Here are some educational links for teaching phonics and word identification!

Poetry

1) http://www.gigglepoetry.com/ This site has some funny poetry for children, some written by children. This site is very easy to navigate and good for both teachers and students.
2) http://www.veeceet.com/kids/nash.html This site has a few, short and cute peoms for young students to read.
3) http://www.mamalisa.com/house/ This site has a great variety of nursery rhyme peoms. It is very user friendly for young children.

Alphabet Knowledge

4) http://www.veeceet.com/kids/abc_pg1.html This site is great for helping with the alphabetic principle. For each letter of the alphabet, there is a picture of an animal and a cute little fact about that animal.
5) http://www.elementory.com/ This site offers suggestions for teachers in teaching alphabet knowledge as well as phonemic awareness and phonics.
6) http://www.readingrockets.org/article.php?ID=54 This site offers suggestions to educators in teaching alphabet knowledge and the alphabetic principle.

Phonemic Awareness

7) http://www.phonemicawarenesssongs.com/ This site offers teachers some resources to teach phonemic awareness to students using song.
8) http://members.tripod.com/~ESL4Kids/phonics.html This site gives teachers some insight into how to teach phonemic awareness using a variety of techniques.
9) http://www.kidsource.com/kidsource/content2/phoemic.p.k12.4.html This site is very educational for the teacher. It informs educators what phonemic awareness is, and why it is important. This site also offers suggestions on how to teach phonemic awareness.

Phonic Elements

10) http://www.eduplace.com/lds/article/phonics.html This site gives good definitions of many phonics intructions ideas and techniques. It talks about many of the phonic elements and how they work together.
11) http://www.readingrockets.org/article.php?ID=174 This site contains a glossary of reading terminology. This site explains what certain parts of reading instruction are, with and emphasis on phonic elements.
12) http://www.sde.state.id.us/instruct/reading/Third.htm This site is from the Idaho Board of Education. It outlines phonics in the third grade, with much emphasis on the elements of phonics intruction.

Sight Words

13) http://www.ringboundreading.com/ This site is a resource site that offers instruction using flash cards using sight words. This is a pay site, but you can use ideas to make your own flash cards.
14) http://www.alphapublication.com/ This site is another pay site. It offers suggestions for using sight words with coloring activities, puzzles, and other fun activities.
15) http://www.createdbyteachers.com/sightfreemain.html This is a great site created by fellow teachers. They offer great help to other teachers using the Dolch site words. They offer many ideas to help in the intruction.
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