Early Literacy Skills

The videos on this page are designed to help build essential early literacy skills. These foundational skills are critical for future reading success. Each video is paired with accompanying worksheets to reinforce the concepts being taught and provide hands-on practice for your child.

The resources featured on this page are based on evidence-based practices from trusted institutions like the Institute of Education Sciences Regional Education Laboratories, The Florida Center for Reading Research, and Reading Rockets. These videos demonstrate strategies proven to support early literacy development and show how these skills are closely linked to becoming a confident, successful reader. By using these resources, you can help your child build a strong foundation for their reading journey.

Print Awareness

This video teaches Print Awareness, which is the ability to understand how print works. It covers things like recognizing letters, words, and sentences, and how to read from left to right. The worksheet includes fun activities to help practice finding print in the world around us and matching letters to sounds. These exercises help build basic reading skills for young learners.

Letter Knowledge

This video explains Letter Knowledge, which is the ability to recognize and name letters. It shows how children learn to identify both uppercase and lowercase letters and understand their sounds. The worksheet includes activities to help practice letter recognition and matching letters to their sounds, helping build early reading skills.

Letter-Sound Correspondence

This video teaches Letter-Sound Correspondence, which is the connection between letters and the sounds they make. It shows how children learn to match letters with their correct sounds. The worksheet includes activities to practice recognizing letter sounds and connecting them to the right letters, supporting early reading development.

Rhyming

This video focuses on Rhyming, helping children recognize words that have similar ending sounds. It explains how rhyming helps with phonemic awareness and early reading skills. The worksheet includes activities to practice finding and creating rhyming words, strengthening listening and language skills.

Word Blending

This video teaches Word Blending, which is the skill of combining individual sounds to form words. It shows how children can blend sounds together to recognize and say words. The worksheet includes activities to practice blending sounds into words, helping build essential reading and phonics skills.

Phoneme Segmentation

This video explains Phoneme Segmentation, the skill of breaking words into individual sounds. It shows how children learn to identify and isolate each sound in a word. The worksheet includes activities to practice separating words into their sounds, helping strengthen phonemic awareness and early reading skills.

Phoneme Isolation

This video teaches Phoneme Isolation, which is the ability to identify individual sounds in words. It shows how children learn to hear and recognize the first, middle, and last sounds in words. The worksheet includes activities to practice isolating sounds, helping develop strong phonemic awareness and early reading skills.

Phoneme Identity

This video explains Phoneme Identity, which is the skill of recognizing the same sound in different words. It shows how children can identify the same sound at the beginning, middle, or end of different words. The worksheet includes activities to practice finding and identifying the same sounds in various words, supporting phonemic awareness and early reading skills.

Phoneme Segmentation and Blending

This video covers both Phoneme Segmentation and Blending. Phoneme segmentation is the skill of breaking words into individual sounds, while blending involves putting those sounds together to form words. The video shows how children can practice identifying and combining sounds to improve their reading skills. The worksheet includes activities for both segmenting words into sounds and blending sounds into words, helping build phonemic awareness and early literacy skills.