Phonics Songs for Schools
Phonics is an excellent way for children to learn to read as it simplifies the English language into sounds. All over the world schools are using this method and our fabulous selection of over 140 phonics songs and phonics tutorials covering a range of phonics sounds, is the perfect resource for teachers teaching phonics.
All of our phonics songs and tutorials are curated into easy to understand groups that work with any phonics scheme and feature pure sounds.
“If you haven’t checked out theses amazing phonics songs – please do! My class and I adore them. Even through lockdown they’re still watching them!”
Repetitive, upbeat and memorable, all of our phonics songs feature funny, captivating animations that present the concept of each sound in a clear and concise way.
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Phonics Songs – Consonant Letter Sounds
With a Silly School Education TV subscription you get access to all of our consonant sound phonics songs and their accompanying downloadable teaching resources. We have a song for each of the consonant sounds in the English language. Consonant sounds are made by restricting the of air coming from your lungs when you speak.
“We have been using your videos for a while to support our Phonics teaching, our children love them, the funnier the better in their opinion!”
L Noble – Teacher
There are 21 single letter sounds in this group:
b c d f g h j k l m n p q r s t v w x y z
Phonics Songs – Short Vowel Sounds
We have a song for each of the short vowel letter sounds and with a Silly School Education TV Subscription you get access to all of short vowel phonics songs and their relevant downloadable teaching resources.
Vowel sounds allow the air to flow freely, cause the chin to drop and allow air to flow easily from the mouth. Short vowel sounds are only last for short duration.
“Your letter sound videos are amazing…my student who thinks letters and sounds are boring says, ‘again, again’“
S Kennedy – Teacher
Our catchy and funny phonics songs are a great way of improving engaging your class.
There are 5 single letter sounds in this group:
a e i o u
All songs have pure sounds.
Phonics Songs – Vowels Digraphs
When two vowels are placed together that produce one sound this is called a vowel digraph.
Some vowel digraphs make a single sound but other are dipthongs, also known as gliding vowels. A dipthong is a combination of two connected vowel sounds within the same syllable. Examples of dipthongs are “au” or oi”.
“I love all of these songs they’re amazing. I play them so often throughout the day.”
Esha – Teacher
There are 15 vowel digraphs in this group:
ea (tea) ee oo (book) oo (loo) ie (pie) au ue (blue) ue (statue) oe (toe) ou ea (bear) oi ai oa ea (steak)
Phonics Songs – Consonant Digraphs
Consonant digraphs contain two consonants, which, if combined form a single sound. Consonant digraphs are also known as a consonant phonemes.
“Amazing resource. The phonics songs are so fun and engaging. 5 Stars!”
L Greenwood – Teaching Assistant
There are 13 consonant digraphs in this group:
sh ch th wh wr ph kn ck qu gh (cough) gh (ghost) mb ng
Phonics Songs – Digraphs Ending r
This collections of phonics songs are digraphs that end in the letter r.
“If you love a good song to help reinforce phonics you need to check out Silly School Education! They are very catchy, our children and staff love them. My favourite so far is the ‘a’ song. They have a great tidy up song too. Highly recommended!”
Miss D – Early Years Teacher
There are 5 digraphs in this group:
ur er ar or ir
Phonics Songs – Digraphs Ending w
This collections of phonics songs are digraphs that end in the letter w.
“Dare you not to get this song stuck in your head!”
Phonics Stars Croydon
There are 4 digraphs in this group:
aw ew ow (cow) ow (snow)
Phonics Songs – Double Consonant Sounds
A double consonant is when a consonant occurs twice in succession.
“I love these! We’re going to use them as part of our phonics sessions in September!”
Mrs Jenks – Teacher
There are 4 double consonants in this group:
ff ll zz ss
Phonics Songs – Digraphs Ending y
This collections of phonics songs are digraphs that end in the letter y.
“I started using your songs this term and my R class LOVE them! Thank you for all your hard work!”
Cathryn Ramsden – Teacher
There are 4 digraphs in this group:
oy ey ay uy
Phonics Songs – Trigraphs Vowel Sounds
Trigraphs are groups of three letters when combined form a single sound.
Vowel trigraphs nearly always form diphthongs.
“I love all of these songs they’re amazing. I play them so often throughout the day.”
Esha – Teacher
There are 7 trigraphs in this group:
are (hare) ore ure air ear (ear) ire igh
Phonics Songs – Digraphs Ending w
This collections of phonics songs are digraphs that end in the letter w.
“Dare you not to get this song stuck in your head!”
Phonics Stars Croydon
There are 4 digraphs in this group:
aw ew ow (cow) ow (snow)
Phonics Songs – Tricky Words
Tricky words (also called sight words) are those words which cannot be sounded out easily.
“Bright and exciting…it’s become a key educational resource all over the world…will keep you and your kids singing for hours!”
Tutor Doctor Global Education
Our lively tricky words songs are designed to be fun, educational and easy-to-learn.
Phonics Songs – Final Consonant Blends
Final consonant blends are clusters of letters that make distinctive sounds at the end of a word.
“Just came across Silly School Education. Cannot wait to use the songs in class.”
Miss Rogers – Teacher
There is 1 final consonant blend in this group:
nk
COMING SOON
xt mp pt
Phonics Songs – Initial S Blends
Initial s blends are phonics blends that begin with s to make a distinctive sound at the start of a word.
“I have just spend a good 30 minutes of my planning time looking at and playing songs! Brilliant subscription – will be renewing every year too.”
Miss Rogers – Teacher
There are 7 initial s blends in this group:
sp, sl, sk, sc, sn, sm and st
Phonics Sounds – Tutorials
Silly School Education animated phonics sounds tutorials present pure phonics sounds, examples of the letter and six relevant animated images. We have an ever expanding set of animated tutorials for pretty much every phonics sound.
“I’m a kindy teacher from Perth, Western Australia and my class and I absolutely love your content. I hear the kiddies singing your songs during the day as they get on with other things. Amazing service and content – I will definitely be sharing my experience.”
Free Phonics Songs for Primary Schools & Elementary Schools
You can listen to a selection of our phonics songs for primary schools for FREE via our Silly School Education Youtube Channel. If would like to be able to access ALL of our unique content, curated, with no adverts, bonus downloadable resources and lots of extra songs and tutorials not available anywhere else, head over to Silly School Education TV via this link.
Our phonics songs all follow the UK schools curriculum, which makes them a perfect teaching resource and with over twenty years experience working in the primary school sector we know what works.
This is why our phonics songs are used by primary school teachers all over the world. We have put in thousands of hours of work to make sure our grammar songs are engaging and fun but easy to follow. The children laugh at the animations, sing along to the songs and remember the message. Take a look at our Youtube Channel to access over 100 free, animated, songs.
All of our phonics songs and animations are family friendly, made by teachers for teachers.
Our teaching songs support social skills and help to stimulate their vocabulary, imagination, knowledge and memory, through. These catchy, easy to learn, fun songs are also proven to increase confidence in young learners.
Our ever growing catalogue of teaching songs and animations cover a wide range of subjects for EYFS, Key Stage One (KS1) and Key Stage Two (KS2), include maths, english, geography, science, phonics, grammar, words of the day, tidy up songs, covid safety songs and much, much, more!
Silly School Education is a family run company based in Cambridge, UK, that specialises in writing songs and musical productions for primary schools! We create fun, educational, songs and musicals for children in primary & elementary schools ages 5-11 years (EYFS, KS1, KS2). We hope you hope you enjoy the songs and animations as much as we enjoy making them!
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