Lyons Regional Library

Learning Phonics Has Never Been This Easy!™ Children will fall in love with these wonderful characters as they Meet the Digraphs. Two letters that come together to form a single sound are taught in primary school as "letter digraphs." Meet the Digraphs makes learning to identify digraphs fun and easy. Meet the Digraphs teaches 13 basic digraphs that are taught in schools across the country. Digraphs are taught both alone and in the context of words....

Beyond Phonics uses a combination of stories, songs, video animation and grammar lessons to provide education and entertainment.

Provides an age-appropriate introduction to literacy by conveying basic information about rhyming, highlighting the value of writing down words, explaining the connection between sounds and letters and familiiar names, and illustrating how to form basic letters.

Teaches young children about vowels, consonants, word building, rhyming, and vocabulary.

Leap, Lily, and Tad travel to the Word Factory where they discover amazing machines such as the Word Whammer that take letters and turn them into words. Discusses vowels, rhyming, and blending sounds. Includes a guide presenting parents with suggested word games to further the lessons of the video.

In Soundable words, Mrs. Phipps presents five stories acted out by children, during which she sounds out each word as it appears on the screen, reads the sentence and then encourages the children to read along. In Long and short vowels, Mrs. Phipps uses music, humor, graphics and colors to teach your children about long and short vowels, contractions, and punctuation marks.

Learn to read with songs and games, this program teaches phonics rules, where kids can control the pace advancing as they master a new skill. The songs and stories are shown in live action and animated characters.

In this collection of twenty episodes, Twiki and Twini will take us on adventures to discover new words and new sounds. Each episode features a handful of words spelled out by our friends, Twiki and Twini. Your little one will learn how to spell fun words like 'clown' and animal words like ���dog.��� The fun and learning never ends with these two! Get ready to enter into an unexpected universe composed of sounds, words, and images.

Developed by educators, here’s a fun way to get your preschooler excited about building the early literacy skills fundamental for reading. This video begins with an ABC phonics song that features two cute animals for each letter of the alphabet. Other songs focus on identifying objects that start with different letters and reviewing the most common sound each letter makes. Children expand their vocabulary as they practice identifying letters and...

Scout and his friends learn what sounds the different letters of the alphabet make.