Building Blocks Links

• www.auburn.edu/~murraba/ The Reading Genie – a site full of lessons on how to teach phonemic awareness, spelling, fluency, etc.
• http://teams.lacoe.edu/documentation/classrooms/patti/k-1/activities/phonemic.html Lists of different activities for teaching rhyming, syllable segmentation, Beginning Sound Substitution, sound isolation and phoneme segmentation.
• http://ldonline.org/ld_indepth/teaching_techniques/cld_hownow.html A wonderful article laying out a sequence of instruction for phonemic awareness and wonderful ideas for instruction.
• www.enchantedlearning.com/Dictionary.html Take your kindergarten or first grade students to this site to explore a picture dictionary with words and pictures for each letter of the alphabet.  Strengthen students’ phonemic awareness, visual awareness and the alphabetic principle!
• www.enfamil.com/guides/childdevelopment/language7.html#animated%20ABCs Animated ABC’s  (Each letter is linked with an animal that moves across the page).
• www.literacyhour.co.uk/kids/alph_char2.html Alphabet Chart (The screen shows an alphabet chart divided in 26 boxes.  Each box contains the lowercase and uppercase version of the alphabet and a picture.  When you click on a letter, an enlarged picture appears with a sentence that explains the illustration.  (You could even save each picture and create your own alphabet chart for the students).
• www.learningplanet.com/act/fl/aact/index.asp Alphabet Action (Children’s voices are heard saying a letter’s name as a picture moves across the screen).

Kindergarten Links

• www.mrsalphabet.com Here is everything you ever wanted to know about teaching the alphabet - tons of wonderful ideas!
• www.monroe.lib.in.us/childrens/predict.html#kinds This website lists titles for different kinds of predictable books. "Predictable books make use of rhyme, repetition of words, phrases, sentences and refrains, and such patterns as cumulative structure, repeated scenes, familiar cultural sequences, interlocking structure and turn-around plots. These stories invite children to make predictions or guesses about words, phrases, sentences, events and characters that could come next in the story." -- Mary Jett Simpson, in Reading Resource Book (372.41 Je Parents Shelf)
• www.literatureforliterature.ecsd.net/rhyming_books.htm A wonderful list of rhyming texts to use for rounding up rhymes or to teach phoenemic awareness.
• www.enchantedlearning.com/rhymes/wordfamilies A site that lists common rimes (word families) and then lists all the nursery rhymes and the rimes found in each one.
• www.rhymer.com An online rhyming dictionary that will generate thousands of rhymes. This is a very helpful resource for rounding up rhymes or word sorts.
• www.sunchine.co.nz/nz/kia/coolstore/v1/coolrhyme/rhyme.html This is called the "Korky's Cool Rhyme Machine". You can insert a name and the rhyme machine will generate a poem instantly with rhyming words. It would be great to use for the classroom name activities associated with student names.