Preschool

Letter Knowledge Awareness

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Between the Lions Early Reading Collection

RESOURCE	GRADE LEVEL	MEDIA TYPE
The a-r Song This video segment from Between the Lions is a music video featuring Fonix singing about the joys of the “ar” sound.	Pre-K-1	Video
ABCD Watermelon In this interactive game from Between the Lions, Leona lets you practice the order of the alphabet and letter identification.	Pre-K-1	Interactive
Amazing Trampolini Brothers: brave In this video segment from Between the Lions, a trio of animated circus performers demonstrates the comparative and superlative adjectives brave, braver, and bravest.	Pre-K-1	Video
Amazing Trampolini Brothers: good In this video segment from Between the Lions, a trio of animated circus performers demonstrates the comparative and superlative adjectives good, better, and best.	Pre-K-1	Video
Amazing Trampolini Brothers: noisy In this video segment from Between the Lions, a trio of animated circus performers demonstrates the comparative and superlative adjectives noisy, noisier, noisiest.	Pre-K-1	Video
Amazing Trampolini Brothers: tasty In this video segment from Between the Lions, a trio of animated circus performers demonstrates the comparative and superlative adjectives tasty, tastier, tastiest.	Pre-K-1	Video
The Ants and the Grasshopper This video segment from Between the Lions emphasizes "m" words through an original, animated retelling of the classic Aesop's fable "The Ants and the Grasshopper."	Pre-K-1	Video
Arty Smartypants: snail/nail In this video segment from Between the Lions, Arty takes an “s” from snail to make a nail. He uses props to illustrate words.	Pre-K-1	Video
At the Library This video segment from Between the Lions is a song about things that you find or do at the library and notes items starting with each letter of the alphabet.	Pre-K-1	Video
Blending Bowl: Dine In this video segment from Between the Lions, two football teams, "d" and "ine," crash together to make the word "dine."	Pre-K-1	Video
Busterfield Library A-Z This video segment from Between the Lions uses an alphabet song to review the ABCs, matching each letter with the name of a character from the show.	Pre-K-1	Video
Choppers Chop, Shoppers Shop In this video segment from Between the Lions, real kids and adults attempt to correctly say the tongue twister “Choppers Chop, Shoppers Shop.”	Pre-K-1	Video
City Country Rap (c) In this video segment from Between the Lions, the animated hip hop duo Rhymo and Hip rap about the hard "c" and soft "c" sounds while telling the difference between the country and the city.	Pre-K-1	Video
City Mouse and Country Mouse This video segment from Between the Lions places emphasis on "c" words as it retells an original version of Aesop’s fable. A city mouse and a country mouse trade living spaces only to discover there’s no place like home.	Pre-K-1	Video
Cliff Hanger and the Sneezing Zebu In this video segment from Between the Lions featuring the letter "z," a sneezing zebu temporarily rescues Cliff Hanger, who is hanging from a cliff.	Pre-K-1	Video
Dixie Chimps: Delighted You're Mine (d) In this video segment from Between the Lions, the Dixie Chimps sing about a clumsy monkey boyfriend, demonstrating the letter “d.”	Pre-K-1	Video
Dixie Chimps: Double o Heaven (oo) In this video segment from Between the Lions, the Dixie Chimps sing a country ballad about words that contain double “o.”	Pre-K-1	Video
Dixie Chimps: Goodbye, Chick (ch) In this video segment from Between the Lions, the Dixie Chimps sing a song about an annoying chicken, emphasizing the “ch” sound.	Pre-K-1	Video
Dixie Chimps: Home is Where Long o Is (long o) In this video segment from Between the Lions, the Dixie Chimps sing a country ballad about long “o.”	Pre-K-1	Video
Double e, ee This video segment from Between the Lions features the group Fonix singing about the letters double "e" (ee) and words that contain double "e."	Pre-K-1	Video
Double o, oo This video segment from Between the Lions features the group Fonix singing about the letters double "o" (oo), words that contain double "o," and where double "o" can be found in the world.	Pre-K-1	Video
A Fellow Named Sig This video segment from Between the Lions features an animated limerick, which exemplifies the kind of wordplay that prepares children for early reading and spelling.	Pre-K-1	Video
Fred Says: hot In this video segment from Between the Lions, Fred combines the “h” and “ot” to form the word “hot.”	Pre-K-1	Video
Get Your Mouth Moving In this video segment from Between the Lions, Fred sings an up-tempo, jazzy-rag scat with the "a" vowel sound and various consonants.	Pre-K-1	Video
Happy Birthday, Cliff Hanger In this video segment from Between the Lions, it's Cliff Hanger's birthday, but when he blows out his candles he also blows away the hot air balloon his friends are in.	Pre-K-1	Video
Hard "c" Words This video segment from Between the Lions uses an animated road sign to illustrate and spell familiar words that begin with the /k/ sound that the letter "c" makes.	Pre-K-1	Video
Hop ‘Til You Drop This video segment from Between the Lions uses a cheer—"Hop 'Til You Drop"—to build letter knowledge, and to demonstrate how movement and letter chanting can illustrate the words being spelled.	Pre-K-1	Video
Hung Up On h In this video segment from Between the Lions, Tammy Lionette (Cleo) and Jasmine Guy sing about the confusing “h” sound in a Western style.	Pre-K-1	Video
If You Can Read: en In this video segment from Between the Lions, an animated stick figure sings about different words that can be read "if you can read en."	Pre-K-1	Video
If You Can Read: op In this video segment from Between the Lions, an animated stick figure sings about different words that can be read "if you can read op."	Pre-K-1	Video
It's a p-h! In this video segment from Between the Lions, the puppet band Phish performs a song about the “ph” sound.	Pre-K-1	Video
Poem: Four Seasons In this video segment from Between the Lions, the Lions recite a poem about the seasons. All words are shown on screen.	Pre-K-1	Video
Poem: I Like It When It’s Mizzly This video segment from Between the Lions recites a poem about mizzly, rainy weather. The poem features many words that end with "y" and all text appears on screen.	Pre-K-1	Video
Poem: Ode to the Washing Machine In this video segment from Between the Lions, a poem about a washing machine is recited and animated. It features vocabulary words and all text appears on screen.	Pre-K-1	Video
Q Without U This video segment from Between the Lions is a song about how you never see the letter “q” without the letter “u.”	Pre-K-1	Video
Read the Signs In this video segment from Between the Lions, Sloppy Pop's song "Read the Signs" spotlights the letters and words we see on signs every day, encouraging children to be aware of print in their environment.	Pre-K-1	Video
Shush (sh) In this video segment from Between the Lions, Cleo Lion sings in a nightclub setting where she laments over the “sh” sound.	Pre-K-1	Video
Sloppy Pop (o) In this video segment from Between the Lions, Sloppy Pop and his band sing to passersby in the street about the letters "o" and "p."	Pre-K-1	Video
Soft "c" Words This video segment from Between the Lions focuses on letter knowledge, showing several words that begin with the letter “c" and, in these examples, the /s/ sound that it makes.	Pre-K-1	Video
Stone Soup This video segment from Between the Lions emphasizes the "s" throughout this original, animated version of the popular folktale "Stone Soup."	Pre-K-1	Video
Sven Said Ten Cents (e) In this video segment from Between the Lions, monkeys, dressed as cossacks, sing a tongue twister.	Pre-K-1	Video
This Is the Sixth Sister In this video segment from Between the Lions, real kids and adults try to correctly say the tongue twister, “This Is the Sixth Sister.”	Pre-K-1	Video
The Two Sounds Made by c In this video segment from Between the Lions, Tammy Lionette (Cleo) sings about the two sounds made by the letter "c."	Pre-K-1	Video
The Two Sounds Made by g This video segment from Between the Lions is a mixed-media song performed by Fonix about the two sounds made by the letter "g."	Pre-K-1	Video
Upper and Lowercase This video segment from Between the Lions stars an Elvis-like singer singing about upper and lower case letters.	Pre-K-1	Video
Vowel Boot Camp: not/note In this video segment from Between the Lions, vowel letterheads and Sergeant Mark (who is an exclamation point) chant the silent "e" rule then letterhead "o" gives its long and short sounds.	Pre-K-1	Video
We Choose to Cha Cha Cha (ch) This video segment from Between the Lions features Theo and Cleo singing a song and dancing the Cha Cha to demonstrate the "ch" sound.	Pre-K-1	Video
What’s Your Name? This video segment from Between the Lions uses a fun hip-hop song about names to highlight the /uh/ sound that the letter "u" makes and to boost phonemic awareness—an understanding of the sounds within words.	Pre-K-1	Video
When Two Vowels Go Walking In this video segment from Between the Lions, animated letters walk down a road while the the song explains the rule: "When two vowels go walking, the first one does the talking."	Pre-K-1	Video
W Trouble In this video segment from Between the Lions, Cleo plays country western singer Tammy Lionette and sings about the difficulties she has with the tricky letter “w.”	Pre-K-1	Video