Students examine how Chinese and Japanese artists used different kinds of birds as representations of ideas that were important in both cultures and create their own birds using the technique of origami.

An activity to build students' abilities to identify sounds, even in nonsense words. The teacher says a word and states that it is not a real word, but asks the students to just listen for the sounds.

A simple, yet effective activity to teach students to identify the same sounds in different words. The teacher says a word and the students give a thumbs up or thumbs down. This site also includes a Word Generator list link as a resource.

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.

An exciting activity that helps pre-readers identify sounds and break down words into segments. The students pretend to be "Aliens of Paz" who pronouce words very slowly. This activity also incorporates movement as the student touches...

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...

A higher level activity that helps students develop fluency in identifying open and closed syllable words.

This site contains a flexible activity that teaches learners how to "catch" or identify the final sound of a word.

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.

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...

Classroom teachers will learn how to use phoneme isolation as an instructional strategy. Teachers will learn direct instructional techniques for phoneme isolation. Word picture cards are included to be used with phoneme isolation tasks...

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In this activity, students are asked to type in the beginning letter sound of a word, based on a picture provided.

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 young scholars to use. There are lots of...

Contains plans for three lessons designed for first grade that teach phoneme isolation in order to build phonemic awareness. In addition to objectives and standards, these instructional plans contain links to sites used in the lessons as...

Superb explanation of phoneme awareness. Content addresses how to focus on individual phonemes, how to make the phoneme memorable, and how to find phoneme in word contexts.

How do you count phonemes in spoken words? Check out this site to discover more about how to approach dealing with question in the classroom. This site offers exercises dealing with counting phonemes.

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