We're going to practice reading high-frequency words here together and putting all of those wonderful things we've learned together and practicing them by reading and writing.

We're gonna look at the letters, the sounds that they make, different letter patterns and how they're put together to make the words that we say, that we read and write.

"The Vowel A" teaches viewers about the short and long sounds of the vowel letter A. It explains how the presence of a final 'e' at the end of words changes the sound of A from short to long ...

Phonics instruction gives children letter-sound knowledge, a skill that is essential for them to read unfamiliar words by themselves.

A whole language approach to teaching reading gives kids a whole linguistic picture of how words work. This includes teaching individual letters and sounds, as well as what the words mean in context.

Under an initiative called "Sounds-Write," adopted by the school district more than two years ago, words are not just letters on a board, but sounds with interconnected meaning.