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Understand that a phoneme is one distinct sound.

 * 1) [|Phonics Inventory] - Students need to be individually assessed so that they can be grouped according to instructional needs. That is the purpose of the tool. Check your students for their phoneme readiness for reading.
 * 2) [|Pounce on the Word that Matches the Sound] - Students hear a word and click on the CVC word they sound out that matches the word that was said. (Be sure to click on the other games on this website!)
 * 3) [|Write a Postcard] - Help Salty Sam with his vowels. In the first sentence, click on the focus phonemes. When you have got them all right, the next sentence appears but this time there are gaps in the words. Drag the vowel phoneme with the correct spelling into the gap in the word.

Segment one-syllable words into individual sounds and blend the sounds into whole words.

 * 1) [|Blending words together]- Blender says word and student must choose the beginning sounds and ending sounds separately to be blended together. This site is from BBC and makes it a bit difficult for some children to understand the words.
 * 2) [|Blending words together- Gawain's Word] - Jousting contestants blend beginning sounds and ending sounds together to produce the word. See if your student can figure out the word before the two jousters collide. Other contestants : [|Sir Ack], [|Sir An], [|Sir Ap], [|Sir Ar], [|Sir Est], [|Sir Ick], [|Sir Ig], [|Sir Ip], [|Sir It], [|Sir Ock], [|Sir Op], [|Sir Ub], [|Sir Uck], [|Sir Ug]
 * 3) [|Blends- Letter blends combination Chart] - Click on the blend and read a poem using the blend numerous times in a rhyming poem.
 * 4) [|Poem Pack] - Ten colorful poems with animation, audio and activities - featuring Daisy the snail, the toad and the goat, and friends. Read it, Hear it, search for sounds, and find words concentrating on vowel blends.
 * 5) [|Phonics-Word Builder] – Three dozen different combining sound activities are available in the following categories; abc’s, short vowels, long vowels, other vowels, beginning consonants and final consonants. Word parts are read individually, blended, and then followed by a sentence accompanied by an illustration. Ignore the registration screen that pops up, select **Maybe Later** to go directly to the activity.
 * 6) [|See 'N Spell] - Students click and drag letters into the box to spell the words that correspond to the pictures. A very good activity with many skills such as plurals, long vowels, short vowels, blends and digraphs.

Recognize words that have same beginning and ending sounds.

 * 1) [|Beginning Letters] - ten questions, select the letter begins the word of the object shown
 * 2) [|Beginning Phonics] - Listen to the beginning sound that you select and find the pictures that start with that letter.
 * 3) [|Beginning Sounds with Patch] - Students click on the picture that has the same beginning sound as the object pictured. This game reads the name of the object.
 * 4) [|Begins With] - students are presented with a picture on which there are objects whose names begin with one of three letters. click to select
 * 5) [|Blending words together]- Blender says word and student must choose the beginning sounds and ending sounds separately to be blended together. This site is from BBC and makes it a bit difficult for some children to understand the words.
 * 6) [|Dosity] - Dositey.com is an educational web site serving the students, teachers, and parents of the K-12 community. There are three levels of phonics interactive activities. [|Level One] shows a picture and the student will pick the correct word. [|Level Two] prompts the student to add the beginning sound to the word to go along with the picture.[| Level Three] requires the student to type in the word that goes with the picture with a word bar above with the spellings.
 * 7) [|First Sounds] - from Little Animals Activity Centre - Digby Mole's Word games (choose level 1, 2, or 3)
 * 8) [|End Sounds] - from Little Animals Activity Centre - Digby Mole's Word games (choose level 1, 2, or 3)
 * 9) [|Literacy Center] - A great site for pre-K to first grade. Activities with colors, numbers, letters, shapes and words. Site translated in Spanish, Dutch, French and English. Also has a typing component in the Keyboard Section.
 * 10) [|Match beginning sound] - type the beginning sound of each picture [**use all caps**]
 * 11) [|Paw Park: Sassy Seals] - Match beginning sounds - (from Game Goo - Learning That Sticks!)
 * 12) [|Use the Wordmaker from Read-Write-Think] - select an ending sound then make words with that ending sound.

Use letter-sound matches to decode simple words.

 * 1) [|Frog Jump] - Click on the flower to hear a sound. Listen to the flashing lily pads and click on the one that matches the flower. If you click the right lily pad, the frog will jump one step closer to his home. The closer the frog gets to home, the quicker the sounds play.
 * 2) [|Match Sounds] - In the memory game, listen carefully and find the matching sounds made by the animals. Click on the window to make the animal appear and hear its sound. Click on the other windows to find its match.