early Childhood Phonics & ABCs =

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Alphabetimals
A nice website to find some nice resources for helping young children learn the alphabet. The main feature is an interactive flipbook featuring animal sounds and the pronunciations of animal names. The site also offers free printable flashcards, an alphabet poster, & alphabet coloring pages.

Alphabet Organizer
// **ReadWriteThink** //

Students create an alphabet book or chart with words & pictures of each letter of the alphabet.

Building Language for Literacy
// **Scholastic** //

Offers three nice little language activities from Scholastic. The activities are designed for PreK & Kindergarten students. Nina the Naming Newt needs help identifying the objects that belong in places like the home, the store, & the firehouse. Leo Love to Spell asks students to help a lobster named Leo identify the first letter of a series of spelling words arranged in a dozen categories. Reggie Love to Rhyme features a rhinoceros that needs help identifying the words that rhyme with objects found in places like the home, the garden, & the supermarket.

Reading Bear
From the people of **WatchKnowLearn**, comes a new site designed to help kids learn to read. Reading Bear is a free service that teaches children to read by introducing phonics principles painlessly & systematically, while teaching new vocabulary. Students can control the pace of each lesson to match their needs.

After each lesson on Reading Bear, students can take quizzes to practice what they have learned. The quizzes present a picture & a set of words. Students have to match the correct word to the picture that they see. Students receive instant feedback from the narrator on each question in the quiz.

Reading Bear would be a good independent activity or an activity that children work through with the assistance of a parent or teacher.

Starfall
An educational, pre-literacy & phonics website with many different age appropriate activities. They also have activities for basic math concepts. A popular choice for PreK & kindergarten teachers. Our teachers use the animated calendars in large group activities on their Promethean boards.

Teach Your Monster to Read
This free site provides an addicting game design that works on letters, sounds, & phonics. Kindergarten students love it!

Teach Your Monster to Read 2 - Fun With Words
The sequel to the Teach Your Monster To Read, this site helps students improve their speed & accuracy with games that focus on recognizing letters, sounds, & words.

// Last Updated - May 2014 //