Early Literacy Resources

Beginning and Ending Sounds

• Clifford's Sound Match - picture based activity to match beginning sounds
• Digby Mole's Word Games - choose to practice beginning or ending sounds or rhyming words (word based)
• Fuzzy Lion Ears - click on picture to hear word, then choose correct letter to fill in the word; randomly selects beginning, middle or ending sound to be tested
• Letter Sound Matching Game - match a picture card to the correct beginning letter card to clear the board
• Phonic Fighter - arcade style game (very simple)
• Picture Match - choose beginning letter sounds or vowel sounds; match picture to letter

Short and Long Vowel Sounds

• Vowel Boot Camp - song/video from "Between the Lions" show about vowels and A in particular, scroll to bottom of page to finde
• Chicken Stacker - PBS game to practice short vowel sounds, there is a version for each vowel
• Picture Match - Short Vowel sounds - match a picture to the correct short vowel sound
• Long Vowel Sound Activities - animated poems, printable activities, and games from BBC
• Jim's Crankophone - hear a word and decide which short vowel sound is heard between 2 choices
• Vowel Mix and Match - match words with the same long or short vowel sounds
• Long and Short Vowel Activities - scroll down to grade 1-2, activities from Sadlier-Oxford
• Short Vowel Stories - hear stories read aloud that focus on a short vowel sound
• Long and Short Vowels Downloadable Game - download this game to play without the Internet
• IKnowThat.Com Language Arts - several of the LA games have sections that focus on vowels
• Rhyming Words/Long Vowels - match rhyming words that have similar long vowel sounds

Early Literacy Collection of Resources

• Toftwood Infant School - scroll to the bottom of the page for various early literacy games (phonics, sight words, etc.)