Preschool

Phonological 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
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
Bee-bim Bop In this video from Between the Lions, a girl describes how to make the Korean dish called Bee-bim Bop.	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
Cheesybreadville In this video segment from Between the Lions, Cleo Lion reads aloud Cheesybreadville, a rhyming, lyrical story set in Puerto Rico about how the love of a husband and wife created cheesy bread.	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
Cliff Hanger Sings the Blues In this video segment from Between the Lions, Cliff sings to get the attention of two talent scouts, Paula and Simon, but they prefer the helicopter singers.	Pre-K-1	Video
Dance in Smarty Pants In this video segment from Between the Lions, Arty sings a song about dancing in his smarty pants and encourages others--including many celebrities--to dance in smarty pants as well.	Pre-K-1	Video
Deep in the Swamp This video segment from Between the Lions is an animated version of the trade book “Deep in the Swamp” set to music. It focuses on numbers and animal vocabulary words.	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
Grubby Pup (u) This video segment from Between the Lions emphasizes the short "u" sound through an animated song in the style of Woodie Guthrie folk about an older man who reminisces about his childhood stuffed animal, Grubby Pup.	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
Homophones This video segment from Between the Lions is a song about homophones (words that sound the same but are spelled differently) performed by Brian McKnight and Cleo Lion.	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: at In this video segment from Between the Lions, an animated stick figure sings about different words that can be read "if you can read at."	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
It's My Job! In this video segment from Between the Lions, singer Aaron Nigel Smith sings a song about jobs with real children.	Pre-K-1	Video
Many Meanings of Cool In this video segment from Between the Lions, the Lions and Sierra sing about the many/homophone meanings of the word “cool.”	Pre-K-1	Video
Mrs. McNosh Hangs Up Her Wash This segment from Between the Lions features a funny rhyming story, reading aloud, and children learning through talking about stories as they are being read.	Pre-K-1	Video
My Favorite Word: fabulous This video segment from Between the Lions is a table top puppetry song that illustrates synonyms for the word “good” using a stage setting and opera-type singers.	Pre-K-1	Video
My Favorite Word: humongous This video segment from Between the Lions is a table top puppetry song that illustrates synonyms for the word “big” using a stage setting and opera-type singers.	Pre-K-1	Video
My Favorite Word: miniscule This video segment from Between the Lions is a table top puppetry song that illustrates synonyms for the word “small” using a stage setting and opera-type singers.	Pre-K-1	Video
Opposite Bunny: yucky/yummy In this video segment from Between the Lions, an animated superhero bunny uses his special power of opposites to change something yucky into something yummy.	Pre-K-1	Video
Phenomenal This video segment from Between the Lions features Hip-Hoppapotamus and Rhymocerus rapping about the meaning of the word phenomenal.	Pre-K-1	Video
Poem: Baby Chick This video segment from Between the Lions is an animated poem about a baby chick hatching from an egg.	Pre-K-1	Video
Poem: Big Snow This video segment from Between the Lions is an animated poem about snow.	Pre-K-1	Video
Poem: Brush Dance This video segment from Between the Lions features an animated poem about painting techniques with a paintbrush. These techniques are the featured vocabulary.	Pre-K-1	Video
Poem: Cats This video segment from Between the Lions features an animated and rhyming poem about cats.	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
Poem: Tuning Up This video segment from Between the Lions features an animated poem about tuning instruments that are displayed along with the words of the poem.	Pre-K-1	Video
Poem: You Never Hear the Garden Grow This video segment from Between the Lions features an animated poem about gardens by Lilian Moore that is rich with vocabulary. 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
Rocket-Doodle-Doo This video segment from Between the Lions presents an animated rhyming song to help tune the listener’s ear to language sounds, and it incorporates strategies for building vocabulary and fluency in reading.	Pre-K-1	Video
Seven Selfish Shellfish This video segment from Between the Lions features a classic tongue twister—a type of wordplay that helps children tune their ears to language and the sounds within words.	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
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
Surfin' the Web This video segment from Between the Lions is a mixed media song about using the internet to find out information.	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
Ten More Little Words In this video segment from Between the Lions, a large dinosaur puppet teaches a class of monkeys about ten little words through a song.	Pre-K-1	Video
There's a Gorilla! This video segment from Between the Lions features an animated song about a gorilla and illustrates differences between a period, question mark, and exclamation point.	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
Very Loud, Very Big, Very Metal This video segment from Between the Lions features a song about construction vehicles.	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
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
Without an ing In this video segment from Between the Lions, the Lions sing about the importance of the letter combination “ing.”	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
Yesterday I Had the Blues In this video segment from Between the Lions, a boy tells us about how colors correspond to feelings and members of his family.	Pre-K-1	Video