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Phonemic Awareness ActivityPhonemic Awareness Activity
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Florida Department of Education
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Pre-K - 1st
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English Language Arts
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Phonemic Awareness

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Build your library of strategies and activities for teaching phonemic awareness with the ideas provided in this resource. Described here are five different activities to try out with your class.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

phonemes, phonemic awareness, syllables, onsets and rimes, matching phonemes, isolating phonemes, blending sounds, phoneme substitution, elkonin boxes

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Mix and match these activities as you teach phonemic awareness
  • After practicing an activity a few times, set aside some one-on-one time with pupils to play the game again and assess progress

Classroom Considerations

  • The resource begins with information for teachers beginning to teach phonemic awareness and includes a whole page of considerations for working with ELLs

Pros

  • Comes with a reading list of books that will help learners develop phonemic awareness
  • Provides several songs suitable for teaching phonemic awareness

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RF.K.2.a RF.1.2.a

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Lesson Plan

Phonemic Awareness Instructional Routine: Isolation

Curated OER
This phonemic awareness activity would be great for morning meeting or circle time. Teacher calls out a word, s/he identifies the final phoneme. The class then take turns saying other simple or cvc words that also have the same ending...
Pre-K - 1st English Language Arts
Lesson Plan

Phonemic Awareness Instructional Routine: Rhyme

Florida Center for Reading Research
As a class, kindergarteners identify rhyming words. The teacher provides an example of a rhyming pair and explains why they rhyme. Individual learners then respond by saying a word that rhymes with a given word.
15 mins K English Language Arts
CCSS: Adaptable
Activity

Phonemic Awareness and Sounding Out Words

Curated OER
Although designed for children with learning disabilities, such as dyslexia, the multi-sensory tips and tricks included in this illustrated eight-page packet are designed to develop phonemic awareness and are appropriate for any classroom.
Pre-K - 1st English Language Arts
CCSS: Adaptable
Activity

Essential Strategies for Teaching Phonemic Awareness

Curated OER
Although designed for those new to teaching phonemic awareness, the strategies and activities included in this 25-page packet are sure to engage kids and help them develop these essential skills.
Pre-K - 1st English Language Arts
CCSS: Adaptable
Lesson Plan

Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Segmenting, Phoneme Hopscotch

Florida Center for Reading Research
Your class will love playing phoneme hopscotch! Scholars choose a card, say the name of the object on the card, break the word into phonemes, count the phonemes, then hop that many spaces on the hopscotch mat. Super fun!
K - 1st English Language Arts
CCSS: Adaptable
Instructional Video

Reading Rockets: Phonemic Awareness: Watch and Learn

Reading Rockets
This site offers four short video clips for the early elementary teacher to watch and learn about effective phonemic awareness techniques. From the PBS television series "Launching Young Readers".
Pre-K - 1st English Language Arts
CCSS: Adaptable
Professional Doc

Reading Rockets: Reading Basics: Phonological and Phonemic Awareness

Reading Rockets
Before children learn to read print, they need to become aware of how the sounds in words work. They must understand that words are made up of individual speech sounds, or phonemes. A child's skill in phonemic awareness is a good...
Pre-K - 1st Classroom Support
CCSS: Adaptable
Lesson Plan

Free Reading: Phonemic Awareness Activities

Free Reading
This site contains activities for Phonemic Awareness. They provide activities for students to learn to identify and manipulate phonemes.
K - 1st English Language Arts
CCSS: Adaptable
Unit Plan

Fun with Phonemic Awareness

Colorado Unit Writing Project
The phonemic awareness activities in this packet are designed to help kids develop skills in rhyming, syllabication, blending onsets and rimes, and beginning and ending sounds. Well worth a place in your curriculum library.
Pre-K - 1st English Language Arts
CCSS: Adaptable
Professional Doc

Phonemic Awareness, Alphabetics and Sight Words

Other
Discover more about phonemic awareness when you visit this informative site. This resource features activities that teach phonemic awareness and activities that teach alphabetics.
Pre-K - 1st Classroom Support
CCSS: Adaptable
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