ELA+Skills-Phonics

__**Beginning of the Year Phonics:**__ "Star Names" is a program that Chets Creek teachers brought back after working with Lucy Calkins at Teachers' College in New York City. Patricia Cunningham also about a similar program in //Month-by-Month Phonics for Kindergarten// which uses the names of the children in the classroom to teach basic phonics in the beginning of kindergarten.

//About the Star Names program:// //Resources://
 * Blog about [|"Star Names"]
 * This document includes three pages that can be used each day when [[file:Star Name Interviews.doc|interviewing the Star Student]]
 * Avery labels 8163 to attach to the [[file:Star Name Labels.doc|front of the portraits]] of each child that you send home to parents
 * [[file:Star Student activities.doc|songs ]]that can be sung with the Star Student's name

__**Letters and Sounds**__
 * [|Bembo's Zoo] is a video that can be shown to students as an animal word that begins with each letter of the alphabet morphs into the animal. This would be cute to use on your blog asking the families to check out all the letters of the alphabet and then leave a comment about their favorite.
 * //a /a/ apple...// that could be used early in the year as a [|warm up/review.]
 * This isnot a video to show to the class but an example of a [|video to do with the class]where the children make each of the letters of the alphabet.
 * Really cute video of [|sequence of alphabet]
 * [|ABC Centers] for early in the year

__**CVC**__
 * Worksheets that could be used for [[file:Bell-cvc.docx|bell work]]

__**Short vowel word families**__
 * [|Word family worksheets] to make new words.
 * [|Word family websites]

__**Blends**__
 * Worksheets that could be used for bell work: [[file:Blends.docx|Blends 1]], [[file:Bell work Blends2.docx|Blends 2,]] [[file:Bell work Blends3.docx|Blends 3,]]

__**Blends & Digraphs**__
 * [[file:Blends-Digraphs.docx|Blends & Digraphs Worksheet]] that could be used for bell work
 * A video about the digraphs ch, sh, th, wh to help students remember, //[|Mr. H and His 4 Girlfriends]//
 * Cute [|Digraph singalong] song video with words and pictures includes ch, sh, wh, ph, gh, th, ng
 * [|Diagraph song]

> [|Long and Short Vowel Song]
 * __Vowels__**
 * single page of [[file:Vowels.doc|picture clues]] for long and short vowels.
 * This blog post lists several [|on-line games that reinforce beginning sounds].
 * Worksheets for bell work - [[file:Bell work - Hearing Long-short vowels.docx|hearing long and short vowels]]
 * [|Scratch Garden Long and Short Vowel Song]
 * [|Between the Lions - When Two Vowels Go Walking]
 * [|Vowel Bat]

__**Long vowels with silent e**__
 * Cute introduction video about Evil e
 * Video to go over the vowels that bossy e effects: [|Between the Lions Vowel Boot Camp]
 * [|Video song of Magic e]
 * Best video for [|practicing words from short to bossy e]
 * [[file:Bell work Bossy e.docx|Bossy e worksheets]] that could be used for Bell work
 * [|Super E]

__**Letter Combinations**__
 * Letter Combination Poemmedia type="custom" key="3024222"


 * __Long a: ai-ay__**
 * ai-ay: [|Electric Company rap] video
 * ai only: [|Electric Company] video
 * ai only: Electric Company [|Sound Carnival] video
 * ai only: [|Between the Lions Moby Dick]video
 * Between the Lions: [|"When Two Vowels Go Walking..." video]
 * Worksheet for bell work: [[file:Bell work ai-ay.docx|ai-ay 1,]] [[file:Bell work ai-ay (2).docx|ai-ay 2]]

__**oi-oy**__
 * [[file:Bell work oi-oy.docx|oi-oy worksheet]] to be used for bell work

__**ou-ow**__
 * [|Jennifer of the Jungle] Electric Company: shows ow at the beginning, middle and end of words
 * story video: [|How Now Brown Cow]
 * [[file:Bell work ou-ow.docx|ou-ow worksheet]] to be used for bell work

__**ar**__
 * [|Video for ar]