This is the video that I would use in my classroom. Actually, there are several that I really enjoyed but this one integrates phonemic awareness and alphabetic awareness. The students will be learning their letter name and sound. This is very important because it is part of the Head Start framework. It is on the progress report that we use to assess our students. The students need to be able to name 10 letters by the end of the school year. This video will enable them to learn the whole alphabet in a fun and interactive way. They will learn a new song and rhythm to the old version of the ABCs. Throughout the curriculum, we introduce about 2 letters a week. With this video, we would be able to introduce the whole alphabet but still focus on the letter of the day or week. It will just reinforce our instruction.



I also found this one for my biligual students because my classroom is a mixture.



The Spanish alphabet is phonetic. As to not confuse our ELLs, this would reinforce their native language. These two videos would be part of a mini-lesson and then moved over to a listening center where students could go once a week until it is not necessary. As part of the Head Start framework, students need to be able to discrimate between sounds. These videos will help to reinforce how each letter has a different sound and when put together they create a word. Also how letter sounds can be substituted to give a word a new meaning, i.e., c-at and h-at. I would use it to also introduce beginning and ending sounds. The extension would be combining letter sounds to form rhyming words, i.e., r-e-d, b-e-d, f-e-d.