YouTube Videos for Teaching Phonics

I love to begin my phonics block with videos/songs. Songs are a great way to learn and remember new things. Here are a few of my favorite YouTube videos for teaching phonics.

If you’re looking for YouTube channels for the primary classroom, check out this blogpost!

Note: I try to keep this updated, but know sometimes YouTube videos are removed for different reasons. Not all videos may work.

Alphabet Videos

Jack Hartman is the kindergarten king. If you teach kinder, it’s likely you’ve met him in a video or two. He’s very affective at students active and learning in his videos. This video (& others like it) are a little quiz on letter names. Perfect for letter recognition. It does include fonts that may stump the students, but I actually like this because not all letters look exactly the same!

A super cute ABCs song. I can’t help but love the little animated letters.

Letter Sound Videos

If you remember the “What Does the Fox Say” song…this is the same, but with letters. Students sing each letter sound.
WARNING: It’s incredibly annoying to teachers, but the students LOVE it.

Another Jack Hartman video quiz for letter sounds!

Short Vowel Videos

Honestly, not all my students know who Batman is or this tempo, but they absolutely love it to practice their short vowel sounds.

A simple version of BINGO for short vowels. Catchy and easy to follow!

Short vs Long Vowel Videos

Scratch Garden anything has to be a favorite, I know I’ve talked about it before in my blog post about 8 YouTube Channels for the Primary Classroom.

Here’s Jack Hartman again. A short vowel/long vowel workout video keeps the kids entertained and the teachers…cringing.

Digraph Videos

Scratch Garden again, doing amazing videos for EACH digraph (you can get the link to them at the bottom of this post in the shared Google Slide). The “Happy Cheese-y” tune gets stuck in our heads all day.

Good old Pink Fong. You know the did more than Baby Shark? They have a ton of phonics videos. Here’s one for the digraph ck.

Final -e Videos

Set to the tune of “Do You Know the Muffin Man?” it’s easy to sing along and practice final -e.

Personally, I love this one to introduce final-e. It’s not a song, but a story about how strong the final-e is and gives all his power away to the short vowels so they can be long and strong!

Free Compilation

I’ve compiled all these and more on one Google Slide presentation for you for free!
Click HERE or on the picture to get a copy for yourself!
Note: You’ll be automatically asked to make a copy, just press the blue button and it’s your’s.

Just as an added piece, there’s a program called Edpuzzle, which can make your YouTube videos more interactive. Especially for distance learning, where students may be watching these videos independently. Check out the tutorial blogpost here.