This video segment from Between the Lions uses an alphabet song to review the ABCs, matching each letter with the name of a character from the show.

This document includes links to EL Education Skills Block materials. Teachers can use this to efficiently access materials when planning for whole-group and small-group instruction during the Skills Block portion of their day.   

This document is meant to accompany the lessons in the Fountas & Pinnell Phonics/Word Study Resource. This format has helped our district take the lessons and utilize them in a way that connects to our Reader's Workshop framework and has assisted in intervention planning for students needing phonics support.

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 document includes links to EL Education Skills Block materials. Teachers can use this to efficiently access materials when planning for whole-group and small-group instruction during the Skills Block portion of their day.  

This lesson uses the book Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin to teach students word identification strategies. Through shared readings, teachers and students read and reread text from the book with fluency and expression. With repeated teacher modeling and guided practice, students learn to identify rimes or word families and apply their knowledge to the decoding of new words.

This episode of “A World of Difference: Embracing Neurodiversity” explores making reading fundamental for dyslexic students. See how public and private schools in Atlanta and Orlando approach focused remediation. Experts offer tips to support struggling readers at home. And you’ll meet the Winner Twins, a popular sci-fi writing duo, who show learning differences don’t close the book on success.

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 document includes links to EL Education Skills Block materials. Teachers can use this to efficiently access materials when planning for whole-group and small-group instruction during the Skills Block portion of their day. 

This video segment from Between the Lions uses a fun hip-hop song about names to highlight the /uh/ sound that the letter u makes and to boost phonemic awareness--an understanding of the sounds within words.