Develop the fluency of beginning readers one sound at a time with this phonemic awareness lesson. Through a series of whole-class instruction, independent practice, and collaborative learning activities, children practice identifying the phonemes associated with seven different consonants, vowels, and digraphs.

Concepts

phonemes, phonemic awareness, digraphs, consonant digraphs, letter-sound correspondence, the long /e/ sound, the short /i/ sound, long vowels

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Use the extension activities as learning centers to perform following the whole group lesson
• Repeat this lesson and collection of learning activities with other phonemes, supplementing different words and pictures 

Pros

• Offers suggestions for differentiating the lesson to provide learners with extra support
• Includes a cloze exercise that develops children's spelling and vocabulary skills
• Offers a list of six additional activities that extend learning about phonemes

Cons

• Worksheet asks students to match letters with pictures that show the mouth position for each sound, but the images aren't clear making the exercise rather difficult
• Consonant and Vowel Discrimination Word Pair picture cards are not included with the lesson, but can be created based on the description in the lesson

Common Core

RF.K.2.a RF.K.2.c RF.K.2.d RF.K.3.a RF.1.2.a RF.1.2.b RF.1.2.c RF.1.2.d RF.1.3.a RF.1.3.b RF.1.3.c RF.2.3.a RF.2.3.b