Movies

A. Phonics Intro Movie
All the phonics information from the above links on this page and information on how to teach remedial and new students how to read (this last is also provided in written format in the On Reading section) presented in a 22 minute QuickTime movie, 5.5 mB.

B. Using the Phonics Lessons
QuickTime, 2 min, 0.5 mB A short movie explaining how to use the phonics lessons and get the most from each lesson.

C. Download QuickTime Player
If you don't have a QuickTime movie player, you can get one free at apple.com, click link above. You will need a QuickTime player to watch the movies.

D. Sample Schedules
Four sample schedules to help you finish the phonics lessons in a timely manner.

Phonics Lesson 1
QuickTime, 26 min, 9.5 mB Teaches: short i, d, f, l, m, n, p, s, t, sh, ck, spelling rules, syllable division rules

Phonics Lesson 2
QuickTime, 26 min, 9.1 mB Teaches: short a, b, c, h, j, k, r, y, 1 spelling rule

Phonics Lesson 3
QuickTime, 21 min, 7.4 mB Teaches: short o, g, v, w, z, ch

Phonics Lesson 4
QuickTime, 18 min, 6.7 mB Teaches: short e, wh

Phonics Lesson 5
QuickTime, 21 min, 6.9 mB Teaches: short u, schwa

Phonics Lesson 6
QuickTime, 15 min, 3.2 mB Teaches: th, voiced/unvoiced consonant pairs (s as z sound, f as v sound)

Phonics Lesson 7
QuickTime, 25 min, 7.8 mB Teaches: consonant blends, 1 syllable division rule

Phonics Lesson 8
QuickTime, 15 min, 5.2 mB Teaches: ph, qu, ng, y as a vowel, the s sound of c, the j sound of g

Phonics Lesson 9
QuickTime, 25 min, 7.7 mB Teaches: long a (a_e, ai, ay), a syllable division rule, a spelling rule

Phonics Lesson 10
QuickTime, 25 min, 7.5 mB Teaches: long e (ee, ie, e, y at the end of a word)

Phonics Lesson 11
QuickTime, 20 min, 6.2 mB Teaches: long i (i_e, i, ie in short words, igh, y as i, spelling rules)

Phonics Lesson 12
QuickTime, 21 min, 6.5 mB Teaches: long o (o_e, oa, oe, o, spelling)

Phonics Lesson 13
QuickTime, 15 min, 4.9 mB Teaches: long u (u_e, ue, ew, eu)

Phonics Lesson 14 Part 1
QuickTime, 10 min, 1.8 mB Teaches: review c as s or k, long/short vowels, spelling rule, syllable division rule

Phonics Lesson 14 Part 2
QuickTime, 10 min, 5.5mB Teaches: long/short vowels
(This lesson is broken up into two parts because part 2 is more clearly taught in a larger video format. The first part of the lesson is a separate movie of the regular quicktime movie size to conserve bandwidth.)

Phonics Lesson 15
QuickTime, 16 min, 3.7 mB Teaches: syllable division, ed as ed, d, or t

Phonics Lesson 16
QuickTime, 14 min, 3.3 mB Teaches: a as ah, aw, au, ou

Phonics Lesson 17
QuickTime, 17 min, 3.5 mB Teaches: oo (short and long), ou, ow, oi, oy

Phonics Lesson 18
QuickTime, 24 min, 5.6 mB Teaches: er, ir, ur, or

Phonics Lesson 19
QuickTime, 13 min, 2.8 mB Teaches: all, ell, ill, oll, ull

Phonics Lesson 20
QuickTime, 18 min, 3.8 mB Teaches: silent letters, spelling rules

Phonics Lesson 21
QuickTime, 30 min, 7.2 mB Teaches: prefixes, syllable division rule

Phonics Lesson 22
QuickTime, 33 min, 8.2 mB Teaches: suffixes, syllable division rule, spelling rules

Phonics Lesson 23
QuickTime, 17 min, 4.3 mB Teaches: review short vowels, short vowel exceptions (ea as short e, etc), ti and ci as sh

Phonics Lesson 24
QuickTime, 20 min, 5.2 mB Teaches: syllable division between vowels (radio, dual)

Phonics Lesson 25
QuickTime, 15 min, 4.1 mB Teaches: review consonant sounds. Most of the tongue twisters come from
ProTeacher alliteration lessons.

Phonics Lesson 26
QuickTime, 12 min, 2.8 mB Teaches: spelling rules, review short/long vowel sounds

Phonics Lesson 27
QuickTime, 18 min, 4.4 mB Teaches: syllable division in long words, Latin and English spelling patterns

Phonics Lesson 28
QuickTime, 33 min, 12.1 mB Teaches: phonogram/sound charts as a reading aid. Print out a copy of the
letter/sound chart before the lesson. Another useful phonogram/sound chart can be found at The Phonics Institute.

Phonics Lesson 29
QuickTime, 19 min, 7.9 mB Teaches: phonogram/sound charts as a spelling aid. Print out a copy of the
sound/letter chart before the lesson. Another useful sound/phonogram chart can be found at The Phonics Instutute.

Phonics Lesson 30
QuickTime, 21 min, 7.8 mB Teaches: alphabetizing and dictionary use. Print out and cut out these
words to alphabetize before the lesson.

Phonics Lesson 31
QuickTime, 15 min, 2.9 mB Teaches: grammar (their, they're, there; it's, its; your, you're; two, too, to)

Phonics Lesson 32
QuickTime, 9 min, 4.3 mB Teaches: where to go from here

Spelling Lessons
A great review of the Phonics Lessons in 5 short movies.

UPP Movie
For using the UPP, a self-pronouncing print that should help improve your reading and spelling abilities.