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 fun, active game to learn all about syllables! Students line up on one side of the room and take one step for each syllable in the word that the instructor says.

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...

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.

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

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.

Sounds of speech are the sounds that make up our oral language. Children must understand how speech sounds work to be ready for instruction in reading and writing. To learn more about sounds of speech, browse the articles, parent tips,...

A seventeen-part learning module with links to images and videos to help students learn about ou/ow and oi/oy diphthongs.

This site offers phonemic awareness activities that will extend the concepts and skills associated with this reading skill. Activities include rhyming words, segmenting syllables, substituting beginning sounds, isolating sounds, and...

Practice reading and pronouncing words that have a vowel followed by the letter R.

What do you know about teaching decoding skills to your students? Do you ever get stumped by some of the words that go along with decoding? If you answered yes to any of these questions then come and check out this decoding glossary.

This article focuses on exercises for teaching compound words including compound word exercises, a list of root words to create many different compound words, links to compound word games, and interactive online games.

This site outlines seven levels of phonemic awareness ranging from awareness of rhyming words to phoneme manipulation.