Phonics Video Lessons for Kids

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Letter Sounds A to Z — Phonics for Beginners

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Every letter of the alphabet with the sound it makes, from A for Ant to Z for Zebra. The first step before any child can blend a word.

2:50

Letter Recognition — All 26 Letters A–Z: Name, Sound & Word

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Each letter's name, the sound it makes and a word that starts with it, so children learn to tell the name and the sound apart.

2:45

Short Vowel Sounds A E I O U

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The five short vowel sounds, each inside a word a child can read: cat, hen, pig, dog, sun.

4:04

Blending Two Sounds — CV and VC Words

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Blending practice with two sounds before moving to three: at becomes bat, ba becomes bag. The step most children skip and then struggle with.

3:47

CVC Words — 25 Words for Reading Practice

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Twenty-five consonant-vowel-consonant words sounded out one at a time: cat, hen, pig, dog, sun. The first real reading a child does.

1:47

Read Your First Sentences — 8 Sight Words

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The eight sight words that unlock a first sentence: the, a, is, on, in, has, can, and.

10:39

The FLOSS Rule + When to Use C, K or CK (Level 5, Part 1)

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Why ff, ll, ss and zz double at the end of a short word, and how to choose between c, k and ck for the same /k/ sound.

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-NG and -NK Endings Explained (Level 5, Part 2)

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The ng and nk endings that children hear as one sound — ring, sing, bank, think — and how to spell them.

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The Letter X and the Tricky W (Level 5, Part 3)

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X makes two sounds at once, and w bends the vowel that follows it. The last two spelling rules of Level 5.

9:09

Word Families — Read 81 Words From Just 13 Endings

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Thirteen word family endings — -at, -op, -ig and the rest — that together unlock 81 words. Once a child reads the ending as one chunk, a whole family of words comes with it.