A fun game where students draw/colr and happy face on one end of a craft stick and a sad face on the other end. Then they hold up these sticks to identify whether or two words that their instructor says rhyme.

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...

This site contains activities for Phonemic Awareness. They provide activities for students to learn to identify and manipulate phonemes.

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.

This reading game focuses on learning, identifying and using long vowel phonemes to form words, such as adding "y" to the end of a word, or "ou", "oo", etc. to the middle of a word.

Here are two tools to use in assessing student understanding of final sounds. One deals with phoneme isolation and one deals with phoneme matching.

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.

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.

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.

A teacher-led activity teaching students to identify whether it contains rhyming words. This site also contains links to Rhyming Books.

A classroom game to help students create new words from a particular word family. The class is divided into two teams; the first student in each line is given a flyswatter and must go to the board and "swat" the correct letter that...

In this teacher-led activity on this site, students work together in the classroom creating a book full of rhymes.

A game of "Memory" where the students flip over two cards at a time to try and match rhyming words. This site includes links to Rhyming Pictures to use to make the Memory cards.

A fun classroom game that helps students come up with words that rhyme with a word given to them by the teacher. Students sit in a circle, the instructor gives them a sentence and asks what word rhymes with the last word. Students raise...

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

An activity incorporating Dr. Seuss's "Fox in Socks" book, and dry erase boards and markers. Reading the book, students identify CVC-pattern words. Writing a selected one down on their boards, they are able to substitute letters to make...

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.

Key to learning how to read is the ability to identify the different sounds that make words and to associate these sounds with written words. There are 44 phonemes in the English language, including letter combinations such as /th/,...

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 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 classroom activity that introduces and builds the accuracy of students' abilities of identifying syllables in a word. The instructor says a word, the student stomps once for each syllable in the word and then stomps one more time to...

An excellent resource for teaching beginning letter-sound correspondence. Student must identify the object in the picture and circle the letter that begins the word.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Have students close their eyes and identify the sound that you make. -When the sound has been identified, repeat it and add a second sound. Have students tell you in complete sentences using first and...

A fun classroom game! The teacher says a riddle, gives the sounds that make up the answer, and the students guess the answer by blending the sounds together.