In this classroom activity, the instructor creates a list of simple sentences that include a three or four letter word that the students are asked to blend. The instructor says the sentence and asks the student to help blend the letters...

A classroom game designed to build accuracy skills in students' abilities to identify syllables. The teacher prints picture cards (this site links to the site for pictures) of one-, two-, or three-syllable words. Students pull a picture...

This activity uses the students' favorite classroom book as a resource. The instructor says We are going on a Picture Hunt! and then asks the class where an object is in the picture, but leaves out the first letter sound when asking.

Students are divided into two teams. The teacher calls one person from each team up at a time to look at a picture. The first player to yell out how many sounds are in the picture gets a point for the team. This site includes a link to a...

This site provides three Freeware programs to help students learn the letters of the alphabet and letter-sound correspondence. Students need to be able to use a mouse to manipulate the images on the site. Instructions for downloading the...

In this activity, the teacher says three words and has the students identify the common sound. This site includes a link to a Word List Generator.

A kindergarten/first grade lesson plan for sounding out consonant vowel consonant words. Students and teachers will benefit from this hands-on activity.

This page contains audio clips of words separated into phonemes. The audios give the word and then the word separated. There is a link to the Phonological Awareness activities page that utilizes this sound page. The sounds are pronounced...

You can add a phonemic awareness activity to your phonics lessons each day and it will only add a few extra minutes to your lessons. You also don't need to buy expensive manipulatives for your students to use. There are lots of low-cost...

A lesson plan in which learners work with a partner to count phonemes in picture cards. All materials are included.

This printable vowels worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Learners will view pictures and identify the words that contain the consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) spelling pattern. An...