5 Quick, Easy, and Fun Phonemic Awareness Activities

Learning to read can be quite an overwhelming task for small children. In fact, if you think about it, it’s astounding that children are even capable of learning to read in such a short amount of time. However, before they begin to read print, they must have an adequate foundational understanding of how sounds in words work. That is where phonemic awareness comes into play. What is phonemic awareness? In easy-to-understand terms, phonemic awareness is the ability to identify, think about, and manipulate sounds in spoken speech. Listening The ability to listen closely is a key ingredient of phonemic awareness. The Listening Game. One of the first phonemic-awareness activities I do with my students, even as soon as the first day, is to bring their attention to noises. “Moo-Moo,” Where Are You? I love playing this game with my class. Rhyming Rhyming is such a great phonemic awareness activity! In My Box Syllables Bippity Boppity Bumble Bee This is such a fun game. Old MacDonald

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Phonemic Awareness Assessment Tools Recognizing Rhyme Assessment Here are two different versions of the Rhyming Assessment tool: Recognizing Rhyme Assessment NO QuickTime movie version Recognizing Rhyme Assessment QuickTime version: Watch Patti do a demonstration of the rhyme assessment.) Isolating Beginning Sounds Isolating Final Sounds Phoneme Blending Assessment Directions: I am going to say all the sounds I hear in a word. I want you to tell me the word that you hear when you put these sounds together. You say it fast. Let me show you. Model: If I say /p/ /i/ /g/ the word is . . .pig.

How Now Brown Cow: Phoneme Awareness Activities Research indicates a strong relationship between early phoneme awareness and later reading success, and it links some reading failure to insufficiently developed phoneme awareness skills. Intervention research clearly demonstrates the benefits of explicitly teaching phoneme awareness skills. Many children at risk for reading failure are in general education classrooms where phoneme awareness training is not part of their reading program.

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This gives very simple, very fun phonemic awareness activities. The activities require very little material and also are very easy to set up and fun for students to participate in. great for very beginning learners. by ttribou Jul 24