Can't recommend this series enough. One of my friends back in Aus stumbled upon them the other day. They're a bunch of phonics songs produced by "Have Fun Teaching" and a song exists for all letters A through Z (there are problems with F though due to auto-censor being too sensitive). They also have a tonne more printable and audio/video resources too, some free, some pay, on their site, so have a peek around. I haven't poked too deeply yet, so if you find any real gems, please let me know!
Anyhow, here's the first song -- unsurprisingly for "A" -- you can follow the links for the rest:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBAuIzZttP4And this is the same company's YouTube channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/havefunteachingAnd website:
http://www.havefunteaching.com/The phonics songs are all different electronica beats and my students love them already. You can get them to chant along with the song as an introduction to each letter. Presently, the plan is to go through one of these and then on to a phonics chant and finally writing practice per lesson. Eats up 10 minutes at the end, and if the students don't finish in time, the worksheet is homework. Best of all, it covers awareness of long vowel sounds as well as soft consonants for C and G (!). I do have gripes with their songs for O and Y though (use of Mom as a short O sound when chanting something complete different, and complete omission of final Y as a vowel, although that's kinda fair).
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I've also attached something... experimental. First and foremost its a list of links to the whole series on YouTube. Secondly, its a series of QR codes to each. Yeah... I'm just discretely slipping them on their writing worksheets (along with a plain text link accompanying each code) to see if any students bite. Readers are not quite yet pervasive in Korea to justify the time required to code up optional ancillary learning resources elsewhere (think of giving students the option to use their cheap mobile phone to scan the target language on their per-chapter notes/review sheets and get a recorded clip back), but by the time these students reach grade 5, I suspect we may start seeing them slipping into education, so it's perhaps a bit of foreshadowing for them. If you want to discuss this part further though, I'll request that you please move it over to the Teaching Theory subforum to keep this thread on topic.
