How to teach letters and sounds

Target: Teachers and Educators

Goal: Distinguish between letter names and letter sounds

Running Time: 2:20 min

A demonstration of an effective way to help students understand the difference between letter names and letter sounds.

Ms MacDonald Had a School (Letters and Sounds)

Target: Teachers and Educators

Goal: Distinguishing between letters and sounds

Running Time:

To be taught after "How to teach letters and Sounds". 

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Click here for Activity Sheet with printable resources on AUSLAN and Cued Articulation signs.

Target: Teachers and Educators

Goal: Syllables / Phonological Awareness

Running Time: 2:18 min

A short clip explaining a fun, effective game to teach syllables. 

Find the Activity Sheet here under 'Syllables'.

Target: Teachers and Educators

Goals: First and Last Sounds / Phonological Awareness

Running time: 3:09 min

A short clip explaining a fun, whole class game to teach first and last sounds in words.

Find the Activity Sheet here under First/Last Sounds.

Target: Teachers and Educators

Goal: Spelling, Segmenting, Blending

Running Time: 1:52 min

A short clip demonstrating a musical, engaging way to practice spelling, blending and segmenting in whole class and small groups.

Find the Activity Sheet here under 'Musical Words'.

Target: Teachers and Educators

Goal: Questions and Sentences / Language

Running Time: 3:16 min

A short clip explaining a fun, easy warm up game to practice questions and sentences. 

Find the Activity Sheet here under 'True or False'

Target: Teachers and Educators

Goals: Midline Crossing and Revision

Running Time: 2:38

A short clip demonstrating a fun revision game that also practices midline crossing.

Find the Activity Sheet here under 'Criss Cross'

Target: Teachers and Educators

Goal: Generalisation of PA skills

Running Time: 2:38 min

A short clip demonstrating an alternative way to read books to practice Phonological Awareness skills and generalise them to a real context.

For Activity Sheets on Phonological Awareness skills such as 'Syllables' or 'First and Last' sounds click here.

Target: Teachers and Educators

Goal: Phonological Awareness / Short and Long Vowels

Running Time: 2:32

A short clip demonstrating a fun, active game to practise short and long vowels.

Find the Activity Sheet here under 'Vowels and Verbs'

Target: People wanting to learn to assess for Speech Sound Errors

Goal: Learn to use Caroline Bowen's Speech Assessment Tool

Running Time: 4:51

A video demonstrating Speech Pathologist, Daniella Curtano, administering Caroline Bowen's Speech Sound Assessment tool to a child with Mild Speech Sound Errors.

To download Caroline Bowen's Speech Sound Assessment Tool or the Recording form, click here.

How to teach the /k/ sound

Target: Parents, Teachers and Educators

Goal: Pronunciation

Running Time: 2:08

A short clip explaining how to teach a child to pronounce the /k/ sound. Includes techniques and some basic information about fronting.

How to teach the /s/ and /z/ sounds

Target: Parents, Teachers and Educators

Goal: Pronounciation

Running Time: 8:12

A long, clear explanation of how to teach /s/ sound for interdental and lateral lisps.

Target: Teachers and Educators

Goal: Improve Student learning through more effective feedback

Running Time: 3:18 min

A superb explanation of the different types of feedback and how to give consistent, effective feedback.