Vowel Pals - Fun, Interactive Activities for Teaching Vowel Sounds

Two Sets of Teaching Vowel Sounds Aids to Enhance Your Reading Program: Vowel Pals and Strategy Students

Vowel Pals help children learn the 18 different vowel sounds and effectively use them to read and spell.
Strategy Students help children of all ages apply seven essential reading strategies and improve reading comprehension.
Activities are researched-based and proven to be effective for teaching vowel sounds and reading strategies.
Children at home or in the classroom will benefit from this playful, interactive approach for Teaching Vowel Sounds and reading strategies.
Activities are provided for visual, auditory and kinesthetic learners.
Enhance your reading program and skills block with ideas for mini lessons, guided reading groups, and phonics instruction.

Teaching Vowel Sounds and their application to reading and spelling can be easy and fun to learn. The 18 Vowel Pals, each with their own song and show and tell, provide the means for children to make the necessary connections between vowel graphemes and phonemes.

Strategy Students

Reading strategies are essential in order to effectively comprehend the text. The Strategy Students provide a means for internalizing reading strategies through role-play and think-alouds. The Strategy Students can give a boost to your reader's workshop as you plan mini lessons, guided reading groups, and conferences using this imaginative approach to teaching reading strategies. The reading strategies represented by the "Strategy Students" are:
Making connections
Questioning
Visualizing
Inferring
Determining Importance
Synthesizing
Self-Monitoring