Reading Help: Long Vowels, R-Controlled Vowels and Digrpahs

Hey, Parents!
Is your primary student having a difficult time with long vowel spellings? When he or she sees 2 vowels next to each other in a word, does he/she sound them out individually? Is he or she struggling to read word with the ar, ur, ir, er spellings?

Here are some helpful online tools to help your student with these specific challenges!!

First, you have some resources from Starfall.com. Starfall is a wonderful reading site with activities that are geared toward improving specific phonics challenges!

Starfall Website (www.starfall.com) (Once on the site, choose the "Learn to Read" section!)

Learn to Read: Play (Left Column)

Long A (#6): http://www.starfall.com/n/make-a-word/silent-e/load.htm?f

Long E (spelled “ee”) (#7): http://www.starfall.com/n/make-a-word/long-e/load.htm?f

Long I (spelled “i_e”) (#8): http://www.starfall.com/n/make-a-word/long-i/load.htm?f

Long O (spelled o_e) (#9): http://www.starfall.com/n/make-a-word/long-o/load.htm?f

Vowel Teams (“ai” “oa” etc.) (#11):

 http://www.starfall.com/n/make-a-word/long-o/load.htm?f

R-Controlled vowels (#12, 13, 14):

http://www.starfall.com/n/make-a-word/control-ar/load.htm?f,

http://www.starfall.com/n/make-a-word/control-or/load.htm?f

                                    http://www.starfall.com/n/make-a-word/control-r/load.htm?f

Long Vowel/R-controlled vowel review (#15):

http://www.starfall.com/n/make-a-word/control-r/load.htm?f

Learn to Read: Book (Center Column)

1.     Jake’s Tale - Long A

2.     Pete’s Sheep – Long E

3.     Sky Ride – Long I

4.     Soap Boat – Long O

5.     Car Race – ar

6.     My Horse Glory – or

7.     Surfer Girl – er, ir, ur

Learn to Read: Skills (Right Column)

1.     Movie: Vowels

2.     Movie: Silent E

3.     Movie: Vowel Team

Next, you have some fun (and funky!) videos from PBS Kids' Between the Lions site! These videos offer students some fun tunes to help them remember phonics rules! 

PBS Videos (http://pbskids.org/lions/videos/)

1.     Two Sounds Made by G

2.     When Two Vowels Go Walking

3.     Two Sounds Made by C

4.     The a-r Song

5.     Double e, ee

6.     Double o, oo

     

    Know of other sites! Do tell!!!