This video segment from Between the Lions features an animated limerick, which exemplifies the kind of wordplay that prepares children for early reading and spelling.
This video segment from Between the Lions shows the practice of sounding out the word rocket part by part, blending sounds together to form a word.
This video segment from Between the Lions features the Knights of Blending Fields demonstrating an important element of phonemic awareness: blending word parts to make a word.
This video segment from Between the Lions uses an animated road sign to illustrate and spell familiar words that begin with the /k/ sound that the letter c makes.
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.
This resource from the Virginia Department of Education includes brief activities to support phonological awareness. Activities to support student learning in the areas of listening, rhyme, word awareness, syllable awareness, and phonemic awareness (including phoneme blending, deletion, and substitution) are all included.
This video segment from Between the Lions presents an animated rhyming song to help tune the listener's ear to language sounds, and it incorporates strategies for building vocabulary and fluency in reading.
This video segment from Between the Lions features a classic tongue twister - a type of wordplay that helps children tune their ears to language and the sounds within words.