Editorial Review:
Description
This 1 hour DVD uses animated characters and letters to teach sound recognition (phonemic awareness) and sounding out words with short vowel sounds (phonics). There are seven chapters from 5 to 15 minutes long. This makes it easy to select the particular skill students are ready to focus on. In the Matching Sounds chapter students learn to recognize the individual sounds that make up words. Research has shown that this is a necessary skill that children often have difficulty developing. Students should be encouraged to say the sounds out loud along with the characters. The more times students watch the video the faster they get at picking out the sounds. The Counting Sounds chapter continues teaching sound recognition or phonemic awareness, an important and necessary step in learning to read. Segmenting words into their individual sounds is an important skill covered in this video. Animated characters demonstrate how to "count sounds". The short vowel sounds of a, e, i, o, and u each have a separate chapter in which animated letters and characters teach the short vowel sounds. Detective Ed tracks down the short sound of e in The Case of Which Came First The Egg or the Hen, helping to teach the difference between the short sounds of e and i, which are easily confused. Students enjoy reading out loud along with the animation and should be encouraged to do so.
DVD:
DVD
Tuskegee Airmen (REGION 1) (NTSC)