** Fuzzy Lion Ears Choose from three different letters to make the word you heard. Roll over each letter to hear its sound, or click on the picture to hear the word again. ** Gawain's Word ** Homonyms ** Long and Short Vowels ** Phonics Yellow & Phonics Green ** Phonics Multimedia Resource Pack Contrastive Pair, Blending, Word formation, etc... ** Pounce! Match the Sound!   Phonics Activities ** Magic Pencil Watch how Magic Pencil writes some words containing vowel phonemes. ** Print and Do Have some fun playing the games and doing the activity sheets. ** Sandcastle Quiz Build a sandcastle and get to know the common spelling patterns for nine vowel phonemes (ow/ou, oy/oi, ar/a/al, oo/u, air/are/ear, or/ore/oar/war, aw/au/augh/al, ir/ur/er, ear/eer/ere) ** Write a Postcard Write a postcard and get used to using words containing alternative spelling patterns for vowel phonemes in sentences.   CVC Words ** Jim's Crankophone After listening to the word sounds, choose which of the 2 vowels you can hear in the middle of the word. ** Magic Pencil Watch how Magic Pencil writes it. ** Print and Do Try your luck at the Soundcatcher game, or test your memory in a game of Pairs. Plus many more printable activities to help develop phonic skills. ** The Whirlyword Machine See how many new words you can make from the letters on the fruit machine.   Consonant Clusters ** Magic Pencil Watch how Magic Pencil writes these blends. ** Print and Do Lots of games, 'cut and stick' activities and worksheets for the Literacy Hour or to do at home. ** Wordblender Choose a start sound and an end sound and let Wordblender blend them together to make a new word.   Long Vowel Sounds ** Drag 'n' Spell Drag the vowels to finish the words before your time runs out! ** Poem Pack Ten colourful, animated poems with voice-over and activities. Each poem deals with a different long vowel sound. ** Print and Do Make your own Scrapbook of words. ** Snap It! How well do you know your long vowel sounds? Your chance to beat the clock and collect the snaps.     Written by: Jamie Cheng Source: BBC - School, ETV, PBS Kids Edited by: HKedCity Content Team   Updated on 4 October 2004