Young children like to sing and play. While that is all well and good, you want them to learn while they are in your classroom. Consider incorporating songs into your phonics curriculum and watch as children learn with ease and excitement. Adding songs to any subject is fun, but with phonics, it can mean the difference between catching onto a new letter sound with grace or by pulling teeth. You decide!

Here are some great phonics CDs for the classroom:

Edutunes.com Phonics Time CD and Book Set
This fun and interactive CD comes with 28 original songs to help teach children between the ages of 3 and 6 years old. The topics covered include learning/reviewing ABCs, letter sounds, vowels and consonants, rhyming words, short vowels, long vowels, compound words, contractions, letter tricks, beginning blends, ending blends, and much more. The CD comes with 26 phonics posters that have the lyrics to the songs so you can display them for the class to see. You also review a booklet with worksheets to help reinforce concepts that they sing along to with the CD.

Songs for Teaching
When you visit this website, you will be introduced to an array of songs that teach:

• ABCs
• Alliterative lyrics for various letter sounds
• Vowels
• Diphthongs
• Digraphs
• Consonants

Fun Phonics Factory
Coleen Richey-Reed is the producer of these fun and fabulous CD packets for teaching phonics. She is a reading specialist, so she knows what she is doing. Each packet comes with worksheets that all you have to do is copy for your students and use for homework assignments or class assignments. Each packet also includes sight word flash cards, plus other useful materials. The CD packets teach topics such as letter sounds, blends and digraphs, phonemic awareness, and syllabication, along with fun nursery rhyme songs. Titles of the packets are:

• Fun Phonic Songs & More
• Patterns and Endings

Sing Your Way Through Phonics by Action Factor
With three volumes of phonic songs on CD your students are sure to learn what you need them to. Not only are there the CDs, but if you visit the website you will see that you also receive phonics lesson plans, teaching suggestions, mini charts to use as visual aids, and lyrics to all of the songs. You can hear samples of the songs at the website as well. Here is an example of some of things taught on the CDs:

• Consonants
• Vowels both long and short
• Digraphs
• Blends
• Patterns
• Diphthongs
• r-Controlled vowels
• Possessives